Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-05-26
THE SUNKEN STEAMER.
Two HUNDRED And THlRTy.EleHT
BODIES RECOVERED.
|lsgs Displayed at Half-kast- ResoIu.
tens Of Coincidence Passed BY
counciI-Ths City Pevsded
by Death-like Silence.
eENERAl SUSPENSION OF BUSINESS.
THE ILL-FATED VICTORIA.
Further Particulars Conceruing the Ts
rible Catastrophe

Further Particulars O C,ncerning the Ter
Z rible Catastrophe
} LONDON, OSr., May 25.-The work OF
securing the dead from under the wreck
Of the Victoria is still going on. One hun
dred and seventy bodies have been re-
covered and.m Of them brought to this
city. ana siiths undertaker's shops are
besieged and collins going out by scores.
The crowds at the river bank and street
landing is not diminished. Among the
Identified are two daughters OF Jas.
Barnes. The list OF the identified is still
incomplete and large namber OF bodies
remain on the ground at the Sulphur
Springs baths awaiting claimants.
When the water was let of by the
removal OF the splash boards. search was
continued for those under the lower deck,
and twenty-five more bodies were
brought TO the surface, making about
two hundred in all recovered. 1t is not
known how many more, ii any, are lost.
The City Council met to day and passed
resolutions OF coincidence. A settled
gloom reigns over the city. RO Mont
gomery, a leather merchant OF Toronto,
was on board and escaped, and sue.
ceeded in saving many others. He states
that on the passage up the captain went
among the passengers urging them to
keep on the other side. To one boy he
said: "For Gods sake keep on the
other side; II you don't, you'll have TO
swim for it." A little later on he saw
the water pass in over the deck and the
boiler 90 by the board, when the crash
at once took place. Almost all business
is at a standstill and crowds line the
streets discussing the sad calamity. The
burial OF the victims is at this hour,2:30
p. NJ proceeding and solemn stiffness
prevails. The city Aags are at half-mast
and bells are tolling.
The following is the list OF the
drowned 80 far as identified: Mrs. VIM.
Ashburg, Maple street; Hudson Abbott,
son OF II. G. Abbott; Minnie Amesburg,
East London; Chas. Bonner, aged Is;
Lille Beakon, aged IA; Harry Beaton,
aged 6; James Burns, Albert street;
Lizzie Bskerville, daughter OF work
man at Carlyle's brewery; Ida Batche.
lor, Rosa Bailey, John Baskerville, Ida
Burns, daughter of James Burns; an
other daughter of the latter is missing;
Albert Cole. aged z; Lou Cole, John
Clarke, a shoemaker; Miss Maria Con-
nell, Richmond street; Miss Fannie
Cooper, Miss Jennie Caughlin, Mary
Cradock and daughter, Geo. Cradock,
Mics w. Cline, Mrs. John Cornish,
King street; Mrs. Debeau, (Mr. Debeau
is missing), Miss Hanna Dennis,
Palermo, Ont. Mr.. VIM. Dyer, James
Dary, the son-in.law OF Martin OMeara.
Jno. Dairy, Sr., Alice Deadman, Misses
Fox, (two), Mr.. Clinton FRYER, Sr., Mr..
Fryer, Jr., wife and niece, Jos. Graham,
Miss Julia Griffith, of Westminster;
Miss Gibson, Mrs. NJ. Glavin and child,
Willie Glass, - Plumber, - Hobs and
three children; Miss Minnie Hogan, OF
Waterloo; Mrs. st. Heron, of Williams
street; James Hearn, a cigar maker;
Mrs. Kelly (emigrant) and two sisters.
living in the city; Miss kendrick, Of
Adelaide street; Mrs. VIM. Laskie and
child, and Ed. G. Loughrey, OF West
London; Johnnie Seclaire, OF West Lon
don Mr. J. G. Meredith, clerk OF the
Division Court and father OF w. X. Mer-
edith, q member OF Parliament; WT.
Mcbride. City Assessor aud Secre-
tary OF the Western Fair Association;
VIM. H. Millman, commercial travel.
Ter OF Montreal, and two sons;
Nettie Morrison, John Morrison,
Berthe Morrison. The above three are
children OF James Morrison, OF London
East Mrs. Matthews, wife OF the night
editor OF the Advertiser, and two chill
dren; Mary Mcpherson, aged 10, daugh-
ter OF Mr.. Archibald McPherson, OF
Lang & McPherson; Miss Ada Mcln-
tosh, of Dundas street; Miss w. Mac.
Moyeal; w. Maddiner, OF Westminster;
Mr.. McQenuan, a blacksmith; Miss An.
NE McAllister, Of Horton street; Har.
vey Magee, aged l5; Miss Priscilla A.
Mustile; a son Of DR.. Oronyatekhs,
aged 10; Mrs. Parish Poke; Mr.. Her
bert, purser, and son OF the mar
aver oi the boat; Mr.. A. X. Powell.
and two nephews; Margaret Quinn,
aged IL. .--
A committee of citizens met this
evening to consider the situation and
concert measures; they decided to ask
the mayor to proclaim tomorrow as a
day OF mourning by. the suspension
OF business and to call upon those
who are in straitened circumstances and
extend such relief as may be necessary
to care for such bodies as are neglected,
and devise means for the erection OF
pnblic monument.