New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-12
FOR THE DEAD
EFFORTS TO FIND THE BODIES OF LA
BoURGOGNE VICTIMS.

GEORGE S CLAY TELLS OF THE ENpEpii'o"
SENT by Ex-JupGE DILLON AFTER THE
FRENCH LINE HAD REFUSED I'D
MAKE THE SEARCH
p,ainded Aug II (SpeclaD.-George 3 Gay, pr
vate secretary to ex-Judge John r D'o'' y, " "
york. returned to Plainfeld last evening ai'er a"
rrsuccessful attempt TO recover the bodies OF the
wife and daughter OF ex-Judge DIXON anu W 80.
family OF John Perry. OF Kansas City, 'os' :" 80,
Bourgogne disaster To n Tribune repor'e' '','
evening Mr. Clay told OF the details OF the eNpeu'-
ton and the circumstances relative 10 the '''''"e
OF the bodies Of some OF the VICTIMS a..
.rho arst that Judge Dillon learned OF any OF the
bodies being still afoat when Captain Shh"
yer OF the steamer oil Fields. rcachcd riu'"uep""
on July % and reported having passed .a,s ,'
Der OF bodies at latitude Az so north ana 'ons'
90 40 west. then went TO rn''aue'pn'a a ,na
learned from the captain OF the oil Fields al .ne
particulars Sunday, July "a. ! reported 10 JUICE
Dillon AT his home and tod him would De sldu
to 90 TO Halifax and see what couiu w. ~
Judge tried to get the French line 10 se"' ~
shin to recover the bodes They seemed 10 nav
no feeling in the matter and treated 1t as an ',".
Of no consequence They evidently made up 'he"
minds from the start that they did not want 10
send after the bodies | went to Halifax that sun
day night and / arrived there TUESDAY
ceived the following dispatch from the e"-ioiA
agent OF the French line:
My company cables anxious 10 sdtis.! 49,
impra ctcabe and Identification now imP2 2TnE
Accept my sincere regrets
JUDGE DILLON CHARTERS A STEAMER.
Judge Dillon wished the company to make an
effort to bring in all the bodies, but. on their re-
fusal he ordered TO fit out an expedition ana
go in search Of his lost ones. Mr. Perry afterward
was communicated with and Joined with him.
81 chartered the steamer Hiawath. Captain Fen
wick HIATT. Besides myself. the party conslsted oi
Dr. IT, S. Jacques an expert on the ldehtiiCa"o" Vi
bodies: John Snow. undertaken. and two assistants
and a plumber We took with us the caskels III
ready for the bodies 1t the intention TO der
tfy the bodies. If possible and then place them
in Theoretically sealed caskets and bring them
home.
I've left the harbor on the morning Of the 18th
The next day we reached the point designated oy
the captain of the Oil Fields, but found nothing
We then sailed In a northeastery course for TWEEN
ty-fve miles and spoke the steamer Londonian
bound from New-York TO Liverpool Her captain
reported passing eighteen or twenty bodies ana
some wreckage at a point seventy two miles away
In a northwesterly course.
BODIES FOUND WELL PRESERVED.
1--WE sailed in the direction indicated reaching
there early next morning. and made circle nine
times at the point designated until we saw that
we were near a number of bodies Dr. Jacques
and Mr. Snow went to examine them. and founo
that they were fairly well preserved with one ex-
ception This in latitude IS degrees min
utes. longitude 50 degrees 70 minutes
by examining the clothing and pockets of the
first body picked up We found II to be frehch-
man. of Montreal. Eugene Dubost 1t was Kept
anoat by a life buoy The second body we couio
not identify as the face disigured and the
third was in advanced state OF decomposition.
The fourth was that of a boy about sixteen pu'
II was proved beyond question that IL was not tie
son of Mr. Perry There no papers by when
bod uas
Barrett. of Philadelphia. who was bound LOT ire
land The sixth was that of a boy or elghteeH
fairly well preserved letter-head IN MS POCKET
had printed on It Woodside Patent Calf Manuiact-
uring Company, of New-Jersey. The seventh pou'
was apparently that of a French sailor. and the
eighth appeared to be steerage passenger Inc
ninth was that Of p. J. Sosa. civil engineer from
Panama The tenth that of +. L. Rundel
of Chicago
'AIl the night Of the 3lst the fog was so thick
that we could nothing, so we lay to- Most OF
the bodies found on the first day were In such
state of preservation that they could certainly
have been recognized II the French Line had acted
promptly after the report Of the OIL Field.
THE first body found Monday. No. II, APP
peared to be a Storage passenger the twelfth was
nothing about them by which they could be iden
tilted. The fourteenth was a man. apparently
* was a little boy OF ten or eleven years. No 10
s nam Th % II @a the bofy U Of
Very Well dressed, unquestionably a saloon passen
ger No. IS another woman, partly dressed
spot on her head. and was clasping II In her hand
Another woman, No. 10. had beautiful dark hair
and wore white woollen dressing gown. she mad
on what appeared TO be a wedding ring marked
sailor. This all we found on Monday.
A POSTAL CARD FOUND ON A BODY.
The first body discovered on Tuesday. No 81.
was that OF poorly clad woman, and No %
another woman. wearing mans coat in the
pocket OF which found postal card directed
to Mr. Ernest H. Wuertz No. 1913 East Sixty
third-st., New York City. No % apparently
the body of another sailor, but No. q We could not
identify; he was partly dressed No p was
woman OF eighteen or twenty years. we'll dressed
and wearing Undertaking marked with the initial
five inches in height. The twenty-seventh body
a boy of eleven years, with no Identification. but
was thought to be that OF sailor.
ION Wednesday the first body found, No. 2S, was
that of a man of forty-hve. wearing a mustache
marked a. NJ But there were papers by
which Identify him. Another man. also about
next found. No 80. found Immediately after,
entirely dressed except SHOES and APP
parently about hfty.ive r There vas nothing by
middie-aged man. cheaply dressed and APP
parently seaman or steeraee passenger
After this the wind got lively that went
into CansO, where | heard that Captain Jones. OF
the steamer Aldersgate. had wreckage and
bodies abou, latitude q degrees minutes ongi-
very rough and though we kept a careful lookout
saw nothing but wreckage. That ended
cruise. and we returned without any trace OF the
lost ones Of Judge Dillon and Mr. Perry"
MESSRS. PLATT AND ODELL CONFER.
THE LATTER GOES TO THE ORIENTAL TO BE