The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-07-24
OF DEATHS


seemed 20 loso al strength IN my left
arm and I had To let go OF Helen.
She went iOwn in the struggling
mass. Then man with a
Uniform on-sfabbed me and began
swimming with me. I chung To my
son and when we got near the river
hank some men pulled us up. Helen
and her father must have gone
down"
Policemen aud firemen from sta
tions in all parts Of the city have
been dispatched 90 the vessel. a
systematic check Of the naIne % all
persons saved is being kept md as
soon an possible the families % these
viii Le notified The same Vs. true
Of the dead. All available employees
OF the city government whom it is
thought can render assistance have
been ordered 10 the scene.
Undertakers' ambulnnccs, furni-
ture vans. AUTOMOBILES trucks and po-
lice patrols were backsd up eight
abreast receiving the dead and dying,
aud Within two hours after the dis
aster the work Of removing the bod
les and caring for the injured was
well organized. Every undertaken
within a mile and q half Of the scene
OF the overturned steamer has been
rcquisitioned.
a steady stream OF men carrying
s%tretchers removed the bodies at
the rate Of about six every ten min
utes.
At the Offices OF the Western Elec-
tric company "a bureau OF information
was established early and the names
Of victims ana missing were card-in-
deNod and friends and relatives in
formed.
Frantic, weeping women and excit-
ed men ltsieged the central police
station for possible word OF missing
relatives or friends.
william Schroeder Inquired for his
bride Of less than a year. Mrs. Jennie
Schroeder, who was aboard the boat
end had not been heard from.
Police Sergeant n. w. Sharp. in
charge of bodies removed from the
hun, announced he had checked 500
bodies taken ashore. The Red Cross
established "a temporary headquarters
G a warehouse near The river and
took charge of $50 bodies only six of
which had behn Identified.
when Captain Petersen waE ar
rested. a man whose clothes were
dripping and who had apparently
iust been IN tho water. made a rush
az him ana landed a heavy blow on
the captains face. The crowd that
had gathered closed in a the steam
er's captain. ana the police mad "a
use their clubs to protect htn from
the inniriated crowd.
Physicians aiding in resuscitating
| NtHNfVan Ir.nHUrLH 10 INIHNUHnUm tsalE fha
Eastland dock. announced at one
o'clock that nifty % the patients un-
der their care are in serious condition
and that they may die.
Although the drainage canal gates
at I.ockport wee closed within hals
an hour Of the disaster. IL required
several hours before ihe current was
checked At Chicago. 80 miles above.
! THE iieet Of boats of the sanitary dis
trict was dispatched To- search FOR
floating bodies.
The work of rescue went on with
monotonous precision. Eight Divers
equipped with underwater suits and
helmets searched the holds OF the
vessel. aided by "a dozen or more vol
%unteer swimmers who. clad Ia bath
ing suits or stripped To their under-
wear. dived time after Tina" into the
mutky water.
As quickly az a body was located
IL was seized with gyappling hooks
and brought to the surface. There's
one would be the cry, and usually
this would be followed by the call,
IT'S a woman"
summer gowns and nnery torn To
shreds, scratched faces aud clenched
lhnnds were the rule.
The rcscuprs for several hours suf-
ifrrcd from the heat of the hull
Icaused by the furnaces % the boat.
As fast as The bodies were brought
out OF he huh they were laid on
stretchers and covered with blankets,
A tug moored between the wreck
ana dock formed q bridge. The
lstretcher bearers passed between two
priests, n of whom gave absolution
while the other anointed the bodies
ON the dock DR.. r. \ Carter. oi
the city health department, searched
Tor signs Of life In the victims. II
there was any pulse in the throat h'
/. would call 'Pulmotor." ana th'
stretcher would be carried To the
sidewalks where rows of victims wer,
laid out under the awnings of com
omission houses and other establish
ments on South Walter street.
!. When no beat was apparent To III
Carriers fingers he would %announc
: simply. GONE" Tho body was the
, carried to a truck and taken to
morgue. As the hours passed Their
were fewer calls Tor the pulmotors.
Private tragedies were nuinerou
lahout The wreck. The crowd move,
and swayed against the police lines
A striving to catch glhmpses OF tn
dead or the traEedy-strickc nsurviv
ors as the latter turned from theil
, efforts to brine life back to loved
' ones.
one city fireman, leaning far oVei
an opening cut lea the hull, pulled al
Ia body passed Co him by a diver. llf
turned the form over and iuinted n'
ho gazod into the face of his owl
daughter. similar scenes were con
st.nt
shortly after 3 p. m. the temporary
Red cross station az Rcd, Murdocl
a CO.'S was filled 10 capacity VIII
bodies. the total there bciEg estimate