New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-17

A. night CIlet. grief-s-rlcEeo crowd stood in
front OF 81 Marks Church, in Sixth-st.. until
cherries dawn found cher exhausted with
grief and fatigue lying and sitting on the side
walks, still patiently waiting for news. All
night the police and newspaper men had taken
lists Of the dead. the saved and missing 10 the
church. but no sooner had some one in the
crowd been made happy by the announcement
that some loved one had been saved than fresh
list Of dead was posted.
~ first only lists OF the dead were put up
BY the Information bureau on the outside OF the
church, but Miss Pearson, q teacher in Public
schoo, No. - urged on behalf OF the people
gathered in front that LIST Of the saved be also
given out Those n charge Of the bur4au did
this at once and many waiting an opportunity
70 enter the church learned that their children
had been saved.
al day hearses and undertakers' wagons
runbed through the streets. Sometimes when
the stored only tiny coffin Would be taken
CT 10 re carried into tenement house under
TIE arm OF the driver. Across the street would
be another wagon. piled 70 the roof with seven
O. eight Collins containing the bodies OF women
cad children There IS scarcely house in the
Cl----.- bounded ay Last First and Twelfth SITS
and avenue = and Third-ave, but has ~
least ore knox o. crepe on its door. Directly in
front os s. Marks is the home Of August Dip
Pert, whose entire family, mother wife and
ttree children, persisted.
The undertakars in the ne.ghborhood do not
know how they can handle the situation. Every
astahlsh-leat has already reached its fun ca
pacity ard orders are pilinE IN All their rooms
are snail. and many Of the underwriters have
had 70 refuse 10 care Tor my more bodies. They
are being hampeved by the relatives Of the dead.
When one or TWO in the family are missing, the
relatives ask the undertakers 20 delay the
funerals 81 The hope that the others may be
found. The unde-takers are urging the rela-
tives 10 hasten the funerals, but almost without
exception they refuse 20 90 il.
FOURTEEN DEAD * ONE HOUSE.
As each hesrse drove through the streets il
was followed by men and women until IL
stopped IN front Of some house. Once there
and the Identity Of the victim esta blished. the
crowd did not press around the wagon. but
Silently retraced its steps, waiting for the next
wagon.
IN one house in Seventh-st. five pieces Of Grape,
al white. We're tied TO the door but fourteen
Children lay dead there. In other houses the
one or two pieces Of fUttering failed 10 indicate
The sorrow behind the doors. for often strearner
represented the death OF four or five children
In a single family
All day yesterday IS when the news Of the
disaster hrst reached the district groups Of sad
eyed men and women stood on corners and on
The stoops of houses drearily waiting for news.
At the foot OF the steps leading 10 the Eghth-st.
and Ainth-st. stations Of the elevated road were
Other groups waiting for those who had been
discharged from the hospitals. AS the burned.
oazed survivors came down they were almost
mobbec by those crazy for information about
Their lost Too often the survivors could tell
only that they had seen the friends Of the In
auirers burn and drown before their eyes. and
was seldom that the joyful tidngs was
given, she is in the hospital. and viii be out
soon"
SCENES N ST. MARKS.
The affecting scenes that followed the first
news OF The accident on Wednesday were
duplicated al day yesterday in front OF st.
Marks Church Soon after o'clock man
feeed into the church 10 a seat and broke into
sons, crying aloud the loss OF his wife and two
young daughters Women heart broken with
ueir own loss. tried 20 console him, but he
would not be coruforted. and, after long and
utter prayer he sta gEered into the street again.
'eelng Ike a drunken man. Scarcely had he
gone when a middle aged woman cried out hys-
leflcaly from the steps OF the church that her
laughter and grandson were dead. II was long
before she could be queted. Later in the day
young woman, scarcely more than a girl, learned
a. me church that her six month old boy. her
"iAi born. whom her sister had taken TO the
e1cafslon, was dead. with his aunt. She burst