Brooklyn Daily Eagle - 23 June  1904

1904 GENERAL SLOCUM DEAD & MISSING By Address
1904 GENERAL SLOCUM DEAD By Surname
1904 GENERAL SLOCUM MISSING By Surname

Lost Wife and Three Children
Entire Family of Albert KRAAL, of Middle Village, Perished on the Slocum.
(Special to the Eagle)

Middle Village, L.I., June 21 ­ One of the many heartrendering incidents in
connection with the burning of the steamer Slocum was revealed here
yesterday.  Albert KRAAL, an expert worker in pearl and ivory, whose home is
in this village, returned yesterday from a trip to Newport, R.I., He had
been gone a week or more, and while away had read of the Slocum tragedy ­
read of it as thousands did with horror, but thankful that it had not
directly affected him.  He came home to give a surprise to his family, for
his trip had been a prosperous one and he had planned to take his wife and
children ­ there were three of the latter ­ away on a trip.
He came home with a light heart and knocked gently on the door of his
cottage.  The knock was unanswered and the house was dark and evidently
untenanted.  KRAAL wen to the house of a neighbor, and it need but a glance
at the latter to reveal what had befallen him, and why his knock was
unanswered.  His wife and children ­ a son and two daughters ­ were among
the unidentified victims of the Slocum.
All day yesterday the stricken father searched for tidings of his dead, but
his persistency was unrewarded.  Their bodies may be in the grim trench in
Lutheran Cemetery or are perhaps still in the water.  Where they are he
cannot tell.
KRAAL's grief is pitiful.  He does not cry nor moan, but in a dazed way
continues to repeat: "I only ask to find one body ­ only one.  This is not
much to ask of God."  The sympathy of his neighbors for the grief stricken
husband and father is deep, but they are powerless to aid him.

Total Number of Dead and Missing Now 1,204.
The Morgue authorities, after an inventory of the unidentified dead in the
temporary morgue on the Charities pier and the Bellevue morgue, proper, in
Manhattan, this afternoon found 51 unidentified dead in the two places ­ 42
in the temporary morgue and 9 in the old morgue.  After the departure of the
fifty one bodies for burial there still remained at the temporary morgue six
bodies, all identified, awaiting removal.  In the autopsy room of the morgue
there were seven bodies, four of which had been identified, leaving but
three unidentified. The total of 13 bodies is the lowest number in the dead
houses since the day of the disaster.  The official count makes the
following totals:
Bodies recovered to 2 P.M. to-day....899
Bodies identified up to 2 P.M. to-day...784
Bodies unidentified at morgue...3
Budies buried unidentified to-day..51
Bodies buried unidentified Saturday...29
Bodies at North Brother Island....32
Total...899
Total dead and missing...1,204

Two Triple Funeral Services Held in Manhattan To-day.
Twelve funerals of identified bodies are scheduled for to-day by the police
of the Fifth street station in Manhattan.  Thee will be a triple service at
532 Fifth street and three also will be buried from 532 Sixth street.  Two
members of the family of Edward KLEIN, a wine merchant and president of the
"White Mice," will be buried from 31 Avenue A.  Two other members of the
family are still missing.

Among suits that have been instituted as a result of the disaster are those
of Henry WEIDEMANN, a barber of 79 East Houston street, Manhattan, who will
ask $50,000 for the loss of his wife, Caroline; his son, who sues for the
loss of his wife Helen, and of his son-in-law, Emil REICHENBACH, who asks
$5,000 for the loss of his 2 1/2 year old baby.  Of the members of
WEIDEMANN's family who went on the excursion, only one, a daughter, was
saved.

Mrs. Ida Dorothea DOERING, the wife of the Rev. George DOERING, the
superintendent of the Lutheran Emigrant Home at 12 State street, Manhattan,
died at midnight of pneumonia, superinduced by burns and shock.  This is the
third member of his family that the Rev. DOERING has lost by death as the
result of the Slocum disaster.

