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1 s' 3 i physicians before they could appear before the Corona to give the number of Um bod Identified aad Mcura permit for It re moval. Death Certificate Held Ready. III irvnvri nu death certificates in readiness for filling out. a ad as scoa. as a body would be Idea-tlfled.

the Identifier and an officer would -o before a Coroner to cur a permit, and then would have an undertaker take the body away. AH durtag the night there was a line of undertaker' wagons In East Twenty-sixth Street steading all the war from the pier to First Avenue, and at times turning- well -Into the avenue. Among tbe persona seeking? te Identify dead were many children, one not more than four or five years okl, "who had been brought by Mends, in whom rare they had been left, to Identify mothers and brother and sisters. In msjay eases mistakes in Identification were made at first, but every precaution was taken to prevent this and alao the false Identification of any body for the purpose of di honestly taking possession of property belonging to any of the deud. Where missing frtends and relatives were not fuvnd in the line of dead on the.

pier, most of the bodies there being those of victim who died by drowning, the persons seeking friends went through the Morgue proper to look at the burned bodies anil th clothing tlcit remained. It waa nearly 11 o'rlrx-k. In the morning when Charities Cornmlsaioner Tully received word of the disaster at his office on East Twenty-elxth Street pier. He Immediately suspended all business of the office and detailed his entire stuff to various oolnta to handle the work of the accident. All of the boats of the departinwit were pressed, into service.

The Commissioner t-ersonally took chame Of affairs at the Mvriu on thu plrr. aided by Iepufy Commissioner It. Dousherty and Superintendent tieorge W. Meeks of the Outdoor l'oor. Wllllum J.

I.ee, Assistant Secretary to the department, was assigned to look after the property of all the dead brought In. and he worked In conjunction with John Kane, the keeier of the Morgue, anil Jefferson Morrcll, the po-hVe officer Ue lulled to the pier. Clerks at once were put to work numbering tags for bodies und correspond! mk envelopes to. hold the jewelry and like property of UlQ (lead. Vrvpa rations also nt oik were begun at the MorgUM to handle the bodies which later were brought In.

Aa the refrigerating plant and Morgue aeoyiiunodatlona were wholly Insufficient fur the emergency, load after load of ice was ordered und taken to the pier during the afternoon preparatory ifi? establishment of the t.mi.rtuy morgue Oit the pier. liy noon the crowd began to gather around tie Morgue and a detail of police waa sent fur from the Kast Thirty-fifth Btreet Station. I'ullce lines were established and all persons were kept outside the lines uaUl the bodies should" arrive und be prepared for the work of Identification. All during the afternoon the gathering crowd grew larger and larger, many of the survivor of the disaster comtlijf to gt wlwt word they could of the other numbers of their partita. Doctors Rush to Aid Victims.

When the word fii reached Uellevue A Hospital Ir. J. C. Ay re, the lsltlng surgeon, went to Attng Superintendent Hlcard and arranged to go to the scene of the disaster. Taking his Instruments and two physician, he jumped into a big herse-power automobile and raced up First Avenue to One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Btreet.

followed as fast hh possible by two ambulances and all mare physicians. All worked during the rest of the day. giving ad possible aid. in the crowd that gathered during the afternoon about -the Morgue there were man pitiful scenes. When Commissioner Tujly got word that the Fidelity and the Massasault were on their way with their aad cargoes, many reported to the officials the names of the missing they sought.

One of the first to do this was Mangua Hart-unf, a. tailor of 13 West Twanty-nbnth Street, and living at 3-U Kast Twenty-first Btreet. Ilia wife and sis children were on the Ill-fated boat and he had heard nothing from any of them after the disaster. It waa only by tbe greatest effort that the man could stand tha strain -or waiting In suspense for word which he felt would be the worst. The wife, Louisa, was forty-five years old.

and the chlldran ransed from Minnie, aged twenty-four, ami a singer tn the choir of St. Mark's, down to little El a is, aged six. The other children Were Frances, a teacher In the Suiutay school and aged seventeen: Harry, aged fifteen; Nellie, thirteen, and Clara, eleven. Henry Uordca. a clerk, living at 417 East Btstseulh btreet, and one of the survivors, came around looking for his mother, a brother, a slsger, antj two friends.

Cordes, who Is seventeen years old. started on the excursion with his brother i-'harles, aged eighteen, a brother Frederick, aged fourteen, hi mother. Mra. Ma Ida Cordes. aged fifty-five, a sister Ktla.

aged twenty-three, and Mrs. Msry Kowenberger, all of the same address. With them waa Mra. Mary Wolff of 4 JO Cast Sixteenth street. Henry and Charles were on the upper deck when the fire started, the rest of the party being on tfce main deck.

Til fire seemed to get right on us all at once," he declared. "The crew' did everything" In their power to quiet the crowd and to play the hose on the fire, but they could not accomplish anything. The firs came up from the lower part of the boat, and spread everywhere In an Incredibly short time. There were few aboard, most of the crowd being- wo men aad children. Charlie and I were separated from the rest of the party, and I don't know what happened to Charlie and I both Jumped into tbe river, he landing est a toar all right, while I went into the nver.

Men In a row boat pulled me In and took me with others to North Brother Island, wtsrro I got some dry clothes and then rushed home, but beard from no oue, and so came over hre." Wllllasa Beck, a clerk in the Columbus Instilling Company's office at 23 Pearl Street, and living at 313 Kast Ninth surest, came te the Morgue in the afternoon took-; Ing for his snethcl. Mrs. Christina Beck, ago flfty-eevea; a alster. Mrs. Charles llorway.

aged twenty-sevea. and Mrs. Hoc way's two children. Adele. aged six.

and Oerl. aged two. all of whom lived with him. I -ate at Bight Bock found his mother's body among those lined out on the pier. Young Tlr Her Missing.

