The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-02
LOSSES At PROVINCETOWN
$50 LIVES AND SHIPPING, ETC,
VALUED AT OVER $50O,OOO.
Costly Yachts Wrecked at Port JEFF
fersOn-EGorts of Life Savers
to Rescue Sailors.

PROV1NCETOWN, Mass, Dec. 1.--Anoth-
er day has passed and the mystery of the
steamer Portland has not been given up by
the sea. 1t was day of constant watching
or more than thirty miles of coast line and
the sea grudgingly held its victims, yielding
only five. Twenty-Five bodies have been re-
covered out Of the entire passenger and crew
list, the exact number of which is still un-
known. The number of people who went to
their death in the Portland will never be
known, but almost hourly persons are re-
ported missing from different places in New
England until now it seems possible that the
number was over 150 OF the bodies recov-
cred hereabouts thirteen have been identi-
fed and eight remain to be named. The
identified are:
E. DUDLEY FREEMAN, Yarmouth. Me.
GEORGE w. DELANEY, Shawmut ave
MISS JENNIE c. EDMUNDs, East Bos-
ton
MISS CoRNELLA MITCHELL, North
MISS MADGB INGRAHAM, colored,
GEORGE GRAHAM. colored, porter
Deckhand, steamer Portland, name un-
known.
- JONES, second cook. identified by
SOLOMON COHEN. junk dealer, Port
land, Me.
MISS ELIZABETH NJ. COLLINS, Port
land.
SUSAN L. KELLY, Boston.
WALTER +. BEAIIS. Auburn, Me.
An attempt to fix the loss of Sundays
storm in and around Provincetown, and in
cluding the steamer Portland wreck was
made to-day by several men who have large
interests in coastwise shipping. The tabu-
lations reached were as follows:
Lives post (probably). y)............. $50
Loss OF property on land .............. $40 900
Loss of marine property, not includ-
ing steamer Portland. d................. 100000
The Portland .............,.............2 250O00
Loss in money and effects of passen-
gers and Sa1lCrS. S........................ $4,000
Total ......~.............. $4,000
There was no break last night in the in
cessant patrol of the coast from Race point
to Chatham. which has been kept up since
the storm began Saturday evening. Few
new facts bearing on the Portland wreck
have developed. The conditions to-day were
most favorable for the recovery of wreckage
and bodies. When the work of the day was
summed up. however, only five bodies had
been recovered in addition to those pre-
viously taken from the water. One of these
was found at Nauset, some twenty-five
miles from the place near which it is be-
lieved the wreck occurred, another came
ashore at Orleans, some four or five miles
further south, and three at Chatham. Old
seamen say that the majority of the bodies
which will be found here have already come
ashore. The rest, it is believed. have been
carried far south and lost in Nantucket
sound or scattered so widely that there is
little hope that they ever will be recovered.
Moreover, the belief that many bodies are
still within the hull of the steamer seems
to be growing. This theory is held by so
will be sent out to patrol the section of sea
which has been fixed upon as the probable
scene of the wreck, in an endeavor to locate
the hull, as well as to secure everything that
may be found afloat from her, including
bodies, baggage cargo, etc. Early this
morning news came to Orleans from Nauset
that the body of a man, the seventeenth,
from the wreck. had come ashore. 1t was
identified by papers as that or James w.
Flower, Of Lewiston.
The train from Boston brought down over
fifty relatives and friends Of the lost ones.
taking establishment at Orleans, where six
bodies had been deposited, two OF which mad
already been identified. One of the other
four bodies identified was that of Solomon
Cohen OF Portland. The remains of two
young women of about the same age were
Inns, of Portland, and Susan A. Kelley, OF
Boston. The bodies Of Jones, the second
cook OF the Portland, and Madge 1ngraham
have also been identified.
Late this afternoon word came to Orleans
that another body had been recovered, and
bodies had been found off Chatham, one be-
ing that of w. L. Bemis. There remain at
Provincetown three unidentified bodies, two
males and one female.