Hull of the Slocum Raised and Towed to the Flats in Flushing Bay
The hull of the steamboat General Slocum was raised clear of the bottom at
12:15 o'clock this afternoon and was towed at once to the flats in Flushing
Bay, off Riker's Island.  The hull was lifted about 7 feet.
It is said that the hull when it gets to Flushing Flats will be held in
chains for a few hours until high tide when it will be forced on the flats
and pumped out.  It is also said that there is a tangle of rails and pipes
on the port side, in which there may be many bodies.

Body of a Little Girl Found Floating Off Greenpoint.
This morning the body of an unknown girl evidently about 8 years old and
supposed to be one of the victims of the Slocum disaster, was found floating
in the East River at the foot of Oak street, Greenpoint.  The body was first
seen by James IMPERATORI, an Italian laborer, of 110 Greenpoint avenue, who
notified the police.  The Coroner at North Brother Island was notified.  The
child was four feet in height with light hair and light complexion, and the
body when found was clothed in a red flannel coat trimmed with lace, pearl
buttons in front and on the sleeves, blue stripped plaid dress trimmed with
lace, light underwear, black shoes and black stockings.

Policemen Making a House-to-House Canvass for Statistics.
The clerical force of policemen who began work yesterday on the lists for
the police house-to-house canvass finished their task at 7 o'clock this
morning, and at 9 o'clock the last of the 100 German speaking policemen who
are to make the canvass had left the Fifth street station.  Some of these
went into the suburbs and outlying districts from where the persons came to
East Third street and left on the General Slocum on the morning the steamer
was burned.  All of the canvassing force assigned to cover the five boroughs
and suburbs are expected to complete their work by to-night.  Inspector
BROOKS has been given charge of the work of getting statistics from distant
cities, from where perhaps a score of persons, altogether, were on the
Slocum.

Jewelry Is Missing From the Body of Mrs. Ella BODEN.
The body of Mrs. Ella BODEN, one of the victims of the Slocum disaster, was
identified yesterday by her husband, John BODEN, of 101 Clymer street.  Mrs
BODEN, who was 47 years old, went on the ill-fated excursion with the LUTJEN
family, who lived in the same house and of which Mrs. LUTJEN and her
daughter Marguerite were lost.
The body of Mrs. BODEN was badly decomposed so that the features were almost
unrecognizable.  The identification was made complete by the wedding ring
found on her finger, together with other articles of jewelry.  When the
clothing of the drowned woman was closely examined, it was discovered that
several articles of jewelry which she was known to have worn could not be
found.  Among the missing articles is a gold watch and chain.  Mr. BODEN who
commented on this fact, has made no formal complaint for the reason that he
thinks it might be possible that the missing jewelry may have been torn away
during the panic following the fire on the boat or by grappling irons of the
searchers.  The body was placed in charge of Undertaker HILLARY of Division
avenue, near Clymer street, and the funeral will be conducted from that
place at 10 o'clock to-morrow morning.

Graduates of School No. 24 Nearly All Killed in Slocum Disaster
A memorial service was held in the girls' department of Public School No.
24, Manhattan, yesterday.  The Rev. Dr. BURLINGTON, of St. Mark's Episcopal
Church, Tenth street and Second avenue, Manhattan, said the prayer and
delivered a sermon, and a short address was made by Dr. MAXWELL,
superintendent of schools.  The children sang under Mrs. Helena A.
HULLSKAMP's direction "Hope in the Lord" "Nearer My God, to Thee," and
"Lead, Kindly Light."  Next Wednesday a memorial service will be held in the
boys department of the school.
The usual commencement exercises of the graduating class of the school will
not be held, because so many of the graduates were victims of the Slocum
disaster.  A group picture of the graduates had been made for the school,
but only a few of the graduates are now alive.  The photographer, with
permission of the survivors, turned the $50 paid for the picture into the
aid fund and the picture will be given a prominent place in the school.