Mrs. Mlaale luts of 128 First tn-forsaed the Morgue officials that her broth-r. John Wallmer of the same add res, had Moa lifted bis wife. Mary, among- the dead at tbe Alexander Avenue police Hr iMlt had come to the Morgue to trace of Mrs. WaUmor'a threo chUJr o.

XAgdalena. aged seven: Minnie, aged n'ae, aa4 Joseph, aged seventeen, who act mlsr'fg Joseph, Who Is believed to be dead, was a fire hero himself He was an office working at llroome Btreet. and when the big lire raged there last kUt-vrday god the elevator man deserted his post. Joseph ran tbe elevator and sot out aeventy people who relight otherwise have to) burned to death In tbe building. Wbea the Fidelity docked back of the Morgue at o'clock everybody, waa ex- oLadod rroos the building save th doctors umI offlciats until the bodies were unioad-od aad placed tn rows In the Morgue.

There wore thirty bodies on this boat, most of tbocn bring charred beyond recognition. 1wwaty-two were of women and eight of children, two of the latter being babes lisri S. Weatee. the Coroner's phj U- clan, came down on this boat from tbe scene of the disaster, where be went by trauv-ag aoon a notified. When we left North Brother Island." said Dr.

Weston. there were aaore than ICO bodies which bad been recovered, moat of them women, and the water seemed to be literally full of dead. Rowboats and tugs were bringing them In every few minutes, six coming In in one rowboat as we left. Dr. Darlington, ths Health Commissioner, has established a tempoary morgue on the pier at the lland.

but all bode will be brought hre this evening, where they have not already been Identified. The Bronx Coroners have agreed to this course." Anong the bodies brought in on the Fidelity was that of a woman who was found In the water with a child clasped to her breast. Both were badly burned-and there was nothing but a ring auuf some clothes to aid In identification. Another body, that of a five-year-old child, was found with a box of candy, half of which had been eaten, clutched tightly in one hand. The child was badly burned.

In some rases not a vestige of clothing was. left on a body, and no part waa untouched by the flames. On one of the women a wedding ring was found bearing the letters "II. H. to A.

II." There alHo mi a diamond ring, all of which were placed In a sealed envelope, as were other valuables taken from bodies. Police Captain Shire of the Kast Thirty-fifth Street Station arrived before the Fi delity rol In and took charge of the police arrangements. He then had twenty- five policeman on hand under Sergeant H'hnvr of the same station. The men, howetcr, wt drawn from among the reserves of various precincts, so great had Urn the demand for police a.t the scene of the disaster The Hev. John A.

W. IIaa, pustor of St. I'uul Cermun Lutheran Church in West One Hundred and Twenty-third Btreet and a brother of the Kev. O. C.

F. Haas of the Bt. Mark's Church, arrived at the Morgue shortly after the arrival of the Fidelity, looking for his sister-in-law and niece. He paid ho had left hi brother in the Lincoln Hospital, where he was badly burned and fiiif faring from his experiences in the water. My brother Jumped overbourd with hla wife." he said, but they were separated In the water.

Nearly exhausted lis was pulled Into a rowboat, but we fear the worst for his wife, who was Mrs. Anna 8. Hans. Their little daughter Gertrude, aged 1, ulao Is missing- I am told she was seen on North Urother Inland, but whether alive or deud I do not know." Landed Eighty Bodies. It was 4 o'clock when the Massasaoit dockod on the pier with eighty dead under deck.

It took two hours to remove the dead, and place them ready for Identification, Amonir the first arrivals at the Morgue early In the day wa-siJoseph Ohl, a saloon keeper of Third Avenue and Tenth Street, who wa searching for his son Frank, five years old. who was among -the missing. Mr. Ohl said that his wife and child had gone on the excursion, and at 1 o'clock his wife came running up to him on the street and shouted that their child was gone. All she wasble to say was that she had been In fire and In water, and Mr.

Ohl was unable- to get a clear story from her as to how she had escaped. She appeared to be Insane, he said, and did not know where her boy was. Later Ohl learned that his wife had first been take to the Lebanon Hospital, and had got out of the hospital to return to her home. After placing her in the care of friends, he hud gone to the Morgue to search lor his child. Charles Wolf, a shipping clerk, residing at 1,121 Fortieth Street, was searching for his mother, Mrs.

Magdalen Wolf, and his sister. Mrs. Magdalen L'llman. of 40U Fifth Street. He said that Mrs.

I'llmun had her son Kdward with her, and that he had been told by one of his neighbors that all of his relatives were lost. William C. Beneke. an employe of the City lock Department, while at the Morgue raid that he would never return to his home unloss he found some trace of his sisters. This morning." said Beneke, I went to the to see the folks off.

I have charR" of the city's recreation piers. My sister Mamie, who Is twenty-eight years old, and my sister. Mra. Emma Gruben, are among the missing. Mra.

Gruben had her daughter Carrie with her." First Body Identified at Morgue. The first body Identified at the Morgue was that of Mrs. Marie Fickbohm. forty years old. wife of Peter J.

Fickbohm, a liquor dealer of Avenue and Seventh Street. The identification was made by the woman's husband. I am also searching for my children." he said, as he turned to look at the bodies In the tittle coffins ut the other end of the pier. "Three of my children went with their mother on the excursion, but I have found one of them in the Lebanon Hospital, badly burned. This was Frederick, nine years old.

