The San Francisco call., 1898-12-01
BEACH STREWN
 WITH BODIES
 IF VICTIMS List of. Passengers a Long One. MANY NEW NAMES ADDED AT LEAST SIX SCORES OF LIVES
 LOST.
Exact Number of Those Who Per- ished With the Sinking of the Unfortunate Vessel Will
 Never Be Known.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

PROVINCETOWN, Mass, Nov. 30.- The steamship Portland plying be- tween Boston and Portland, was swal- lowed by the sea in last Sundays storm off Highland
 Of all the ships company of over 100 souls not one survived, and the story of the disaster will never be told. Sixteen bodies have come ashore and it is not likely that many more will be recov- cred.
 Following is a list of the bodies washed ashore on the outside coast of Cape Cod up to midnight tonight:
 Identified-At Orleans: Body of D. Dudley Freeman of armouth, Me, a prominent attorney and member of the Governors council.
 George w. Delaney, 2S years of age, Boston.
 At Wellfeet: George Graham, col ored. porter of the Portland.
 At Provincetown: William Mosher of GOrham, Me.
 On Nauset Beach: Body of a man. believed to be John Walton, second en- gineer of the Portland.
 Unidentified-At Provincetown: Body of woman about 50 years of age. No ClOlillIlS was OIl lIlC DOQ9 except 1IdR- ments of underwear.
 Body of a colored man.
 At Orleans: Body of a woman, 45 or 50 years old. The body was devoid Of clothing when picked up on Nauset Beach by the Nauset life-saving crew.
 Body of a girl 20 years old. The body was clad in underclothing.
 Body of a mulatto girl 20 years old, evidently one of the waitresses on the Portland.
 Body of woman about 45 years of age. A lold watch was found on this body with the. monogram, J. G. E." engraved on the case. The body may be that of Mrs. Jennie Edmunds of Boston.
 Body of a woman 60 to e5 years of age. The face is badly disfgured and the body almost entirely nude. The only means of identification is blood stone ring with the initials IL. w. C." followed by the figures ''79.'
 Body of a white girl about 20 years old, fully dressed.
 Body of a colored waiter about 25 years old.
 Body of a man of 20.
 Body of a man of 45. A card marked "JOhn W. -, Congress street, Port land" was found on the clothing.
 The descriptions of three bodies at Eastman could not be obtained here to- night.
 The exact number of persons who were carried away from Boston by the Portland will probably never be known. as no list of passengers was retained on shore when the vessel left on Saturday. Many estimates of the number on board have been made, but the esti- mates seldom agree. C. F. Williams of Boston, agent of the Portland Steam ship Company, places the total number of persons on the steamer at 100, or possibly 105. This estimate, however, is generally regarded as rather small. It has been stated that the number was as high as 155, but MT. Williams denies that so many sailed on the Portland It is probable that 120 including passen- gers and crew, is near the correct num- Der.
 Nearly every sea captain and mariner on the cape on being asked for an opin- ion. states that every one on board un- dOuhtedly was lost. One feature of the ds8ster is the absence of any frag- ments of lifeboat orliferaft among the mass of wreckage from the Portland, which has been washed ashore. One theory is that the boats and liferafts were carried far out to sea and were not blown anywhere near the coast.
 old mariners say they cannot under stand why the steamer, which. about 9 o'clock Saturday night, just before the gale broke in it's full fury, was sighted between Thatchers Island and Eastern Point, Cape Ann, by the schooner Maud S.. did not put into Gloucester harbor when it was apparent from the iall of the barometer that a violent north easter was approaching. Why the Portland ever left Boston at all Satur-