The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-26

the total number Of bodies recovered
Seached 1910.
At tho foot Of La Sale street a
barricade has been erected on boxes.
barrels and crates, and there the
bodies were taken ashore from the
launch Falma and placed on stretch
ers. Tho Falma was tied UP at the
stern Of the Easiland and the bodies
were bornc over the launch to the
foot Of La Sale street.
Work Of the Divers.
fver Johnson. Andrew johnson.
Harry Haiverson and William Denua
were the divers who began the re-
.covery Of bodies this morning. Hall
version brought up nine bodies which
no found near tho hurricane deck,
about the centre OF the boat.
Il touched two more" Halverson
said. Two Of the bodies I found were
those Of young men pinned beneath
the davits at tho bottom Of the river.
At first I could not release the bodies.
Finally I got them out, but In g do
ing they were slightly disfigured. I
did the best I could. Then / got ropes
on them and signal:ed and they were
drawn out OF tho water"
Workmen again were placed on the
upper side Of the steamship and be-
gan drilling new holes with ~acetylene
torches and removing new sections Of
her outer plates in order to get better
access to the compartments Of the
hold.
20 away n let those seeking for rela-
tives and friends como In and Identify
their dead" With these words Coroner
Peter Hoffman addressed the thousands
who stood outside the Second Regiment
Armory at midnight, and then the doors
were thrown open.
Twenty at a time the anxious seekers
were admitted to the great death cham
Dor. In less than a minute the line of
those waiting their turn was stretched
the length OF an entire block, and as
daylight came the line grew longer and
longer.
While thosA on the outside waited
their turn pathetic scenes In endless
number were witnessed within the walls
Of the massive emergency morgue.
Mnfhare afgtarQ and da,tCbtaro xpoILAI
slowly between the long lines Of dead.
Fin and again a single scream told
Of the discovery of some loved one,
while often there was only a sup
pressed. choking. heartbreaking sob as
the mother collapsed beside the body Of
her child.
Coroner Hoffman and nine deputies
took charge Of the task Of Identifying
the bodies at the armory and established
q system to prevent the duplicating Of
names.
BY midnight the Coroner expects Z
have a complete list Of the identified
dead. carefully checked to eliminate
error. and probably will be able to give
a reasonable estimate Of the total num-
Der Of dead.
Electric Company Aids.
IN preparing an official list the Coro.
nor has the cooperation OF the Western
Electric Company, whose employees
make up the larger part Of the dead.
At The factory in Hawthorne a huge
bulletin board has been erected bearing
the names OF all who have been re-
ported as dead or missing.
Many thousands of employees or their
friends visited the plan.. and as they
found errors In the list corrections were
made. Many OF these CORE ctions
brought JOY TO hundreds. some of them
filled new homes with sorrow.
Notwithstanding the general gloom
cast by the calamity thousands OF Chi
cagoans did not shun lake trims to-day.
Steamship lines filed their sailing dates
and excursion boats left docks which
we're within a s.one's throw of the un-
fortunate Eastland with about the usual
number of pleasure seekers.
Looking from the decks down into the
water where hundreds OF other excur-
slonists persisted only the day before
pleasure loving Chicago was unafraid.
The crowds had their music and dances.
Managers Of the two baseball clubs
which had games scheduled for to-day
promptly cancelled the dates, however.
although at both grounds double headers
had been advertised.
Other men saw n chance TO thrive
owners of automobile trucks for 10 or
10 cents a head carried passengers over
the Clark street bridge. from which
vantage point they could look at the
spot where the Eastland's victims went
to their death.
Tugs, too, were not averse to picking
up a little extra money. A seat on a
tug was more BILE than n place on
an auto truck, for II brought the holder
more nearly in physical touch with the
overturned steamer.
Throughout the night while work Of
recovery OF the bodies went on by the
AID OF flaming are lights strung along
The wreck and the shore lines, 10. OF
persons. 1t was estimated. looked on.
A large number OF police remained on
nuty TO keep back the crowds and this
morning a fresh force OF 500 men went
On duty to handl the crowds.
Diver Harry Halverson said he was
certain there were many bod es beneath
The hurricane deck, but that they could
not be taken out until that part OF the
boat was raised. A big dredge with a
derrick aboard Is lying near by, and 1t
Is planned t. use that to raise the mid
die portion Of the Eastland.
Drs. T. Leahy and James McElroy
we're on duty for the Red Cross to take
rare or cases OF iliness or accident