Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-11-30
BODIES CAME ASHORE.
Portland-It IS Probable That
Over 100 ives Were Lost.

HIGHLAND LIGHT, Mass, Nov. 28.-
delayed in transmission. 1.-The steam
er Portland of the Boston and Portland
line has been lost on Cape Cod with all
on board. The life saving men, through
binding storm yesterday morning at
o'clock, heard the distress whistle of
a steamer and last night, at midnight,
the body of man was found on shore.
On the body of the man was life belt
marked Steamer Portland of Port
land" A gold watch in his pocket had
stopped at 10 o'clock. This man was
well-dressed, wore black clothes and
tan shoes and had light hair and NOUS
tache and piece of card in his pocket
bore the words John W., Congress
street, Portland
The body of large woman, without
covering of any kind, washed ashore at
Pamet river, but there was no means of
identifying it. 1t is believed that the
steamer Portland was disabled by the
storm about 10 o'clock last night, being
unable to longer hold up against the
gale and drifted on to Peaked Hill bars
and went to pieces. No part ef the skip
has drifted ashore, and it is not known
Just where she struck.
Boston, Nov. 30.-Figures obtained
at the Office of the Boston and Portland
Steamship company, whose steamer
Portland was dashed to pieces on the
treacherous Cape Cod coast Sunday
morning. show that the Inflated vessel
carried 10l persons, so passengers and a
crew of 40 men. Every soul aboard is
supposed TO have persisted, not one be-
ing left to tell the story of the disaster.
Thirty-four bodies were recovered
from the surf by the life savers at High
land station.
The complete list Of passengers fol-
lows:
M. L. Sewell. Portland; Fred Sherwood
Portland; Charles II. Thompson, wife and
child, Woodsford, Me-; William L. Chase
Kate Coy, East Boston; Arthur F. Hersom and
wife, Chelsea, Mass; Miss Alice Swift. Port
land; Harry Smith, East Boston; Mrs. Cornelia
N. Mitchell. North Easton, Mass; Miss Jennie
O. Hoyt, North Easton, Mass; Mrs. J. A. Car
roll, Lowell, Mass Miss Jennie Edmunds. East
Boston; Mrs Anna Rounds, Portland George
B. Kennison. Jr., Booth Bay Harbor.. Ne:
Perry jackson, South Portland, Me-; Mrs.
/ Perry jackson and child, South Portland. Ne:
George Cole, South Portland, Me-. Mrs.
Mary WEIGH, Hon E. Dudley Freeman.
Portland, Me-; Elizabeth Collins, L. For
man W. @. Eatimer, j. g. Mitchell.
Boston: Mrs. @. o. Chickering. Weymouth.
MASS; Mrs Augustus Wheeler, South View
mouth, Mass Mrs. Ezekiel Dennis and Nor
ang. Fessenden Park; Owen Hooper Portland;
Fred Hooper. Portland, his son. H. True
Hooper, Harvard student; Miss Rose, Miss
Edna Mccrillis. Boston; Mrs. Theodore Allen,
Portland; Miss Allen. Portland: Isaiah Frye,
Portland Miss Ruth Frye, Portland: Miss
Maud Sykes, Portland: Arthur c. Bass, Port
land: Mr.. and Mrs. Walter L. Bemis, Auburn,
Me-; Mrs Hattie A. Lord, East Deering, Me-;
Mr. and Mrs. J. l.. Fogg. Salem. Mass
The officers Of the ship are as follows: Cap
tain, ". a Blanchard Of East Deering. Me-:
pilot Lewis Strout Of East Boston. second ON
COR, Lewis Nelson: purser, +. A. Ingram; clerk,
Horace Moore; mate, Edward Deering; second
mate. John Mckay: Waterman. Z. Blake;
Wnkchnan- T. Sawell: wafehsnan J. Whittier.