The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1900-11-16
Steamer Is Overwhelmed in Big
Storm OFF Halifax Coast.
TWENTY-FIVE BODIES FOUND
Death List Known to Be Thirty
TwO-FiVe Persons Were Cast
Upon the Beach Unhurt.

A special from Halifax, N. s., says
The worst marine disaster in the long
list Of steamers wrecked among the
rocks and shoals at the entrance of the
Bay Of Fundy occurred Saturday morn
ing when the side-wheel steamer City
of Monticello, bound from st. Johns for
for Yarmouth, was quickly over
whelmed by the mountainous seas on
ly four miles from her destination,
and engulfed with thirty-four of her
passengers and crew. A heavy gale
was raging at the time and there was
a tremendous sea.
The place where the Monticello
struck is at the mouth of the Bay of
Fundy, where the waters of the bay
join those of the Atlantic. There are
many reefs and shoals at this point,
and the currents are many and
changeable, it being one Of the most
dangerous places on the coast.
Just before the vessel foundered an
attempt was made to reach the land in
a small boat in charge of the quarter
master, and it contained Third Officer
Fleming, a stewardess named Smith
and three passengers. This boat was
smashed by a huge comber, and the
occupants being hurled high upon the
beach at Pembroke uniniured. It is
believed these are the only survivors.
The City of Monticello was used in
the coastwise service between Halifax,
Yarmouth and st. Johns, and was due
at Halifax Sunday morning. She was
an iron, side-wheel boat of about 1000
tons gross, and was commanded by
Captain Harding, of Yarmouth, where
most of the thirty men belong.
She was formerly called the City of
Norfolk, and was built at Wilmington,
Del, in 1866. When she received
British register her name was changed.
She was valued at $50, 900, and was
partially insured. The vessel had been
rebuilt within fifteen years, but was
not regarded safe in an exceptionally
heavy sea. She carried crew out of
proportion to her size.
TWENTY FIVE BODIES RECOVERED.
A special of Sunday from Yarmouth,
N. S., says: "The shore of this coun-
ty for ten miles east and west is
strewn with the wreckage of the hull
and cargo of the steamer City of Mon
ticello, which foundered Saturday
morning, and twenty-five bodies Of
victims of the disaster have been re-
covered from the sea, which is still
raging with terrific fury. The death
roll so far as known is thirty-two.
MANY people have assembled at
Rockville, near where the first body
came ashore, and numerous relatives
of members of the crew, who nearly all
belonged to points on this coast, have
arrived to identify the dead. The
bodies were arranged in a room in the
public hall and Coroner Fuller, who
held an inquest, gave an opinion of ac-
cidental drowning. All the bodies are
terribly battered.
"The first body was found at day
light, when the zinc lifeboat, which
was supposed by the survivors of the
first boat to have been swamped, was
discovered on the shore. A few yards
distant were the bodies of Mr.. FL
bridge, passenger; Second Engineer
Poole, Mr.. Fripp, a traveller for Nc,
Gees Sons, of st, John, aud the body
of a seaman. All four had life belts
around them.
cat short intervals along the beach
eleven more bodies were found, MAX
ing fifteen found up to noon today.
They had all evidently some ashore in
the life-boat and were killed on strik-
ing the beach, not one escaping.
''It is a coincidence that the ship
Peter Stewart was wrecked off this
shore a few years ago in the month of
July and a boat load of men came in
where the Monticello's boat was found.
Half of the men were dead before the
boat touched the land"