My eleven-year-old boy and my fourteen-year-old daughter Marie are still among the missing Policeman Edward Schnltsler of the East One Hundred and Fourth Street Station, was on duty when the Rlwum was discovered hi flames. His post took him along the river front, and when his attention was called to the fact that the General Slocum was burning lie procured a boat and assisted tn niaklnK rescues. Then It was that made the tttsvovtrv that It wus the boat that carried his a lie. Christina, his five-year-old daughter, Catherine and other members of hlx family, who had nrone on the excursion. He searched for hours among the bodies picked up in the river uud not h'ftUni; anv trace of his relatives, down the Morgue, where he found the charred remains of his wife.

Mv daughter Is still missing, he said when one of the Sergeants on duty at the Morru asked him what he was doing In tho Coroner's teniimrary office. With my wife was her sister. Mrs. John Muth, thv brother-in-law. John Smith, and their Lizzie.

Christina, and Katie. All the-e are still miwkintc. with the exceptioTu of Mr Mutn, nu jumpcu irom m- iu h.K ftecmer with his young son John. Jr. Thev were picked un from the river, both bidly burned, and taken to the Lebanon Ho-oltsl 0 c.

rr Josepn lifirow tu on seventh Street, who waa among the corps of phvatclana who went to North Brother Island to attend the injured, visited the Morgue tn the evening for the purpose of hndlmc one of hla patients who waa reported among the missing. The patient waa Mra Henrv Manhelmer of Seventh Street and First Avenue. Dr. Creamer found the woman's bodv imong those on the pier. The Manhelmer case Is a most remarkable oue.

said Dr. Creamer. "Mrs. Man-helmer was with her six-year-old daughter Ullle No one knows how they parted. The mother has turned up at tho Morgue and the lx-year-old daughter has turned up at her home.

She was found of wandering about the atroets of Harlem looking for her mother. All that the child can emem-btr Is that some one threw her into a boat. Kterman James Smith of -JVt Monroe Street arrive! at th Morrw at clock to search for his fu teen-year-old daughter. Margaret. He was iocompnicd by Juhn Bloom, who was searching for hi thrii daughters.

"My d.iusrhter asked permission to go on the excursion to-dav." said Alderman Smith. and 1 allowed her to go with Mrs. Margaret Bloom of 22 Jackson, Street, who Is on of mv neighbors. Mrs. Bloom was rescue.) and ta at the Lincoln Hospital.

Her three daughters. Margaret, eighteen years old- Dora, fifteen years old. and Mrs Anna Sohmitt. are missing with my daughter. lr.

Sch.anltt'a two Ana and Mildred, are also tnixaing. They wore all with my daughter, and I tear that all are dead." Rush to Meet Death Boat. Shortly- before o'clock the Health Perm rt men tuc Franklin Ed son arrived at the foot of Twenty-sixth Street with fifty- seven bodies aboard, when the crowd on ik. ni.r and la Twenty-sixth Street learned of the arrival of the additional corpses thev broke tnrmugn ine poiico made a wild dash for the head of the pier. Inspector McLaughlin summoned more ii fmi th crowd bock UD Twen- tv-sixth Street until tho doors leadina te TfIB NEW YORK tho pier, or temporary morgue, bad been closed.

I i The police 'kept the doors cloeed until Chart Us Commissioner Tully succeeded In getting tho Health Board's lead Into pin boxss on the pier besides tho others that bad not bee Identified. At wO o'clock ha doors were again thrown open to the public, and tn double1 file the relatives ana friends of tho missing were led through tbe aisles of the dead. i During the bight nearly all of tbe heads of the cty departments were at tho Morguo hard at wofsL Police Commissioners Mc-AUo and his prlvato secretary. Mr. Howell, re ached! the Morgue shortly after 8 o'clock.

The Folice COminlstioner said he had just come fjom ithe Alexander Avenue Police Station, whens he had arranged to have the twenty-seven bodies there romeved to the Morguel pier. The Commissioner said at the time the left the seen of th accident the men on Ithe various boats about North brother! island were picking up bodies at the rate of two or three within a few minutes. I Charities Cjotnmlssioner Tully remained on the pler: superintending the work of caring for and tagging the bodies as they arrived. Health Commissrotier Darlington, who had come- on the! health boat Edson, personally supervised tin transferring of the bodies' from North iBrother Island to the Morgue. The Edson Went buck after another load of corpses Shortly before 10 o'clock, and tho Health remained aboard of her.

He isaid he would be on duty all night. At O'clock the crowd at the Morgue wasjgTowlng bigger than ever, and the reserves iffom two more precincts were sent to handle the crowds. At 11:15 j' clock the tug Mlnnahannock reached i th Charities) Department pier with eighty-three bodies of dead, all being In coffins, aihq Capt, Ward of. the tug said that a new fcurply of coffins had- been received at; Xarth Brother Island, so that he thouaht all oi her txdieH received would have coffins there instead ot waiting until arrival at true pJer. According to the official Morgue count at midnight bodies had been received, on the Fidelity.

2 on the Massasott. 57 on the Kdsnn. Itll on tne MlnnanannocK. In addition oi this It was announced that enother tug iviis on the way with -7 bodies, and that the Fidelity and the Massasoit each wcr' ott the way klowri with approximately lJf bodies on each, which would bring thj total to 4Vi, which would be received bv eurly this morning. The tug load of was from the Alexander Avenue Police 8tatihJ When I left North P.rother Island." said Capt.

Ward! of the Mlnnahanock, "there were still more bodies there by far than had prevaounly been brought down. Many of thesei of course, are on the steomers now Jautj fresh recoveries Were being made 0 rapidly that I do not see how the total dead can possibly run less than KS" Police, Inspector McLaughlin, who. was In charge reported at o'clock this morning than there srtlll was a line of persons extending from the pier to First Avenue. waltinsT an opportunity to view the dead lu their iscarcl. SECN FROM LONG ISLAND SHORE.

