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Show 1,000 EXCURSIONISTS EXCUR-SIONISTS DEAD New York Picnickers on Burning Boat Become Panic Stricken and Jump Overboard New York, June 15 I'ive hundred poisons, mostly chlldien, perished today to-day by the burning of the excursion stcamei General Slocuin ncai Hell Gate In the Fast liver. The Slocuin, with the annual Sun-d.ij Sun-d.ij school exclusion of St. Mark's Gei man Lutlieiaii chinch of this city on board, was pioceedlng up the rivei to one of the many icsorts of Long Island Sound. When near 125th street, personson shoic saw smol-p and Haines spring fiom the uppci part of the crowded steanici. A panlceiisued on the boat almost instantly. The crowds on the forward deck began to spring ovciboard or to ciovvdtothe after part of the boat. The screams of the terrified passengers could be heard on shore and hundreds of small boats immediately put oil to the rescue. Owing to tlic rocks on each side of the channel at this point, It had been Impossible to beach the vessel. ves-sel. The Captain stuck to his post at the wheel and headed the vessel straight up the river to Noitli Brother's Broth-er's Island, where she was put aground In tlic shallow water. Several hundred feet of open water still lay between the burning steamer and the shore and many persons pet-islicd pet-islicd either in the water or on the burning vessel aftei she had been beached. ,J Is Estimated that the steamei cai i led more than 2,000 peisons. She was the largest excursion ,steamer In these wateis and could cany 4,000 passengeis. Thcie are 40 bodies on Noith Brothel's Broth-el's Island, 18 on the Hie boat Zopher Mills and 11 on Rlckci's Island. The boaid of health has sent 100 doctors and 500 policemen ai" on the scene. At the olllce of the l S. steamboat Inspection bureau, It was said that the Genci.il Slocuin was inspected May 5 and was lepoited to be In a thoioughly good condition, leadj for excursion season. A bo.it d the steamei steam-ei was all hoi life saving appaiatus requited by law of steamers of hei capacity. Tlie disaster was witnessed by thousands thou-sands of people fiom both shores of the ilvcr, and as rapidly as possible, hundreds of small boats and launches set oil to render assistance. With the boat binning under his feet, the captain cap-tain stajed in the pilot house and the cnglncci icmaiued at his post below deck, until the boat was beached at the lower end of North Brothel's Island, Is-land, olf Poit Morris. Lvciithcn, tlic passengers weie not in a safe position, foi the) weie some distance fiom shoie and the boat was ;i furnace. Huiidiccls of small boats weie stattei-cd stattei-cd about and picking up those who Jumped oveibo.ud as l.ipldlj as possible. possi-ble. It Is estimated that between 400 and 500 poisons spuing Into the watei. 2v. Yciik, Juno Id When the dread tale of tho Gcucial slocuin Is full) told when the last blackened bod has been taken fiom the binned hulk, and the swift wateis of Hell Gate give up theh dead, the eataslio-phc eataslio-phc will take its place as the most appalling ap-palling that has ever occuied In the Inland wateis of Ameilc.i. liullnltc Ilguieson the loss of life cannot jet be given. That moto than 000 poisons poi-sons pel Ishcd Is ahoiilblo eoitalnt), but how innch In excess of that mini-bei mini-bei tho total will inn will only bo known when the "missing" column Is llnlshcd. Accoidlng to tho Wst obtainable ob-tainable Infoiln.itiou about 450 poisons poi-sons aie lepoited as missing. The Coionoi 's olllce, the Chief or tho Fire hepaitinent and the pollco ngieo In tho estimate that the total los of life will closely appioxlinate looo. All dining the night and cai.y dawn of lodav, tho sid walk of exploring explor-ing tlie Slocum's i.ull went on and fiom dock to nioigue the procession of ambulances, each with Its pitiful load, wound Its K.iv fiom tho ilvei fiont to the nioigui) at t'.ie foot of Twontj-slxth Twontj-slxth stiect, until this evening 522 bodies l.i) on the slabs Most of these came fiom the wieck, but the night long patiol of the wa- tcrs of Fast rlvci added Its ghastly quota. There are many bodies still In tho hold of the burned vessels, according to tho divers and wreckers, and the river Is looked to to complete the list. How many preferred drowning to the agony of death by Hie and went over the rail never to rise again, diiringthc mad race of the vessel for the beach, may never oe known, for tlie treacherous treacher-ous waters of Hell Gate do not willingly will-ingly give up their victims. Unlike the Irlguois theatci and other great catastrophes of lecent )ears, where the woe of the dlsastei had extended Unoughout tlic land, the blow of the Slocum's mortality falls pilnclpally upon one little neigh-Iwrhood neigh-Iwrhood of a great city |