The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-30
81 DEAD; 7 MISSING IN WRECK
DIVERS REMOVE LAST BODIES
FROM SUBMERGED CARS.
Friends Identify Their Dead In Atlantic
city MOrEue Amid Scenes mat OIs'en
Eyes AccustOmed 10 View Great Grief
Coroner Begins Work Of PIaeinE Blame.

Eyes Accustomed TO View Great Griet-
Coroner Begins Work Of PlacinE Blame.
ATLANTIC CITY, Oct. 2s.--A'ter almost
twenty hours Of cropping in the three SUBJ
merged cars that lilo at the bottom Of the
Thoroughfare, the divers reported to-day
that no more bodies were to be u
Fifty-one oorpses had been brought to
light. and one OF those injured but rescued
on SUNDAY died in the hospital here this
afternoon.
Though the divers had been through
each of the three cars many times since
the last body was raised to the surface
this morning, it il believed by many that
fully a dozen more bodies have been washed
out OF the broken windows and carried down
stream by the tide.
There is a list Of seven names OF persons
yet u~naccounted for. In the search for
these possible victims there are now Several
boats with graphing hooks and oyster
rakes plying the channel both above and
below the spot where the cars took the leap.
Before morning the list of dead may be
increased.
All Of the bodies recovered had been
identified at S O'Clock this afternoon;
A funeral train composed Of baggage
cars carry ing cofined dead and coaches
filed with mourners pulled out at midnight
for Philadelphia. A sad throng stood on
the station platform as the mourning special
left and tears flowed down the cheeks 81
trainmen in charge Of the train. Nearly
oil the dead from the wreck we're in the
cars and the morgue in the old Empire
Theatre was left without q single corpse
after the departure.
The swarm OF people who had battled
with the police all day in front of the old
Empire Theatre, which had served as q
temporary dead house. still persisted In
an effort 10 overrun the building and range
the aisles Of sheeted bodies in morbid curl
osity. The officers had to use their clubs
and rope off the sidewalks TO stem the tide
OF persistent sightseers.
All day long the streets in the vicinity
Of the theatre building have been crowded.
Every train from Philadelphia brought new
additions to the crowd. Some came to find
their dead among the swathed forms that
lined one side OF the theatre. but the major
ity came merely to look When they we're
debarred. by order Of Mayor Stoy, theH
fingered in the street or walked out to the
bridge across the Thoroughfare, where
the great wrecking cranes were straining
, to drag the three steel death traps out OF
the ooze Of the muddy channel.
Last night was a weird night out along
the muddy shores OF the Thoroughfare
and in the dimly lighted interior Of the
Empire Theatre building. Through the
long hours Of darkness hundreds banked
r each side of the fifty foot stream and s-
lently watched the bright spot in the middle
where the headlights OF two locomotives.
drawn up at either end Of the trestle, had
been directed In the centre Of the circle
Of yellow light white bubbles rose to the
surface and broke With mechanical pre-
ciSion. The diver was down there.
For minutes the regular puff puff Of the
air pumping machine on the divers hoat
would accentuate the stiffness and mar
the tension OF the watchers. Then a yellow
bulb of metal would rise into the circle
Of lig hit and the head and shoulders Of the
diver would break the surface into ripplee.
man stood on the edge Of the float WITH
: a rope. This he would pass to the groteeQus
figure in the water. One hitch Of the lins
the diver would make around the heavy
bundle in his arms and then the dripping
; body would be drawn on to the float and
| hurriedly taken ashore in q skin, to DO
ranged along with those brought up before.
Hour after hour Of the night passed thus,
/ The tally Of the dead rose with each break
ing Of the yellow waters by that Ill shaped
! bulb Of copper and those on shore kept
/ count under their breath.
l As fast as the grisly freight from tho
1 sunken cars was brought to shore it was
} taken in a cart to the tracks OF the Reading
Railroad, a few hundred yards down the
stream, and there transferred to the special
train.
At 3 o'clock the divers. who had been
relieving one another by turns. dropped
on the floor Of the float exhausted. At 90
a special train from Camden brought three
fresh divers to the scene, and just az the
morning was breaking they resumed the
work that had dragged through the night.
II was perilous work. The men in the
heavy lead trimmed suits had to pry their
way into the cars through the window
casements, and in some instances batter In
the sashes to make way for their bodies.
Once inside the cars they found Jagged
iron and twisted brackets to foul their
pipes and threaten them with the same
death that had come to the shadowy
figures piled up at their feet.
One OF the divers signalled that his
helmet should be unscrewed hen he had
come to the surface with the body OF a little
yellow haired girl in his arms.
ITS like pulling oordwood out Of q
fallen pile," he said when his head was
free. They are piled up at the end Of
r. the first car so thick that you have 10 climb
over them to get a foothold.'
At 245 o'clock the last body to be taken
: from the wreck was passed to the men
on the float. Yet the divers continued
, searching under the seats OF the submerged
cars and in the oose about the sunken
q trucks for the bodies Of others who have
4 not yet been accounted for.
> All through the day the divers at times
; went down in further search OF the bottom
about the cars, but with no result. Any
bodies hat may ave been washed ou'
! of the windows by the tide are believed to
have been carried far away from the cars.
y All night the crowds Of black shapes that
lined both banks kept their places. Most