Trail of Debris and Bodies in Wake of the Burning- Boat. Peculiarly i tragic are the descriptions given by persons along the Long Island shore who witnessed the progress of the General Slocum from the moment the big excursion steamer passed through Hell Oate until she gTOBPded off Hunt's Point, a mass of flame, with the passengers who five minutes before had been absorbed In the pleasure of their outing fighting for life between fire and water. It was at 10 o'clock that the steamer entered Hell Gte. The employes of the Astoria ferryboat Haarlaem. which passed under the Slocum's stern, say that at that time there were iot the slightest evidences to foreshadow the disaster that was to overtake the General Slocum In a few moments.

The band wis playing the Marseillaise," the children of the St. Mark's Lutheran Sunday school were dancing, after the manner of east islde children, to the stirring music, the Isteamer was decorated with pennants and. strings of flags, while her were bright with the gay Summer dresses and: parasols of women and children. As the vessel swept past the Haarlaem. one of the deck hands waved to a knot of children who had to the rail to see the ferryboat paHS.

The children returned the greeting, and presently a good-natured ovution was given to the old excursionist Haarlaem. Then the Slocum slipped past Mill Rock and the ferry employes taw her no more, but several Astoria people say that before the stea.ro.er disappeared around the bend in the river attjlackett's Point there was a cloud of iwliite smoke hanging over her. This, however, was thought nothing of at the time, as the strains of band music were still plainly audible. But the moment the General Slocum disappeared IrOm the. sight of the casual watchers at Astoria the steamer attracted the attention Of Superintendent Grafllng of the new gas works at Casino Beach.

Mr. ilr-uflinir noticed that there was some smoke coming from the forward part of the vessel. At the same moment one oi ihc cas works laborers spoke to the Super intendent about the smoke, which Increased in voiume every moment, nen it was realised that the1 vessel was on fire, although it was a hard thing to believe, for the band was atill placing. At this time tne Slocum was Just off the Sunken Meadows. While the gas works employes were curiously regarding her the band suddenly ceased playing right in the middle of a I popular air.

Simultaneously thero came ffoin the throats of over fitteen hundred people a cry that was heard from the Casino Beach to Biker's Island, and the New York shore. Superintendent Grafling ran for his field glasses and, when he got them focused he was just in time to ttee a great sheet of flame burst from the cloud of smoke that enveloped the steamer, whose head was row directed straight for the breast of N'rth Brothe Island. The shrieks the panic-stricken women and children were plainly audible on both sides of the while over ail arose the prolonged wail of the Slocum's whistle. The gas works people Hay that not until a few moments: before tho vesjtol slid In behind North Brother Island did the real catastrophe occur. But the huddled mass of women and children were discernible on the hurricane und 'tween decks, while above ull a long flagstrtng.

the lower iart of which had been eaten through by the flames, was flying frantically loose in the brecj.es of the Soung. While Superintendent of the cas works was watching he suddenly saw ihe starbojiid rail of the upper deck collapse and a huddled, shrieking mass of wo-meiv. fell with the burning debris Into the water. It was then, according to the witnesses around Casino Beach, that the real panic occurred. Women and children, nearly all dressed In white or light colors, were to be seen leaping wildly from the doomed steamer, which a few moments later was obscured (rum the sight of the gas works bv North Brother Island.

Superintendent ailing afterward went to the scene of the disaster In a rowboat. but did not care to discuss what he had seen when he returned. At the same time AVllllam Henry Muff, who runs a hotel and a boa tho use at Stetn-wuv, L. about, a quarter of a mile fur-thrr'up the sound; was a less active witness of the catastrophe. Muff was eating his breakfast on the veranda Of the bout house when all at once from behind the hillock known as Berrlan Island came the General Slocum in flames.

dispatched a messenger to 8teinway to tell the engineer of the steam launch Gloria which he owns, that the Slocum was on fire, and that he wanted steam at the engineer was being found the Slocum ran behind North Brother Island, but not before Muff had witnessed the breaking of the guardrail and the terrible panic that lOiioaeo. The flame and smoke ascending from the vessel arose from behind the island, plainly 'marking the course Oif the General Slocum. although nothing could be seen of the usell except now and then the top of a smokestack. The engineer of Muffs launch arrived at about 11 o'clock. Just aa the little craft was about to start to the possible rescue of some of the Slocum's passengers a number of reserve from the Seventy-fourth frecinct.

Uing Island City, ran onto tho hrf and boarded the Gloria. The launch followed directly In the larger vessel's wake, picking up bodies as she went By the time she arrived at the point where the Gen. Slocum was srrounded and burning to the water's edge, the Gloria had picked up so many bodies that before she could bo of further service the drat had to be turned over to the Fi-delltv and the police reserves landed on NortV Brother Island. After that." said Muff, wo made a second trip, over the wake of tbe Slocum. The water was simply a mass of debris and bodies, I We came upon a larger mass of floating; debris and mixed -Ml with it we found Meral women and children, all tangled together, as If they bad fallen in a panic-stricken heap into -the water with the rail, and gripped one another tighter in their death struggle.

We had to disengage tfceta TIMES. THURSDAY. ona by on before we ceroid get them Into tho Gloria, They were all dead. ft Altocetbar any engineer and I. assisted by the police, who came with us.

picked up twenty-two bodies, which we turned over to the Fidelity. Tho saedest thlnsT I saw was the body of a baby which we tried lo extricate front the wreck, only to rind that tbe seeming debris was the arms of he infant's mother who was underneath." i HEROIC RESCUERS AFLOAT. Brave Policeman. Gos Several Craft Fired from tbe Slocum's Blaze. So rapidly did disaster overtake the steamer General Slocum yesterday morning that an accurate general view of the catastrophe can best be had by grasping the different viewpoints of number of eye-witnesses who, while not aboard the biasing vessel, were nevertheless In a good position to see exactly what occurred.

