The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-12
STORM- SWEPT OCEAN
GIVING up ITS DEAD
MANY Mangled COrpSeS Washed Ashore During
Yesterday at Yarmouth, n. S.
cast Lined With Wreckage of The City of Monticello
Only Four Survivors Out of Thirty-Six People.

z-.,,,,7r+7 n. s.. Nov 1.-THE shore
.T... .ourrrv for ten miles. east and
- is strewn with the wreckage or
80 hull and cargo of the steamer City
,T.nficeIIo. which fOUndeved Satur-
5sv morning. and twenty five bodies
- ,.fctims of the disaster have been re-
.,..ra5 from the sea. which is still
LING with terrific fury. Many people
h.ye assembled at Rockville, near
her. the first body came ashore, ana
-..r,arrus relatives of members of the
- VINO nearly all belonged to points
I'm the coast have arrived to ldenufy
the dead.
The bodies were arranged in room
I'm the public hall and the coroner who
Hold am inquest gave an opinion OF ac-
-fiarf4I drowning. All the bodies are
terribly battered
First Body Comes In.
The first body was found at daylight
,.har .ha zinc Hfaboat which was sup
roeod bv the survivors of the first boat
:, have been sWamDed was discovered
an the shore. A few yards distant We're
rr- bodies of AIR. Eldridge- passenger;
second Engineer Poole. Mr.. F'ripp, a
Dr. tra
b15v of a. seaman. All four had life
belts around them.
Al short intervals along the beach
eleven more bodies were found, making
Hfteen discovered up to noon today
They had all evidently come ashore in
rhe Iff-b0at and were killed on striking
Che beach. not one escaping The re-
mains So far Identified, in addition to
The four enumerated above. are:
.-sr
Prince Edward. BaggagemaSteT Viii
son. Deck Hands Johnson, Levi Nick
ersan. Robert NickersOn, Van Renen-
berg. Austin Wickens, James Colt, John
T. Whitemore. Stanley Ringer. Win
slow Ringer. Harry Copeland and
David Bcnham.
The watches in the pockets of two of
the men stopped AT 1915 and 1925
o'clock, respectively
Captains Corpse Found.
The body of Captain Harding of the
Monticello was found at Picnics Point,
sngirllcd with a life belt and fully
dressed. An uukU1Nn body. supposed
t1 De that of "a traveller for q western
boot and shoe firm, has been found at
she same place, with the bodies of Elsie
Mcdonald and Second Officer Murphy,
recovered yesterday OF the members
n
Copeland and Beuham were not known
11 be ON board until their bodies Fere
identified. They wee not on the ship s
articles. having Joined for the trip
only.
Several bodies are still unidentified
One body was recognized this evening
as that of John Richmond of Essex, n
j.. q traveller Tor a boot and shoe firm.
He was not before known TO have been
d passenger This sWeliS the known
death rGu To thirJy-tWO. Benham took
jla place If ThitemoTe. previously re-
ported lost. Copeland was also 50
s-ftute bus FOR whom II Is not known.
Tt is ID coincidence that the ship Peter
Stewart was wrecked off this shore a
few years ago in the month of july,
and a leatIoad of men came IN where
The lIoutiCeIl0-s boat was found.
Half of the men were dead BEFORE the
boat touched the land, and many be
lieve the same is true of those in the
NouticelIc.s boat.
The fury of the surf is appalling IN
ILs region
Jewelry Salesman Drowned.
The body of O. y. Coleman, another
Commercial traveller. who was not pre-