New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-17
LIST OF DEAD GROWS.
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cork inside of the woman's waist. He thinks
she tried to her life by donnng life pre-
server and that 1t failed TO work. When Cor
oner O'Gorman discovered the cork he called
Captain Dean. of the Harbor Squad, and sew
eral reporters to see II.
Il may use this cork IN fixing the blame for
the death of this woman when her body is iden-
titled" said Coroner O'Gorman. She had been
cool enough to put the life preserver and
had it been in good condition she might have
had a chance for her life.'
The police maintained strong patrol at the
scene of the disaster all day. even keeping The
Bronx shore guarded by line OF policemen for
a distance Of more than two miles. Early yes
terday attempt made TO establish dead
line from the main channel west Of North
Brother Island and off Hunts Point where the
wreck OF the Slocum lay A tugboat sta
toned In the channel TO warn off other craft
with It's whistle and many boats took the chan
mel to the east OF North Brother Island. in
obedience TO the signals. The purpose Of the
dead line was to prevent interference with the
work of the divers at the wreck and with the
small boats in which were dragging the
bottom for bodies.
Several large boats refused to obey the order
TO keep out Of the main channel. however. one
OF the first offenders being the Wauderer. which
runs to the State Asylum on Wards Island. At
230 p. IN. the Wanderer passed the scene OF
the disaster in the main channel. and a band on
board playing light music. officials
North Brother Island expressed Indignation
the want Of feeling shown by the persons in
charge Of the boat.
Surprise expressed at North Brother
Island when a steamboat with a large excursion
party aboard passed the scene OF the wreck.
II was amazed" said DR. Roberts. the city
Sanitary superintendent when I saw that boat
l at the wreck. watching the work Of the
divers, and had just remarked 10 one OF the
doctors with that l did not believe steam
boat excursions would be popular for time, and
looked up and there came along a steamboat
crowded to the guards with an excursion"
Slowly and silently never ending line OF
people wound in and out among the triple line
Of rough pine boxes which formed the resting
place yesterday for the victims OF the General
Slocum. From midnight TO midnight they wait
ed outside the Charities Department pier,
veritable charneI house. in trepidation leaving
It whitefaced and shaken. OF active grief there
was none. Occasionally mother. wrenched
beyond endurance by the sight of her child
white and wan in the half light of the great
pier. would burst into tears. Occasionally a
father or a brother, bending over a coffin would
break into muftled sobbing. One mother. Mrs.
Lena Rekanski. crazed at the loss OF her daugh-
ter attempted suicide
1t not the grief OF city that was shown
at the Morgue yesterday. 1t was the morbid
curiosity OF the unthinking public. OF the
thousands on thousands who passed through the
gates TO the pier scarcely one-tenth sought to
identify the dead. While the throng was not
| indecorous. and seemed repentant when II had
really entered the house OF the dead. yet it
seemed only elimination of the morbid ten
dency shown recently in other cases
To m tnr{tH o. Ia
long. dimly lighted pier. with the rough boxes
in rows and the drippngs of water from ice
creeping over the floor In little sluggish pools
seemed show. n spectacle 10 be seen and seen
again. Gayly dressed women OF the Tenderloin
with the hard mouth and eyes OF their class ap-
preached the first of the rough boxes jaunty
Slowly as they passed from one coffin to another
all pitfully alike. most Of them pitifully
small. the jaunty air would disappear and from
beneath their paint would creep forth whatever
OF womanliness left. perhaps a tear. q
CULVER Of the eyelids. drawing OF the mouth
Probably never in the history Of the city have
such scenes been enacted as wrenched the nerves
and made sick the hearts Of the attendants and
spectators at this temporary morgue. Three
rows OF the makeshift collins. boxes patched
hastily together, extended the entire length OF
the pier Past them. bending over them, coll
lecting in little knots around them, flowed the
human stream. some grave, some careless, some
stolid with apathy. some stunned by the grief
of an unreasonable afiliction. Speeches. they
passed around the great pier. treading into a
slippery Shiny paste the water which dripped
from the ice and moved from the collins.
Outside waited great throng held in check
by a OF policemen. Twice In the afternoon
this throng, wrought to the limit Of nerve ten
sion by the horrors OF the disaster and driven
off the pier when a fresh boatload of bodies
rived, broke through the line of bluecoats and
hurled themselves into the temporary morgue.
Twice the policemen, reforming their line, drove
| out the throng gently possible. Once they
were brushed aside entirely and onto an inner
line of guards went the people. knocking down
! women and almost upsetting a coffin In the
| rush Quickly the bluecoats. massing in front
when they heard the women's screams forced
back the rush. and this time the great doors
were barred. opening thereafter only to admit
a few people at q time.
At First-ave. and Twenty-sixth-s was the
first outpost OF the policemen. keeping In check
a great throng which filled the street and side
walks. almost hindering traffic. Through this
drove wagons laden with bodies the drivers
| laughing they went. Inside the guard lines
were thousands. passing up and down the side
walks. eddying Into Bellevue. turning aside Into