The Portland daily press., 1898-12-02

rest since his arrival. When he mas not
been engaged in the work OF iooKlns
after the bodies which have come ~,
and in other details growing out OF tne
siruation. he has been beseiged by ques-
lions in q most trying way. he mas pesu
asked to explain the wreck, TO locate IL,
10 fell how it came that the steameI
sailed in the face of the storm ana, moso
trying for all. about those on Doa.u.
Time and again he has nao 10 Lace .nH aII
anxious relatives who, after making al
sorts of queries which would prompS .
hopeful answer, have at last demanaeu
to know if possibility remained tna1
any one escaped. That posslDlilty, tne
AGENT has been forced to admit is beyond
hope. In answer to the question as to tne
sailing of the Portland, Agent Williams
hears out the statement made by Generai
Manager Iiscomb, that the captain was
ordered not to sail, but that he d1sobeyeo
his instructions. The number OF strang-
srs who are here looking for bodies has
Increased with each of the trains, feW
fnouoh they have been, that have arrived
during the past three days, until now
fhere are far more searohers than there
are bodies Then, too, the number OF
bodies identified exceeds the number not
known and as the probability increases
that few more are likely TO be recoVereu,
thosA who are looking for friends show
nlainly the desperate state OF anxiety III
to which they have been thrown.
chose in charge of bodies which have
been recovered, express a strong nope
that those who have identIned booles
will be remove them as soon as the neoes-
sary formalities can be carried out as the
undertakers and others are solely crampeo
for room and as they have not the iacln-
tias for caring for such an unusual num-
bsr of corpses. To facilitate this work,
arrangements have been made to have al
bodies hereafter discovered, taken dlrect
to Orleans, where they VIII De conVeni-
entity placed for inspection.
The interrupted train communication
is great hindrance, not only TO tae ar
rival of those who remove Dodles, Dut 10
the TRANSFORMATION of them from here.
1t is hoped that railway traflc Will ne
resumed by Friday.
While the scores of men and women are
engaged in pacing up and down the
shore, or climbing the nigh banks for q
more extended view of the ocean, tnelr
tongues are busy. The probabilities, ex-
PLANTATION and theories concerning tne
wreck are beyond number.
Two facts which receive, perhaps, more
attention than any others, are, first. the
absence of any fragment of boat or lie
raft from the mass of wreckRge,. and the
strange phenomenon which was VIII
messed by the patrol early sunday morn
ing, the spectacle of being at the centre
of the storm. In the first instance. up
to today, nothing having the appearances
of q boat or part of one, or other life
saving apparatus, save u ; ordinary CORE
preservers and life belts from the Port
land have been discovered. Nearly all OF
the life preservers which have come
ashore, have had the straps tied in q
more or less bungiing fashion, as If by
hands Ignorant of the proper method OF
attaching them or by those made almost
impotent by fear. In nearly all cases,
the straps are broken, as ii they had
i rI.0 hon ~,
the bodies we're torn from them by the
waves probably after life had passed.
As to the storm centre, the life savers
at Race Poins station are the only ones
who tell of that sudden lull in the gale
during which they SO plainly heard the
blasts from the distressed steamer. 1t
was If the furious tempest had ceased
entirely for the space of a breath and
then as suddenly began again with re-
newed violence. This seems to be one Of
the most remarkable features in connec-
tion with the mysterious wreck.
1t was early this morning when news
came to Orleans from Nauset that the
body of a man. the seventeenth from
the wreck, had come ashore. This was
identified by papers as that OF James w.
Flower of Lewiston. Several other iden-
1ifoations were made before night.
The train from Boston which arrived
in good season, brought down over 90
relatives and friends OF the lost ones.
They made their way at once to the estab-
lisbinent of Undertaken Steele at Orleans
where six bodies were deposited, two of
which already had been identified. One
of the latter was Hon. dudley Free
man. and the other was that OF deck
hand. whose name Agent Williams was
unable to give. although he was positive
of the man being deck hand. One OF
the other four bodies identified was that
of Solomon Cohen, junk dealer of Port
land, whose aged father had come from
Boston TO see ii his son had been claimed
from the sea. The old gentleman, mos
venerable in appearance, trembled VIC
lentiy. and in a broken voice said that il
was that of his son. The remains OF two
young women, of about the same age
were then viewed. One proved to bt
that of Miss Elizabeth M. Collins Of
Portland. Her brother. John E. Collins
was the one who claimed the body. Mis-
Collins was school teacher. The othe
proved to be that of Susan A. Kelly o.
Boston, identified by her brother Walter
The remaining body, that of woman
no one claimed Cohen's body was picket
UP at Nauset. November 30, at so o. m.
and those of Miss Collins and Miss Kelly
were found at the same place The party
then went over to Mayo's undertaking
establishment which is also in Orleans
st that place the bodies of MIR. Delaney
Mrs Mitchell, Miss Edmunds and Mr.
Flower had previously been identified
leaving three at Mayo's. which had no
been recognized. OF these,a colored mar
was identified as Jones, the second cool
of the Portland Harris, the steward OF
the Bay State. made the Identification
The next body, that Of mulatto woman
Madge Ingraham, who was on her way tt
M. M. Bailey's ip Portland.s The othe
two bodies at Mayo's were not identi
lied.
The crowd for the most part returned
ON the afternoon train after being il
town about three hours. Late this after
noon word oame to Orleans that anothe
body had been recovered. 1t is that of
woEnaM about rs years old, dark hair