Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-12
TWENTY-FIVE BODIES
or THE CREW OF THE ILL-FATED
STEAMER CITY OF MONTH
CELLO RECEIVED.
ALL TERRIBLY BATTERED.
THE SEA STILL POUNDING THE
SHORE WITH APPALLING FURY.
Those in the Life Boat Were Evil
IDENTITY Killed by the Force of the
waves When the Boat Neared the
Beach-The Coast is Strewn with
Wreckage for Many Miles-Fhe
Loss of Life Thirty-Two.

YARMOUTH, N. S., November IL
The shore of this county for ten miles
east and west is strewn with the wreck
age of the hull and cargo of the steani-
er City of Monticello, which foundered
Saturday morning, and twenty-five
bodies of victims of the disaster have
been recovered from the sea, which is
still raging with terrific fury.
Many people have assembled at Rock
vile, near where the first body came
ashore, and numerous relatives Of
mem ers of the crew who nearly all be-
Hinged to points on this coast, have ar
river to identify the dead.
The bodies were arranged in room
in the public hall and Coroner Fuller
who held an inquest, gave an opinion OF
the accidental drowning. All the bodies
are terribly battered.
The first body was found at daylight
when the zinc life boat, which was
supposed by the survivors of the first
boat to have been swamped, was dis
covered on the shore. The thole pllis
were broken. A few yards distant
were the bodies of Mr.. Eldridge, a pas
senger, second engineer, Poole, Mr..
Fripp, traveller for McGees Sons, of
st. John, N. B., and the body of a sea-
man. All four had life belts around
them. At short intervals along the
beach eleven more bodies were found.
making fifteen discovered UP to noon
to-day. They had all evidently came
ashore in the life boat and were killed
on striking the beach, not one escap-
ing. The remains SO far identified in
addition TO the four enumerated above
are:
Rupert Olive, purser Of the steamer
Prince Edwards.
Baggagemaster Wilson, Deckhands
Johnson, Levi Nickerson, Robert Nick
erson, Van Renenberg, Austin Wick
ems, James Cole, John E. Whitemore,
Stanley Ringer, Winston Ringer, Har-
ry Copeland and David Benham.
The watches in the pockets of two of
the men stopped at 12:45 and LIS
o'clock respectively.
The body of Captain Harding, of the
Monticello, has been found at Picnics
Point, encircled with life belt and
fully dressed. Several bodies are still
unidentified. One body was recog-
nized this evening as John Richmond,
of Essex, n. B., traveller for boot
and shoe firm. He was not before
known to have been a passenger. This
swells the known death roll to 80.
The fury of the surf is appalling in
this region.
The body of o. n. Coleman, another
commercial traveller who was not pre-
viously known to have been on board
the Monticello, has washed ashore and
identified He represented Levi Bros.
& Co., jewellers, Hamilton, Ont, and
carried samples in trunks worth $780,,
0OU. One trunk has been found.
Wreckage of all kinds filters the
shore, boxes, barrels, pieces of boats
and parts of superstructure of the
steamer.
Some difficulty has been encountered
in figuring the total loss of life, as a
number of passengers joined the Mon
ticello at St. John without first regis
tering at the booking Office. They
bought their tickets on board
revised list of the members of the
crew prepared at the head Office of the
Yarmouth Steamship Company here
shows that the officers and crew num-
bered twenty-eight, of whom third
officer Fleming. Wilson Cook, deck
hand, and Miss Smith, the stewardess,
were saved.
The total number of people who were
on board is now placed at thirty-six.
The four survivors are Captain
Smith, a passenger; third officer Elem
ing, Quartermaster Wilson and Stew
ardess Smith. The three men saved
agree that the cause of the disaster was
briefly; The steamer was pounded for
hours by sea and gale. sprang a leak
and filled, became unmanageable, broke
apart and foundered. The sea is not
remembered TO have been SO heavy on
this coast for many years.