The Republican journal., 1898-02-10


SWl1t q Paul. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. %
Swan Il Sibley Co. 200
I. Cannon & Son. n............,......... 10
L. A. KnOwltOn. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 30
Swan & Sibley Co. were insured, and
Howes & Co. had $500 insurance; Jackson &
Mcintosh and the others had none.
A Gloucester despatch to the Boston Jour-
nal concerning the wreckage says: "There
was clothing of all kinds, enough to cloth
fifty families for nearly that number of
years, if it had not been in such dilapidat-
ed condition. There were ladies' black silk
waists, corsets, skirts, jackets, corduroy
trousers of various sizes, neckties, overalls,
CATERS, shirts, trousers. and, in fact, almost
everything in the clothing line that could be
thought of. Most of it was in a very unser-
viceable state and in places there were
bunches so knotted together and torn
that one would have thought that it
was prepared for the making of a rag
carpet" This was no doubt the leatherboard
stock which made up part of the deck load
of the Holmes.
Capt. Turner arrived in Belfast Tuesday
evening, bringing the folr bodies that had
been recovered. Alfred Staples was taken
to the home of his brother Henry on Bridge
street, where the funeral was held yesterday
afternoon at o'clock, Rev. C. II. Wells of
ticiatng. The body of John Jackson was
taken to his late home with his father-in-
law. John Leighton, on Peirce street, and
the funeral was held there yesterday after
noon at 3 80. Rev. j. NJ. Leighton officiated.
The bodies of Geo. E. Bean and Fred Cor
don were placed in the receiving tomb Ser
vices for Mr.. Gordon will be held at his late
home on High street this afternoon at
o'clock by Rev. G. G. Winslow. The funeral
of Mr.. Bean will be at his mothers home
on the East Side soon, the date not yet be-
ing decided on. large crowd had assem-
bled at the depot when the train bearing
the remains of the unfortunate men came in.
The bodies We're neatly prepared for burial in
rosewood caskets. A small bouquet rested
upon each casket.
The bodies of Captains Larrabee and
Ryan, mates Richards and Patterson, the
two Swedes and the cook of the Marcellus
have not been recovered at this writing
The search for the bodies is being prose-
cuted by large crew along the beach.
Capt. Turner reports that the Holmes was
raised by the wreckers Monday night and
taken into Gloucester harbor. Her cabin
and poop deck were entirely gone, the deck
torn up by the falling masts, rail carried
away, and the bottom badly chafed and
broken. Her anchors and chains were mis-
sing. Her spars and rigging were entangled
with those of the Marcellus and the whole
mixed with ice, sand, rags, rockweed
and general wreckage. She had evidently
become entangled with the Marcelus and
being the heavier and stronger of the two
had crushed her. Capt. Turner found enough
of the spars and other material from the
Marcelus to satisfy him beyond doubt of
the identity of the vessel. A small portion
of the Holmes cargo, such as is no, injured
by its immersion in the salt water, NAV be
saved.
George Franklin Ryan, the only son of
Capt. Geo, F. and Ellen P. Ryan, was born
in Belfast, Aug. 6, 1866, and was sea cap
tain OF twelve years experience, always
making quick trips and having good luck
Holmes every winter. The last two years
Capt. Ryan has carried on a successful
freight business in the sch, Miantonomah
When but 19 years old he took command of
sch. Lillian and afterwards was master of
the Fannie & Edith. His father uncles
and grandfather were all successful sea cap
tains, and the only member of the family
last
went down Ii the ill.fated steamer Central
America on his way home from California
in 1857. Capt. Ryan was a member of Ph1r-
NIX Lodge of Masons, of Corinthian Royal
Arch Chapter, and of Tarratine Tribe of
Red Men.
George Everett Bean was passenge- on
the Marcellus. He was Is years old, son of
Sarah W. and the late Howard Bean of East
Belfast. From boyhood he had been deep sea
sailor and has been first officer of large craft,
both sail and steam. He was skillful sea
man and it was often his fortune to be plac-
ed In circumstances calling for great cooi-
ness and courage. He had two gold medals,
one presented by the Danish government
and one by the British in recognition of his
heroism in rescuing shipwrecked sailors and
passengers. In August, 1896, he visited his
relatives in Belfast after an absence of sew
eral years, but was called to Philadelphia
after being here two weeks to Join a steam
ship bound to the Mediterranean, From
thence he went to Norway, next to England,
and back to Boston. Missing steamer at
Boston he was invited by Capt. Larrabee to
come as his guest, passenger on the Mar
sellus, which offer he accepted. He was un-
married, and leaves an aged mother and one
brother, Harry G. Sean of Belfast, and two
sisters, Mrs. Mary E. Stephenson and Mrs
Annie A. Brackett of Clinton. He was
member of Red Cross Lodge, Knights of
Pythas, Philadelphia.
Alfred Staples was a native of Belfast and
has always lived here. He has followed the
sea from boyhood and was good sailor.
This was his third shipwreck, all occurring
on the coast of Massachusetts in the winter
season. He was in the schooner Lizzie
Poor when she went ashore on Nantucket,
and in the Mary Eliza when she was wreck
ed near Boston. He never married He
leaves five brothers-Henry and Leroy of
Belfast, Leander of Monroe, Marion, who