, DEAD ' LIST CROWS
AS NOW COUNTED 624 LOST
r
: THEIR LIVEtl. . . . II
SEARCHERS RENE THEIR WORK
Larger Portion of the Bodies Recov.
it ered Arc Identlfled-Funer&ls & of
Nearly One Hundred Victims Held i
on Sunday.
NEW YOlUe-Sunday's harvest of
dead from the Slocum numbered for-
c , ts-one , bringing the total number of
bodies ao far recovered up to G24. Of
i these jjg ( ( have been hlentlfietl , whllo
, thlrty-ono of the victims now lying I
!
\ at the morgue have not bean ciaimeyl
I I I /y friend 01relatlvo. . While the list ;
. . of missing has been cut down some-
il i what by the identifications made taI -
I I day eleven now manes were added to
q that roll , thus leaving the total of
tl missing almost l aH It was on Saturday ,
( i something more than 500.
ii . Early < Sunday morning the seaJches
begun anew the work of locating the
I Slocum's dead. Within an hour they
had recovered thirteen bodies oft the
! I short of North Brother Island. Three
.
I of the bodies were floating and It 'Is
the general opinion that many more
\ will come to the surface during the
woole.
At sundown , when work practically
ceased for the day , thirty-six bodies
I had been Ilddetl to the long list of
L dead that have been taken from the
- wrecked steamer and the 'water in its i
Immediate vlclnlly. Most of these
I bodies were taken to the morgue and
11 majority of them were Identified to-
night.
Of the bodies recovered during the
) first hour one Was of n. man , six of
women , two of boys , four of girls and
one was of an Infant.
A life saver , grappling from a raft ,
brought UII a woman of ao allll a girl
of 11 years locked In each other's
I arms A few minute later he brought ,
i , the bodies of a boy 9 [ ) years old and a
girl of G , apparently brother and sis-
tOI' , clinging to each other.
tI , Divers who went to the wreck
found the bodies of a woman , a girl
and a boy and brought them to the
surface. They were beyond recogni-
tion. The divers said there are more
bodies In the wreck , thus hearing out I
+ the statement made a day or two ago
after It was thought the wreck had
been cleared , that many bodies remained -
. malned under the entanglement of
, timber and machinery.
. .
One hotly was found floating in the
river near Rllwr's Island by the crew
of a fOIll'-om'ed barge of the Metropolitan -
+ politan Howlng club , whllo nineteen
. . . . were brought UI from the bottom
, along the hL'nch running from the island -
land down to the channel In the rlvor
Three : men working with nn improvised -
vised grapple , consisting of a block
.
of wood to which many blue fish
boots were attached , drew up a section -
. 1I0n of the rail of the upper deck of
the Slocum about thirty feet long.
. The -bodle of four
- ! : ! women were
slinging to the rail , their fingers gripping -
ping the Interlaced wire roping. This
\8 \ part of the rail which gave way
? lust before the steamer was beached ,
precipitating 100 persons into the
. .ateI' While the rail was being
brought ashore two of the bodies
broke away from It , but were secured
Immediately ; the other two were still
clinging to the rail when lantled.
The funerals of nearly 100 victims
E of the disaster were heM Suntlay. In
lI p1any Instances two caskets were car-
ried In the saute hearse and In some
cases two dead and even three
bca\'sos \ bore away the dead of a sin-
110 family.
I
I Of the bathes recovered during the
day there were two women whose
arms were locked around a life ring
These rings Core made of canvas ,
filled with cork and are supposed
float four persons The ring was not
cut open tonight , so that It Is not
known with what It Iii filled. _ _ _
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DESPERADO ILLt I ; SHERIFF.
Shoots As He 10 Abuot to Handcuff
Hlr. .
ST PAUL , Mlnn.-Sherler a. D.
Harris of St. Croix county , Wisconsin ,
was shot and Itllled while attempting
to make an arrest on au Omaha tract
near Fall Creek , Wls The man who
did the shooting , and whose name Is
unknown , jumped from the moving
train and escaped.
Sheriff 1I1ll'1'ls had gone to Eau
Claire on businesss , and when about
to board the train for Hudson was
Informed that 11 man suspected of burglary -
glary was aboard the train. Thee sherIff -
Iff searched the train and finally 10-
catlll ! his man In the smoltlng car.
Ho placed him under arrest and was
about to handcuff him , when the tles-
perado drew a revolver and fired three
times , shooting the sheriff through
the head and Itllllng him Instantly
In the excitement which followed the
, shooting the murderer ran the entire
length of the train , jumping from the
rear conch while the train was going
at a high rate of slleell. Ho then stole
a horse and buggy and made his way
to Augusta , where tae animal was
found , but all further clew to the fur
gltlvo's whereabouts apparently is
lost '
UNCLE JOE RTPEATS IT.
