Bisbee daily review., 1915-07-25


 but she and the other were saved. Fathers were drowned after aiding their wives and children to safety
 The Second Regiment Armory, sit uated in the thickly settled part of the west side, was surrounded early this evening by great throngs of peo- pie Most of the victims were resi- dents of the west side Nearly every elevated train bound to the residence portions of that section carried its group of weeping men and women. It was hoped to have the recovered bod ies an in the armory by ten o'clock, and until that time no one was admit ted Accordingly thousands formed in line hours before the great doors were opened, eagerly awaiting a chance to seek the bodies of kin and friends, believed to be lost.
 Stories of heroism are almost as numerous tonight as the number Of persons on the scene of disaster. The boats, as soon as full took the res
 
 Theodore Roosevelt, which tied up as near to the Eastland as possible In an hour the water was cleared of eX- cursionists Those who had not been taken Co land had sunk or were swirl ing up the river towards the drainage canal locks at Lockport thirty-siX miles away The locks were raised to stop the current.
 Arrangements were made 10 have the bodies from the river along the southwest part of Chicago, shortly af- ter the water was cleared. Engineers and helpers on the exposed side of the Eastern's hun were cutting through the steel plates with gas flames when divers gained entrance to the hull the | scene Of distress moved, for the time 1 being, from the river to the o1-empor- ! ized morgues in warehouses of the wholesale companies along the river 1 thrown open. Bodies laid in rows on l the floors Scores were taken from ! the water severely injured. They were taken to the IroQuoishospital, 
 dred women and children and the few men who were burned to death in the 1 IroQuois threatre on new years eve several years ago The efforts to re- susitate those taken from the river ! were unsuccessful, except in two or 1 three instances. It is also stated that many of the injured would die. The ] whole city is in consternation over 1 the catastrophe The word spread rapidly and thousands already at or near the wharf are being increased | with other thousands. The Clark Street Bridge nearby was crowded un- til the threatened streets had to be cleared by the police to allow moving ambulances and men were sent with automobile motor trucks to help aid the injured and carry away the dead
 One warehouse was soon filled with bodies The other dead were taken to the second regiment armory mile , away While those on land were dis posing of the dead and injured res cued. divers, in the heart of the sunk en vessel sent up almost a constant stream of corpses. The first was i, saily dressed girl, in her teens. wh' was caught between pile of chairs next a boy gathered from the lifeles arms of his father; then an old wom en. who had gone aboard to watcl her grandchildren or a little girl witt bare legs and boots with gay ribbons ! sOddqu against the lace of her hOli day gown
 Amidst all the heroesa heartach endured as the various department attended to the pressing duties of th disposition of the dead and injured to tracing the missing, to inquiry wit the cause of the disaster and to pre- cautions against diseases from th sunken bodies and drifting corpse through the city toward the cana locks.
 Federal Judge Landis ordered
 grand jury empanled to inyestigat the catastrophe District Attorne
 Hoyne prepared a county grand iur
 for inquiry. Coroner Hoffman selec
 ed a jury to look into the cause c
 the deaths and the health commission 7 CT arranged for the purity of th n river for fear disease might spread b r. the presence of SO many bodies i the stream. Preparations were mad a 10 inspect the capsized ship.
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