Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1888-02-28

| Destroyed. The f1il scope of tie ois41.
Ter csnnos be kroxn fer several dayA
whsn the news es the disaster reach
ed North vaiieso the Are department.
turned oat hcs was unable 20 do amp
thing towards saving the wharf. The
Starr Touring mills were threatened bat
iactily escaped. These wss no water 10
combat the dse With and ss the tide was
cut The engines vere unable - 90 TO
work Oses sax hundred feet Of The
wharf xas destroyed bat the nss vas
nntlsy eont-ci By / o'clock. Up 10 !
O'Clock nine h0eiss hso eser reeossred
hut ouly ssven hsa teen itensinsd- In
addition 20 the Daraes already esvee tce
following have been ieenstsiss: Joseph
frsSas, LsnSshcrensp; William La
mar. shiepsre clerk; Melvin HoSskinss
ssilsmsn for The Puget Saand lumoes
company. and man named HseRsua
Five bodies have been recovered -
bert Madison. OiIif Neileon, and tso
Gives vas rescaed alive hzt died from
bis injuries. II 10 believed thai ten bod
les still remain on the steamer. Oap.
tsin Gesee sna nass of the csev -
capped With slight injnries-
At 4 o'clock. p. as., the coroner decid-
ea 10 hold an ING asst oves the bodies
that ssve been recovered for the p0f-
pose Of tdentifyirs them. IL vas 10
easy task. as all tae bodies are moro ce
less disnScrea. Fur .1stsnoc, IN ooa
corner Of the she'd lay usasa OF human
remains 90 cherrsd that u vAs tmposst-
ble TO identify them except By scraps oe
clesEin1 On she body. Near BY lay an
other body With the skull cleft in svain
and hands blown od. The face Of ssiu
apother body was mass OF raw dsoA
on aeconns Of ourrs. when the iarorns
isbors were suspended they had identt-
lied thirteen badies and one re-
uasired nniaeafited. Eight Of the
men Who met their death had
wives and families, while five were
single. The sesrcoers are still at work
on the wreck trs ing to fiud more OF the
missing u1ep. Mrs. ferries, wife Of The
gamer ~ Mare Island navy yard. sesms
20 have been the oais woman on board.
She Gas badly scaidsd about the head
and srEs. The iiss Of the nnrecovcred
bodies Is nov teouabt 10 include ssne
OF tie II men comprising the crevS
There we're b9 passengers on bard,
making 6S. and not single one escape0
without injuries mora or less serious.
Among the missing are Edward and
James knle, John Compton, Timothy
Hurley, Joseph Williams. z. n. Con-
molly, John aoigkins. Michsei Doian.
wiiiism Lamar. K @. Mcdonald and .
colored porter named Clark.
The numbef OF people on hoard the
Jalia Captain Gedae gives ~ follows:
ihree through passengers for san fraa-
cisco, thirty fse for Vallejo Jaacsiou,
and eleven officers and csev. making In
ell ~ instead Of 63. as vas generally
supposed. Ore body, that OF Timothy
Kane. vas recognized BY porous plase.
er on his side, the poor fellows wife
having pot IL on the night before Tor
him. HIS head vas simply . chasfsd
nssss OF back matter.
The destruction Of the wharf. sheds,
telegraph ssssion and ticket offsce vas
included. az well a. four passenger and
freight cars, the loss on which amounts
TO about &250o0o. As night closed in
the search for the bodies had 10 bo
given up. II Is tboaGht that some sitl
never be recovered. throlah being car
ried oct 10 sea. The ipqaess will be
continued at 10 o'clock tomorrow morn
ina.
ihe doubt as to whether II vas the
petroleum tanks or boilers which burSs
has been removed. A diver from San
Francisco vas ct work for three hsura
on the wreck, and declares positively
tEat the two petroleum tanks ara intact
and the oods of one boiler are blown
entirely oar, eus end bciua In one past
Of the ship and the other In another.
This would ssem 10 strengthen tha
theory that the boilers we're In an un-
safe condition.