He Would Not Accept Presidential
Nomln tlon.
CHICAGO , Ill.-In view f a. . threatened -
ened revival of the movement to
nominate Speaker Cannon for the vice
presidency , charged tills time to the
New York delegation 1\11' Cannon authorized -
th01'1zetl the Associated Press to quote
him as follows :
"Aftor mature consideration , having
In view the great compliment that
the vide presidential nomination would
be to' ' any citizen , yet I am speaker or
the house of representatives acid \ have
been a. . member of that body for nearly
thirty years. I feel that my sphere of
usefulness , If I have any , Is In connec-
tlon with the house. About n. week
after the close of the late session of
congress , at the request of friends
and perhaps others , I gave out an
interview on this subject. This was
done after full consideration , and J
stand by the Interview , which stated
In substance that I considered the
spealterShlp the second highest omce
under the government , and If the
next huse was republican I hoped to
succeed myself , and I not lo cheerfully
do duty on the minority. "
CONDEMNS GOV. PEABOD
.
Minnesota Federation of Labor Passes
Resolutions.
NEW ULM , Minn.-Tho State Fed-
oration of Labor , In session hero to-
day , adopted a. . sweeping resolution of
condemnation of the action of Gover-
nor Peabody of Colorado In the Cripple -
plo Creek mining strike and appealIng -
Ing to the president of the United
States as ommander-In-ehlef or the
military forces to compel nn investi-
gation of General Dell and of Governor -
nor Peabody.
The resolution recites that right
and Justice Is denied to American citi-
zens , whereas foreign citizens work-
Ing In this country are granted pro-
tection under an appeal to the repre-
sentatives of their nation.
The State Federation of Labor also
adopted a. . proposition to form a fund
corporation for the purpose of aiding
strikers who wish to start business In
OIIIQsltlon to their former omployers.
The plan as outlined calls for a capitalization -
tallzaUon of $200,000 lu $5 shares ,
which arc to bo sold In limited quantities -
titles to members of nOlllaled unions ,
and which will not be transferrabl
I
Operating Towards Port Al'thur I
LONDON-A correspondent of the . .
Dally Chronicle at Ylnltow , III a dispatch -
patch dated June 17 , says that General
Kuropatltln . . - left Llao Yang on Wednesday -
nesday to assume command tlf the
army operating toward . Port Arthur
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SIX HUNDRED DIE
CHICAGO HORROR RIVALED BY
BURNING OF A BOAT.
EXCURSION STEAMER IN FLAMES
Loaded with Women and Children on
a Sunday School Outing-Disaster
Occurs on the East River at New
York City.
NEW YORK-Ono of the most appalling -
palling disasters in the history of
New York tragic in its Intensity. dra-
matic In Its..eplsodes , and tleelllr pathetic -
thetic in the tender age of most of
its victims , took place today In the
East river , within a short distance of
the New York shore and within sight
of thousands of persons , the majority
of whom were powerless to minimize
the extent of the catastrophe.
Dy the burning to the wator's edge
of the General Slocum , throe-declted I
excursion steamer , the largest In
these waters , more than GOO persons ,
the majority of whom were women
and children , were burned to death I
or drowned overboard I
by jumping or
by being thrown into the whirlpools
by tine lurching of the vessel and the
frantic rush of the pmnic - stricken
passengorR I
Approximately 483 bodies have
been recovered and are now being
tagged at the morgues of Bellevue
hospital and Harlem. Divers were
still busy at a late hour taking bodies
from the hold of Ute vessel , which
they say Is choked with the remains
of human beings , while the bodies of
scores who leaped or were thrown
Into the river had been recovered.
It Is the season of Sunday school
excursions In New York bay and the
Long Island sound , the latter one of
the most picturesque bodies of water
In the country.
Great preparations had been made
for the seventeenth annual Sunday
school excursion of St Mark's Ger-
man Lutheran church , the congrega-
tion of which Is drawn from the dense
population of the lower East and
West Side , and the General Slocum
had been chartered to cftrry the excursionists -
cU1'slonhsts to Locust Grove , one of
the many resorts on Long Island
sound. ,
It Is varIously estimated that there , .
were between 1,500 and 2,000 persons
on the General Slocum when It left
the pier at Third street , East river , '
though the Knickerbocker Steamship
company , which owns the Slocum , of-
flclally states that the number of
passengers was 873 , that being only
one-thlnl of the vessel's capacity It
Is thought , however , that there were
several hundred children In arms , for
whom fares are not usually charged
on these trips.
