The sun., 1905-09-12
boech-NUt F1CA'HS CuMpduE
CANAJOuARIE, n. Y.

ton house for news. The sergeant told
her with mercful evasion that policeman
had been badly hurt and was at Roosevelt
Hospital. She asked what was the shield
number, and was told II .l23." They took
her gently as possible from the station
house and sent her TO the hospital whore
her husband had just died.
John Lees an old man whose home Ii At
Rookaway Beach. saw by the early editions
OF the afternoon papers, description re-
sembling his sons. He hurried to West
Forty seventh street. waited long time
In the immense crowd and entered trembling
all over. He was shown his son williams
body and broke down completely. The
boy, he said, had been living at Hammifs
station, Rockaway Beach. for the summer,
doing electrical work, and had just removed
to Manhattan for the winter. He was an
expert electrician with the brightest OF
prospects said the father.
NEwARKER A VICTIM.
Friends OF Jacob Anspach. an optician,
identified the body at the police station.
Mr.. Anspach was the senior member OF
Anspaoh Bros, opticians, Of sos Broad
street, Newark, n. j. Ten days ago
Mr.. and Mrs. Anspach, with their child
closed their summer cottage at Avon and
went to live with Mrs. Anspach's mother
at 2eo West Seventieth street, this city.
| Mr.. Anspach commuted between New York
and Newark. He was a member OF the
! Newark Board Of Trade.
Theodore Morris. a colored man. whose
| homo Was at i25 West l35th street, was
among those quickly identified. In tho
crowd in front OF station the house we're
hundreds of negroes who clamored to oe
admitted. All OF them said they wore
| friends OF Morris His mother, an old
woman made the identification.
By 3 o'clock in the afternoon most OF
| the dead were known, though two bodies
had not been identified. Mrs. Cornelius
McCarty OF 342 West Forty-second street
went to the station house with q baby In
| her arms She was crying pitifully. Sergt'
| Schlum broke the news as tenderly as pos
| sible that her husband had been killed, and
| sent her homo.
The last of the twelve bodies to be identi-
fed was that of Louis Ebele Of liz West
Hath street. He hadn't been home all
day and his wife, who had heard nothing
of the accident, became worried when
he didn't show UP for dinner last night.
She went to Ernest Keller. foreman for tho
Mitchell Vance Company, Twenty-fourth
street and Tenth avenue, where Ebe!e
worked, and asked Keller about her hus-
band He took her to the police station.
Mrs. Ebele took one look at the body and
tainted. She became hysterioal later and
was taken to her homo by Keller.
Coroner Scholer rnade the police station
| his headquarters af,er viewing the scene
of tho accident. From o'clock in the
morning until O'Clock last night the Coro-
ner worked like q beaver, examining wit
nesses. taking their statements. noting
ideutifications, arranging for undertakers
to remove the bodies and conferring with
Capt. Gallagher about the arrest OF Motor
man Kelly. The Coroner secured the
names Of perhaps thirty Witnesses and
these will be subp0naed for the inquest,
which will take place. he said, carly next
week.
AT THE HOSPITALS.
At Roosevelt Hospital and at Bellevue
the New York and the Flower pathetic
scenes crowded upon one another. In front
| Of the two main entrances Of Roosevelt
Hospital the press Of people was 30 great
that the policemen were helpless until the
situation became relieved at the scene Of
the accident and reenforoements arrived
to assist them to hold the crowd in check.
For every injured man or woman in the
hospital there were five hundred people out.
side, all OF whom were frantic to be ad'
mitted at once. Every time an ambulance
drove up, the horses sweating from hard
run. somebody in the crowd screamed
historically, or some ono groaned. and
| there was another rush for the hospital
doors, which the police strove against
gently but determinedly.
At the FYfty-ninth street entrance OF
Roosevelt Hospital bureau Of information
was established and two hospital attend.
ants answered the hundreds Of questions
poured upon them, They wore patient and
did their work we'll. Little by little during
the early afternoon the crowd melted away
A few hundreds yhad found relatives OF
friends there; the other thousands LEFT
gladly enough.
It was the samein less degree at Belle.
vue. New York and Flower Hospitals
Only a few Of the injured were brought
to these places, and the crowd quickly found
IL out, rushing away again to Roosevelt
and Joining the big crowd there.
THE cAsuALTIEs.
The list Of the dead and injured; - Il
stood early this morning, follows:
THE DEAD.
ANsPAcH. JACOB W.. 81 years old. optician.
2eo West Seventieth street.
BACH. THOMAS. 20, policeman. who was
attached to the Central Park station. 6s Eas
lssth street; died In Roosevelt Hospital.
COOPER, JAMES. 20. 22ss Second avenue
foreman painter for the Flreproof Tenemen
House Association.
CoscoRAN, THOMAS. u. laborer. 1857 Parl
avenue.
CouENHAvEN, EMMA. u. 2i7 West Sixt,
sixth street died in Roosevelt Hospital.
EBRLE, LOUIS. 50, li2 West i1%th street
was employ ed by the Mitchell-vance Compan!
at Tenth avenue and Twenty fourth street.
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