Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-11-21
GIVES UP ITS DEAD.
twenty-five Bodies Recovere!
From the Sea.
VICTIMS OF SATURDAYS STORM

They Met Death when the uu.F.teI
Steamer, City Of ofMonticello, Foun.
ders or the Nova Scotia Coast
Only Four Survivors.
Yarmouth, N. s., Nov. 1.-THE shore
OF this county for ten miles east and
west Is strewn with the wreckage OF
tho hull and cargo of the steamer City
OF Monticello, which foundered Saltur-
day morning, and twenty-five bodies
OF victims of the disaster have been
recovered from the sea, which ds still
raging with terrific fury.
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 accidental drowning. All the bodies
were terribly battered.
The bodies recovered thus far and
| Identified are as follows:
Captain, T. M. Harding. the com.
mamder; second officer, N. NJ. Murphy,
! OF Yarmouth; chief steward, N. C..
Hopkins; chief engineer Charles
Gredg; second engineer, Herbert Poole;
| Sven johnson, quartermaster; Stan
ley Ringer, oiler; Robert N1ckerson,
deck hand; Levi Nickerson, waiI' er,
Wynne yanenburg and his father,
Fred Vanenburg, both cooks: Walter
Cunningham, waiter; Austin Wickems,
waiter; David Benham, deck hand;
| Harold Copeland, deckhand; /;
Elsie Mcdonald, passenger; Thomas C..
Johnson, passenger; ]. c. FHpp. pas.
! senger; o. w. Colemsn, passenger;
John Richmond, passenger; Rupert
! Olive, setward; A. E. 8. Ndredge, pas.
senger; Isaac n. Wilson, baggage
master; one man unidentified.
! The first body was found at day.
light. when the zinc Efeboat which
was supposed by the survivors of the
! first to have been swamped, WAS dia
covered on the shore. A few yards
distant were the bodies of Mr.. e.
drege. a passenger; Second Engineer
Poole, Mr.. Ffppe, . traveler for Nc
Gees Sons, of st. Johns N B., and the
body of the seaman. Al4 four had life
belts anound them. At short ini'er-+ala
along the beach eleven more bodies
were found, making fifteen discovered
up Ito noon today. They had all eN
IDENTIFY come ashore in the lifeboat and
were killed on striking the beach not
one escaping. The remains 80 far
identified In addition to the enumer-
ated above, are:
Rupert Olive, purser Of the steamer
Prince Edward; Baggagemaster VII
son, deckhamds johnson, Levi Nicloer.
son, Robert Nickerson. Van Renen-
burg, Austin Wckens. James Cole
John E. Whftmore. Stanley Ringer,
Winslow Ringer, Harry Copeland and
David Benham.
The watches in the pockets CT two OF
the men stopped at 12:45 and 1928
o'clock respectively.
The body of Captain Harding, Of tho
Monticello, has been found ait Picndc's
Point. encircled with hfe belt and
fully dressed. Anunknown body, sup
posed TO be that Of o traveller for q
western boot and shoe firm, has been
found alt the same place, with tho
bodies of Elsie Mcdonald and Second
Officer Murphy, recovered yesterday,
OF the members of the crew whose
bodies were secured, Copeland and Ben
ham were not known to be On board
until their bodies were identified.
They were not ON the ships articles,
having joined for the trip only. Sey.
eral bodies are still unidentified.
One body was recognized this evening
ais John Richmond, of Essex, N. B., q
traveller for boot and shoe firm. He
was not before known to have been
passenger. This swells the known
death roll to thirty two. Benham took
the place of Whitmore, previously re-
pointed lost Copeland was also a sub.
0tttute, but for whom it lis not known.
1t ds a coincidence that the shin
Peter Stewart was wrecked off this
shore few years ago in the month Of
July and boat load of men came In
where the Momthcelbo's boat was
found. Half Of the men were dead be-
fore 1.-THE boat touched the land and
many believe the same true of those
In the MonitEcello's boat.
The fury of the surf is appalling In
this region.
The body of o. N. Coleman, another
commercial traveller, who was not pre-,
vdousiy known Ito have been on board
the Monticello, has been washed ashore
and identified. BE represented Levi
Bros. & Co., jewellers, Hamilton. Ont.
and carried samples in trunks worth
| $4,000. One trunk has been found.
Wreckage of all kinds lfteers the
shore, boxes, barrels, pieces of ships
boats and parts Of superstructwe oi
the steamer.
James Ball. a merchant, of Var.
mouth, who wtas to have supposed a
have been on board, Is safe. he having
missed the setamer in SIT. Johns,
Rupert Olive was crossing the bay
from SIT. John to Yarmouth to retoiu
his own steamer.
Chief Steward Hopkins of tn
steamer Yarmouth. perished, he hav.
ing taken his brother's place for one
, trip.
Sven johnson was taking Elisha
Cooks place as quartermaSter, and
Fred Vanenburg wtas substituting q
cook for his father The shse-A>>.
|, were of to vote at the elections and
TO this circumstance they owe their
nves
No trace of more tham three worea
having been on board the Monticello
can be obtained. They were placed
In the first boat One Of them, Stew.
srdess Smith, IL one of the four sur.
vivors and she Is too i'll to make q