On board the decks of the steamer
as It passed up East river the scene
was one of merry-malclng. A mass
of flags fluttered In the Juno breezes ,
the bands were playing and the chi- '
liven were singing , dancing and wavIng -
waving I
swer to the salutations of those on
shore or from passing steamers.
At the extreme eastern end of Ran-
dall's Island , oft One Hundred and
Thirty-firth street , there Is a stretch
of water known as the Sunken Mead
ows.
ows.At
At this point , just as the crowds
were watching the gaily decorated
steamer from the shore , the General
Slocum took fire , and as the age of
the vessel ( It was built iu 1891) ) had
resulted In the well seasoning of the .
wood , with which it was almost entirely -
tirely built , It was soon a" mass of
fiamo. The fire Is said to have broken -
en out In a lunchroom on the forward
deck through the overturning of a
pot of grease. The wind was high
and all efforts to subdue the fire were
were futile. _
-
. A TERRIFfc ( FIRE.
I
A Single Shell Japanese Kills Two Hund.ed/ /
\
TOKIO-Detalls In connection with' , '
the sinking of the Japanese transport 1.
Hitachi by Russian warships are be- r
Ing furnished by survivors.
The Russian ships were sighted at
7 o'clocle in the morning and in response -
spouse to a signal the Hitachi was
aloppetl , but at 10 o'clock got under' '
way again an' ( } attempted to escape
The Russians followed and opened
a heavy fire directed about the water
line with the evident intention of destroying ,
straying the troops on board. . . .
T\IO \ fire was terrific and In a few
minutes the decks were covered with ,
corpses and awash with blood.
One shell , which struck the engine
room , lellletl 200 men. The ship be }
gait to flll and sunk gradually by the
stern. At G o'clock In the evening
she was completely submergetl.
Captain Campbell , the English master -
ter of the transport , Jumped overboard
at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and la
numbered among the missing. Th@
chief engineer was killed on the
brltlge. The commander of the troops
ordered the flag to be burned and then
killed l hhnsclf. The second mate
committed sulci do. Many of the crew
and troops escaped in the boats
The transport Sade is still afloat
but Is badly tlamagetl. She is being
towed into the nearest port. She
sighted the Russian ships thirty-five
miles west of Shira islantl. Their
signals to stop were unheeded , so the
Russians opened fire and signalled for
those on board the Sade to leave the
ship. Upon that the crew took to the
boats and in this way many escaped
when the ship , was eVl.'ntually fired by
the enemy
The number of men on board the
two transports and the list of casual- '
ties are not definitely known.
The officers of the steamer Tosa
which rescued many survivors of the
Japanese transport Hitachi , confirm
the details of her disastrous encountot
with the Russian warships so far as - ' 1' " -
already announced
ARE ALL IN FAVOR OF CANAL
Minister Merry Reports Feeling In
Nicaragua.
- ASHINGTON-Mr Merry , Ameri
can minister to Nicaragua and Costa
Rica , has arrived here on leave ot ,
absence. He called on Secretary Hal
today to explain conditions in Central t
America. The ministers says that
internally , Costa Rica . is enjoying a
period of profound peace. Any feelIng -
Ing of disappointment that may have
followed the decision or President
Roosevelt and congress In favor of -
Panama , as opposed to the Nicaragua ) '
canal route has tllappearetl. . l.
In Nlacaragua , says Minister Merry ;
President Ze1maya Is proceeding with
great energy to carry out a. consider- _
able project he has formed for the
improvement of transportation across
Nicaragua In order to leeep In Nlca-
earagu > j a large amount of business
which Is now diverted to Colombia
via Groytown or San Juan del Norte
He has determined to abandon the
SM Juan river route from Grey town
to Lake Nicaragua Instead , he Is
surveying a railroad from Money
Point on the Carl'lbean lido oomost
I
directly westward to San MigueUte : ,
at the southeastern end , of the Lake
Nicaragua. The distance is seventy
eight miles In air line and about 104
miles as routed. There are no great II
engineering difficulties and the read
I
can bo built for $25,000 n : mile.
Bridge Arbitrary at - Issue.
CHICAGO-Morchants from Omaha
and Council Bluffs conferred In CM . - ' _
cage with executive officers of the
Chicago-Council Bluffs roads concern
lug freight rates from those points td I
In Iowa. The I
places va. question at issue
sue Is the bridge arbitrary , which the
Bluffs men Insist shall be enforced to
Iowa points. The officials told them . ,
to file written statements withinteq t
days. , _ . ' . . .d . , ,
.Pv
' $ " ,