New-York tribune., 1884-01-22
THE WRECKED STEAMSHIP.
ORGANIZING FOR FURTHER SEARCH.
,xp,rrl RENEE OF STATE AND LOCAL OFFICIALS AND
STEAMBOAT MIN.
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STEAMBOAT MIN.
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Nrw-BrpF RD. Jan. 21.--After delays, blunders
,nd misnanagements that have been heart-sicken-
'n,, m the extreme. something like system has
Hnallv been introduced into the sad work of recov-
or;ng and identifying the victims of the City of
C,,rmbns shipwreck. For the comfort which this
tct will bring to hundreds Of hearts, the credit Is
do not 70 the people in authority in this vicinity
nor 70 the officers of the company, the carecS5ness
of whose agents caused the disaster, but to Colonel
Rand. of Boston. who, weighed down with the
loss of father brother and sister-in-law,
hos vet had the energy to prepare
nlau of operation at sensible, simple and thor
onch and to arrange for its execution. mat ne
has himself assumed the cost of the work Is a tact
that ought to be humihating to the Savannah
Steamship Company and the authorities OF the
ronpties of Dukes and Bristol. Until to-day nearly
all the authentic information that has been given
10 the bereaved people who now crowd the hotel
corridors has come from the newspaper cores
pOndents
PLANS FOR TO-DAYs OPERATIONS.
Cantain Baker will proceed to Gay Head to-
morrow and organize paid force TO patrol the shore
of Marthas Vineyard. The half-brced natives VIII
be employed in such force that each man VIII nave
a stretch of coast three miles in extent. which he
will 90 over twice a day for hree days. Meanwhile
two men, walking in opposite directions VIII go
all around the island, thus visiting all
the places that, as yet, have received
mo attention. The storm King will cruise about
the Sound, too, running into all cOves or blghts,
and will also extend the search to the shores OF
BLOCK Island and No Man's Land. All bodies found
viii he sent at once to New-BedfOrd, where they
will be placed in the Morgue.
A SCHOOL HOUSE FOR A MoRGUE
This morgue has only been in existence SINCE
Sunday tie bodies that came here before having
been kept in a barn. Now the Morgue is ID the
Fifth Ward room, an old engine house which Is
used in part for election purposes and in part as the
home of a private school Thirteen victims lie
there tonight in cheap pine boxes, bruised and
frozen as they were when they were found; Two
of them were brought in by the tug-boat NeIne on
her first trlp on saturday; Eleven were plousn'
from Gay Head to-day by the Storm King.
A DISAPPOINTMENT TO FRIENDS.
A sad blunder marked the beginning of sensible
activity however. On Sunday it was learned by
the visit of newspapermen to the island that eleven
bodies were at Vineyard Haven. Eight of them
were identified by their clothing aud jewely.
Three are still unknown Captain Baker, acting
for the steamship company, carried away the
bodies early this morning. Ten he sent here and
transferred them in boxes that never We're opened
10 train that whired them off to Boston. Nobody
got sight of them; and score or more of friends
Of the lost who hurried to the wharf when they
heard of the arrival of the MonOhansett, had noOp-
pOTunlty to examine the remains 1Or ldenJlDcallOn
ANOTHER PRECIOUS CARGO RECEIVED.
In the afternoon the Storm King came from Gay
Head, bringing the bodies tbat had been found
there on Sundays visit. They were nine in num-
Der, and before they had been taken from the boat
three of them had been recognized. The arrival of
the Storm King caused tremendous excitement in
the city. For an hour or more streets were
crowded with men hurrying to the wharf,
where once arrived, they climbed up on timber
piles and even 10 the roof OF the wharf house, TO
catch a sight of the spectacle. They stood notion
less hardly speaking, and when the dead bad been
placed III plain boxes and loaded in great mourn
ful heap upon large sleigh, hey followed mutely
in procession behind, If they could not escape
the horrible fascination Of the scene. After the
doors of the MOrgue shut them out they stlll
stood about IN the snow on the OUTSIDE
and gazed at each other and the bu ding.
MORE NDENuuCAuONs.
Al the Morgue three additional bodies were idon-
titled before midnight one of those identified to-day
was Charles +. James, painter, Of Everett, Mass.
the passenger who died In the ships boat which
made Gay Head. Another Mrs. Dwight
H. Rich of No. 81 ClaTendOn-st,.
Boston Mrs. Rchs
not on the first list of passengers. She was the
guest Of Captain Wright. and was on her way 10
Orange Grove, Fla, where her husband died less
than a wear ago She had no other object IN going
than to speak with friends who had been at his
death bedabout his end which came while she as in
Boston and started for home on Thursday, but
sisted Mrs. Rich's request to make the journey on
the City of Columbus. She feared the water and
went Oy rail instead.
The others were Thomas Gallagher, second cook
Of the City of Columbus, Daniel McCarty, ships
baker Joel Nourse plough manufacturer, of Bos-
ION, and Augustus Pearson, a passenger, of Iaun-
ton.
BEYOND IDENuIiCNTION.
One of them was that Of 4 woman found on the
beach near Gay Head. She can never be recog-
nizcd, because when the body was found it was
nude aud the features had been mutlated out Of all
sembance to the face of human being by beating
against the rocks and WreCkage.
IHE LOOKoUI's STORY.
On the Storm King came also Tie last of the sur
viyor, who were at Gay Head. Among them was
Lcary who was the lookout on watch at the time of
the accident. and hIs coming was watched for with
great interest. He was, however. extremely un-
communicative and in the few words extracted
from HIM before lie was hurried off 10
Boston he said nothing that helped to
explain the cause of The shipwreck. He said that
he went on watch at p relieving q OBrien, who
told him at the relief that he had reported the Gay
Head Light. He having done 50, Leary did
not; but about half-past 3 o'clock he
went back from the lookouts station TO the pilot
house and reported the DEVILS Bridge buoy on the
port bow. He was unwilling 10 attempt to tell
how far ahead the buoy at the time Be
lore he got back 70 the lookout the steamer struck
leStcrday when asked why he had left his posi-
tlon to report 50 common occurrence as the sight
OF buoy, ho said that the wind was blow.
ing 50 hard that hc feared he wouId
not be heard if he sung out in
the usual manner 1t must be remembered
that Quar,ermaster Mcdonald stated he did not
hear the report made 10y the lookout, and onlv
knew that the second mate had told him that
Leary had said the buoy was on the port side.
CAPTAIN WRIGHT NOT BELIEVED.
Not dozen people in New Bedford believe the