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11 yp 0 il 11IIUW 11 1 oj cr I 41 1 bLL REPORTS OF SPUR lit RETTZ i ON PAGES 12 AND 11J WEATUEIl Cloudy warms Tliumilny fair 1 WEATHER Cloud warmer Thnridar tale lJ I BASEBALL EYENINGM I l9L II II I EDITION I INAL 1 I a I I COMPLETE BASEBALL and SPORTING 1 I RACING in SPORTS it Circulation Books Open to All it Circulation Books Open to All RESULTS EDITION 6 PRICE ONE CENT NEW YORKWEDNESDAY JUNE 15 1904 PRICE ONE CENT Il I LIST OF SLOCUM DEAD a it NOW I MAY REACH 1000 I liST OFTH05E KNOWN i TO HAVE PERISHED I 4 Some of the Victims Who Met Their I Death on the Steamer Gen Slocum I Which Caught Fire When Loaded with Excursionists REVISED LISTS OF THE DEAD INJURED AND MISSING rJ WILL BE FOUND IN TODAYS FINAL EDITION OF THE EVENING WORLD 1 i The fnltowlngls flat of the known fiend MPANX MICHAEI uteTvpnl of the Gen Slncntn i hCIISBlTJEri Mm ACCilSYIS 1or2 Slnlilmim xrrrt Brooklyn SCIIKBIDEIl MARY nired eight ii IICUIIEIUGn ALICE nROil flvo nvtIicI clerkhnnd iiUT md Mrs MARY JtARJVIIG IOYII twentytonr HAUTUXG IIAIIRY fifteen IlAnTVXG MHMB thirteen I I llAnTtlXG CLARA eleven HAIITUXG ELSE KLINE Ira Xo ai Knut Sixteenth street nAIBIER Sim JOSEPH BBel thirtylive Xo 133 First nvenne Identified by hunlmnil I 1 7OMMEII Mm MARY Xo IS3 Ilr nvennc DOKGEIl FLORENCE three yearn old Xo HO Putnam Tenne Jlrookljn Identified lij hrr father Wllllnm A HncKrr KMXfiLEII Mm EVA BVifCHAni Mm ANNIE 8CHWAHT7 Mm LOUISA OUAXFinB Mm IIMAX No O08 Avenue A OHAXFIRE 1 nlnemonthnold baby of Mm Grnnflre dead In I Arm AIbnECIIT Mm SEIMA Xo 201 Bait Tehth itreet I KOKHIEn HARRY Bleventh street and Fourth avenue I ST11OIIEI CATIirrilXK Tin TS Int Mxtl street II MATER Mm MU1ISIC Xo Lit Kami Seventeenth iitreot KKPIMKII IRKVR lined trvejve Xo 102 Flrt avenue Idenfflra pi liy futltereorKe Kepplfr nOFFMAV KM7AIIKTII Itlentincil nt TmntvBlxth Street MorgueS FIOKHOIM ire MAIIIB Xo Ill Avenue fff IIOFKUAX 31 SO1MIIE Xo 77 second nvenne I 4 IIOFFMAX Mm RIIKAIIBTII xuIilini Ml Identineatlon by receipt vil 1111 on holly KIHXXAX Mr supposed liliiitincntlnn from InNCrlptloni In il Ilnc ring on hotly SMITH MAHY forlynlx of No 118 Seventh street I srIIUHPF Mm CUll Xo 2IS Avenue 1 fmilXD Ira ADUUSTA III Jtiro yearn old of Xo 01 First nve one 1 nOTII Mm JOSEPHINE No 2ot Fifth street nEIIUKIVS Mm AIlfUSTA Xo 1ST Ourden street Ilohokrn I I DECK Mm CHRISTINA Xo nit Bnnt Ninth street AIUXnMN Mm MAKV NuSaS Kant Flirliteeiith street I SCIIXITXBII Mm FANNiE No Kl iouverneur place Hrnnx UOHLICR IIENRY No 3IH Enkt 1 Thirteenth street 34 BODIES TAKEN TO POLICE STATION Jbe following is a list of the unUentlfled dead taken to the Alexander I avenue station 3 The bodies are numbered an tt Iowa Ao1Woman 5 feet I Inches 250 pounds dark brown hair black skirt whlto wjlst wedding ring amber beads No Woman forty years 130 pounds dark complexion brown hair 5 feet black skirt and valst small black llowur earrings with small diamond In centre No Woman sixty 5 feet 156 pounds gray hair reddish brown I trlped skirt and waist no jewels No 4Woman 30 5 feet 9200 pounds wedding ring gold and diamond enrrlnca white waist white striped black skirt Ilip orWoman 35140 pounds 5 feet 7 black skirt low shoes wedding ring small black earring No Woman thirtyrive 5 feet 6 Inches weight 160 pounds brown 4 1 hafr brown skirt whltu walbt wedding ring diamond earrings gold and diamond brooch Later Identified as Mrs Mary Dalmer of No 125 First IJ avenue No7 Unknown wqman thlrtyflvo 6 feet 7 Inches weight 180 pounds light brown hair white waist black skirt solitaire ring and wedding ring diamond screw earrings I No 8 Woman