New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-03-28
ALL SAVE e NOW KNOWN
Relatives of Many Fire Victims
Cannot Pay for Burial.
SAD SCENES AT M0RGUE
Lane of Sorrow" Again Crowd
ed, but Morbidly Curious Are
Quickly Sent Away.

All hut tvventy-nine 81 the chsrred and
scorched bodies taken TO the worSue were
claimed or Identified by relatives and
friends BY "a o'clock last night In many
cases those who were able 20 give the poor,
tortured bodies the names that they bore
IN ne we're not able 10 pay for their burial.
n has been announced. however. that the
ohari,ios department will give burial 10
r,suv and some OF tho Hebrew hurying
ssociafions 70 many others. making no
distinction between Christians and Hebrews.
sorrow and sympathy having broken down
eli bars ~ creed. Most Of the bodies identi-
red. however. have been those of Hebrew
girls. and the black "miashas." or burial
cloths. were thrown over the majority Of
the rcd boxes that were placed in tho
hesrses
The fact that most Of the girls lying dead
IN tire morgue were Hebrews and Italians
brought wonder to the mind Of those who
looked 10 see so many Swedes, Germans
and other faxen-haired, blue-eyed people
IN the long line Of morbidly curious that
as on Sunday, stretched away from East
18th street all the way down Avenue 10
2ath street. They showed and TANNED and
crowded against wagons yesterday, but
mounted men and patrolmen pushed them
back with their clubs.
Ire sitting was much quicker and more
decided than on Sunday. Men held UP the
llne half way down the Lane OF Sorrow,
ss the strip Of street from Avenue TO
the pier is sometimes called. and examined
everybody. and those who got 20 the en-
trance OF the Morgue were put through an
other searching examination by Captain
Jack O'Connor. Of tho East 51st street
police station. and others.
Hundreds who had no business islcre were
turned away at this spot. They wanted 10
&c, In only for the sake OF curiosity. 1t
would not have mattered 10 them that men
would be hammerinG on coffin lids right
beside them and that going IN and out Of
the dock all day would he the sick and the
Infortunates bound 70 and from the island
hospitals and prisons
No crcwdinq Allowed in Moreue.
The inspection became more and more
ricId and finally only seven or eight were
allowed in the Morgue az one time. When
the sunshine began 10 turn 10 gray mist
many ran away. and when the gray mist
turned 10 q hail and rain storm the streets
we're cleared 2. Lass
Inside the MorEue Identification was diff
cult late in tie day. All the bodies left
there except two were unrecosriza bic
There was nothing to show that they had
even belonged 20 human beings or the
TWO thar were not d!sdgured one was identi-
Ted about 7.3o o'clock as Kate Leone. four
teen wears old Who had lived At No. 81:
last llth street
Dominich Leone. her father. was one Of
he first 10 enter the MOrcue when the
bodies were first taken there on Sunday
morning but lie found no one he knew
lie returned once or twice in the after
room He identified tie bodies of Nicoleno
Nicclassi and Antoinettc Coletti, whom he
hI.ied YESTERDAY and then wen, back tC
tbc MoIeuc
Two bodies had just been brought in. tn,
Two found hanging from the steam pipe
foo thc cellar Of nc Asch building. DOM
ui,k thought that one was the body o
Kate The nair ON nc dead girls heaC
Was black lut tnc Italian pushed th'
Itavv folds hack and saw that 1t was hlacl
o.lv because il was wet. Tic picked a
iic io.k g. brown hair from underneath
Oh. nurses and doctors let him cut Il on
with a knife aEo take it 20 tho sunlight
T1cr le was sure.
Many rocpl. WHO have been inside tn
Norsue have wondered why the other body
has not hecn idcutiaed. Il is that Of an
Italian woman rho face is maIred ONLY
lirtle and the body rot a. all while tn
clothes are in 2 good state or prescrvation
It's not strange said Mrs. T. BonSartz
nurse On board the Thomas $ Fireman, on
of he hospital boats. Probably she Las ~
relatives. thiut Z know her. am SUR
he has been ny and down the river on tn
brennan moro than once. and 7 think sA
went 10 visit a lille son she had in th
coilLrcns asylum on Eandalle Island.
cont know u she is there now or not. 1T.