The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-10
Body Of the Fourth Victim Re-
covered Yesterday.
HE WAS ATAcoMA CONTRACTOR
The Injured All Doing Well and the
Dead Tenderly Cared For.
How the Collier and Steamer Headed
for Each Other Through the Fog
CaptaiAs' Stories OF the Collision
The Two ships Parted-Soms Narrow
xscspes.

Tho story of the Willamette Premier
collision published in the Posr.INrELLr-
GENcER yesterterday morning, although
hastily gathered by reporters after the ar
rival OF the Goliah with the dead, injured
and unhurt survivors at midnight, was
confirmed in every important detail yes
terday. Thelist of those killed, injured and
unhurt was complete. Four were killed
outright. Saturday night the names of bu.
three were known. as the identity of the
man whose body was pinned under the
debris where it could not be extricated, was
not discovered until the corpse was re-
moved yesterday morning. It proved to
be William +. Richardson, of Tacoma,
contractor of the United States custom
house at Port Townsend. The identity
of the man who was seen to
leap overheard when the crash
came has not been discovered. The list OF
dead is:
killed instantly.
JOHANNES MOE. Tacoma; aged 20: leaves wife
and three childfen: worked for Tacoma Electric
Motor Company. Tacoma: killed Instantly.
JOHN RANKIN. Seattle, aged IS; waiter, single;
killed instantly.
WILLIAM +. RICHAKDeoN, OF Tacoma; con-
tractor, age about 40
UNKSowNMAS. drowned; body not recovered.
The list of injured remains unchanged,
everyone hurt having been included in
yesterdays list, which was as follows:
Gus Davis. Port Townsend, watchman, steamer
Premier. ribs broken, seriously injured inter
nally.
Thomas Foran, Fourteenth and Canal streets,
Tacoma, left leg broken 1t knee and arm hurt
w. II. Phillips, Louisville, KY, both legs
slightly crushed. ribs broken.
D. J. Wynkoop, Tacoma. cut above left eye.
bruised.
Mrs. D. J. wynkoop, Tacoma, hip bruised.
c. s. Gilbert, travelling man. St Paul. bruised
and cut
Ms. wilcox, ouilcene. WASH, wrist and elbow
sprained.
e. NJ Vest, st. Louis. bruised knee and arm.
John Lysle, freight clerk Premier, nose cut
Jack Levy, steamer Premier, badly cut and
bruised.
Mrs. Ida suttsr, sturges, OAK. bruised.
Mrs. George W. Miller. Tacoma, injured
slightly.
EFF. Lee, Pontiac, Wash, slightly hurt
A. F. Lundberg. Pysht, WASH, injured In
ternslly.
Alban Leidholdt. waiter on Premier, loft arm
broken and leg bruised.
Francis Hugert, Tacoma, slightly hurt
Jacob Nelson, Port Townsend. arm, chest ana
legs hurt
John McDoueai. Seattle. finger broken.
A complete list Of those who passed
through the danger unscathed was also
given yesterday morning.
After the news of tho collision became
general yesterday morning, Bonney 4
Stewards morgne was the most sought
place in the city. All day long people.
either from relationship, friendship or
idle curiosity asked for permission to view
the bodies of the dead. The remains of
Frank c. Wynkoop, the A-year-old boy
who was killed by door, were sent to Ta-
coma, the home of his parents, on the
noon train.
Jacob Nelson, who was with Johannes
Moe, of Tacoma, gave orders to hold the
body until he wired instruction as to the
disposal Moe was middle-aged man,
and lived in Tacoma. He leaves q wife
and three children, the youngest being
months old. At the time he was killed he
was returning from Port Angeles, where
he had bargained for three lots, intend
ing to move his family there.
John J. Rankin, the waiter who was
killed by blow on his neck. lived in
North Seattle. He was Is years old, and
born in San Francisco. His father, John
Rankin, is also steamboat man, and has
been connected with the steamer w. X.
Merwin. Funeral services over his re-
mains will be held tomorrow afternoon at
o'clock at the Church of the Immaculate
Conception. The interment will take
place at Calvary cemetery. the body being
shipped on the o'clock train.
h~1- &c VlF,lI;nvr n -
man who was stuck in the hold and could
not be extricated Saturday night, was
brought to the city yesterday afternoon
on the steamer Edith and taken TO the
morgue. When the clothing was removed
it was found that his left side, from the
shoulder down, had been crushed. Over
his eye was deep cut, from which
the blood had flowed freely. Among his
personal effects were q gold watch, stopped
at exactly 2:33 O'Clock, two fiye-dollax
bills, bank book of the Merchants Ma.
tional bank of Port Townsend showing q
deposit of $500 the day he was killed, and
4 total Of $3.50. Late in the evening ii
was learned that he lived in Tacoma, on
Tenth street, near Quincy, and was q
plaster contractor. He worked in connec-
ton with Nichols & Kreuger, of Tacoma,
and had just finished contract on the
custom house at Port Townsend. He had
Q contract in his pocket for an extension
of the Vancouver hotel at Vancouver, B.
c., at q price of about $500. He leaves a
wife in comfortable circumstances, being
possessed of some real estate ana lite
insurance Of $4,000 His body will prob
ably be shipped to Tacoma on the Flyer
today.
All the injured who were taken to Prov.
dence hospital are doing well and unan-
imously declare that they were fortunate
not to have been killed outright.
Jack Levy, the Premier bartender, made
a brave fight against giving in to his
wounds, but succumed yesterday morning
and went to Providence hospital. where he
was assigned TO room 50. His friends
number legion, and many called to visit
him yesterday. all desiring that he should
not want for anything. His condition ID
not serious. but he suffers pains in his
chest, finds difficulty in breathing, and
from the general shock TO his system does
not have full control of the muscles
of his body and legs. The latte,
are in bad shape, timbers having rested On
them and bruised the flesh and injured
the tendons below the knees. His face is
scratched IN many places, presumably by
fiying glass, and his left hand was cut SO
badly that several stitches were taken.
IL say~ hs faeia sspyeftv fair - hut his