The Portland daily press., 1898-07-11

enlisted in the navy. The other brother
is cripple
William Mitchell, another of the
victims, was the son of Michael and Mary
Mitchell, who live at 81 Lincoln street,
Mr.. Mitchell is the we'll known shoe deal
er of Temple street. The young men was
only IS years of age and was the fifth
Oldest of six brothers. He also had two
sisters. He was very popular and a deep
gloom has been coast over the neighbor-
hood in which he lived. He had been
pupil at the Jackson grammar school and
had been working at the Lakeside only
three or four months. His two Oldest
brothers are Frank J. Mitchell and John
Fl. Mitchell who are employed at the
wholesale oil store of f. Fl. Little Il Co.,
on Commercial street.. Fred E. Mitchell,
another OF the brothers, works at the
grocery store of Pierce a. Son on Oxford
street and George A. Mitchell left but
rev days ago to go to work in the Mt.
Pleasant house. The youngest boy,
Manuel L., attends the Chestnut street
school,
Edward Vayo was the only son OF
George Vayo, N pressman at the Lakeside
Press. More than that, the dead boy was
his fathers only remaining near relative,
his mother having died years ago and
there being no other children. Mr., Vayo
said last evening: ~ brought my boy up
from the time he was baby and he was
a good boy and was doing we'll. My boy
did not intend to go sailing but went to
| the wharf to see the others off and then
at the last moment decided to go with
them. I'm a lone man now," added the
stricken father who spent the evening
waiting for any news which might come
of the finding Of the body Of his boy.
Young Vayo was his fathers companion
in the printing establishment as we'll as
in their home. He fed the press of which
his father had charge The father and son
boarded on Free street.
Mr. Novello Crafts, the proprietor of the
La Reside Press, WAS greatly affected by
| the loss of the young men. He spoke in
the highest terms of all of them and spent
the evening with the two who were
1 saved.
MR.. FOSTERS STATEMENT.
| Mr.. Foster, one of the survivors of the
disaster called at the PRESS office last
night to state that the report which had
been circulated that there was liquor
aboard the boat which went down, was
false. He also said that the sheet rope
was not fastened to the cleat, but only
one turn had been taken about it which
would not have held it, if it had been
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boat would not have gone over if the
sheet had not held, but that it must have
caught something else other than the
cleat. He saw the boat soon after it was
brought ashore and the sheet was then
free.
The ballast was railroad iron and was
in the centre of the boat. Mr. Vayo,
father of the boy by that name who was
drowned, says that friend of his boy IS
who went down to the boat house to get
the bicycle the Vayo boy left there, and
that the man in charge refused to give it
up until he was paid for his boat. After
wards Mr.. Vayo obtained his boys wheel.
He oritioizes those who allowed too many
| to go out in the boat.
O'DONNELL'S BODY FOUND.
1.-The boiy,of O'Donnell was found yes.
| terday by Mr.. Daniel Cobb who was crap
ping for it near the buoy off Willard.
The remains were taken in charge of by
Mr.. McDonough the undertaken and
brought to the city. The graphing irons
also brought up the boat that had gone
down in about d straight line from where
it capsized. Graphing for the other bodies
will be continued.