Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-11-30
NINETYNINE PEOPLE PERISH
NEWS BROUGHT BY SPECIAL TRAIN
FROM CAPE COD.
T~hirty-four Bodies Had Been Rccov-
cred Up to Monday Night-List of
the Passengers and Crew
Many Other Dis
asters. e.

delayed in transmission) The steamer
Portland. OF the Boston and Portland line,
has been lost on Cap Cod with all on board.
The life saving men. through a binding
storm. yesterday moraing at 6 o'clock,
heard the distress whistle of a steamer
and last night at midnight the body of 4
man was found on shoIe. On the body of
the man was a life belt marked Steamer
Portland. of Portland" A gold watch in
his pocket had stopped at 10 o'clock. This
man was well dressed. wore black clothes
and tan shoes. had light hair and mus
tache, and a piece of card in his pocket
Portland"
The body Of n large woman, without COW
erinG of any kind. washed ashore at Pamet
river. but there was no means of identify
ing it. 1t is believed that the steamer Port
land was disabled by the storm at 10 o'clock
last night, being unable longer to hold up
against the gale. and drifted on to Peaked
hill bars and went to pieces No part of
the ship has drifted ashore. and it is not
known just where she struck. Boxes of
tobacco. clothing. cheese. oil. ETC.. have
Dteu WdSueu dsiUTt, dlSO lie pItSti NtIs
marked with the words Steamer Port
land"
BOSTON. Nov. pa special to the
Herald from North Truro says the steamer
Portland. OF the Boston & Portland Steam
ship Company, plying between Boston and
Portland. was totally wrecked at 10 o'clock
Sunday morning off Highland light. and
the entire crew and OVERWHELMINGLY
nine persons In all-perished within a short
distance of land. A lazge quantity of
wreckage, including trunks and material,
have come ashore, and at dark last night
thirty-four bodies had been recovered from
the surf by the life-saving crew at High
Head station. One body was that of a
woman.
The news of the disaster was brought to
the Herald through the agency of a spe-
cial train, as communication to Boston ia
shut off.
Following is a partial list of the passen-
gers said to be on board the Portland when
she sailed from Boston Saturday night:
oron Hooper. H. True Hooper. Isaiah Frye,
Miss Ruth FRYE, Miss Maud Frye, Miss
Maud Symms, Mrs. Ezekiel Dennis, Mrs.
Theodore Allen, Miss Allen, Miss Cole, of
Springfield. Mass; Fred Sherwood. Miss
Ross. Miss Edna McCrillie. c. F. Wilson.
OF Bethel. Me; Hon. F. Dudley Freeman,
d. o. Getchell, of Boston; Miss Sophie
Holmes. Miss Helen Langthorne. Miss
Emma L. Plimpton, of Charles River: G.
W. Cole, Miss Burns, Charles Wig
gin. M. c. Hutchinson, Miss Hutch
inson. Mrs. George o. Chickering,
OF Weymouth, Mass. and sister,
Mrs. Wheeler of South Weymouth, Mass;
NJ L. Sewell, of Portland: Fed Sherwood,
of Portland; Charles H. Thompson. Mrs.
ThnrpnGnD and .hfl1 u-nalfarJ Ha- tk-;t
liam Chase and Master Philip Chase, Wor-
eester: Mrs. Kate Coy, East Boston: Ar
thur f. Henson and Mrs. I1eersom, of
Chelsea, Mass; Miss A. Swif1. of Portland;
Harry Swift, East Boston; Mrs. Corbelia
N. Mitchell and Miss Jennie Hoyt, North
Easton;- Mrs. J. A Carroll, of Lowell;
Jennie Ednonds. Marion street, East
b; Mrs. Anna Rounds, Portland;
B. kenmson, Jr.. Booth Bay, Me-;
Jackson wife and child, of South
md. Me-: Fred Stevens. Portland: Mr..
/, Portland; child OF Charles H.. NJ.
Epson, of Wbodford. Me. The pas
n list given above numbers 81 and
Ulcers and crew number forty-eight.
crew as far as can be ascertained is
lows: Captain. Hollis II. Blanchard:
pilot, Lewis Strout; second pilot, Lewis
'on; purser. +. A. Ingraham; clerk.
ace Moore: mate. Edward Deering; Sec
mate. John Mckay: quartermaster,
eel Dyer; quartermaster. F. Peterson:
tchmen. r. Blake. T. Sewell. G.. Written
q ID. Williams; first engineer, Thomas
errill: second engineer, John Walton;
frd engineer, c. Merrill; steward. A. V.
~atthews; second stewart. Eben Houston:
ok crew, J. DAILY. G. McGilvary. A.. Sloan.
mes Davidson, Peter Collins. Morris
raham, Cornelius O'Brien, d. Bruce. Mat
ew Barron. Richard Hartley, George c.
spley. +. NJ. Leighton, electrician: ]. A
illon. oiler; j. Mcneil. oiier: H. Merriman-
treman; I. L. FenncIl. fireman; H. Car
er. fireman; w. J. Doughty. fireman: H.
~aollison, fireman: ]. Z. Mately. fireman.
v. B. Robichaw. baggage master. Walters,
- Johnson. Arthur Johnson. Lee Forman
George Graham, - Gatlin, Samuel Smith.
Head Saloonman Latimer, Barber Conner:
Stewardesses, Mrs. Carrie NJ. Harris. Mrs
NJ. Berry.
The Portland was built in Bath. Me. in
1880 and was a sidewheeI steamer of 1.317
tons net burden. Her length is go feet:
beam, ~ and depth Is feet. She was
valued at s25e.ooo and is fully insured.
BOSTON, Nov "a report reached here
tonight from the southern end of Cane
Cod that the steamer Gate City has been
wrecked on Peaked Hill bar.
PROVINCETOWN. MASS. Nov. 2e-Two
bodies that came ashore at Highland light,
and are supposed to be from the Portland
&otc ttCA AoAfhN "a Sht Is tUal or a
well dressed man with light hair and mus
tache. height 5 feet 3 inches, weight I5o
pounds. The other body was that of a
woman with only shoes and stockings on.
age about 40 years. weight about LIS
pounds. light hair. about 5 feet inches
tall.
DIR. Maurice Richardson. of Beacon
street, this city, was at his summer home
at wellfieet during the storm and corrobo-
rates the early accounts of the loss of the
Portland. for he saw two of the bodies
washed ashore and on them were life pre-
servers marked with the vessels name.
DR.. Richardson was on the first train from
Cape Cod which arrived in this city late
tonight.
81 saw two of the bodies picked up,
said DIR. Richardson. "One was probably
that OF a deck hand. a man of about 20. He
had on a life preserver marked Portland
The other body was that of a stout wom-
an. She. too, wore a lifebelt with the
steamers name on IT. Wreckage is COM
ing ashore for fifteen miles along coast. I
picked up three piano keys and a piano
cage ashore but OF course / do not know
they were from the Portland. Among the