Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-06-21 | Page 1 | List of Dead Growing Alarmingly

List of Bead drawing Alarmingly Seven Hundred and Twenty-Five Victims Vic-tims of 'Slocum Disaster Have ' Been Recovered. NEW YORK. June 20.-The list of those who perished on tho Gen. Slocum Is growing at an alarming rate. Bodies came to thc surfaco today off tho shores of North Brother island is-land singly and In groups of twos and threes, until at dusk. ninety-three additional addi-tional bodies had been recovered. Every passing steamer seemed to churn up the water to such a dogree that with Its wash one or more bodies would be swept onto tho beach. 1 Between the hours of 3 and f. In tho aftornoon forty-live bodies, some of thorn badly mutlliatcd, wcro taken ashore bv the searching parties. This brings the total number of bodies recovered up to 723. and yet there arc something liko 300 persons unaccounted lor. A number of these aro among thc unidentified at the morgue and over on North Brother island, and thc "unrecognizable" "unrecog-nizable" that have boon burled in tho Lutheran cemetery on Long Island. Tho coroner's Inquiry Into the disaster was begun today. Thousands of porsona gathored In and around the armory In the borough o Bronx, whero tho inquest wns held.