Policeman James Collins of tho Alexander Avenue Police Station, who was detailed at the wharf at the foot of One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Street, saw tho slocum coming up tho river a solid mass of flames at 10:13. He called up Fire Headquarters on a near-by telephone and ran to the dock at the foot of One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Street, mooting; on tho way Policeman II. C. Farrall. Tho two rnen Jumped aboard a schooner tied up there and launched Its nineteen-foot yawl.

Mate Olaf Jansen went with them. They made three attempts to get close to the Slocum, but were driven back twice. On the last attempt, covering their heads with their coats, coming up on the starboard side, they got under the overhang, where-the heat was leas. There they found people hanging the deck supports and the paddle wheel shield. Some of these were already dead, but holding on In a death grip.

In all they rescued twenty-two persons, and then pulled away for the shore, as the boat was already overloaded. On the wav they met a coal scow, to which they transferred their load, and then put back to the vessel. Of the many they had seen hanging on there were only eight left. These they took aboard, and on the way to the shore picked up fourteen dead. Of the eight who were alive three were children.

Another gallant rescue waa that of Francis A. Korner, a painter who was at work on an old skiff Just above One Hundred and Fortieth Street. He pushed the boat Into tho river, and although he had only one oar sculled out Into the stream and managed to save six persons. He had a head wind against him, and came close to swamping in the wake of a side-wheeled excursion steamer which he says went on her way without any attempt at rescues. He did not get her name.

Gallant Policeman's Rescues. Policeman Qoss was the first of the New York policemen to Jump from a boat to the rescue. He was on the fireboat Zophar Mills when it came close to the burning boat. Waving his hand to Capt. Geoghegan, he wished' him good-bye, and Jumped overboard.

Policemen Daniel Sullivan, George Toung, and Charles Hefferman followed him. Goss brought back to the boat two children, and later saved a woman. The other policeman gathered In two apiece. In addition to those, the boat picked up sixteen dead. On the boat were Fathers Farrelly and Cushlng of St.

Jerome's and Father Boyle of St. Luke's Church. They were there to give absolution to the dying and render such aid as was In their power. The Zophar Mills got so close to the burning vessel that she was badly scorched and a hose had to be played over her port side while the policemen were in the water on their mission of rescue. Policeman Goss had the hardest struggle when he was swimming with a woman, who managed to get her arms around his neck.

Tho two went under, but Goss Is one of the strongest men on the force, and managed to break her grasp. As they came to the surface he caught her by the hair, and swimming to the rescue' boat, brought her within reach of a boat hook. As she was drawn aboard he floated on his back, almost exhausted. A rope was thrown to him, and this he tied about him and was drawn on board. Later at the station house he was among the most active of those who assisted those looking for lost relatives.

Like the others, he proved a great comfort to those who failed to make Identifications, assuring them that many were rescued, and that there was a large chance that their loved ones were among the number who escaped. The men of the tug; John L. "Wade, named after her owner and chief engineer, for bravery challenged any of the many rescuers. The Wade was tied up at the dock at North Brother Island when those aboard her heard the whistles blowing-, sounding the alarm in the harbor. Down the stream, and apparently headed for the island, came the doomed boat.

According Capt. Flts-gerald, they were dropping Into tho water by hundreds; Thero were five men aboard. Including the cook and a deck hand. They cast off and under full steam rushed for the Slocum. The deck supports on the port side under the body of the boat and the outer shield of tho paddle box were black with people clinging there, like hiving bees, with every now and then some falling off into the water.

The Wade came so close that she caught fire astern. One deck boat was cast adrift, and tbe Captiln went to the recue In tho other. Several people got Into the boat adrift and were racued later down stream by another tug. The cook took tne wheel, and the deckhand, who understood the engines, took th engineer's place while he plunged overboard and saved three persons. Fireman Kdward Carroll alone put out the blase at the stern of the Wade, while her namesake and owner rescued two children.

Fireman Carroll then went overboard and brought back a woman and child. The Wade, after her Captain had rowed back to her with a boatload of fifteen, put back because some of those saved needed the services of the physicians if they were to live. Among those saved by the Wads w-ere Gus Kucher of 185 Russell Street. Brooklyn, snd Catharine Jordan of 8T Third Avenue. New York.

Corrections Tux Saved Many. After the tug Maaaasolt had docked at Lhe East Twenty-sixth Street Pier, Capt. Parkinson told bis story of the relief work she had done. The steamer, belonging to the Department of Corrections, runs between the department pier and Blackwell's, Hart's, and Biker's Islands, and was one ot tho first craft on tho scene of the disaster. We were at Hart's Island," said the Captain.

when I heard tbe whistles and I saw the flames on the General Slocum. We Immediately made every effort to get to her. and reached tho ship at Just about the time she was beached. Wo pulled up alongside and did everything in our power to save the living persons who were struggling In tho water, and later to collect the dead bodies. By the use of tho lifelines and of a life boat wo managed in all to save iorty vine ivmona, some of whom we landed at Hart's Island for medical attendance and others we landed at One Hundred and Thirty-second Street to enable them to get to -their homes.

It did not seem to bo any time after first saw the fhvmes on tho Slocum before she waa on fire from stem to stern, and people were dropping from all parts of the boat. Many we could see bunted right before our eyes, but then the water waa so thick with those who needed asalsta-nce that we bad to work aad not look- James Duane, our mate, took James Golden, a deckhand, in a lifeboat, and together they saved eight. Another deckhand. Albert Ftappaport, went into tbe water with a lifeline. Ho saved two girls and five others In that way.

