The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-07-29

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threatened to collapse. Streets had
the wharf was crowded until it
to be cleard by the police to allow
the passage of ambulances.
Business men sent their automo-
biles and motor trucks to help aid
the injured and. carry away the dead.
One warehouse soon was filed with
BODIES and other dead were taken to
the Second Regiment armory, a mile
away.
Mayor William Hale Thompson
was in San Francisco and Chief of
Police C. C. Healy also was out Of
town, but Acting Mayor Moorhouse
sent out a request that the city dis
play signs of mourning.
While those on land were dispCs-
ing of the dead, inJufed and rescued,
the divers in the heart of the sunhen
vessel sent up an almost constant
stream of corpses from the sub
merged decks First it was a girl in
her teens who had been caught be-
tween a pile of chairs and a cabin
wall. Next it was Slight boy, gath
cred from the lifeless arms of fond
father, who had chung tc mis- ofsprin g
even in death. Then followed an old
woman, who had gone aboard the
ship to watch the youthful pleasure Of
her grandchildren, or little girl
with bare legs and hooters and with
gay ribbons sodden against the lace
of her holiday gown.
One thrill passed through the
crowd as word came from the steam
er that a girl baby had been found
alive among the hundreds of dead il
the ship. The child was discovered
in star.oard state1oom.
Flags on public buildings were
placed at half mast and many places
were draped with mourning. Base
ball games were postponed and fes-
tivities largely ceased.
had been held from the water by
chair that damned against the berth.
The baby only half awakened as It
was carried to land It's mother could
not be found.
Two women were found alive in
another staterom if = protruGing
the hopes that any number had es-
Cal ed death in the trap. There We're
still 800 persons in the hold when
these three persons we're taken out
alive and the explorers of the hulk
said that all were dead.
Work of tagging the bodies of the
dead and placing them in accessible
places or Identification proceeded all
day and night.
Identification was slow and scenes
at the morgues were as affecting as
those at the river when the steamer
capsized. Mothers fell across the
biers of children whom they had sent
away few hours before on what was
intended to be a day of pleasure.
Federal Judge Lands ordered
grand jury impannelled to investigate
the catastrophe; States Attorney
Hoyne prepared a county grand jury
inquiry; Coroner Hoffman selected a
jury to look into the cause of the
deaths; the police arrested all the Of
ncers of the Eastland, and the health
commissioner prepared to clear the
river, for fear disease might be spread
by the presence of so many bodies in
the stream.
Arrangements also were made to
get at the sunken vessel to determine
the underlying causes of the accident
Derricks on scows were taken to the
side of the Eastland and marine engi-
neers were engaged to inspect the
treacherous ship.
Those in charge of the various
works of clearing up the toll of cas-
ulties and determining the respon-
slbility for the capsizing of the boat
said that the endeavor would neces-
sarily be slow because of the large
number of persons aboard the East
land the difficulty of getting at the
hull of the steamer.
Acting Mayor Moorehouse and his
advisers decided to raise a relief fund
of 100000 to be distributed by
subcommittee acting under the direc-
ton of the National Red Cross. the
Associated Charities, and the Munich
pal Health Department. In addition
to this the Western Electric Company,
whose employees formed the majority
OF the excursion party announced
that 100000 from its employees insur-
ance funds was available for relief
numerous private relief funds were
started.