The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-18
DIVERS BRING UP THE DEAD.
CHASTITY QUEST FOR THE VICTIMS
OF THE CLEVELAND HORROa.

Fifteen Bodies so Far Recovered,
Leaving But Four Persons Now Tn
accounted For - HeartbreaL1ing
Scenes Witnessed During the
Senrch-Fuu List of the Dead ana
Missing-MOtOrmaR of the Fated
Car Released on BOnd-PrObabIe
Cause of the Strange Accident Was
the Removal Of Circuit Breaker.
Cleveland, o.. Nov. 1E-Up to 6 o'clock
this evening the bodies of fifteen vic
Tins Of last nights catastrophe had been
recovered. This accounts for all but four
of the passengers known to have been in
the car al the time it made it's dreadful
plunge from the open Central viaduct
down into the Cuyahoga river.
The verified list Of the dead and miss
ing is as follows: James Mclaughlin. base
BAH player a Trowbridge avenue; Henry
w. Mecklenburg tailor, s. Mary street;
Edward Hoffman. conductor on ill-fated
car, l2l East End avenue; Mrs. John H.
Sauernheimer, 76 Professor street; Miss
Bessie Davis, school teacher in Sackett's
school, lived at 1O7 Noyes street; Harry
w. Foster, clerk, 81 Mentor avenue; Mrs.
Minnie c. Brown, 10 Thurman street; Curt
Lephne, or Clemens, pianist, eco Jennings
avenue; Mrs. A. A. Hoffman, 150s Pearl
street; Gertie Hoffman, 3 years old. 1908
Pearl street; Harvey Hoffman, years old,
1908 Pearl street; Mrs. Martha Palmer,
"A Grant street; Marie Mettgen, p years
old, domestic. 10 Joseph street; Augusta
Sarinski, 2O7 Central avenue; Louis F.
Hulitz, mail carrier, SS years old.
The missing are Lottie With, Branch
avenue; Miss Martha Sauernheimer 1a
Merchants avenue; b. c. Page. residence
unknown; Matthew Gallagher, Hamilton
street
At an early hour this morning, Angus
tus Rodgers, the motorman in charge of
the car, was arrested at his home and
brought to the Central station, where ne
was questioned by the coroner and police
othcials. He stated that Conductor Hoff-
man gave him the signal to 20 ahead
Asked as to how the conductor could have
given the all right signals in the face of
the tact that the red light signals, show
ing that the draw was open, We're hung
on the closed bridge gates, Rodgers re-
Pneu lnat Holman probably thought the
draw was just closing, instead of opening.
Rodgers was released after giving bond
for S. 900.
A crowd of fully $4,000 spectators gath
cred at the scene of the accident this
morning when the search for the missing
hart was employed by the street car
company to assist in the search, and after
he had been at work two hours on the
river bottom he gave the pull up signal
for the graphing hooks, and the body of
Mail Carrier Louis Huletz was brought
to the surface.
Huletz's brother had stood on the dock
all night, peering anNiOusly through the
darkness and inquiring time and again if
his brother had been found. When the
mutilated body of Louis was brought up
the brother became wild with grief and
he could hardly be restrained. The top
OF his head was almost torn off, and the
40 in aFfn ~
morgue.
At about 10 O'Clock Diver MetcaIf came
to the surface with q handful OF woman's
hair. He said that q body was held down
by the trucks and that in trying to pull
it out he pulled the hair out. The body
is thought to be that Miss Martha Sauern-
heimer. The friends and relatives of Miss
Sauernheimer walked UP and down the
dock, wringing their hands and crying
most Of the morning. The unfortunate
girls father became so desperate that
II became necessary to take him away.
1t was feared a one time that he con-
templated jumping into the river. 1t
may take a day or two raise the trucks,
but until they are brought up nothing can
be done.
About 1890 o'clock q river man reported
to the police that the body OF a little girl
was floating under the Big -Four bridge
at South Water street. Investigation de-
veloped the fact that the body was lodged
against the piles and was frightfully
mangled The hair was clotted with blood
and the face was crushed in so as to
make Identification almost impossible. 1t
was afterwards Identified, however, as
the body Of Gertie Hoffman. The work
of searching for the four undiscovered
bodies VIII be resumed again tomorrow.
Patrick Looney, the only passenger Of
the Inflated car who was taken from the
water alive, is still at the hospital in a
critical condition. He has not regained
consciousness since being taken there.
The most plausible theory regarding the
cause of the disaster is the removal Of
the circuit breaker, which was replaced
By derailing switch about two weeks
ago. Formerly the circuit was broken
several hundred feet from the swinging
portion of the viaduct, whenever the draw
was open.