Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-07-26
List of Those Who Have Been
Identified.

Aist of Those Who Have Been
Identified.
BALTIMORE, July 24.-Up to noon IS
bodies OF the victims Of the Tivola disas
ter had been brought to this city, all of
which except four have been identified.
The following is a list with the ages, so
far as ssoertained
1t will be seen that the greater proper
ton was young ladies and children John
McAnany, wife and infant; Mrs.
Crouch and two children, Katie
and Lena; Mrs. Thomas Mclaughlin and
three children, Katie, Mary and John, aged
ID, 10 and 9 years; Mrs. Keller Mrs.
Rebeoca Erman and daughter Belle, aged
l6; Mary Burns; Kate Colbert; Laura
Sipearer; Maggie Thompson Maggie
Burns Wilhelmina Willien: Agnes
Feehan ; Mary Newman Mary McCohan;
Mary Spies, aged IS Rosa Mobile;
Maggie Lynoh,i aged 10; Mary Lynch,
aged 20 Mary and Jennie Carey, sisters,
aged 20 and 22 Minnie Klinedinst, aged
IL; Margaret Mcaahan, aged 30;
Bridget Galley, aged %; Win
field Galley, aged 2l Mamie
o'Neill, aged 3 Fannie Lemaria Mary
Linburg two sisters, Parr Annie
Owens Mollie Murphy Mary Hughes,
aged IL Olivia Scull, infant Mary
Hammill, aged Is ; Alice Ryan; Johanna
0'Connell Mary Giblin Elizabeth
Connors, aged %; Annie Miller, aged
% Elizabeth Bockman, aged 20, and
daughter Elizabeth, aged 10 Patrick
Ryan, aged IS +; James Owens W. Ii. +.
Jacobs Thomas S. Moseman Daniel
Gibbins, infant Albert Rosa, aged 40
Jesse Snmwalt Henry Longburg; Will
liam GARNER, aged IS; Bernard
Galley; Edward Callahan, and Annie
Weidel. The parties resided in almost
every section of the city, heng members
of Catholic churches in different locations.
As soon az the bodies had been
deposited on the wharf the Large went
to rivoh and before o'clock this morn
ing had returned to Henderson's
wharf with her second load of dead,
numbering over 80.
BY this time the news of the awful
calamity had spread throughout the city
and thousands had gathered at the wharf
and in the vicinity.
Throughout the night many persons,
fathers brothers and friends connected
with the excursioDsts, had gathered at
Light street wharf, where the
barge usually lands, anxiously awaiting
her arrival aud experimenting disaster.
When the boat did not come at her
usual time, and a. the hours wore on past
midnight and there We're yet no tidings
of their friends, their fears wsre increased
almost to conviction that some dreadful
accident had befallen the party. At q
later hour their fears were realized, when
the facts became known.
As fast as the bodies were identified
by relatives and friends they were taken
to their respective homes. The uniden
titi-d bodies were carried to the eastern
polire station, to remain until reelgniz ID
or otherwise disposed of.
The coroner will commence an official
investigation this evening. Statements
in regard to the immediate cause
OF the accident are conflicting
1t is stated by some that thu
large was already lying alongside
the wharf and the gang plank being run
ont when 1t gave away, and that il
fell from the sheer weight of the
crowd upon it. Others are of the opinion
that the wharf was carried away by con
tact with the barge.
The boat had made three tri % to Tivoli
The morning boat took down 100, the .
O'Clock boat 200, and the o'clock boa
70. This latter boat reached the pier at S u
and prepared to take all hands back t;
the city st once, rs requested by Fathe,
starr. The exeursioEiSts, knowing tina
this was the OuU> at, dashed along til,
, pier until they were stopped by the gate
near the steamer. Sjm4 noisy youths
tried To climb over tie gate, and maj
and boy seated themselves on raj
with their legs hanging. A too sudden
movement caused the rail to break, anG
the two were thrown into the water. A
sudden oommotion followed this result
but before it had even taken shape Il
save them there was Sudden crash aud
a chorused shrek.
: Splinters flew i'll every direction, aud
about 200 people were struggling among
the broken timbers in eight feet of water
The noise and the cries wers so loud tia
,, watermen heard them two miles away
. Those who witnessed the scene state tina
IL was sckening. The moon had gon,
down, and the only light was that sheG
by two feeble coal oil Tampa. Some o
the resouers took the barge lanterns and
set them on the wharf. Two of them ex
! ploded and added fresh terror to tht
: scene.
Those on the decks OF the barge threw
off preservers, stools and benches into
, the water. These struck great many
, Oh the head and knocked them insen
sible. Others let down planks and ropes
An Understandable helpleseness and terror
, eigned-shrieks, curses, groans, cries fol
! ''dod to save us, hesrtrendering prayer!
! for help. Darkness impeded the hell
rendered by those who jumped into til,
water. Those whose swimming power,
,, were the means of saving the lives G
: others were as follows, together with the
, number of persons each saved Charles
, NJ. Cannon, 6; 4. A, Fitzpatrick, A
/ Patrick Beatty, S.; John Gonall,
= Jacob Bonnet. 10; James Burns, 10; Viii
liam Carey, 2; Chris. Doyle and Captain
q Roberts of the tug Amanda Powell
Some women were pulled up on the whar
and some were dragged into shallow
water. The movements of the barg,
, caused a wash that carried those VIII,
! were battling with the water under tn,
, wharf and among the piles. The mel
: were mostly able to struggle ont. Thos
, males who were drowned were trying l.
help women and children.
THE coRoNRR's INQUEST.
, At the coroner's inquest Tuesday nigh
| Jacob Bonnet, special officer at Tivoli
! testified that he locked the gates on tn
!, wharf about p. M, by order of the pro
prietor refused to let some Young ladie
through because he feared others woul,