The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-06-30
sge STEAMBOAT HORROR.
.,.,,,rR DETAILS OF TGE CA1As.
tIA' TROPiIE.
...,,,, scrncs nj the MOrEne' where
'' III, nerd nOdIe' Arc Being iden'
.na-JrrribIe Discoveries
,n,hr WrccE-List OF
HiSSInE Large.
-, VICTIMS OF THE DISASTER.

x,s yorx, June 29.-Wm. R. Grace
y. wall street, reported lost together with
", ,iI. and child by the burning OF the
,a,'"s, as "%T Ssawauahaka last evening, are
a, seA%,I, ,ho saved. The three were rescued
lnpDs s.;rr jT in the water half an hour.
Hiy' yasr uS S,thur, leather merchant, 81
ca1 street is also saved. oo,n,
og1 TS. 'G bSIy OH. IL. Skidmore, 2Si Pearl
lae VA wa! found at the foot OF 10th
.,,Ss, %ss. lie jumped over board from the
sum s,.,mer after shaking hands with MS
s,o,1er who was saved
o'Tin'bi g5. boJy A, the mogue supposed to be
IpeJ e,Rsy j ". DiIler, D. D., former
,o, lpa " oI Il, Luke's Church, Brooklyn,
n. 'T M, vet been identified. =.
HST TSo rp' more bodies were picked up on
w.,J'.l.land. One man was 4O years OLD,
w., mST Troo,n"Iexion, sandy hair and whiskers
"s "ss5 dressed IN black coat, checked jumper
'.J au Sne oyeraIIs The other man ives
~ H., rs AZ wears old, sandy mustache,
S1,s..ed 1U." in dark pantaloOns and checked
IuT,r.ib, T5s bodies Of Mrs. Z. D. Bennet and
tn.b,nJ and A. 3. Bennett, Is and ~
TiLs,,v T street, were identified at the
moT1e nW aud removed to their late resi-
u5T Tbs bodies Of Mrs. Barbara Ranscher
-: U.s Lizzie Slialer, 3G, West Fifty
aarh InT street, were also identified and r6-
MIA pIEad e. Booth, a lawyer, Liberty
..,.s, vas II passenger and has not been
besI from since the disaster.
H Cb,s Il. Appeby, otl5j Broadway, re-
,oy,sJ lo,t with his wife, writes that both
are saie and unininred.
Gons,aDtne Sherry, child brought to
,he morsue this morning, was recognized
md ,skrn away by its father who lives at
No 25.T Second avenue.
D.ydU ii. Delawry, aged 81, OF No. 3l1
Bosery, wss recognized by his father and
tbe biy taken away this morning. :.
Sn.an f. CoIelon, age IS years, wife OF
Geo II. Coeion agent Of the Red Star
Steamship Line, is among the dead. :.
Mary 4 :Recd, girl about 2S years old,
rns Identified this morning by woman
Who eaid, with tears in her eyes, that
Nj, Reed was engaged to be married
next mon,h, and that she had ne relatives
IN his world. The lady is held at the
Ths BODY Of Barbara ROusche, German,
,reJ "a years, was lying on marble slab.
IN her arms and cIinging to her breast,
v.s the body Of an infant child. The
bn.t,nd aud father recognized the dead
wife aud child today, and they were re-
moved to their late home, 426 West Fifty
Ni.a Iilt,e ,s Shaylo, Of 4OG West Fifty-third
street, was recognized among the dead at
the mOfgue. -
There also has been identified Theodore
GAnlher, grocer Sheriff street, and Clar.
ence randerwater, iour years old, son OF
JnO ] VaRderwater. Il
At9OclOck the MOrgue was crowded
With friends Of the missing people making
ipqni;ies. There are four bodies there
still unidentified.
Anorg the missing reported late this
eyehUg are Ms. Mary Ann Flynn, Sec.
on4 ayeule aud One Hundred and Six.
tenth street; II. Il. EIurlburd, OF Great
Neck, l.. l.; Israel BlOomingdale, East
Fotvnipth street. Mr.. Hurlburd was
formerly Comptroller OF the Currency un.
der Secretary Chase, aud has a brother
livipg in Cincinnati. Mr.. Hurlburd went |
90 board the steamer with Miss Brumtield |
who WIS saved. Some terrible sights con- |
i'Onled our reporters ut the scene oil the
wreck this morning.
Ga the siarbOard side, nearly level with
The edge, WIS bed OF Cnders and iron,
cOn'aining the remains OF two human be- |
ingI. Who they were, will probably never
b. kn own, for the remains bore resem.
blLHce to nothing more closely than
ChunksOi burned meat. Heads and limbs
alike wele welded by the fiery heat into
very small compass. The bodies lay about
eight feet apart on top Of the horizontal
boiler.
DNectly beneath the main forward deck
we're the bones OF third victim. How
ht.e persons got there is mystery, un.
les, indeed, he or she fell through the
burning deck and met a fate thousand
tines more horrible than by drowning.
VHder the mass of ruins that spreads out
imm the hulk it is thought other bodies
may he found.
The identified dead are Mary Beach, age
three aud hall years, daughter OF Mrs.
May Il. Beach, widow OF ex.Judge Beach,
Of kngs county; Aaron B. Bennett, age
5LPropretOr Of the book binding manu-.
factory, Nos Is and 20 Liberty street,
Resided at No. s. Vanderbilt avenue,
BfooklyR; Eveline Bennett, age So, wife OF
Aaron b. Bennett; Mrs. Geo. w. Cotton,
!iS'S Pacific street, Brooklyn, her husband
saSent for the Red Star Steamship Com.
i@hy; D. II. DehovOise, age forty-seven,
Sa aPacicsre Brooklyn, he was mem'
Der 1l thC hrm Of Katohorn 4 Debeyoise,
ta a,'d oil brokers; Jacob w. Dlller
D. D., Rector Emeritus OF st. Luke's Prot
esIaut Episcopal church, Clinton avenue,
BtOcklyn; t"hOs. Flanagan. No. Az, West
IEenEy.sixth street, aged 10 years, COACH
man; Julius Frank, a well known dry
goods merchant, Whitestone, L. l.;
Mary Edith Gray, aged Z months,
dluSh!erOt W. K, X. Gray, 9S4 Eighth ave,
nue. TheO, GruIher, grocer, q Sheriff
street thriy.iive years old; Chas. Has.
o'Ouch lcolored), boy waiter on board the
Reamer. The list Of missing is large.
V0LLEGC POISr, l.. l., June 29.-Among
lie lost from the Seawanahaka last even
ias was Julius Frank, Of Whitestone, Long
Sand, aged tOrty.two years, OF the firm
oIEmaS X Norris, dry goods dealers, and
stldl0g citizen. lie leaves q wite ana
'eyrn small children.
Among Ihose missing, who were on
;S'dtd the Seawanahaka when she was
SS,atnei, are Wm. Nichols, OF Sea Gill;
Ms; y. Mrissncr, Of Glenwood, and Ed.
Ai NagstGII, Of Whitestone.
How Gar,lrlu Re,ur,cd uls SALARY Grab.