Kappaport had a fight with one boy who was half drowned when he got to him, and who fought his rescuer. Finally wo cot him on board safely. In tbe fight, however. JUNE 16. 1901.

tho deckhand lost moat of the few remaining rWHhee bo bad on. We got near tha barnlnfj steamer that weVad to play our hose, on tha pilot, house to save It, As It was. the entire side of ouev boat was badly burned. We mlnf played a hoso? on tho lifeboat tn whlcb Duaae and Golden were working, so that they could continue Mate Duane declared the worst to nave been the most trying he ever experienced. When went out in the yfeboat, be said.

there were dead bodies ow all sMee of us. We could potuso an oar without striking something-. The water waa taica with persons. We would go around and wherever we saw a sign of life would take the person In. In many cases we would have to haul bodies up by tho hair to see If there was a sign of life, and then, when It waa evident the person waa dead, would let the body go back.

After we had got all out who anpeared to have signs of life, then wo started to collect in the dead. One body we took out waa that of a woman, and she had on at least a thousand dollars' worth of Jewelry. We turned ths body over to the police at once to prevent ghouls getting to work, tn case any should have been about. I never saw flumes spread so rapidly as they did on the 81ocum. They seemed to move from one end of the boat to the other as fast as a man could have walked the same distance." Charge Against Ferryboat.

One of the boats that are alleged to have behaved badly was tha ferryboat Bionx. plying between East One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Street and College Point. Capt. William Churchill of the tug Easy Time says that tho ferryboat let tbe Slocum pass her bows, and then went on her courso without stopping to make any effort at rescuing the many people who were In tho river at the time. The same accusation was made by other people.

The pilot In charge In the morning could not be found yesterday afternoon, being off duty. Members of the crew said that tbe story was outrageous. The ferryboat left her slip at her regular time, 10 o'clock, and was out of sight of the Slocum when she came up the river, they said. Their denial Is corroborated by Policeman James Collins of the Alexander Street Station, who is sure that the boat left exactly at 1 o'clock, as he helped an old woman aboard her. He says that she was nowhere near the scene of the disaster.

CAPT. ALLIE VAN ETTKN of the Keel-er Transportation Company's Tug D. S. Arnott We were going toward New York when tha Slocum hove in sight near Sunken Meadows, off Hell Gate. Dense clouds of smoke were pouring from her, and she was heading for North Brother Island, where she was beached.

The scene was terrible. Women and children tan frantically to the side rails and leaped overboard. We ran to within about loO feet of tho Slocum, and John Ohlaon and'Gunther Andersen, my engineer and fireman. Jumped Into the water in aid of tha work of rescue. We paved six women and two children and picked up fifteen dead bod ics All were put into launches except one Woman, whom I landed at the foot of Fifty-third Street.

She was Mrs. Martha Werth, twenty-one years old. of 841 East Fifty-eighth Street. 1 did not get the names of any of the others. They were all terribly excited and frightened, and one woman and one child tried to Jump overboard again after we had got them aboard the tug.

Our boat took fire three times from sparks thrown off the Slocum. but we managed to extinguish the flames, though ray left wrist was badly blistered in doing it." PASTOR TELLS HIS STORY. His Wife and Daughter Drowned Criticizes the Steamer's Captain. The Kev. George C.

F. Haas, pastor of St. Mark's Lutheran Church, whose wife, Mrs. Gertrude Haas, and hia daughter. Miss Anna Haas, are among those who perished on the General Slocum, told this story of the disaster: The fire, I understand, started In the kitchen, and was caused by tho Ignition of some grease that boiled over.

Tbe kitchen was In the after part of tho boat, and why the men at work there did not put the fire out I do not know. We were off One Hundred and Thirty-fourth 8treet at the time. The band was playing a popular air, and the women and children were crowded around the musicians listening to the piece. The band was located aft. Then came the.

cry of fire and the awful scene. In three minutes It could not have been more all three decks were ablaze. Such scenes as followed I do not believe were ever witnessed before. Women and children were shrieking and crying in their terror St the frightful doom facing them. Some of the poor mothers had three or four 'little children with them, and their at tempts to save the little ones wero heartrending beyond description.

Everything seemed hopeless. WTien the fire first shot up through the hurricane deck and drove the crowd back, the panic was simply terrible. Thosei in the rear wert swept along by the crowd In front, the wemen and children trying In vain to hold on to the railings and stanchion). Those first to fall, I believe, were trusheC. My wife and daughter and myself were among these swept along in the rush.

There seemed to be a general Inclination to Jump, and the wc-nen and children wero swept over the rails like so many flies. In tho terrific rush mcny of them were trampled upon. Little children were crushed, while mothers and their babes would give wild, heart-breaking screams and then Jump Into the water. Soon wo saw that boats from the shore were making for us. and then we had a ray of hope.

It looked up to then as if no ono would be saved, and with my wife and daughter I went overboard. I do not know whether we Jumped or whether wo were Fushed over. When I rose from the water saw scores and scores of people fighting to keep afloat, and then one by one they would sink the last time. It was awful, and 1 was powerless to do anything. By a great effort I managed to keep above water, but ray strensrtb waa about gone when a boat picked me up.

Whv the Captain of the General Slocum did not beach the boat on the meadows I cannot understand. Instead, he kept Straight ahead, the fresh wind from tho Round driving the flames back through tho boat with lightninglike rapidity." PASTOR'S CONDITION CRITICAL. More Seriously III Than Was Thought at First. Shortly before midnight It became known thut the Rev. Mr.

