Daily Kennebec journal., 1898-12-03
TWENTY IDENTIFIED
Of Those Recovered from
the Steamer Portland.
That ofGeo. B. Remission, Jr., Booth
bay Harbor, Recovered, Friday.
But "a Bodies So Far Found--.The Steam.
er's Whereabouts Unknown.

past few days. This, however, was of
little interest to the sad crowd of anx-
ious relatives and friends who remain
ed in town over night, or came down
from Boston, on the first train, this
morning.
In the two local undertakers' rooms
this morning. there remained four bod
les still unidentified, and it was hoped
that they might be recognized by the
people arriving. today.
While one of the bodies at Eastman
was practically identified as that of
Mrs. Augustus Wheeler. no one recog-
nized the other three-those of the man
found at East Orleans, the young
woman at Eastman, and the body
which has heretofore been supposed to
be that of James w. Flower of Lewis
ton, Me.
With that of the colored man az
Provincetown. there still remains four
bodies to be claimed by friends.
Anoter body came ashore at Chat
ham, last night, and, this morning, il.
was identified as that of George b
Kenniston, Jr.. of Boothbay Harbor
Up to date. the following have been
recovered and are positively known:
Il. Dudley Freeman, Yarmouth. Me.
Peter Collin. deckhand Portland,
Me.
Elizabeth NJ. Collins, Portland.
Susan y. Kelley, Dorchester. Mass.
Solomon Cohen, Portland.
George w. Delaney, Boston.
Mrs. c. N. Mitchell, Northeastern.
Mrs. Jennie G.. Edmunds East Bos-
ton.
A. Gosselin, Montreal.
John Jones, colored cook.
Madge 1ngraham. colored, Wood
fords. Me.
Deckhand. name not known (there is
yet some little question in this case.
but the company is positive).
George Graham. colored porter, Port
land. CAT WellfieeD.
VIM. A. Mosher. Rockland.
Mrs. George c. Chickering Weymouth
CAT Eastham)
Ansel Dyer, quartermaster.
Walter l.. Bemis. Auburn.
Capt. Edwin Dunbar, Boothbay.
George B. kenniston, Jr, Boothbay
Harbor.
Mrs. Augustus Wheeler.
The body which was supposed to be
that of James w. Flower has not been
identified by his brother. which makes
the list of complete identifications 20 out
of a total of "a bodies recovered.
The body of George W. Delaney was
shipped to Boston, this afternoon, and
others will be shipped, tomorrow.
A dispatch from Provincetown, to-
night, states. that a pocketbook bear
ing the name of S. c. Wedderburn, At
lantic City, was found near Peaked
HILL this morning. and that the leg of
of a child was picked up near High
Head. Wednesday afternoon.
What has become of the balance of
the crew and passengers of the i'll
fated Portland is wholly a matter of
conjecture. although it is practically
certain that not a single soul survived
after the steamer went to pieces.
The fact that none of her life boats
have as yet been found, nor any of her
life RATS, hold out to agonized rela-
tives and friends a single ray of hope.
to which they cling tenaciously, but
the realization of the awful sea which
was running at that time is forced
upon them, and they are obliged to
acknowledge that the chances of even
single person being saved, is indeed
slight.
AS to this chance of further recovery
OF bodies, there are many and conflict
ing opinions. The shifting sands of Cape
Cod, the swift tides that sweep up and
down the shores, the winds from every
direction. and the height and nature OF
the waves have a most important
bearing on this question, and yet only
the most expert students of nature in
her awful mood, feel competent even
to venture an answer to the question
that is now being asked by hundreds
whose dear ones sailed on the doomed
vessel.
So many ships have been lost on
Peaked Hill bars that it is indeed a
veritable graveyard 1t extends out
from the Cape mile or more and
every vessel doubling Cape Cod gives
it a wide berth.
There are, of course, all sorts of
theories as to where the Portland
went down, and just at present the
one most generally accepted is, that
after being partially stripped of her
upper works, she finally plunged be-
meath the waves, some or 10 miles to
the northeast of this bar
Barring some wreckage which came |
ashore at East Brewster, Thursday |
which cannot be identified as /
having come from the Portland, Moth |
ing has been picked up inside of Cape |
Cod. 1t may be possible that the |
steamer was still farther off the point |
Of the Cape when she went down, per-
haps in deep water, and this theory is
borne out by the fact that no longer
portions of the vessel has yet come
ashore. Only the gingerbread work, .
so-called, has been picked up, together
with numerous life preservers A