The evening world., 1894-06-25
8 KNOWN TO
Be DROWNED.
And Many Of the Inflated
Tug Nicol'S Passengers
Missing.
SEARCHING FOR THE BODIES.
1.-The Evening World" Sends a
Tug to Scour the Lower
Bay for Victims.
CORONER WILL INVESTIGATE.
An Effort Will Be Made to Fix the
Blame for Yesterdays Ter
rible Disaster.
CORONER WILL INVESTIGATE,


per. a boy at the wheel. open bunker
plates and a tin can that journeyed too
often between the beer kegs and the
crew of the tug James d. Nicol are
some Of the causes given for the ter
, rible disaster which overlook the fish
ing party of the Herring Fishing Club
yesterday afternoon, in which the tug
foundered off Sandy Hook, with a party
OF eighty or more men on board, and
many lives were sacrificed.
So far as can be learned, the names
of the drowned and missing are as fol-
lows:
The Drowned.
BUCKRIDGE. WALTER, No. 9s2 Hal
sey street, Brooklyn; body at Morgue.
DUNN, JOHN, No. S14 Eighth avenue;
carpenter; body at Morsue.
MALEER, FRANK, 95 Washington
street: body at No. 95 Greenwich street.
SCHULTZ, FRANK, printer; Eleventh
street, near First avenue.
. THOMAS MASSEN, 157 Degraw street,
Brooklyn.
EvERARD. HERMAN. residence un-
known.
KEYSER, -. residence unknown
UNKNOWN MAN, about thirty. sandy
hair and mustachc. washed ashore at
Highlands; body at Morriss Morgue,
Long Branch.
The Missing.
ANDERHEIT, FREDERICK, book
binder 80 Eighth street.
BURKHART, CHARLES, 345 East
Seventy-eighth street.
BISHOP. HENRY. 925 Garden street,
Hoboken.
BRECHT, CHRISTIAN. 1903 East Fifth
street.
,BAusCHATZ. JOSEPH, 149 Leonard
street, Brooklyn.
FAY, FREDERICK. ses East Forty
eighth street.
FISHER. JOHN. 1902 Classon avenue,
Brooklyn.
FAY, EDWARD. Harlem.
GRAMBS. CHARLES, 175 East Fourth
GRIEsMAN. SOLOMON. 1857 First
avenue.
GAUTNER, SAMUEL.
HAYES, JAMES, ITO Eldrldge street.
HIGGINS JOHN, Il Pearl street, aged
twenty-one years, clerk.
HEBRAUCK, JACOB. 345 East Seven
ty-eighth street.
HEBRAuCK, JOSEPH. s45 East Seven
ty-eighth street.
HoRAN. DELL. 467 West Fourteenth
HOCHERIN. LOUIS. fireman on the
HAMMOND. ALBERT. twenty two
NY.
HORNEY, JOHN, forty-five. works at
Brennan & Whites shoe factory, Clas-
sen and Flushing avenue. Brooklyn.
JARETsKY, SAMUEL. 100 Bowery.
JOHNSON, ALEXANDER, porter,
Metropolitan Life insurance Building,
300 Third avenue.
KIRCHNER, GUSTAVE. 1894 Second
avenue.
KIRCHNER. WILLIAM. 1894 Second
LANGDON, WILLIAM. boatman,
Roosevelt and Water streets.
MILLER HENRY. 100 Broome street.
MOORE, WILLIAM. twenty years.
bartender, Brooklyn.
M'NAMEE, JOHN, foreman in Street
Cleaning Department. 1853 West Nine
MILHoLLAND. HUGH. South and
Moore streets
\ PABsT, ALBERT 531 Sixth street.
PIENING, HENRY. 1870 East Fourth
n QUINN, JOHN. driver, IT Stone street.
A ROCKUS, ANTHONY j.. 4SS Sixth
street.
SCHULTZ. WILLIAM, 1853 Forsyth
street
sEBERLITZ, WILLIAM. l7s Forsyth
SEiTZ, THOMAS lis Avenue A.
TRUESDELL, WILLIAM. twenty
two, lSS ClaSSOn avenue. brooklyn.
VoHLING. FREDERICK, 1888 Second
avenue.
WANCKE. GEORGE. 172 Eldridge
street. -
Eleventh street.
WETTLING. CHARLES. 22s Chrystie
street.
ZAHN. CHRISTIAN. $40 East Thirty
ninth street.
At / o'clock. an hour after all the other
little ships had prudently turned towards
home with their jolly fishing and excur-
sion parties, the James ID. Nicol cap
sized In the heavy seas and went down.
leaving seventy-five 10 eighty-fve men
and boys struggling for their lives in the
water. with no help nearer than half a
mile away
For two hours the wind had been fresh,
ening, and at noon the southeastern
breeze had increased to squally wind
the skies were overcast with threatening
clouds and heavy seas were rising
angrily about the little craft.
The skipper Only Laughed.
Other tugs carrying similar fishing par.
ties had prudently turned homeward and
the manager Of the Herring Clubs party
had hnplored Capt. Hyatt TO turn about