Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-27

ESIEVSUONs anu tNO uV1Ss
Mrs. Smallman and two children.
Two children named Jones.
j. w. Kelburn.
Emma and Nellie Prescott.
Sam Caldwell
Richari Fitzgibbons.
Lizzie Calling.
Annie Goss.
III. Anderson.
Joseph Young.
Mrs. Stonehouse.
Mrs. Taylor.
Frank Stevens, wife and four children.
William Short
S. Peplo.
Miss Middleton.
John Moore, wife and child
Mrs. Jones and two children.
A man named Jones Grayden, son of G..
III. Grayden.
Miss Minnie Smith.
Mrs. Mcdonald.
Mrs. and Mr.. Ehman and child.
Mrs. Smith.
Henry Conro.
George Welsh.
John Boyd.
Miss Mallory.
George Evans and two children.
James Short.
Mr.. Diven, wife and two children.
Mrs. Smith.
Mrs. Elizabeth Evans.
Miss Ferguson.
Mrs. Smith and daughter.
J. Perkins.
Thomas Davidson.
w. Edmunds.
Hrs. Wilbern.
Alf. Short.
Annie Jones.
Charles German.
Thomas Breeze.
John Phillips.
James Harris.
Nellie Maston.
VIM. Wannecott.
Miss Swannville.
Henry Shay.
Samuel Pile.
Henry Hay.
MEETING OF cITIzENs-INQUEsT- RE
COVERED.
LONDON, May 26th.-A committee OF
citizens met yesterday afternoon to consider
the situation and concert measures. and de.
cided to ask the Mayor to call upon those
who are in Strengthened circumstances and
extend such relief as may be necessary, to
care for such bodies as are neglected, and de.
wise means for the erection of public monu.
ment. 1t is probable that such monument
will be erected at Woodland Cemetery, stu.
ated on the bank of the river, almost over.
looking the scene of the disaster.
The inquest began last evening. The jury
formally viewed the body of Miss Fannie
Cooper, and adjourned till to-day.
A field battery was called out for the pur
pose of blowing up the boat, under which
several more bodies are supposed to be.
The people throughout the city fee
stunned and Supplied at the blow, and weep.
ing men are seen on every side.
Up to the present time 23S bodies have
been recovered.
LONDON, May 26sh.-A pail has settled
over the city to-day. Nothing is doing on
of houses.
HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE OF ONE OF THE SAVED.
LONDON, May 26sh.-One of the rescued
passengers said he could feel the drowning
little children as they swept past him clutch
ing his legs in their dying struggles. Drown
ing mothers grasped him frantically, and pite
ously implored help.
THE CAPTAINS STATEMENT.
LONDON, May 26th.-The captain said tht
boat was nineteen ton screw, fat-bottomed
with a capacity of 400 passengers; did moi
think she had over $50 on board was well
sanctioned, but not braced had ife-saving
apparatus for 400; the boat leaked, as the
engineer said it had half al arms length in
the hold the upper deck load were agreeable
when asked to keep quiet, but on the lower
deck there were unruly boys who could not
be restrained. The engineer, fremen, two
deck hands, purser and the captain were
the entire crew. Nobody asked him to run
the boat ashore.
STILL ANOTHER PASSENGERS STORY.
LONDON, May 26th.-R. G. Montgomery,
passenger. says the boat was greatly over
crowded. The passengers were quiet and
orderly. There was no chasing. There was
considerable water on the main deck at the
start. which accounts for her listing to one
side. When the lurch came the stanchions
snapped like pipestems, and the whole wreck
slid down to port on the shore side, into
the water. Hanging on to an iron support,
he saw scores Of men, women and children
being drowned like rats in hole, and heard
piteous shrieks on every side, without power
of rendering aid. Mothers, with eyes start
ing from the sockets, would madly beat the
water while their children hung about their
necks with shrieks, until at last smothered
by the water they went down with a sickening
eurgle beneath the flood.