The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-12-26
DID ONLY EIGHT PERISH?
Additional Facts Of the Steamer
Erickson Disaster.
~s.nss kendall and others BE-
tt~sed to be Drowned-sames
Of Three More saved.

There Is reasoa 10 believe that
rhoraas Kendall. carpenter. who
s,1 taken up a claim At sidney was
.Iso a victim Of the steamer Erickson
catastrophe. Chief Mitchell saw him
- Front street Monday. and for that
,eason. thinks Kendall wa one Of the
m.fa,si passengers. Branson, whose
bodg is at shorey's undertaking e.
enlistment, was on his way with his
vise 10 Sidney 20 eat Christmas dinner
9Th Mr. Kendall. and it Is supposed
that Kendall accompanied him. Ken
dali has not yet turned up among the
.ayed. and thus together with the fire.
oueut statements OF the rescued pas
sengers and crew Of the Erickson, that
man named Kendall was
among the drowned. furnishes
Ground for the fear that he
must have persisted, too. 1t is not
kpo1n positively yet whether Mrs.
Kendall accompanied her husband or
not Kendall was in all probability in
seattle purchasing some Christmas
n,essnts for his children. One OF the
ether unfortunate men was also over
here making preparations for pleas
AMI Christmas. Charles Noreus told a
friend on Monday that he was taking
over lot Of good things TO give big
Christmas dinner 10 his brick yard
crew
Both Kendall and Branson came
from Kansas % Seattle, though Ken
dali came originally from Ohio. His
mother il living yet at Chiliieothe in
that state He has been on Puget
Sound for about six years. Two years
ago be went 10 Kansas on visit. and
when he returned, he brought Bran
son with him. They were fast friends,
and we're in partnership for while in
the building business. Branson was
very deaf. and had hard time OF IL
10 ret along Both he aud his wife.
10 whom he had been married about
two years, we're lying sick in one Of
the hospitals for a long time. They
have no children. Kendall had been
married about three years, and leaves
twochldren. Hewas charter member
Of Company u, First regiment, n. q.
W. and he was a special policeman
last winter. lie and Police Officer
Holden we're associated in contract
building for some time, and they pat
up several well known buildings IN Sc
attic
Capt. W. II. Ellis, OF the Noun
taineer. was AT Sidney Yesterday, and
when he came back he added the fol-
lowing names to the list OF the saved
W. NJ. sutton, &. NJ. Seholley. G. ".
Bloom. Two other, the captain said,
whose names have not yet been aseer
tanned, were also picked up. This
would account for five other persons.
who at first were believed by him to
have been drowned. A man was also
taken over to Makcley. lie il supposed
to be a logger from Clam bay. as
man corresponding with his identity il
missing there Captain Ellis re-
ports the grief felt by the
bereaved relatives and friends at sid
ney to be most heartTendine. The ex-
plosion was heard at Sidney. Mr..
Combs of Sidney. one o! those who
persisted, only recently arrived from
Kansas. His family j. frantic with
grief Mr.. smith. OF Smith & Taylor,
druggists there. was engaged 20 be
married TO Young lady there soon.
and she l. suffering most intensely at
the sad news OF his fate Mr.. Kendall
was building the drug store In Sidney.
Jack simmons, the logger aud fisher
man, was avery GOOD swimmer. bat il
is thought he was taken with a cramp
and 20 sank beneath the waves helpless.
Owing 10 the lack az other communi
cation YESTERDAY between Seattle and
Sidney nothing definite could be 20.
tanned. regarding kendans probable
late
Some fears are expressed that there
may be others who we're drowned aS
IL j. not known 90 a certai ~ how
many were aboard the Erickson. no
pas enger book being kept.
gays KENDALL WAS Drowned.
Police Officer Holden mnde inquir
les around town last nigh; 20 ascertain
the true facts with regard 20 Mr.. Ken
dali. The night clerk al the ~. Charles
hotel informed him that among the
passengers on the Erickson who we're
saved was a Sidney merchant named
@, II. Bloom, who registered az the
hOtti after the re-ctied were
brought back by the Mountaineer
The night clerk told him that Mr.
Kendall. whose fun name Thomas
ii. Kendall, was surely drowned, for
Mr. Bloom had seen keadali. Bran
SON Mr.. Branson and Charles Norcus
all sc down together. Mr.. Kendall
struggled hard 20 keep from sinking.
and cried loudly for help Mr. Bloom
was utterly unable h render him any
assistance, being too far away from
him in the water