The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-06-30

LEANED, the steamer being merely dali
transport. used between near poi t., keI
no register. 1t is not likely that the Iii
of lost will numbsr more than fifty. a
midnight elsven bodies, nine adults, on
child and two babies, were brought to th
morgue. At Bellevue Hosp tai, q Lun
Der of persons who had relatives an
fiiends on the SedUdnhdkI were waitin
to identify them among the unfortunate
lost, and the scene as the bodies wer
carried in from the boat and coffin
| opened was heartrending. One old gea
| tleman, Mr.. Del5evoise, was frantic wit
grief when he idemiied tn body of hi
-on, David II. DeBevoise, of 392 Pscif
street, Brooklyn. The b Jdy or beauti
ful yonng woman, about 20 years of age
was identified as that of Msry Reed. Tn
body of stout lady, abJut 50 years o
age, was supposed to be that Of Mrs
Richie, of Locust Grove, L ng Islsni
1t j. reported that there are about ifleeI
bldies on RandslPs Island, and nun
Der on Long Island shore. The body o
young man wss picked up by q row
boat and moored to q sake at the foot o.
One Hundred AID Fifteenth street. 1t il
kCown that some of the crew did not &c
their duty, but jumped into the river and
swan ashore. When the flames broke
out tie iSealOGndhGkG was passing
through He'll Gate, but was run
on u til she nearly burned to the
waters edge and had entered Little He'll
Gate However, members of the crew
say she could not have been beached
sooner. No doubt more bodies, if not
picked up by boats, will be found on
Long Island shore tomorrow morning,
as the wind was blowing in that dire
ion. If the catastrophe occurred even
an hour later the loss of life would have
been irightful. It occurred just at time
when Sound steamers and Harlem and
other local boats were in the immedisie
neigh borhood.
The SedVdRdhdka v as about fourteen
years old She was a regular day boat
running between New York and Roslyn,
l.. l.. cali g at Whitestone, Crest Neck,
Sands Point and Glenwood. she ar
riyes in this city about am and leaves
on the return 1T 10. The passer gers
on her are generally bankers, business
and literary men who live on Long
Island and come to the city in the morn
ing, returning in the afternoon. Fire.
quently lady members of thair families
and servants accompany them. No
regular company managed the boat, but
1t is said she was run In the interest of
fOuF owners, whose names are {. a.
Dans,S. L. NJ. Barlow, NJ. Kirk, of Glen
Cove, and Mr.. EEdie, of Great Neck
Some of the owners had special rooms in
the steamer.
New York, 29.-The New York
Herald gives the following list of the
dead as far as known: Mamie Beach,
2 years of age, daughter of the late Judge
Beach, of Glen Cove, L. l.; Martha
Bolet, Syears Of sge, Fiity-third street,
between Second and Third avenues;
Constantine Cherry, 4 years of age, No.
2, 32S Second avenue; Mrs. George w.
Cotton, No 1850 Pacific street.
Brooklyn. Drowned-jones, colored,
child IF Chanty Jones, No. 100, West
Twenty street; Mrs. Mary Reed,
dro sned-Shaler, child of Mrs. Shaler,
No. 406 West Fifty-Third street, who
was saved with her other child; - Van
dernater, ? years of age, of Glen Cove,
L. l., body not recovered; = Watson,
dead male child, s months
old, burned; female child II months old,
drowned; woman. 40 years of age,
burned 10 a crisp; boy 3 years old; Ger
man woman, baby IS months old,
drowned NJ DeBevoise, Mary Reed,
Abram z. Skedmore, Edward Watts On
of Whites one, Long Island, wholesale
liquor dealer in either New York or
Bro klyn; and five not identified Quite
a number are reported missing and a
complete list of the casualties cannot be
had to-nipht.
The body of q broker, named james
Hicks, living at Sands Point, Long
Island, was thought to have been dis
covered at WARTS Island, and Lewis
Green, of Norwalk, Conn, is reported
missing at midnight. Joseph j. Stein,
of 202 East Fifty-secOnd street, ex-as-
semblyman, was a passenger on the
iSeaUGRdhakG tonight He was re-
ported as missing by his friends at police
headquarters
New York, 20 WIN. Il. Grace, 81
We'll street, reported lost. together with
his wife and child, by the burr ing of the
steamer iSedUdnhGkG, last evening, Is
among the saved. The three were res
cued after being in the water half an
hour. Henry Arthur, leather merchant,
81 Gold street, is also among the saved.
The body of II. Skidmore. 2S4 Pearl
street, was found at the foot of One
Hundred and Fifteenth street. He
Jumped overheard from the steamer after
shaking hands with his brother, who wa:
saved. A body at the morgue. supposed
to be that of Rev. j. w. Diller. DIT,
former rector of st. Luke's Church,
Brooklyn, has not yet been identified.
Two more bodies were picked up OF
Wards Island, one man 40 years old,
light complexion, sandy hair and
whiskers, and dressed in black coat
checked Jumper and blue overalls; the
other was man about IS, sandy nous
tache, dressed in dark pants and checked
Jumper. The bodies oil Mrs. Eyeline D.
Bennett and husband, a B. Bennett Is
and 20 Liberty street, were identified al
the morgue and removed TO their late
residence, Brooklyn. The bodies of Mrs
B. Rouscher and Miss Lizzie Shalor, 81
Nest Fifty-fourth street, were identified
and removed Edward j. Booth, s
lawyer, Liberty street, was passenger
and has not been heard from since the
disaster. Charles Apuleby, l55 Broad
way, reported lost, with his wife, write
that both are safe and uninjured. Con-
stantine Sherry, child, brought to IL,
morgue this morning, was recognized
and taken away by its father, who live
at 1927 Secohi avenue. David II d.
Bevoi.e. aged 81, of 81 Bowery. was re
cog lied by his father, and the bed
70 Ion sway this Ia40rniug. susan u
C0leton, aged As years, wife of Georgi
W. Coleton, sgent Red Star STEAMSHIP
Line. is among the dead. Mary A
Reed, girl about 20 years old, wa
identified this morning by woman wh(
said, with tears in her eyes, Miss Rec
was engaged to be married next month
and had BOT a relstive in the world. Th
body is still at the morgue. The bod.
of Barbara Rauscher, German, aged 3
years, was lying on 8 marble slab, BE
arms clasping t. her breast the body o
an infant child, The husband an
father recognized the dead wife an
child to-day, and they were removed
their home, 426 Vest Fifty-thir
street. ] izzie Shsler, 406 West Fifty
third street, was recognized among tn
dead in the morgue. Theo. GautheT
grocer, Sheriff street, Clarence Nand'
water and an unknown negro wei
identified -Four bodies are still W
claime'.
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