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Domestic News
June 22, 1904
The Lamar Register
Lamar, Prowers County, Colorado
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Ongoing recovery efforts after the General Slocum disaster in New York on Wednesday; 536 bodies retrieved, over 300 identified, with death toll estimated at 700-1,000, mostly women and children.
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SEVEN HUNDRED LOST ON THE GENERAL SLOCUM
Some Estimates Are as High as One Thousand.—Five Hundred and Thirty-six Bodies Recovered.
Over Three Hundred Identified.
New York, June 17.—With unceasing effort, search is going on for the bodies of those who perished Wednesday on the General Slocum.
What the list of victims will total scarce any one dares venture a guess, but whatever the number may be, there is hardly a parallel in the history of disasters where death came to so many in so brief a period of time.
Police and Health Department officials have placed the number at a figure as high as 1,000 and more, but tonight it would seem that the maximum fatalities will not largely exceed 700.
All day long, from sunrise until darkness shut off even the melancholy satisfaction of watching for the dead, anxious searchers kept up their vigilance, and at dusk there had been recovered 536 bodies, for the greater part women and children: mothers who weeks ago had planned that fatal outing for their children, little ones who had longed for the happy day.
Up to dusk 499 bodies had passed through the morgue, and of these more than 300 were identified.
The East Side had its human sympathies aroused to the fullest extent, and down by the river where the boats unloaded their dead, thousands gathered throughout the day.
Streets leading to the morgue were blocked and only with difficulty could the police keep clear the passages leading to the long rows of coffins for those who came to search for the missing.
Some Estimates Are as High as One Thousand.—Five Hundred and Thirty-six Bodies Recovered.
Over Three Hundred Identified.
New York, June 17.—With unceasing effort, search is going on for the bodies of those who perished Wednesday on the General Slocum.
What the list of victims will total scarce any one dares venture a guess, but whatever the number may be, there is hardly a parallel in the history of disasters where death came to so many in so brief a period of time.
Police and Health Department officials have placed the number at a figure as high as 1,000 and more, but tonight it would seem that the maximum fatalities will not largely exceed 700.
All day long, from sunrise until darkness shut off even the melancholy satisfaction of watching for the dead, anxious searchers kept up their vigilance, and at dusk there had been recovered 536 bodies, for the greater part women and children: mothers who weeks ago had planned that fatal outing for their children, little ones who had longed for the happy day.
Up to dusk 499 bodies had passed through the morgue, and of these more than 300 were identified.
The East Side had its human sympathies aroused to the fullest extent, and down by the river where the boats unloaded their dead, thousands gathered throughout the day.
Streets leading to the morgue were blocked and only with difficulty could the police keep clear the passages leading to the long rows of coffins for those who came to search for the missing.
What sub-type of article is it?
Disaster
Shipping
Death Or Funeral
What keywords are associated?
General Slocum
Steamboat Disaster
Bodies Recovered
New York
Victims Search
Where did it happen?
New York
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
New York
Event Date
Wednesday
Outcome
536 bodies recovered, over 300 identified; estimates of total fatalities up to 1,000 but likely not exceeding 700
Event Details
Unceasing search for bodies of those who perished on the General Slocum; police and health officials estimate high death toll; bodies mostly women and children; thousands gathered near the river and morgue