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Show DEAD NUMBER 11 SEVEN HUNDRED lit 11 East River Disaster 1 11 Crows .Worse. II Host Appalling Catastrophe 11 jfl in History of American ;i :H Inland Waters. fill NEW YORK. June 16. With un- jlj ceasing effort search is going on ml iM for the bodies of those who , hjlll H perished yesterday on the General Mi nM Slocum. What the list of victims will 'H total scarce any one dares venture a fl Ji 'M guess, but whatever the number may ?,A be, there is hardly a parallel In the M jH history of disasters where death came ' ( t 'M to so many in so brief a period of time. . Police nnd health 'department ofllclals ! H 'H have placed the number nt a figure as . , 'H high as 1000 and more, but tonight il jH would seem that the maximum fatality jl ilH will not largely exceed 700. , Searching for Bodies. Kij All day long, from sunrise until dark- ji' ; .H ness shut off even the melancholy satis- 'K ihH faction of watching for the dead, 9" lil anxious searchers kept up their vlgi- Jance, and at dusk there had been re- j B covered 536 bodies, for the greater part $ 3 women and children; mothers who weeks ago had planned that fatal out- j; 1 'M lng for their children; little ones who -Ml :H had longed for the coming of the happy "4 j 'H day' i '1 Three Hundred Identified. a ,IH Up to dupk 109 bodies had 'pas-Hd illiH through the morgue, and of these more jM than 300 were identified. The enst sldo 5(f, had Its human sympathies aroused to j $ iH the fullest extent, and down by the river 3 where the boats unloaded their dead, K a thousands gathered throughout the day. vh a Streets leading to the morgue wero talt! nl blocked, and only with difficulty could (iff $ 'jH the police keep clear the passage lead- W t Ink to the long- row of eoifln for those . Y11''! 'H Who came to search for the missing. tj) Grappling- for Victims. Jji. Up the sound where the hulk of the , j .H General Slocum lies submerged, show- ?X, i lng only a paddle box, scores of small iyifz craft aldtd the tugs In grappling for f tljH the victims. Divers went down time Ij fj!fa and again, and when their work ended js for the day they declared there were no . ji i more bodies ln the wreck. A score of j Jj times a diver reappeared after his ii J plunge with the body of a woman or a j; child. Two of thein coming to the sur- S !!;! face together on 'one' occasion had In W i their arms two little girls, sisters. -WiTH clasped in each other's embrace, and "r 7 1.H their mother, it was thought, whose j'vH dead hand tightly clenched the skirt t, HH of one of them. 3j i'jfH Carried With the Tide. ,l!t ! As far as they could, the divers I iH searched the wreck from stem to stern, j j f bH but there are masses of broken timbers ji . jj lIH through which it was ulmost Impossible WhI to explore. At this point the water Is lUH deep and the currents are Mwlft, and RiftV' BH beyond doubt many bodies have been ft !jj,H : borne along with the tide, to be given Jf' itfrl up on a later day at some distant point, j,' S Uat of Tdissing Cut Down. 1i mR There are a number of places where ,' ! the living may have landed, and it is i 'H believed that many that are now re- j ported missing are safe and eventually 1 jH will be heard from by the officials who i f have tre rescue work ln hand. Indeed. ( t tonight a surprising number of persons jit i reported to these officials that they had If been saved, thus cutting the list of miss- i 13 lng down considerably, as well as the probable mortality list. fyW Ho Deaths in Hospital. fj U Manv persons iverc injured in the ,1 panic that followed the breaking out of tf flames on the Slocum. At least 200 per- ;i JE JH sons were taken to the hospitals. Not B a death has occurred in the hospitals. ;t Ufi Although a great number of the bodies wero mutilated nnd clothing badly k- Ml burned, valuables havo been taken from W S the dead to tho amount of $100,000, 'frWj Belief Committees Named. m Mayor McClellan today, after rcceiv- fojj ing mcssuges of condolence from many sources, visited North Brother Island, I ,!j .m and later visited the morgue. He is- fihj sued a proclamation to the citizens of d j5 New York and appointed a relief com- ji'.U mittee of prominent men. Relief will be J j( needed in that little eastside territory tf'IJ which the vast majority of those that t I perished were accustomed to call home. Xt Investigation Begins Monday. 7 jl The Coroner's investigation to fix the r' responsibility for the disaster will bogm on Mondav. The Federal authorities, as - well as the District Attorney, will hold ! an Investigation, and the Society for 'fi'Jj the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, i 'HJ through Its counsol, has signified its ln- h1 Jj tention to push the inquiry to the ut- j j most, If |