cindy-
Yes I have read that article and many more. If you really want a taste of what hell that whole week must have been, either find a library with newspaper microfilms or go to a FHL and rent the New York Times microfilm roll for June 15-30, 1904. On the 16th this disaster took up almost all of the edition's 16 pages, lots of in your face interviews.
I was to the memorial service & wreath laying at the cemetery last year. Very moving, especially when it hits you that beneath those three lovely sculptures there are 61 unidentified victims of that horror.
In my case, one of the greatest ironies is that when you stand directly in front of the central monument, and turn our back to it, across the flat section, up on the hill is my family's plot where 4 victims are buried. This plot was bought in 1878 when the first child to die in the family was buried. Another irony is that my great grandmother, Elizabeth Koch Muth who is buried in that plot, had come from Germany by ship,which was fairly hazardous in the 1850's when she came; but then she moved to Chicago for several years and had moved back to NYC in 1868, thus just missing the Great Chicago Fire, only to die by fire in a boat!