The daily gazette., 1880-06-30
the sed,eannaNal oIsastlr.9.

Observation-Disclosures OF DEAD
NEW YORK, June 29. .+AStatements
this morning of the survivors of the
Seawanhaka throw no light upon the
cause of the disaster, nor is it pos
sible to give the definite number of
lives lost. Henry Arthur. leather
merchant, of "a Gold street, who
was supposed to have been lost, is
among the saved. William r. Grace,
of No. 81 Wall street, reported lost,
with his wife and child, is among the
saved. All were rescued after being
in the water for half an hour. 0' -
The body'of j. A. Skidmore, of
Great Neck, was found this morning
at the foot of Observation-Disclosures
street. He jumped overheard from
the steamer alter shaking hands
with his brother, who was saved.
The body at the Morgue supposed
to be that of Rev. J. w. Miller, D.
D., former rector of st. Luke's
Church, Brooklyn, has not yet been
identified.
Two more bodies were picked up
off Wards Island. One was that of
man 40 years of age, light com
plexion, sandy hair and whiskers,
and dressed in black coat, checked
jumper and blue overalls. The
other was a man about 38 years old,
sandy mustache, dressed in dark
pants and checked jumper. 81 .l.
/ TLa k1I.1n % NI,a Exyali,.n i
Bennett and her husband, A. b.
Bennett, of I8 and 20 Liberty street,
were identified at the Morgue and
removed to theirresidence in Brook
lyn. The bodies of Mrs. Barbara
Rauscher and Miss Lizzie Shaler, of
36 West Fifty-fourth street, were
also identified and. removed. Ed
ward G. Booth, a Liberty street
lawyer, was passenger on the Sea-
wanhaka. He has not been heard
of since the disaster, and is supposed
to have been lost.
Among the missing reported late this
afternoon are Mrs. Mary Ann Flynn, OF
rwenty-eight avenue and One-hundred-
and-sixteenth street; H. ii. Hubbard, OF
Great Neck, l.. l., a broker, and
BOomiagdale, of East Forty-ninth
street. Nothing as yet has been heard
from Mr.. Charles A. Applebee, reported
missing last night.
Three more bodies were identified at
| the Morgue, namely, Theodore Gaulhier,
grocer, OF Sheriff street; Contantine
Sherry,of One-huudred- and- seventeenth
street, and Clarence Vandewater a 4
year-old son Of John J. Vandewater, OF
Glen Cove.
A colored man employed on the Sea.
wlnhska, but whose name is unknown
is also recognized.
At 2 O'Clock the Morgue was crowde,
with friends OF the missing people max
ing anxious inquiries. There are foul
bodies there still unidentified.
oLLEGE POINT L. /. June 29.-Amon,
the lost from steamer Seawanhaka iasI
evening was julius Frank, of White
stone, l.. L., AZ years of age. He was o
was of the firm of Frank II Worms, dr.,
goods dealers, and leading citizen. III,
was never OH boat before. He leave
wiieiand seven small children. Tn
body was recovered this morning.
Felix Aucaigne, correspondent fol
| fiopNh papoiS1 iNlhS At ofl N6S
Twenty-elghth street ,found his sister to
day in the hospital at Willel's Pon
confirmed lunatic. She had on boar,
The steamer SeaWanhaka with Mis-
Aucaigne, but her condition was suci
to-day that she could not tell anylhiE,
about her sister-in- law. Mr.. Aucalgn
took blank death certificate SO that h,
could remove the body of his wife if h
, found il.
; Engineer Weeks has submitted hi
report to the Board OF Steamboat Ii
! | spectors, and his observations lead hil
to the conclusion that the explosion o
board, and which started the fire. wa
/ caused by an accumulation OF gasse
and not from any defect in the iron {
the boiler.
WHAT WAS THE cAUsRY
=, OF theories there was an extraord
] nary supply. One rumor-that an In
!. fernal machine had been placed in tt
y vessel and did its fiendish work all 10
. well-is not traceaole to any feuddatio
, in fact. nor Is there any colorng to sue
10 story except in reasonable belief tn;
" no tragic an affair must have rad i
Is complement at the outset in an equal
dreadful origin. II IN commonly b
bursted, throwing a blaze ont of the ii
box 30 that it communicated TO IL
wood work. From that moment ths Il
r structiou of the Seawanhaka was assn
cd beyond peradveDtnre. Built original
: as are all the Sound river and bay boa
Of seasoned tin ber, with partitions al
d frames of the highest sort Of iufiamm
= BILE material, and an abundance of gll
:. gerbread work about the cabins an
wheelhouses. the flames wrapped her
II an instantaneous embrace, and wht
they released their hold only the lro
work was left of the boat that had
proudly steamed away from the pier
no brief hour before. Built also with
W W view to the comfort OF her summ
m passengers, the open passageways b
ei tween her cabins and saloons, intend,
for ventilation, became factors in q
> fatal work, and through them sw.
currents of wind which tanned the fl
and FASTENED it on its work of deaf
But while the public reviewed all the
features and considered their import
> associated with the terrible illusi ratio
the primary cause remains a myster
Many people who were on the boat t
, lieve 1t never will be penetrated. II
}, reason they give is that from the tin
Jf the explosion until the part of /
boat adjacent to the engine and Il
rooms WAS in blaze, was too brief
q. period to allow even the men on du
there to observe what had happened.
,,ssi they escaped 1t must have been at I
~ y. ins ant Of the explosion. for after I'll
= the fire took hold with great rarldlly.
n A..