The Portland daily press., 1898-12-03
Out Of "a Bodies Recovered 20 Ar
Known.
THE LIST INCLUDES SEVERAL
PORTLAND PEOPLE.

land Light-What Has Become of Other
Passengers Still q Probiem-Theory
That Portland Sank in Deep Water
Strengthened
Orleans, Mass, December A bright,
warm sun, with heavy westerly breeze
made most agreeable change in the
weather that has prevailed for the past
few days. This, however, was of little
| interest to the sad crowd of anxious rela-
tives and friends who remained in town
over town or came down from Boston on
the first train this morning. In the two
local undertakers' rooms this morning
there remained four bodies still unidenti-
fed, and it was hoped that they might bo
recognized by the people arriving today.
While one of the bodies at Eastman was
practically identified as that of Mrs Au-
gustus Wheeler, no one recognized the
other three-those of the man found at
East Orleans the young woman at East-
ham and the body which has heretofore
been supposed to be that of James Flower
of Lewiston, Me. With that of the colored
man at Provincetown, there still remains
four bodies to be claimed by friends.
Another body came ashore at Chatham
last night, and this morning it was
identified as that of George B. Remission.
Jr., of Boothbay Harbor.
Up to date the following have been re-
covered and are positively known:
E. Dudley Freeman. Yarmouth, Me.
on
elizabeth M. A. Collins. Portland.
Susan A. Kelley, Dorchester, Mass.
Solomon Cohen, Portland.
George w. Delany. Boston.
Mrs g. N. Mitchell. North Easton.
Mrs. Jonnie 6. EdInunds, East Boston.
NJ A. Gosselyn, Montreal.
John Jones, colored cook.
Madge Ingraham, colored, WOodfOrds,
Me.
Deck hand, name not known (there is
yet some little question in this case, but
the company is positive.)
George Graham, colored porter, Port.
land, Cat Wellfieet.
William A. Mosher, Rockland.
Mrs. George 9. Chickering, Weymouth,
at Eastou.
Ansel Dyer. quartermaster.
Walter L. BeInis, A Alburn, Maine.
Captain Edwin Dunbar, BoDthbay.
George B. kenniston, Jr., Boothbay
Mrs. Augustus Wheeler.
The body which was supposed to be that
of James w. Flower, has not been identi-
fed by his brother which makes the list
of complete Identification twenty out of q
total of "a bodies recovered.
The body of George w. Delaney was
shipped to Boston this afternoon and
others will be shipped tomorrow.
A despatch from Provincstown tonight
states that pocketbook bearing the
n =. .Q.-l- A = d.
City, was found near Peaked Hill this
morning and that the leg of child was
licked up near High Head, Wednesday
afternoon.
Wnab has become of the balance of the
crew and passengers of the i'll fated Port
land, is wholly matter Of conjecture, al.
though it Is practically certain that not
single soul survived after the steamer
went to pieces. The fact that none OF her
lifeboats has as yet been found, nor any
OF her life RATS, holds out to agontzed
relatives and friends single ray of hope,
to which they cling tenaciously, but the
realization of the awful sea which was
running at that time is forced upon
them, and they are obliged TO aoknowl-
edge that the chances of even a single
person being saved is indeed slight. AS to
the chance of further recovery of bodies
there are many and conflicting opinions
The shifting sands of Cape Cod, the swift
tides that sweep up and down the Shores
the winds from every direction, and the
heighth and nature of the waves have
most important bearing on this question,
and yet only the most expert student of
nature in her awful mood, feels competent
even TO venture an answer to the question
that is now being asked by hundreds
whose dear ones sailed on the doomed
vessel. So many ships have been lost on
Peaked Hill Ears that it is indeed a
yeritable graveyard. 1t extends out from
the Cane q mile or more and every vessel
donbling Cape Cod gives it wide berth.
Tnere are. of course, all sorts of th ories
as 10 where the Portland went down,
and lust at present the one most general.
ly accepted is, that after being partially
srripued of her upper works, she finally
plunged beneath the waves some five or
ten miles to the northeast OF this bar.
Barring some Wreckags Wnlch came
ashore at East Brewster Thursday MORN
ipr which cannot be identified as having
come for the Portland, nothing has been
pioked up inside of Cape Cod. 1t may be
possible that the steamer was stiii farther
off the point of the cape wnen sne Went
down. perhaps in deep wSter, anu th's
theory is borne out by the fact tnab no
large portion of the vessel has yet come
ashore. Only the gingerbread work. So
called has been picked up, together wl5n
numerous life preservers.
1t is singular feature of tie wreck
and one which puzzles many of TIE ex-
rert surfInen. that the first bodies we're
picked up just at the time or little be-
fore the wreckaRe came ashore. Usually,
in cas- IS of wreck on the shores of Cape
Cod, the upper portions of the vessel have