Haas's injuries were more serious than his family had thought at first. His physician. Dr. George 1L Sen-ken of 858 Lexington Avenue, who was in constant attendance at tho pastor's bedside, at his home In Seventh. Street, admitted that the patient's condition was very critical.

Two trained nurses wore summoned earlier in the evening, but ono of them was caring for Miss Emma Haas, tho minister's sister. A rumor that Mr. Haas was dead spread through the vicinity late in tho evening, and Dr. Benken came away from tho sickroom long enough to deny this, but tho crowd that had collected outside refused to go away, and there were hundreds in the street after midnight. Dr.

8enken refused to discuss the nature of Mr. Haas's injuries. THE PASTOR'S BEREAVEMENT. Wife Dead One Daughter Burned, Another Missing. At the home ot tho Rev.

Mr. Haas last night his physician and friend. Dr. George H. Benken.

said that tho pastor's wife was surely dead, and her body would be brought from tho Morguo during tho night. Gertrude, the thirteen-year-old daughter, was still missing, said the doctor, as were Mrs. Hanson. Mrs. Haas's mother, and Mrs.

Tetatnore, her sister, and Mra. Tetamoro's dauhter. The doctor said that Miss Emma Haaa, who had arrived home, waa serlouaiy burned. The church has lost Its very best members." added the physician, who Is a cloave friend of Mr. Haas.

Probably tho moot proaulnent on was Charles A. Anger, who was a banker of this neighborhood. Shortly after midnight ono of the many dead wagons tust rumbled all night through the east side streets brought the body ot Mrs. Haas to her homo. Mrs.

Haas's body was Identified at tho Morguo by the Kev. Julius J. Schultx. a friend of the family, who was on the General Slocum with a party of prominent Lutheran Church members. Dr.

Schuits himself escaped practically uninjured. At an early boor this morning Dr. Haas, who is forty-five years old. aad has been pastor of the church for twenty-five years, was reported unconscious. It la feared that bo will die.

i TALES 0PHLI0RR0R TOLD BY SURVIVORS Eye-Witness' Stories of Swift and Awful Panic. FAMILY PARTIES WIPED OUT Mrnjr Brave Deeds on Bond ths Doomed Steamboat Amid Scenes of Wild Panic Stories told by the survivors of the burning- of the General Slocum give a disjointed but vivid picture of tho terrible swiftness with which death swept the vessel, of the panic which raged over her decks, and of the sudden tragedy which took hundreds of the helpless. Many of those who were rescued have no very clear Idea of how they escaped. A man dragged them into a boat or a swimmer brought them ashore. Further details very few of them can give.

Two things they all agree upon: tho tragedy fell with awful swiftness, and the panic aboard the steamer instantaneously swept away every semblance of calmness. Tbe Rev. Julius G. Schuls of Erie was a passenger on the General Slocum. and witnessed the frightful scenes that followed tho burning of that craft.

Mr. Schuls is of the opinion that Capt. Van Schalck used bad Judgment In running the Slocum up stream Instead of beaching her on the sunken meadows. It Is absolutely said Mr. Schuls, to describe the horrible scene on the Slocum.

The flames spread so rap-Idly and it seemed only a second before tho whole craft was abluse from end to end. Women and children Jumped In the wildest manner to their death, while the efforts of mothers to save their little ones was the most heartrending spectacle I have ever witnessed. Poor Mr. Haas did his best to save his wife, but in the excitement somebody pushed in between the two and Mrs. Haas was lost.

I myself mas among- fifty others that were saved by a boat, the name of which I do not know. Yes, 1 am confident that something was radically wrong in the management oT the Slocum. Why the Captain did not attempt to make the Manhattan shore or to beach the ship In the meadows Is past my comprehension. Had he beached her hundreds of women and little children would certainly have been saved. Of that I am certain.

Miss Marie Krcuger of 451 West End Avenue, who. suffered from bums, and waa taken to Harlem Hospital, said: "I was on the upper deck when I waa startled by a cry of 'Flrel Then tho men came along and told the women to be quiet. The advice fell on deaf ears, however, for every one became panic stricken the minute the alarm was given. I myself slid down a pole to tho water and managed to get hold of a rope that was hanging alongside the boat. 1 bad to relinquish this, however.

In short order, for the flames began to shoot out of the portholes right above me. Alongside of mo was a little boy. and he was holding on to a life-preserver. Near us was a coal barge, and a deckhand on that threw ua a rope and pulled us on board the barge. I had a sister and a cousin on the Slocom.

and I do not know whether they were saved or not." Freda Gardner, eight years old, of 420 "Willis Avenue, was rescued after being In the water fifteen minutes. She was picked up by a man In a row boat. She saya that the first thing- she knew of any trouble was when everybody started shouting and running to the stern of the boat. She was knocked down, but managed to get to her feet again. A big man stopped and put a life-preserver about her.

Ho was praying all the time, and hurried on to help another child. She fell again, and, as she was getting up, somebody, she thinks It was a woman, tore off the life-preserver. Tho smoko was stifling, and It was terribly hot. She managed at last to get to the outer rail, but was afraid to Jump. A man picked me up and threw me into the water." she said.

I saw Mm a second later swimming toward me. and It gave me courage. Then he disappeared. A plank came floaUng by. and I grasped 1C It easily supported me.

Somebody caught hold of my foot, but let go. All the time I was trying to pray, but could not. bocauso I had gone on tho excursion without the knowledge of my mother. A man grabbed the plank and was pulling himself up on It, when a woman threw her arms about his neck, and the two supped back Into the water. I managed to aay a prayer then and felt better, and I then resolved never again to disobey my mother.

