The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-06-24
THE Death list
IS Still Growing
HUNDREDS OF SLoCUM'S PAS
SENGERs NOT YET BEEN
ACCOUNTED FOR.
NEW YORK is NOW
BURYlNG ITS DEAD

S~s~S
the Relief Fund-Thirty Bodies
Found by Diver in One Hole
Continuous Funeral Procession.
New York, June 20.-More than e
hours after the smoldering wreck of
the big excursion steamer General Slo-
cum had sunk off Hunts Point, in the
East river, the full extent of the dis
aster to the ST. Marks Lutheran Sunday
school picnickers had not been learned.
Out of the nearly 1000 pleasure seeking
women and children who boarded the
steamer on Wednesday morning, the
bodies of 56S have been recovered, while
more than 300 others are in the list Of
missing and the search for them is con-
tinued along the shores and on the is
lands of the East river, while divers reg
ularly relieve each other in the sunken
hulk and wherever under the water
there seems possibility of finding any
victims of the disaster. In this search
diver Saturday discovered, in the river
near where the steamer was beached
and fully two miles from where the
wreck now lies, a hole in which more
than 80 bodies are closely packed.
Throughout the day there was sue
cession of funerals, in many cases sew
eral small collins being carried by sim
gle hearse, all vending their way across
the big bridge to the Lutheran cemetery
On Long island, where nearly all will be
given last resting place.
The relief funds will have large ad-
dition from the city treasury, reso-
luton for the issuance of $50, 900 in
bonds for the succor of the distressed
victims of the accident having been in
troduced Saturday, action being de-
ferred because of the absence of the re-
quired number of aldermen to pass such
a resolution.
Mayor Mcclellan Saturday authorized
the police commissioner to contract
with awrecking company to raisethe hull
Of the General Slocum, thereby ending
the dispute which had arisen between
the underwriters in charge of the wreck
and the wreckers. Work will be start
ed at once, and it is believed that many
more bodies will be recovered. At the
same time the district attorney hopes
to learn more definitely whether there
was any culpable negligence on the part
Of the owners or crew of the steamer.
Funeral Arrangements.
Elaborate arrangements had been
made by the police for the handling of
the crowds that were expected to at
tend the many funerals in the stricken
districts Saturday. So far as could be
learned, plans had been made for the
burial OF Ill bodies from homes in
the vicinity of st. Marks church. The
arrangements include services in 81
churches, of all denominations, in that
neighborhood.
Twenty-three sergean.s, ten rounds
men and 400 policemen were detailed
to attend the funerals, ten policemen
In charge OF sergeant and a rounds
man being stationed at each church.
Commissioner mcAdoo had issued in
structions that the police use as little
force as possible in handling the
crowds, and they did not carry the
batons which usually form a part of
their accoutrements
Considerable difficulty had been ex-
perienced by the undertaken who had
contracted for the burial of the bodies
In securing sufficient number of
hearses, and it became necessary to
call upon Jersey City, Newark, Hobo
ken and various places in Westchester
county, in order to supply the de-
mand
In accordance with the German GUS
tom, the people who were obliged to
be out of doors passed through the
streets in the stricken district with
barred heads. Business was practically
suspended, and nearly every store was
draped in black The streets were
literally filled with hearses. The flu
nerals began at an early hour, and at
times the streets were completely
blocked, and traffic of other kinds was
impossible. Every church in the vi
cinity was filled to its capacity. Cler-
gymen from all parts of the greater
city had left their own congregations
and come down to the bereaved district
to do what they could to give spirit
ual consolation to the afflicted
Statement by Captain.
Capt. Van Shack, who is lying at
Lebanon hospital with a broken foot
and severe burns about the head, has
given out an interview replying to the
criticisms of his conduct, it having
been alleged that he ran the boat two
miles past at least eight places where
1t could have been beached after the
fire was discovered. He is quoted as
follows:
81 was in my cabin when some one
yelled Fire through the tube l ran
out, saw the flames sweeping over the
boat, ran back, waited five seconds,
and then gave the order to run ahead
to North Brother island and beach the
boat sideways, believing this was our
only chance.
1.-THE critics don't know the terri
tory. We were more than 1000 feet
above the buoys on the Sunken Mead
ows, and about 1000 feet from North
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