Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-12-02
Not Expected that Any More of Portlands
Dead VIII Soon Be Found,
Thirteen Bodies Identified thought that Folly
150P ersons Perished on Steamer.

Provineetown, Mass, Dec. 1.-Anoth-
er day has passed and the mystery OF
the steamer Portland wreck has not
been given up by the ever changing
sea as it dashes upon the Cape Cod
shores. Anxiety still hangs heavily or
hundreds of people who have hurried
to help in the work of saving bodies
from the surf and after securing. tc
identify them. 1t was a day of con-
slant watching of more than 80 miles
of coast line, and the sea begrudgingly
held its victims within its awful depth
only surrendering a meagre five. These
with the 16 previously found, makes a
total of only 81 out of the entire pas
senger and crew list, the exact num-
Der of which is still unknown
The number of people who went tc
their death on the Portland will never
be known, but almost hourly missing
persons are reported from differen,
places in New England until now ii
seems probable that the number was
over 150 The prospects were favor
able, tonight, that the incoming tide
tomorrow, would be accompanied by
an undertow which will be likely to
cast great quantities of wreckage all
along the coast. This would be favor
able to the recovery of bodies not only
at Cape Cod but at other places where
SO many sailors went to their death.
OF the bodies recovered hereabouts,
10 have been identified and eight re-
main to be named They are as fol-
lows:
THE IDENTIFIED.
Hon. f. Dudley Freeman. Yarmouth,
Me.
George w. Delaney, Shawmut
avenue Boston.
Miss Jennie G.. Edmunds, East Bos-
ton.
Mrs. Cornelia Mitchell North Eas-
ton.
Miss Madge Ingraham, (coiored)
Woodfords, Me.
George Graham. (colored), porter
steamer Portland.
Deck hand, steamer Portland, name
unknown to Agent Williams, but lden-
titled by him as deck hand.
- Jones, second cook identified
by Agent Williams
Solomon Cohen, junk dealer, Port
land, Me.
Miss Elizabeth NJ. Collins, Portland
Me.
Susan E. Kelley, Boston.
Walter L. Bemis of Auburn, Me.
found off Chatham).
THE UNIDENTIFIED.
Unknown man now at Orleans
weight 1875 pounds, aged 49, height ;
feet, inches, red moustache, dark
eyes and hair, dark vest, white shirt
brown necktie, Congress shoes, brown
suit, heavy black overcoat, a passen-
ger.
Unknown man. 80 years old. ait Prov
incetown. . feet. s inches, $50 pounds
light complexion, sandy mustache
finely dressed. AT first identified as
VIM. Mosher of Gorham, Me, but later
declared as not his body.
Unknown colored man at Province
town, supposed to be porter. Bunch
of keys found in pocket marked
Portland" About % years old.
Unknown woman at Provincehown, As
years old, weight about 200 pounds, )
feet inches in height, dark hair,
streaked with gray.
Unknown woman at astham, about ~
years of age. feet and inches, tall,
dark hair streaked with gray. Weight
about 1870 pounds.
Unknown woman found at Nauset,
this afternoon.
Man found near Old Harbor station,
Chatham, body was nude and on left
forearm was letters "A. d. tattooed in
red india ink with American shield,
star anchor and clasped hands De-
scription said to resemble that of Quar-
termaster Ansel Dyer of the Portland
Body of man Also found off Old
Harbor station. Chatham. Was of 5
feet II inches in height. weight about
140 pounds, dark brown hair and mus
tache; dressed in black suit with short
blue coat. 1t is thought lit may be that
of Capt. Albert Dunbar of Boothbay
Me-, passenger.
The prospects of the immediate re-
covery of many more bodies is extreme
ly doubtful. The tide sets down the
cape from Highland Light to Nant-
ucket, with great rapidity. Many
bodies may be carried into Nantucket
Sound and days or weeks may lapse
before the sea yields up the remains.
1t is believed that many bodies We're
buried in the sands of Cape Cod by
Sundays gale and yesterdays fright
full sea uncovered them and rendered
the chances of Identification even more
difficult.
Several bodies We're seen beating
about in the high surf, yesterday, but
all efforts to secure them We're futile
and they We're carried out by the reced-
ing tide.
OF all the wreckage known to have
come from the Portland, only parts of
the superstructure have been cast
ashore As this is believed to indicate