tweutyflvo 5 feet Inches weight 160 pounds dark irown hair white waist black skirt low shoes pearl earrings pearl and gold brooch wedding ring diamond ring Elgin gold ladles watch No 845120 stopped at 1019 No 9 iWoman cty5 feet Inches ISO pounds dark brown hair light walit blade skirt oxford shoes gold and diamond earrings small plain I gold ring on right hand I No 10j Woman fortyfive feet 6 Inches 160 pounds black and gray hair black calico dress arid purple flowers weddingring brooch showing 1Ian picture Sit lty itlNti Inche i70 pounds dark brown hair I 4ersft ifS VxJt i i i fi Mi iMUl i i fc fi4 i1 GENERAL SLOCUM AFIRE AND SINKING From photographs taken by Photogrnpner Curtis for The Evening Word ESTIMATE OF HEAD 9 ANn WHERE FOUND Pastor Haas of St Marks Church estimates number of dead at 800 Police Inspector Brooks directing the rescue work estimates as1000 Bodies have been picked up as follows North Brother Island 128 Alexander Aven Station 37 Tug Fidelity 88 Rikers Island 50 Oak Point JJ 16 I Total 319 black skirt white dotted waist black jacket wedding ring Nos 1213 14 16 16 17 Unidentified bodies of three Infants and three children less than five years old No 18Woman about fortyfive years old 5 feet 4 Inches light Hair white waist pepper and saltwaist button shoes No 19 Woman fifty feet 5 inches gray hair blaok dress earrings No 20rWoman forty 6 feet 3 Inches black waist and light skirt gold chant No 21 Woman thirtyfive brown hair very stout black silk waist and black sklrtweddlng ring No 22 Woman fortyfive check waist gray skirt black stockingsand lace gaiter shoes No 23 Woman sixty black jacket and skirt black stockings lace shoes flV shoesNo 24 Woman UilrlyQyo black satin waist blue skirt lace shoes LaterIdentified as Airs Selma Grimm No 25 Woman forty check waist black skirt lace gaiters No 26 Tall woman black silk waist with leads black skirt block stockings nd lacohpes No 27 Woman flttyblue lat ibfow Cket jTeen klrtlac Bhoe8 i w1 i CUlln IN PADULE80X CALLED FUR MAMMA l9 1 I Little One Was Lying Alive on Pile of Dead When Rescuers Extricated Bodies Tangled Among the Blades of Huge Wheel One of the rescuing fleet put in under the off shorf paddle box of the Slocum and discovered several dead bodiesof women and childrenlying on the blades ot the paddle wheels Iii removing one of the bodies several other cnrpse dropped from their positions Into the water On top of the pile of dead the rescuing party discovered a little Bit crying and calling for Mamma She with the others had managed reach the Interior of the paddle box as a means of escape She was the only one ot the unfortunate lui that survived tho rest being burned to I 1 deathOut Out of the peril from tire and water come four year old Llnle Krieger without a smudge on her red gown without a stain on her placid pretty face She was taken to the Alexander avenue station where she sat for two hours in a room In which dead women and children were laid out In three long rows Her big brown eyes swept over the crowd as Jt surged and out seeking to Identity perhaps the dead To Inqulrom she had but one reply My mamma is all burned up I saw her burn An Kvenlng World reporter learned from her that she went to the excursion with her mother and her little brother Her mother was caught In the flames and some one seized her and the boy Where he Is she does not know She says that her home Is In fourteenth street and It Is probably In the vicinity of First avenue WORLD OPENS BUREAU TO AID SURVIVORS The World has opened an Information Bureau at No 308 East Sixth street for the purpose of aiding survivors of the Slocum disaster In