The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1898-10-21
VICTIMS Of TIE !.
MOHEGAA WRECK
Only Eleven ofthe Passengers Have
Been Saved and Ten Bodies
Recovered,
WRECK REPORTS DIFFER WIDELY
Latest Adyicss From Falmouth Say
Thirty-Eight Bodies Have
Beer Unidentified.
CAUSE OF WRECK a MYSTERY
Mohesn" Was SIX or eve" Miles
.-FEf stNP r. 49,. 49,. .. 80
WRECK REPORTS DIFFER WIDELY
CAUSE OF WRECK a MYSTERY
Mohcsnn Was SIX dr. Seven Miles
on If Her True Course and
No Reason For This Is
Known.

o ~ EAL1dlAk1N
Transport company issued the follow
ing statement last evening regarding
the fate of the passengers and crew
OF the steamer Mohegnn, which was
wrecked last Friday evening off the
Lowlands:
"Of h passengers eleven have been
saved, ten bodies have been recovered
and thirty-three are missing.
"Oi the crew and cattlemen, thirty
nine have been saved, fourteen bodies
have been recovered and fifty-one are
missing"
Since this statement was issued nine
other bodies have been picked up,
including two that have been identi-
fed as those OF passengers.
The reports of the various CORE
spondents differ widely us to the res
cues, %recoveries and losses, though
none has been able TO obtain the exact
number of those saved or of the bodies
recovered. The bodies of the follow
ing passengers have been recovered:
T. w. King, Edna King, Master King,
james Blackey, Miss II. NJ. Cowen,
DR.. Fallow, b.. Franklin Fuller, Mrs.
i. NJ. Luke, George Seymour, Miss u.
H. Warrener.
The latest advices from Falmouth
say that thirty-eight bodies have been
identified, mostly the bodies of sail
ors. -Four are as yet Unidentified, in
GLIDING those of two elderly ladies'.
One appears to be q Mormon. She
wore a watch and a wedding ring both
engraved 1871"
The other wore a liver brooch with
the letter 3D. in pearls. This is prob
ably the body of Mrs. Charles Duncan.
Nine of the bodies have been
brought to Falmouth. the others to
the village church at ST. Keverine.
The rescued passengers are being
sheltered Mt cottages along the shore
and the crew at the sailors home at
Falmouth. Tugs have been cruising
in the vicinity all day, despite the very
rough weather, in hope of picking up
other bodies.
The aus of the disaster remains
the profoundest mystery. Nobody at
tempts to explain how the Mohegan
got SO far north of her true course
from six to seven miles. There was
no fog at the time, while the wind on
her port quarter was o sufficient to
prevent her answering the helm. 1t
has been suggested hat the compass
was faulty.
Remarkable stories of rescue con
tinue. Robert Barrow, a seaman, per-
formed the feat Of swimming unaided
through the toughest water to Cow
eerack Point, n distance of two and
one-hnlf miles. He climbed up the
rugged cliffs, where a searching party
found him early the next morning
completely exhausted.
A. e. l.. Smith Of Oregon, a passen-
ger, %surrenered to n woman in the wa
ter w%reckage that was supporting
him and swan ashore unaided. The
woman was saved. Her name is re-
ported as Miss Webb, but no such
name appears in the company's list.
Messrs. Smith and w. j.. Blooming
dale say there was the greatest diff
ticulty in launching the boats. The
ropes were new and stiff, and the
blocks would not work. Four OF five
tines as many sailors as should have
been necessary struggled to lower
each boat. The lockers were hard to
open.
The crew, in a chivalrous effort to
save the women, made the mistake of
undermining the boats. There We're
only four sailors i'll one boat, which
capsized as soon as it was launched.
Messrs. Smith and Bloomingdale say
that Captain Grifiths had appeared i'll
NIL day.
The death OF w. r. King, who was
a newspaper proprietor at Nantucket,
Mass, and of his family, including
Mrs. King, her mother, Mrs. Waller,
and his sons. Rufus, aged IL, and An
thony, aged Z, has caused deep sorrow
at Penzance, where the family had a
summer cottage, and were very pop
ular.