New-York tribune., 1898-12-02
THE PORTLAND DISASTER.
A FEW MORE BODIES WASHED UP YES
TERDAY.
MOST OF THEM NOW IDENTIFIED = MA
1oR,ry OF THE VICTIMS BELIEVED


Provincetown Mass. Dec. 1.-Of the one num-
dred or more persons who sailed from bos'oh
for Portland last Saturday on the sioe-"hee'
steamer Portland not one survives 'he VIZ"
., tho vessel The sea has thrown up on the
outside shore Of the Cape seventeen OF 'he "ar
,oss victims These bruised and battered pooieS
.oro noor p,cked I'D by the patrols between
Highland Light and chatham. EeNe"
have been identified, as follows:
pEr.a.;Dy George W. shawmut-avs'' bo''oh
DENNIS Mrs Ezekiel Portland Me-
f,DNlINDs Miss Jennie. Fast Bostoa
FLOWER James w. Lewiston. Me-
FREEMAN r Dudley Yarmouth. Me
ISCRAHAM Madge colored Wcodiorn ;. NC
c,,uAu csorx, coored. steamer Portland por'e''
MIrcIrII. Mrs Cornela. North tas'on'
AopANG Miss Faith, Fsssenden FarA io'''a"" -.
Iscthana steamer Portland name unknown .oo,%snd 20
beckhaH s '"env bu; identihed by him as de'Nha"u
C,lorca cook name unknown also idenuaed % "e''"
FEW BODIES LIKELY TO BE FOUND.
The prospect for the immediate recovery VI
roanv more bodies is doubtful Inc ''e '''
down the Cape from Highland L'en' u va
.mc,e, with great rapidity. Many bodies may
ha CARRIED into Nantucket Sound ana DAYS VI
weeks NAV elapse before the sea yields 'hehl up
y. =. ho,,evad that many bodies were buried IN
the sands of Cape Cod by Sundays gaze anu
.,o, anv NOW uncovered and cast up by yes'ei
a., s,or,, will be so bruised ana torn tha'
,de,tihcation will be next to -impossipie' oeN
,o, hod,es were seen beating about In the hisA
eur, Yesterday but all efforts to secure 'hc'"
were futile and they were carried Out oS '"e
receding tide ..o From,
In all the wreckage known to have como lro'''
the Portland up 10 this noon only pai.s -
superstructure have been cast ashore' me
phasizes the theory that the vesse'
with hull intact, and it is propapie '',"' ,r,.
bodies are confined in the suhhei s"'p .,o
evidence at hand tends 10 show that lne VIZ
Tins Of the disaster were plunged 10 'i'e'' N
IN a sudden lurch Of the vessei. :.
There was no break last night OF o9-u"' "
the natrol Of the coast. from hdc@ WIN
Chatham. which has been kept up since '"e
storm began on Saturday evening WIG" '"e
work OF the day summed up ho"e'e'' "
sonear.d that only five bodies had Dcen 'e'o'-
cred in addition to those previously 'ahe" HUM
,he water. one of these was fouho III NauSo''
,von,v-sve miles from the place Lear which II
,s believed the wreck occurreo' a"o'hei '"
.sbora at orleans. some five miles further sou'H'
and three at Chatham.
TO PATROL THE SEA.
II is likely that tugs will he sent out 70 pa'ro'
&be mart of the sea which has been nxeu upon
.s the probable scene Of the wreck III dh Eli
6eavor to locate the hull. as well as 10 seci'c
everything that may be found afioat' lncluoihs
,od,ao baggage and cargo. c. F. Williams.
agent of the steamboat company Is a"oiis
those who think the Portland foundered ana
that many of her passengers ana her 'ieie"'
would be found in her could the wreck be To-
Gated
In answer 70 the question as to the sailing OF
,ba Portland Mr. Williams bears out the state
nent made by the general manager, MI LIS
connie that the captain was ordered not TO SAIL
hut that he disoheyed his instructions
The number of strangers who are here look
ing for hodies increases with every train, le"
though they have been, until now there are iai
more searchers than there are bodies Inc IN
terrupted train communication is great mn
drance not only to the arrival or those WIN
would remove bodies. but 10 the transportation
OF them from here. No freight mas Deeh ap'e ~
get through since last week, and the supply Vi
provisions is liable TO run out This presents
more serious aspect, because Of the unusual
number Of strangers who have to be provided
for In the hotels and other places Whlch rarely
have a visitor from October 10 May
I, WAS early this morning when news came to
Orleans from Nauset that the body Of man. the
seventeenth from the wreck, had come ashore
II was idertined by papers ds tIldl VI o"'"N' w.
Flower OF Lewiston, NJ. Severa. other idenu-
fcations were made before night
MORE IDENTIFICATIONs.
Iater-The train from Boston brought down
fftv relatives and friends Of the lost ones 1hey
made their way at once to the establishment OF
Steele the undertaken at Orleans. where SIX
bodies were deposited two of which already had
been identified. ,e, ~
one OF the other four bodies Identified was
thai OF Solomon Cohen. a junk dealer or Port
land whose aged father had come from boston
m see II his son had been claimed from the sea
The bodies Of two young women or apout 'ne
Same age were then viewed. one proved 10 ne
that NJ Miss Elizabeth NJ. Collins. or Portland
and the other that Of Susan A. Kelley or boS-
ton The party then went over 10 an2trer VII
dertaker's establishment, wher" were the boo
les OF Mr. Delaney Mrs. Mitchell. Miss Ed
munds and Mr. Flower which had preVlons'y
been identified leaving three here which had not
been recognized. OF these one was identined as
Jones the second cook of the Partland ana the
next body as that Of Madge Ingraham.
Late his afternoon word came to Orleans tnat
another body had been recovered, and early thls
evening news came that three bodies had been
found off Chatham. one being that OF wafer l..
Bemis.