The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-01
LOSS OF THE PORTLAND.
One Hundred and Twenty People
Went Down.

w emit DOWn.
Proyincetown, Mass, Nov. S0.-The
steamship Portland, plying between
Boston and Portland, was swallowed by
the sea in last Sundays storm off
High Head. OF all the ships company
of over 100 souls, not one survived, and
the story of the disaster will never be
told. Sixteen bodies have come ashore,
and it is not likely that many more will
be recovered.
Nearly every sea captain and mariner
on the cape, on being asked for an
opinion, states that every one on board
undoubtedly was lost One feature of
the disaster is the absence of any irag-
ments of life boat or life raft among
the mass of Wreckage from the Port
land which has been washed ashore.
One theory is that the boats and life
RATS were carried far out to sea, and
were not blown anywhere near the
coast.
Old mariners cannot understand why
the steamer, which, about 8 clock Sat
urday night, just before the gale broke
in its full fury, was sighted between
ThatcherS island and Eastern Point,
Cape Ann, by the schooner Maud s.. did
not put into Gloucester harbor when it
was apparent from the fall of the bar
approaching. Why the Portland ever
left Boston at all Saturday night is
what puzzles marine men on Cape Cod.
Boston, Nov. 30.-The exact number
Of persons who were carried away
from Boston by the Portland will prob
ably never be known, as no list of pas
sengels was retained on shore when
the vessel left last Saturday. Many
estimates of the number on board have
been made but the estimates have sell
dom agreed. c. f. Williams of Boston,
agent of the Portland Steamship COM
pany, places the total number of per-
sons on the steamer at 100 or possibly
1e5. This estimate, however, is gen.
orally regarded as rather small. It has
been stated that the number was as
high as 155, but MIR. Williams denies
It is probable that 120, including pas
sengers and crew, is near the correct
number.
LIST OF PASSENGERS.
The following is as nearly a com
plete list of the passengers of the
steamer Portland as it is possible to
get at present: Nj. L. Sewell, Portland;
Fred Sherwood, Portland; Charles H.
Thompson, Mrs. Thompson and child
Woodsford, Me-; William B. Chase
Worcester; Master Philip Chase, Wor-
cester; Arthur F. Hersom and Mrs
Hersom, Portland; Miss Ella Swift,
Portland; Harry Smith, East Boston;
Mrs. Cornelia n. Mitchell, Northeastern;
Miss Jennie c. Hoyt Northeastern; Mrs
J. A Carroll, Lowell; Mrs. Jennie C.
Edmonds, East Boston; Mrs. Anna
Rounds, Portland; George B. Kennis-
ton, jr., Booth Bay Harbor, Me-. Perry
Jackson, wife and child, and George
Cole, all of South Portland, Me-; Miss
Dor loV, tn.
Boston; Mrs. Theodore Allen, Portland;
Miss Allen, Portland; ISAIAH Frye, Port
land; Ruth Frye, Portland; Miss Maud
Sykes, Portland; Walter L. Bemis and
wife, Auburn, Me-; Mrs. G. o. Chicken
ing, Weymouth; Mrs. Augustus Wheel
er, South Weymouth; Mrs. Hattie a.
Lord, East Deering, wife of Hollis
Lord, second engineer Of the steamer
Manhattan; Mrs. Ezekiel Dennis, Port
land; Miss Morang, Portland; William
Mosher, Gosham, Me-. who had been
spending Thanksgiving with friends in
Chelsea; Mrs. Houston, wife of the sec
ond steward of the ship. A child and
Mrs. Houston's sister, names not OBJ
tainable; Miss Cole, Springfield, Mass;
c. z. Wilson, Bethel, Me-; George Gro
zier, st. John, N. B.; Miss Edna Clark,
Westbrook; Miss Eva Clark, West
brook; Albert Clark, Somerville; John
Doherty, Boston; Miss Kelly, Boston;
Scott Proctor, South Portland, Me-:
Mrs. David Rounds and daughter; Mer-
ton Small, Woodfords, Me-; Miss Alice
Tucker, Lowell, Mass; Miss Annie To-
trow, Manchester, n. H.. Mrs Wey-
lock, South Weymouth; Henry D.
Young, Boston; George Bonney, Port
land; James Buckminster, Providence.
r. l.; William Hanson, Gorham, Me;
Miss Rowena NJ. Head, Cumberland
Mills; Miss Madge Ingraham. Wood
fords, Me; Horace Pratt, Portland;
Miss May Pratt, Portland; Miss jamie
McMullen, Portland; Mrs. NJ. Kenny.
South Portland, Me-; Harry Sylvester,
Portland; Fred Stevens, Woodfords,
Me-; Mrs. James WEIGH; Mrs. Duke
shire, Portland; Louis F. Underwood.
Portland; Miss Sophia B. Heath, Port
land; Miss Emma L. Plympton.