making known their safety and to help the relatives oftho dead and missing to cate the bodies of their loved ones Revised lists will be kept at this bureau and all inquiries will be given careful attention The telephone number Is 2275 Orchard and a reporter has been assigned to answer telephone calls of Inquiry I If youvdo not want the trouble of furrrftihtao a horse read tho Fur rtaticd HouxiB Let ode In World Wanta ReadthoMltinlatiiyr I Ladles Special Trimm Hat suitable for CarrlaseLreu and Country Wear it i tlil clMlnc out rive KunnuwBon r2U 4 I I Bodies of Women and A Children Still Coming Ashore at North Brother A Island and Other Points Around Hell Gate Fire Caused by RI the Overturning of Pot of Grease in the Galley ifr II 4 fr The big excursion steamboat Gen olocum burned and i sank today off North Brother Island with i 600excursion ists JOO of them children from St Marks German Lutheran Church in East Sixth Street aboard The loss of life is estimated to be 1000 The following is the latest estimate made by Detective Sergeant Kinsler and Police Inspector Brooks Their computation is as follows fs Number on board 1600 Dead bodies recovered 400 3 Injured in hospitals 300 Survivors accounted for 100 Missing 800 Fiftythree injured persons died on North Brother Island while the doctors attending to them just after they had been carried from the boat to the shore When the Slocum went down at 1225 oclock two hours and twentyfive minutes after the fire was first discovered it is estimated that there were nearly one hundred charred bodies on her decks Every fewminutes a body pops up from the wreck The corpses of seven adults and I one baby were towed from there to North Brother Island at 2 oclock Just after the Slocum sank where she had drifted from North Brother Island the water was black with bodies The tug Fidelity succeeded in picking up eightyeight 4 charred corpses before the swirling eddies in Hunts Cove off Rikers Island carried them out into the Sound None of these eightyeight bodies can ever be identified Heads and legs are burned off Not a shred of clothing is left on any one of them I The captain of the Fidelity says that he estimates that he left twenty bodiej without trying to take them int he boat because it would have been impossible to arrange them into any semblance of human remains WORST HARBOR HORROR In sudden paralyzing horror the tragedy has no parallel the history of marine disasters in this harbor Within half an hour a laughing carefree crowd bound for a days outing i the country was more than decimated by firj and water All the bodies in the Harlem Morgue on North Brother Island and at the station houses will be removed to the Manhattan Morgue at the foot of East Twentysixth street before midnight and the Morgue will be kept open day and night i Patrolmen Abel Van Tassel and Charles Kelt who were detailed to the Gen Slocum for the excursion report to Commissioner McAdoo that the tire started at 1010 A in the forecastle when tna boat wasF opposite One Hundred and Sixteenth street Coroner OGorman who with a squad of police made a detailed search of bodies for marks of identification reports that about 180000 worth of jewelry and money or bank books representing money wa found upon the bodies FIRE STARTED IN POT OF GREASE According to Rev Dr Has the fire started in the galley from a pan of boiling fat when the Boat was oft the sunken meadows opposite iOI Hundred and Thirtyfourth street Instead of running his boat ashore atOne Hundred and Thirtyfourth street Capt Van Schalck beached hor Sill North Brother Island a ouart of a mil away and on this trip the danleg I.