The evening world., 1894-06-25
SEARCHING FOR The BODIES.
The Evening World" Sends Q
Tug to scour the Lower
Bay for Victims.
CORONER WILL INVESTIGATE
An Effort Will Be Made to Fix tho
Blame for Yesterdays Ter
rible Disaster.

An overladen tug. a foolhardy skip
per. 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 arc
some OF the causes given for the ter
rble 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, missing and survivors
are as follows:.
The Drowned.
BUCKRIDGE. WALTER, No. "a Hal
sey street, Brooklyn; body at Highlands
DUNN, JOHN. No. s74 Eighth avenuss
carpenter: body at Highlands Morgue.
MALEER. FRANK, IS Washlnston
| SCHULTZ. FRANK. printer; Eleventh
| street. near First avenue.
MOORE. WILLIAM. bartender: resi-
EvERARD. HERMAN. residence un-
known: body recovered.
baSY hEasEK af Hsblan5s Mara,s Tsslassce unknown'
UNKNOWN MAN. about thirty. sandy
hair and mustache, washed ashore ae
Highlands.
The Missing.
ANDENHEIT, FREDERICK. book
oiBdfF BtRK9ARh e hiEfth sHsR1ps sfTeeE; aa r...
Seventy-eighth street.
BISHOP. HENRY. s25 Garden street.
BREcHT. CHRISTIAN. 800 East Firth
street.
.BMAuscHATz. M JOSEPH. 40 Leonard
EBERHART, HERMAN. 4sa East
FAY, FREDERicK. s2s East Forty
FISHER, JOHN. lo2 classon avenue,
CRANES. CHARLES, 175 East Fourth
street
GRlEsMAN. SOLOMON. 1ss7 First
GATTNER. SAMUEL.
HfGdiNs. If Is; J JOHN, II PEARL l9rs1ss s1reet assd
twenty.one years, clerk.
HEHRAUCK. JACOB. 3i5 East seven-
HEBRAUcK. JOSEPH. s.5 East Seven
HoRAN. DELL. 4s7 West Fourteenth
street
HoCHERIN. LOUIS. fireman on the
HAMMOND. ALBERT, twenty two
years old. deck hand on Nicol. Roundout
HoRNEY. JOHN. forty-fve. works at
Brennan & Whites shoe factory. Clas-
sen and Flushing Avenue Brooklyn.
KIRCHNER, GusTAVE. 1894 Second
KIRCHNER. WILLIAM. 1894 Second
I.ANGDoN. WILLIAM. boatman.
Roosevelt and Water streets.
MooRE, WILLIAM, twenty years.
NJ Nance, JOHN, foreman in Street
Cleaning Department, $50 West Nine
MiLEoLLAND. HUGH, South and
PABsT' ALBERT, 5s1 Sixth street.
PIENING, HENRY. 100 East Fourth
Quinn. JOHN driver, II Stone street
SCHULTZ, WILLIAM, 15s Forsyth
ssfEBERL1Tz. WILLIAM, l7s Forsyth
sEITz, HERMAN. lis Avenue A.
TRU ESDELL, WILLIAM. twenty
SSV WoHLING, nII FREDERICK. 1883 second
WEissLER. ANDREW. Sa East
fISHsT!n WETTLiSG. CHARLES. 2es chrystis
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-
|
sized in the heavy seas and went down.
leaving seventy,tve to eighty-nve men
and boys struggling for their lives in the
water, with no help nearer than half .
For two hours the wind had been fresh
ening, and at noon the southeastern
breeze had increased to a squally wind,
| the skies were overcast with threatening
| clouds ard heavy seas were rising
angrily about the little craft.
The skinner Only Laughed.
Other tugs carrying similar fishing par
ties had prudently turned homeward. and
the manager of the Herring Clubs party
had implored Capt, Hyatt to turn about
| and put into the Horseshoe, just to the
north, for shelter. But the young skip
per had laughed derisively. although
promising to do as directed.
| Everybody on board was more or less
| seasick and the skipper seemed TO look
upon this as a capital joke. The Nlcol
| was constantly getting into the trou1h.
and big seas engulfed her again and