Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-07-19
FOUND MANY CORPSES.
Twenty-fOur Victims Of the Disaster
Oh Board the Steamer SaaIe are
Discovered In One Day.

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! New York, July 12.-Twenty-four
bodies were recovered yesterday from
the hold of the burned steamship
Saale, which makes the total number
OF dead taken from this ship co. Most
OF the bodies were so badly burned or
mutilated that recognition was i'm
! possible, but several were identified
by initials or names on articles taken
from parts of clothing that some
times remained. All of them appear
ed to be of worlimen in the holds of
the steamship.
Great pumps were worked in the
Saale and by 2:20 o'clock the vessel
was fioated. The ship was in nine or
ten feet of mud and when she finally
freed herself from this bed she seem
ed TO jump fully two feet out of the
water. Tugs undertook to swing the
stern of the Saale around toward the
middle of the bay. A mud bank on
her starboard side resisted and after
an hours tugging the attempt was
abandoned. The ship probably will
have to be towed out backward over
the course she came in.
After the ninth BODY had been
~ Jug III up liit IlltI at NOFh III 1IlN
hold in the search for bodies announc-
ed that they had counted Is piled in
heap in the stewards room. The
door of this room was found locked.
The fire did not get near the unfor-
tunate i, and their lives might have
been saved but for the breaking of
the glass in the windows. When the
windows were broken the room filled
with water and they were drowned
like rats in Il trap. These bodies were
in better state of preserv alton than
the nine found before them.
The tenth body was that of man.
1t was nude and had no marks of
Identification.
The eleventh body was that OF a
woman. She wore blue wrapper and
was fully dressed. A wedding ring
she wore has the initials "R. w. 1890"
The twelfth body wGs that of a
man, evidently a steward, who wore n
tin badge with the initials 81. r.
There was nothing else to show who
he was.
The thirteenth body was that of a
coal passer. A knife was the only
thing found in his pockets. The four
teenth body was of large man bare
to the waist, coal passer. The fif-
teenth body was that of coal passer.
He carried a watch and chain and s.
bunch of keys. There was no address
or initials.
The sixteenth body brought up was
that of woman. She wore a wed.
ding ring on the inside of which was
'R. Peitsch. 1890"
The supply of collins gave out after
II had been filled. Five more bodies
were laid upon the deck of an after
cabin and covered with blankets.
1t was then nearly o'clock Coro-
ner Hoffman said he would not stop
until all the bodies had been brought
up, but his worRmen said they could
not see. There were eight more bod
les, according to the report of the
coroncr'S men, in the stewards room.
How many more there were in the
ship no one could tell. 1t was believ-
ed by the workmen that all had been
found.
All the faces of the dead were hor-
ribly distorted and swollen. The odor
of the bodies pervaded the ship and
was detected on the Jersey shore
when the wind shifted that way.
Up to last night 159 bodies of vic
Tins had Leen recovered and eight
more are known TO be on the Saale,
having been located. but not taken
out. This makes 167 bodies recovered
from the ship. river and the bay.
One other body was found off Rock
away, making the total thus far 1GS.