The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-22
ANDERsoN's BODY FOUND.
Picked Up OFF Cushing's Yesterday by
Two Men From Willard.

Two Men From Willard,
Yesterday morning A. r. and W. H.
Angel of Willard set off in dory for
the scene of the wreck of the Susan P.
Thurlow on Cushing's point. Their
object was to pick up whatever articles
of wreoknge could be found. The men
worked with graphing irons from 5
O'Clock until 9, and just as they were
about to give up the search for wreck
age. they pulled a little nearer the shore
of the island and made one more cast
near the lodges of Cushing's point. Here
they grappled the body of George Ander-
son, one ofsthe sailors drowned at the
time of the Thurlows wreck. The body
was only a short distance from the place
where the Thurlow went ashore on that
disastrous night a week ago. 1t is pre-
sumed that Anderson, who was the first
man to jump overheard after the schoon.
er struck, in an endeavor to reach the
shore, sank beneath the waves almost
Immediately after he was lost from the
sight.of his comrades.
ONNAJ
skin trousers, heavy blue REFER and
firmly tied about the neck, was a large
sou 'wester. The shoes and stockings
had been removed by Anderson before
he plugged into the waves. The body
was not bruised or cut in any place, and
was in far better condition than were
the bodies of the five other sailors who
were drowned.
Anderson appears to have been about
% years old. His hair was light brown,
he had blue eyes and light moustache.
The men who found the body towed
it to the beach where the bathing houses
of the Ottawa stand and covered it up
with canvas. Then they crossed over to
Willard and telephoned Undertaken Rich
of their discovery. Mr.. Rich, accompa-
MED by Coroner Perry and several others,
went to Cushings island with the fire
boat and brought the body to this city.
Anderson's home was in Philadelphia,
and efforts have been made to communi-
cate with his relatives that they may take
charge of the body.
| yesterday Shipping Commissioner
Tolman received a telegram from man
| who signed himself MCDONNELL who
wanted to know the cost of sending Mate
McLean's body to Halifax. Mr.. Tolman
wrote Mcdonnell the required informa-
ton, but nothing has been heard from the
man as yet.
Last night Charles Reimann. the only
survivor of the Thurlow wreck, left Port
land for Philadelphia on the New York
| boat.
| 1t is said that Anderson, whose body
| was recovered yesterday, had shipped out
of Portland several times within the last
year. He was on the schooner Matte B.
| Russell when she went ashore late this
autumn on the Jersey coast, and having
been saved from that shipwreck, went to
Philadelphia and shipped on the Thur
low, and was drowned off Cushing's ISL
and, in sight of a safe harbor
| The wages due all of the drowned men
have been paid to United States Ship
ping Commissioner Tolman by the own
ers of the Thurlow. The sums were
turned over to the United States court
by the Shipping Commissioner. and will
be held there six years for the relatives
of the dead men. Ii the money is not
claimed in this time it will be sent to
Washington and turned into the marine
hospital fund.
The funeral of George Anderson will
occur this morning at Rich's undertake
ing rooms and Will be conducted by the
Rev. S. f. Pearson. The body will be
| placed in the tomb at Forest City GENE
| terry with the bodies of the other sailors
who were drowned in the wreck of the
| Susan P. Thurlow.