Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1900-11-15
GIVES UP ITS DEAD.
twenty-five Bodies Recovele'
From tho Sea-.
VICTIMS OF SATURDAYS STORM
They Met Denth when Ihc Ill FnleI
Steamer, CIiJ Of Monticello, Foun-
ders on the Nova Scotia Coast
OnIy Four NMryIYors.


OF this county for ten miles cns. 0nt
west is flirewn with the wreckage Of
ahe hull and cargo Of the steamer CITY
of Monticello, which foundcrcd Suur,
day morning, and twenty-five bodies
of yictims OF the Glsastcr have beet
recovered from the sea, which IA std
raging with terrific fury.
Many people have assembled ~
Rockville, near where the first body
came ashore, and numerous rCNallveI
of members of the crew, who nearly
all belonged TO points on thiS coast
have arrived TO identify the dead.
The bodies were arranged hn roou
in The public hall aud Coroner Fuller
who held an inquest, gave an orinioI
of accidental drowning, All the bod ,el
were terribly battered.
The bodies recovered thus far ant
Identified nre ms follows;
C2Ttaln, n, NJ, Harding, the com
mnmder; second officer, n. NJ Murphy
of Yarmouth, chief steward N, G
Hopkins; chief engineer, Charles
GrClg; second engineer, Herbert Poole;
Sven johnson, quartermostcr; Stan
icy Ringer oiler; Roben, Nlckerson
deck hunH; Levi NlckerSOn, wc'i err
Wynne Vanenburg and his Nl'her
Fred Vnncnburg, beth cooks.;Wnhet
Cunningham, waiter; Austin Wlckcms
waiter; David Benham, deck hnndi
Harold Copeland, deckhandi
Elsie Mcdonald, passenger; Thomas e.
johnson, passenger; j, c. Fripp, pas
senger; o. w. Coleman, passengers
John Rlchmond passc ger; Ru"cn
Olive. setwUrd; A. T., S, Eidrcdge, pas
senger; Isaac II. Wilson, baggage
master one man undndenhMed.
The first body was found at day
light, when nhe zinc Ereboat which
wns supposed by the survivors Of The
frSt to have been swamred, was dis
covered on the shore. A few yardI
Distant were the bodies OF Mr. I'll
drege, passenger; Second Engineer
Poole. Mr.. Frlppe, "a traveller for Nc
Gees Sons, of st. Johns, ~ h., and the
body OF the seaman, All -four had lif'
BELTS around them, At short ir'c~''li
along the beach eleven more bodlci
were found, making Fifteen disco co
mp Ito noon today, They had all evil
IDENTITY come ashore in the lIfcboat ant
were ktlled on sltldiing the beach mo-
one escaping. The remains 60 fal
identified In addition to the enumer
ated above. are:
Rupert Olive, purser of the steamer
Prince Edward; BNggagemasIter VIII
son, deckhCnds Johnson, Levi N'cler
son. Robert Nickerson, Van Renen
burg, AUSTIN Wdckcrs, James Cole
John T.. Whitmore, Stanley Ringer
Winslow Ringer, Harry Copeland nnt
. David Benhnm.
The watches in the pockets tf twoo
/; 'the mon stopped at 12:i5 qnd 1924
O'Clock respectively.
The body Of Captain Harding, Of TN
McmJlcello, has been found G't Plcnicj
Point, cncrclcd with a lirc belt ONt
fully dressed. Anunknown body, sup
posed TO be THAT Of q traveller for
western boot and shoe firm, has been
found alt the Sama place, with tht
bodies Of Elsie Mcdonald and Seconi
Officer Murphy, recovered yesterday
or the members of he crew whoSI
bodies were secured, Copeland and Baa
ham were not known 10 be ON board
until their bodies wcro identified
They were not ON the ships articles
having joined for he trip only. Sew
eral bodies are still unidentified
One body was recognized this event q
as John Richmond, of Essex, n, b. q
traveller for n boot aud shoe firm. liz
was not before known to have been 6
passenger. This swells the known
death roll to thirty.two. Benhnm tool
the place of Whitmorc, previously re
pointed lost, Copeland was also a sub
StBtute, but for whom it is not known
I'll Is coincidence THAT the shil
Peter Stewart WAS wrecked off thin
shore n few years ago in the month o!
July and u boat load of men came IL
where the Mcnlticello's boat wal
found. Half Of IT, mon were dead
fore the boat touched the land unC
many believe the same true of thos,
In The Mcmtllcello's boat
The fury of the surf is appalling Ia
this region.
The body of o. n. Coleman, another
commercial traveller, who was not pre-
MouSly known Ito have been on board
Ghe Monbcello. has been washed ashort
and identified. He represented Lew
Bros. & Co., jewellers, Hamilton, Ont.
and carried samples In trunks worth
$4,000, One trunk has been found.
Wreckage Of all kinds Ulcers tn,
shore, boxes, barrels, pieces of shlp'
boats and parts of superstructwe OF
The steamer.
James Ball, u merchant, OF Var
mouth. who WAS to have supposed t.
have been ON board, is safe, he having
missed the setamer in ST. Johns
Rupert Olive was crossing the bai
from ST. John TO Yarmouth to rcioir
Ibis own steamer.
Chief Steward Hopkins of TIN
steamer Yarmouth, persisted, he hav
Eng taken his brothers place for ont
trip,