The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-06-30


Mrs. Dillon of Brooklyn.
Mrs. Meyers of East 59th street, N. Y.
Col. Sykes of Sea Cliff, L. 1.
Mrs. Nesbit, wife of Contractor Nesbit, and
her two year old child.
Mamie Beach, daughter of the late Judge
Beach.
G. LOPEZ of Sea Cliff, IL.
D. X. Hall, No 10 Keep street, Brooklyn.
Daniel Maloney Morgan, Stowe, L. I.
Ida Smith of Brooklyn.
The body of broker named James Hicks,
living at Sands Point, L. l., was thought to
have been discovered at Wards Island, and
Lewis Green of Norwalk. Conn.,, is reported
missing. The body of man found at East
River at Hath street, Joseph J. Stein of 202
East sd street, an ex-assemblyman. was \
passenger. He is reported missing by friends.
The bodies have been found of an unknown
woman about 20 years, brown hair and fair
complexion; woman about thirty years old,
large in stature, fair complexion and plainly
dressed; the remains of female child five
years old; a woman about So years old and
dressed in black silk; the charred remains of a
man having false teeth, which was the only
means OF Identification; white woman about
lady's watch. Her pocket book had the name
of Webster on it. Two other bodies are said
to have been found in the river near Astoria.
The following are missing:
Henry Arthur, Brooklyn.
John Berbeck, Brooklyn.
Edward L. Cobb, Brooklyn.
Freeman Field, boy of 10.
lilly Fell, Norwalk.
Lewis Green, Norwalk.
Joseph Hasbrouck, cook.
Charles HaSbrouck, waiter.
the following bodies have been recovered {:
Mrs. George w. Cotton of 1850 Pacific street,
Brooklyn.
D. D. Chenoye, about 40 years old, of 1892
Pacific street, Brooklyn.
A mulatto female child, 7 months old, sup
pocQd n hp the uUhfQp Of Mrs Charity Tomas
of 100 West 26th street.
Mary Reed, a young woman, we'll dressed
and wearing expensive iewelry.
Abram P. Skidmore, AZ years of age, men,
Der of the firm of I'll. A. Peck & Co., fertili-
zers, No. 666 First Avenue, New York.
Edward Watson of White Stone, l.. l.,
wholesale liquor dealer in Brooklyn.
A body thought to be that Of Mamie Beach,
daughter of Judge Beach of Glen Cove.
A male child about Is months old.
The Seawanhaka was long morrow steamer
of good speed, and said to have been in first
class condition. She had capacity for carry
ing 500 to 600 passengers and made daily trips
between New York city and Glen Cove,
returning at 9 the following forenoon. She
was built ID years ago at Keyport, N. j., by
Mr.. TORY. No regular company managed the
boat but it is said that she was run in the in
terests OF four owners whose names are u. A.
Dana, S. l.. M. Barlow, M. Kirk of Glen Cove
and VIM. Endeh of Great Neck. Some of the
owners had special ICONS in the steamer.
Statements of survivors throw no light upon
the cause of the disaster, nor is it possible to
give the definite number of lives lost. Sever
al persons supposed to have been on the Sea-
wanhaka have turned up safe. Three more
bodies were recovered this morning, and three
or four have been identified at the morgue
and taken away by relatives.
COLLEGE POINT, L. l., June 29.-Among
the lost from the Seawanhaka was Julius
II nf vr,N
was never on boat before. He leaves wife
and seven small children.
NEW YORK, June 29.-Rev. P. Walden of
Irvington, and Rev. j. W. Dillar of the Clin-
ton avenue Episcopal church, Brooklyn, are
still missing; also Lewis Green of Norwalk.
were identified today. The body of Mrs. Bur
nett was horribly burned. 1t will be buried
either at Clinton or Holliston, Mass. Consid-
cradle money is missing from the body of Mr..
Burnett. Nothing could be seen at low tide
today of the Seawanhaka but the iron work,
machinery, boiler and smoke stack. The wood
work is all burned. Small boats swarmed
about the wreck, hunting among the debris
for bodies and on the shore a number of men
and boys were searching for valuables, picking
up clothing, neck wear, jewelry and money.
These marauders were not checked until noon
when an insurance patrol put in sudden ap-
pearance and stopped their operations. On
the starboard side, nearly level with the edge,
was bed of cinders and iron, on which rested
the charred remains of two human beings.
On top of horizontal boiler were the remains
of third victim. How the person. got there
is a mystery, unless he or she fell through the
burning deck into the flames. 1t is thought
more bodies will be found under the ruins.
Ex-Comptroller of the currency II. Hurl-
burt was passenger on the Seawanaha, and
is missing
STATEMENTS OF SURVIVORS.
Mr.. Mitchell G. Cook, of So Broadway, one
of the passengers, gives the following thrill
ing account of the disaster: We left Thirty
third street on time, and everything seemed to
be going along quietly, until all of sudden
theSeawanhaka gave series of low groanings,
followed by thuds. The passengers noticed
'sWhat's that?"' was at the time sitting in
the main cabin. 1 at once walked out to the
bow of the boat, and l then saw Captain
Smith standing in the pilot house. He was
blowing alarm signals. 1 knew they were
alarm signals, from my knowledge of steam
ers. Suspecting at once that there was danger
threatened returned to my friends. AS I
passed directly amidships saw smoke Iissuing
through the cracks of the main saloon leading
from the engine room to the pilot house. 1
then knew that the boat was afire, and 1
rushed to the Long Island side of the boat to
see what chances there were for saving my
friends if the worse came to the worse. l
noticed that the captain was steering the Sea-
wanhaka to the Granite City, which was COM
ing up, and was laying to. At the same time
I saw wa thin, long white tongue of flame shoot
up to the upper decks. knew then that the
Granite City could not assist u.s. The Granite
City evidently guessed as much, for she turned
around, and the Seawanhaka was gone. I
sprang to the New York side of the boat. This
was at the moment the Seawanhaka was just
between Randall's island and Wards island.
At that very moment the flames shot upward,
and the boat was afire. A great number of
male passengers at this very moment came
running up to the bow of the boat. Many of
them seemed frantic, and all had life preserv-
ers on. Some, indeed, had more than one on.
At that time the men passengers who had life
preservers began jumping into the water, and
swimming to shore. They kept steering the
There the water is low, and the bar is covered
with grass. AS the Seawanhaka touched the
bar the flames burst all over the boat, and
before knew it was surrounded by flames
Then it was that sprang overheard. just as
did So an old lady, the mother of the freight
CLERK ran up to a gentleman and exclaimed,
"For Gods sake, sir help me. l am old and
cannot save myself" The gentleman pushed
her back saying: This is not a moment to
save; it is every one for himself and he leap
ed overheard. called out to the old lady,
If you will jump overheard will save you
Her dress at that moment was afre. She
Jumped into the water at the very moment
did, and l caught her. was swimming to
the shore with her when one of the officers of
the boat came toward me and we landed her
safely After resting few minutes, being
good swimmer, took off my clothes and with
two preservers I swan back to the boat.
When I got there saw young lady standing
with her father on the burning steamer. 1t
was the same one we had noticed coming
aboard leading him. She was shrieking
''Save my father" ''Save my poor father"
She had her arms round his neck, but he
seemed to cling firmly to pillar. 1t was the
most heartrending sight ever witnessed. The
old man chung to the post, while his daughter
tried all she could to drag him away. At that
very moment she seemed to be surrounded by
fire, and the old mans clothing was burning.
He seemed paralyzed and unable to move. L
and others called to the girl to jump into the
water, that we would save both. She did not
seem to know what to do, until at last her