I started to pray again, when a man In a rowboat reached out and pulled mo in. He took mo to tho foot of One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Street." There Freda found great many other little boys and girls, whom several ladles were undressing, rubbing, and wrapping In blankets. There wet clothing was spread out to dry. Freda, when It was seen, that she was In need of medical attention, was taken home in a busrarv. There was the greatest surprise on tho part of tne mother when her little daughter, wrapped In a great blanket, was carried Into the bouse with her clothing, still wet.

In her arms. There was no scolding for the truant girl. As tbe man who had brought her home departed he saw the mother and ber little girt who was still wrapped In a blanket, kneeling by tho sofa thanking Ood for His Mercy. man who was too excited to give his first name, but described himself as Miller, a member of tho unfortunate church, when landed at the foot of Kast Ono Hundred and Thirty-eighth Street, said that ho bad put on six Ufa preserver. They broke apart and be Jumped overboard, swimming until rescued by a tug.

Deckhand Saved Two Oirls. Graphic accounts of suffering, bereavement, and rescues were told yesterday afternoon when tho Corrections Department steamer Massasoit dockod at the foot of East Twenty-sixth Street, bringing two survivors, both girls. In the Captain's cabin. They wero Hannah Ludeman, a seventeen-year-old girl, of White Plains, who bad lost her mother and two brothers In tbe disaster, and Minnie Weiss, an eleven-year-old girl, of 1.235 Third Avenue, whoao mother, brother, and cousin had been lost. Both girls bad been rescued by Albert Rappaport, a deckhand on the Massasoit.

who Jumped overboard and took them from tho water by tho use of life Unea. Rappaport saved five other Hves In tbo same manner. From tbe time tbe two girls wero rescued, ainco they wero the solo survivors of two family parties on tbo steamer, they vera made the especial car of Capt, Parkinson aad w'ere looked after carefully while tho steamer continued lta work of rescue and of landing injured at Hart's Island. When the Massasoit ran down to tbe charities Department piir to bind tho eighty dead It carried, the air la wore brought to ta docs Trams are reached by coenft fati service from 23d Street, Cort-laadt Street, Dsafcrossrs Strict, New Ysck, aad Street. Brooklyn.

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T-wntr-ftTS wts a bottle- and taken to the horoe of frtends andirela. tlves. Tho Ludeman girl was badly bjirned about the head, and had have her In Juries treated by a physician at Ilart'a. Island. The Weiss girl was illghtly bvjrned.

but the condition ot neither is Both were able to tell their stories of the affair while on the pier. I started on the excursion with tny mother, Mrs. Ida WeLss. who was forty-five years old; my brother George. i who was fifteen, and my cousini Louisa who was Blxteen." said trie little "Weiss' girl.

"We were at the friit of thelboat on the second deck, except my brother, who was on the upper derg, when some-' body dried i "i Everybody Jumped and jlhe ladleis and little girls began to cry arid scream? and run about. My brother got to ua and Srled to get a life preserver for my mother! and one' for me, but the fire seemed to get to us right off. and the Ufo pk-eservers were burning, too. My brother ijlnally gut one for me, and I followed a bg woman who stood near roe. The next tf.ing I knew I was In the water hanging to a.

llfeipre- server, and then this big man caught me, and fled a lino about me. abd they pulled me on tho boat. I don't know whor the big woman was, and I did not seel tn mother or brother or cousin again." Tho little girl at first seemed completely dased by the affair, but did not comprehend Us full horror. Tears streamed -down! her face, and her lips quivered as she spoW and she hung to her rescuer aa though afraid to leave, until one of the offfirials of the Charities Department Jook her by the hand and led her out to the stretrti intending to take her to her home and" se whom he could find When he got to the street, where crowds of relatives and friends of the excursionists wero waiting to Identify the dead, thero. was a shout from, several persons on; one aide nd they made a rush for the girl.

They were relatives who had ctone down expecting to find her dead with the resft of her relatives who were on the t'ry-' ing and almost hysterical, they clasped tne child and took her away with them, returning later to look for the mother, brother, and cousin among the dead, Saw Mother Fall Into Burning HotdV The Ludeman girl, whose Mrs. Hannah Ludeman. aged forty, and Itwo brothers. Fred, aged eighteen and John, aged sixteen, were among those reported missing, was taken from thej put into the carriage of Charities Commissioner Tully, and driven to friends at Sixth Street and Avenue A. Before! she started she told her story of what had happened.

1 Wo wero all on the upper Ideck at "tha stern of tho boat," ahe said. when Uho smoke was seen and tho crowd shotted that the boat was on fire. I helped mothr put on a life preserver snd I i got on? on myself. On our part of the deck the flife preservers were not burning a('that I left mother inside and wentiout on the deck to see what we could do, but I had scarcely got out there when the part of -the deck near where she was collapsed and: she went down Into the burning ship, with it. I waa thrown Into the wafcr, buf Ithe life preserver held me up until I was pulled out.

1 don't know what happened to brothers, but I know there Is not a cliancs that mother could have escapedi Louisa Oalhng. sixteen years o)d, of ff ut ley. N. who was In charge ojf the two-' year-old child of Mrs. O.

Nuttey, was on the hurricane deck when the fire She found a life preserver In good condition under ono of tho seats. Placing the baby on her back she tied the Ufa preserver about herself and the i hlld and Jumped into the water. She could swim a' little and directed her course toward a tug. She and the baby were both saved. I A Policeman's Story.

Policeman Albert T. Van Tasu-U pf River and Harbor Squad was a passenger on the Slocum. being ono of the (fleers detailed to accompany the excursl n. Thero must nave been about 2,000 people on tho boat." said Van Taisell. "and the proportion of women to men was about twelve to one.

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