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Show S J Gruesome find of 1 fto Search, Victims of Slocum Di8aif Rtcovered Locked in Em if Other's Arms, . I; Department Officials Making. If! Inquiry Into MRttor, and V '1 tain Vessel's Crew. ' B NEW YORK, Jn, lS.-Sur.ft,r. 1 fr vest of dead from Hi- stMPrTp oral Slocum jnimborcd it m' bringing the total numW r if -' so far recovered up to GJ2. Of tl-jSti havo boon Identlfitd, whlla ab jtWw of the victims now lying at iht 3 -A havo not been claimed by friend lives. 54 ft During the day th'lrty-slx bo4ii Y recovered, and it was nof unli! aV" t 1 when the great majority of tlw inS IS crs had ceased to work, that ifc M wcro found. . y Most of these cnnif up from L A' jii torn and floated Inshore. Th; ' covoi-ed by tho police who ive- w. 1 t watch all night, Wl J While the list of miaslnr has 1, V down somowhat by th idnuScfiS ft made today, eleven r.ew rarak S added to that roll, thu9 leavin? tb 3 of missing almost as It was on SliaS K aomt'thlnc reoro than W), fci Early this morning the st-irlcn brid anew tho work of locating: tbe Siy-Mr-dead. Within an hour they hadMfc ored thirteen bodies off die Vt-i N"oith Brother Island Tlir-o of lhUB were lloating and It Is the cizvit9 ion that many more will como to t' i face during the wed;. . v At sundown, when worlc nnfa! cwised for the day. thlrtyls tolhih! 1 been added to tho long list of dui va J of these bodies were Idcntlilci " Of tho bodies recovered durlns fo'ii & hour, one was that of a mar, Htji of women, two of boys, four of jtnj u !f ono was an Infant 1, 'jj. Died in Each Other's Arms, i R A lifo saver grappling from 1 ni J brought up a woman of Si) nnd asWj 11 locked In each other's arms. li f mlnutc later he brought np th l5i of a boy 9 years old aud a girl of if 1 parently brother and ektor, c'ksv tightly to each other if Divers who went to the wreck fs: 1 tho bodies of a woman, a girl sr4i " boy, and brought them to the sjrlw They were burned beyond ifstun L Tho dlvera said there are more b'-lW.i tho wrecknge, tlius bearing out tb- it, ment made a day or two ago. after I wan thought the wreck h;vl bem cia"3E that many bodies remained und-rteiRE tanglement of timbers and Iron fir Ono body was found lloating to river near Picker's Island, while rifctlniF wore brought up from tile bolt n Dxjp the boach running from the.i.'ix.d taw to tho channel in the river Threo men working with an m;6T;M grappk-. conslDtlng of a block of TocrflJ to which many llshhooks wcro atu-J r drew up the section of the rail oiurtc? per deck of the Slseum, about Ibrlj in In length. The bodies of four wim.STi.i clinging to the rail, the linpfra grlr tho Interlaced 1re rcplng Thla b pun J the rail which gave way just bffere 4 steamer was benched prcclritatla hundred persona into the wata Tt2 tho rail was belnq truught .ishor it of tho bodies brako awaj from it, t: r were recovered " Hundred Victhns Buried. Tlie funerals of nearK .a hurdrfJ b tlms or the disaster were held teJay.fi many Instances two usl ts v,tM rarr. In the same hearse, and In Mime cj-'tiiw and cvon'tluce hums fcrt - dead of a single t.unli j Department officials, for pit dut" obtaining evidence todm wnt ! t-i exact course taken b.- l G u louci the day ct the disi.t.r In U Fiq wero Coroners O'fJorrrjin rl Berr; Caol. Gilder, chief of the pilot sntt tho New Haven Sto;imshlp II) e. act! w win IC. Weaver, who was aaltan'3f of tho Slocum on tbe dev ef thedlMJK Pilot Weaver told nf an n Went he K" 4fter thu Slocum t.iusbt f.re Tn notUleatlon of the Ihv uas re-iVM rrei Mate Flanagan throug.i Hi 'r"1 into the pilot house -it a -t"1, hundred feel south of li Li. rt which Is In the vlvlnf" of r and Twenty-ninth strn-t t fc 's ment on the purl of Wecr, r ,y was asked by tho Coroner wi.cn " had been in charge of 'Ii boj'. have beached ner. Gl ,f , Si, without hesitation. "A il '" ' One Hundred and Ts.enl,-"'" which could be made In a ; W Coroner Herrv said that he w.-"! aw.rm satisfied with the r.soi'S of fi.c tnp. Van Schalck and Chief Plln M were both too ill to be taken aloojj Caroner Berry said also thnt he M'a sued an order for the qotgr tior captain, pilots and cr-w o' the -JMl -I learned" said ho, thit tryiiic: to escape, and I 3s;:cVr,' 3 M to detain everybody who WjiS the boat as wltnesics- Some or ujm ihavo escaped and we im?, " Ji to got them, but we are .iftcr WJr.?M will leave no stone unturned to g within our jurlsidiction. ' jjE |