Women Will Organize to Erect a Slocum Memorial Tablet.
Mesdames Marie BUNSBACHER, Katherine MATHES, Ferdinade KNABE, Marie HUHN,
Annie KIEP, Marie SCHEPPNER and Dora RODE, living on the East Side of
Manhattan, in the neighborhood of the ill-fated St. Mark's Church, have
issued an appeal to the women of New York to attend a meeting at Tompkins
Square Hall, 2d street, near Avenue A, Manhattan, Saturday night, when steps
will be taken to have a memorial tablet or column erected on Tompkins
square, where most of the young victims of the General Slocum disaster used
to play.

German Societies Arranging for Slocum Memorial Exercises.
Two programmes have been arranged for a memorial funeral service to be held
on Thursday next in memory of the hundreds of victims of the General Slocum
disaster.  At the meeting held by the delegates  of the United Singers of
Manhattan and the United German societies it will be decided whether the
services will be held as proposed by the singers, at Terrace Garden,
Manhattan, or at Tompkins Square, as proposed by the United Societies.
The United Singers intend to have the services of a religious character.
The opening prayer, as proposed will be made by Rabbi R. GROSSMANN, of the
Rudolph Scholum Temple; the memorial sermon to be preached by the Rev. Dr.
T.T. HEISCHMANN, of the St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Brooklyn, and Father
LAVELLE will ask Archbishop FARLEY to say the closing prayer.  The United
Singers will render several songs and part of the Metropolitan Orchestra
under Nahan FRANKO will also assist.  Special invitations will be sent to
the Arion and Liederkranz, which are not connected with the singers
association.  It is hoped that Mayor MC CLELLAN and the German consulate
members will be present.

Escaped the Slocum Disaster.
(Special to the Eagle)
Worcester, Mass., June 23 ­ Miss Ida KELLER, the Worcester girl who is
living with an aunt on Bushwick avenue, Brooklyn, whom it was thought might
have been in the General Slocum disaster, has been heard from.  Neither she
nor any of her relatives went on the excursion this year, though this is the
first one they have missed for a number of years, and consequently all are
congratulating themselves on being alive.  Miss KELLER will spend the summer
in Brooklyn.

Slocum May Become A Barge.
(Special to the Eagle)
Flushing, L.., June 23 ­ It was learned here to-day that the hull of the
burned steamboat General Slocum has been sold to parties in Manhattan who
will tow it across the Sound and beach it on Flushing Meadows.  It will
later be rebuilt into a coal barge.

78 Brooklynites Lost.
A Revised List of the Dead From This Borough in the Slocum Disaster.
The following list contains the names of 78 Brooklyn people who were lost in
the General Slocum disaster.  Fourteen bodies have not yet been recovered
and these are indicated by a (*).  The list has been revised from several
sources and is as nearly correct as possible.

