Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-12-02

disobeyed his instructions. The num-
Der of strangers who are here, looking
Tor bodies has Increased with each of
the trains, few though they have been,
that have arrived during the past three
days, until now there are far more
searchers than there are bodies. Then
too, the number Of bodies identified eX-
ceeds the number not known and as
the probability increases that few more
are likely to be recovered, those who
are looking for friends show plainly the
desperate state of anxiety into which
they have been thrown.
Those in charge of the bodies which
nave been recovered express a strong
nope that those who have identified
bodis will remove them as soon as the
necessary formalities can be carried
out, as the undertakers and others are
sorely cramped for room and as they
have not the facilities for caring for
such an unusual number of corpses.
To facilitate this work, arrangements
have been made TO have all bodies
hereafter discovered taken direct TO
orleans, where they will be convenient
ly placed for inspection. The interrupt
ed train communication isa great hind
rance, not only to the arrival of those
VINO would remove bodies but to the
transportation of them from here. It
is hoped that railway traffic will be re-
sumed by Friday.
While the scores of men and women
are engaged in pacing up and down the
shore or climbing the high banks for a
viz Of ~
tongues are busy. The. probabilities.
possibilities. explanations and theories
concerning the wreck are beyond num-
Der. Two facts which receive. perhaps
more attention than any others are
hrst the absence of any boat or life
raft from the mass of wreckage and
the strange phenomenon which was
witnessed by the patrol, early Sunday
morning, the spectacle of being at the
center of the storm
In the first instance, I'D to TODAY.
nothing having the appearance of a
boat or a part of one or other life saw
ing apparatus, save the cork preseryers
and life belts from the Portland have
been discovered. Nearly all of the life
preservers which have come ashore
less bungMng fashion, as if by hands
ignorant of the proper method of at
tachlng them or by those made almost
lmpotent by fear. In nearly all cases
the straps are broken, as if they had
buoyed up those who Wore them until
the bodies We're torn from them by the
waves probably after life had passed.
AS to the storm center, the life savers
at the Race Point station are the only
ones who tell of that sudden 4ull in the
gale during which they so plainly
heard the blasts from the distressed
steamer. 1t was as if the furious tenn
pest had ceased entirely for the space
OF breath and then as suddenly be-
gan again with renewed violence This
seems to be one of the most remarka-
Die features in connection with the
mysterious wreck.
1t was early this morning, when news
came to Orleans from Nauset that the
body of man. the 18th from the wreck
had come ashore. This was identified
by papers as that of James w. Flower
of Lewiston. Several other identified
tions We're made before night
The train from Boston. which arrived
in good season. brought down over 50
relatives and friends of the lost ones.
They made their way to the establish
ment of Undertaken Steele mt Orleans.
where six bodies We're deposited. two of
which already had been identified. One
OF the latter was Hon. e. Dudley Free
man and the other was that of a deck
hand whose name Agent Williams was
unable to give, although he was posi- |
tive of the man being deck hand. !
One of the other four bodies identified |
was that of Solomon Cohen, a junk |
dealer of Portland. whose aged father |
had come from Boston to see if his son |
had been claimed from the sea, The |
DID gentleman. most venerable in APP
pearance. trembled violently, and in a |
broken voice said that it was that of his
son. The remains of two young women
Of about the same age We're then view
I'd. One proved to be that of Miss EIx-
abeth M. Collins of Portland. Her
brother John Collins was the one who |
:faimed the body. Miss Collins was a |
school teacher. The other proved to BE-
hat of Susan A. Kelly of Boston. iden-
-ified by her brother Walter. The re-
body, that of a woman. no ONE
claimed.
Z Cohen's body was picked up at Nau-
Jet, Nov. 20. at 1.30 A. NJ. and those of |
Miss Collins and Miss Kelly were found i
1t the same place. Miss Kelly's on Nov
y. at $50 p. NJ. and Miss Collins on |
Nov. 20. at 1.30 A. NJ. The party then
vent over to Mayo's undertaking es-l
adjustment which is also in Orleans. I
At that place the bodies of Mr.. De- T
aney. Mrs. Mitchell, Miss Edmunds
md Mr.. Floer had previously been
Identified, leaving three at Mayo's who
rad not been recognized. OF these. a
'oiored man was identified as Jones,