BERDOLT, Mrs. Gussie, 30 years, 1050 Prospect avenue.
BLOHM, Dora, 573 Central avenue
BLOHM, Margaret, 573 Central avenue
*BLOHM, Beatrice, 573 Central avenue
BOEGER, Florence, 4 years, 910 Putnam avenue
BOEGER, Mrs. Susan L., 32 years, 910 Putnam avenue
BOEGER, Wilbur, 5 years, 910 Putnam avenue
*BOCK, May Louise, 6 1/2 years, 69 Marcy avenue
*BOCK, Grace Edna, 4 years, 69 Marcy avenue
BORDEN, Mrs. Ella, 44 years, 101 Clymer street
BREDA, Minnie, 29 years, 150 North Ninth street
BUCHMILLER, Mrs. Anna, 27 years, 79 Calyer street
*BUCHMILLER, Arthur, 10 years, 79 Calyer street
*BUCHMILLER, George, 11 years, 79 Calyer street
CIBILSKI, Kate, 219 Franklin street
DIECKHOFF, Annie, 17 years, 121 Fourth avenue
DIECKHOFF, Catherine, 43 years, 121 Fourth avenue
DIECKHOFF, Catherine, 14 years, 121 Fourth avenue
DIECKHOFF, Edward, 121 Fourth avenue
DIECKHOFF, Mary, 16 years, 121 Fourth avenue
DIECKHOFF, William H., 8 years, 121 Fourth avenue
EIMER, Charles, 13 years, 84 Stockholm street
EIMER, George, 11 years, 84 Stockholm street
EIMER, Kate, 45 years, 84 Stockholm street
EIMER, Philip, 84 Stockholm street
FLEGENHEIMER, Lena, 608 Greene avenue
GENDERT, William, 538 Morgan avenue
GERDES, Henry, 430 Kosciusko street
GERDES, Mrs. Margaret, 66 years, 430 Kosciusko street
HENCKEN, Charles, 18 years, 169 South Second street
HENCKEN, Mrs. Lucy, 43 years, 169 South Second street
HERNBERG, Arthur, 9 years, 79 Calyer street
HERNBERG, George, 7 years, 79 Calyer street
HOFFMAN, Mrs. Cecelia, 27 years, 336 New York avenue
HOFFMAN, Edna, 2 years, 115 Lake street
KIRSCHER, Elsie, 7 years, 185 Russell street
*KIRSCHER, John, 69 years, 185 Russell street
KIRSCHER, Harold, 5 years, 185 Russell street
KIRSCHER, Katherine, 185 Russell street
KIRSCHER, Margaret, 185 Russell street
KUNZ, Gussie, 20 years, 889 Broadway
LAHN, Dora, ___ Union avenue
LUTJENS, Kate, 46 years, 101 Clymer street
LUTJENS, Margaret, 18 years, 101 Clymer street
MERSELES, Matilda, 394 Sixth avenue
MOLITOR, Eve, 8 years, 21 Midwood street
OELLRICH, Annie, 33 years, 519 Willoughby avenue
*OELLRICH, Fred, 6 years, 519 Willoughby avenue
OELLRICH, Helen, 2 years, 519 Willoughby avenue
*OELLRICH, Lizzie, 3 years, 519 Willoughby avenue
OELLRICH, Minnie, 4 years, 519 Willoughby avenue
PFEIFFER, Lillian, 937 Bedford avenue
REISS, Catherine, 40 Shepard avenue
ROBERTS, Clara A., 190 Guernsey street
ROSE, Addie, 222 McDonough street.
SCHMIDT, August, 1163 Greene avenue
*SCHNEIDER, Amelia, 6 years, 322 Stanhope street
*SCHNEIDER, Dora, 32 years, 322 Stanhope street
SCHNUDE, Annie, 29 years, 196 Guernsey street
SCHNUDE, Grace, 196 Guernsey street
SCHNUDE, Henry, 196 Guernsey street
SCHNUDE, Mildred, 18 years, 196 Guernsey street
SMITH, Mrs. Annie, 573 Central avenue
*TETAMORE, Herbert, 8 years, 1741 Bushwick avenue
TETAMORE, Mrs. William B., 30 years, 1741 Bushwick avenue
TORNIPORT, Charlotte, 2 years, 196 Guernsey street
TORNIPORT, Francis, 4 years, 196 Guernsey street
TORNIPORT, Mrs. Freda, 47 years, 196 Guernsey street
*VOERNES, Joseph, 17 years, 96 Manhattan avenue
*VOERNES, Josephine, 17 years, 96 Manhattan avenue
WOLF, Madeline, 65 years, 1131 Fortieth street
WOLL, Frieda, 2 years, 283 Himrod street
WOLLMAN, Louisa, 19 years, 246 Woodbine street
WOULBEIN, Hulda, 28 years, 1703 Dean street
ZIMMERMAN, William, 30 years, 229 Bleecker street

Transcriber: Mimi Stevens
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