The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-11-12
LOSS OF THE MONTICELLO
THE TEIsRIBLE MARINE DISASTER
 IN THE BAY Y OF FUNDY.
Shore of Nova Scotia Ten Miles East and West of Yarmouth Strewn With WrecLnge-Twenty-fi Bodies Cast Up by the Sea and Recovered The
 Known Number of Victims Thirty

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 Known Number of victims Thirty
 two.
 Yarmouth, N. S., Nov. 1.-The shore
 of this county for ten miles east and
 west is strewn with wreckage of the
 hull and cargo of the steamer City of
 Monticello, which foundered on the
 shoals at the entrance of the Bay of Fundy Saturday morning, and twenty
 five bodies of victims of the disaster
 have been recovered from the sea, which 1 is still raging with terrific fury. Many
 people have assembled at Rockville
 near where the first boat 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 row in
 the public hall, and Coroner Fuller, who
 held an inquest gave an opinion of ac-
 cidental drowning. All the bodies are l terribly battered. The first was found
 at daylight, when the zinc lifeboat,
 which was supposed by the survivors
 of the first boat to have been swamped, was discovered on the shore.. The thole- pins were broken. A few yards distant were the bodies
 of Mrs. Edridge a passenger; Second
 Engineer Poole, MT. Fripp, a traveller for McGee's Sons of St. John N. B., and the body of a seaman. All four had life-belts around them. At short
 intervals along the beach eleven more
 bodies were found, making fifteen dis
 covered up to noon to-day. They had all evidently come ashore in the life
 boat and were killed on striking the beach, not one escaping. The remains so far identified, in addition to the four enumerated above, are: Rupert Olive, purser of the steamer Prince Edward; Baggagemaster Wilson, Deckhands Johnson, Levi Nickerson, Robert Nick erson, Van Renenberg Austin Wickens, James Cole, John F.. Whitmore, Stanley Ringer Winslow Ringer, Harry Cope land asd David Benham.
 The watches in the pockets ow two of the men stopped at 12:45 and 1:S5, re- spectively. The body of Captain Har- ding of the Monticellor has been found at Pinckneys Point, encrcled with belt and fully dressed The feat ures are slightly bruised.
 An unknown body supposed to be that of a traveller for western boot and shoe firm, has been found at the same place with the bodies of Elsie Me Donald and Second Officer Murphy, re- covered yesterday Of the members of the crew whose bodies were recovered Copeland and Benham were not known on board until their bodies were identi- fled They were not on the ships arti- cles, having joined for the trip only. Several bodies are still unidentified. One body was recognized this evening as John Richmond of Essex, N. B., a trav- eler for boot and shoe firm. He was not before known to have been a pas senger. This swells the known death- roll to thirty-two.
 Benham took the place of Whitmore, previously reported lost Copeland was also a substitute, but for whom Is not known. It is coincidence that the ship Peter Stewart was wrecked off this shore few years ago in the month of July and q boatload of men came in where the Monticello's boat was found. Half of the men were dead before the boat touched the land, and many be- lieve the same was true of those in the boat. The fury of the surf is simply appalling in this region.
 The body of o. l.. N. Coleman, anoth- CT commercial traveller, who was not known to have been on board the Monticello, has been washed ashore and identified. He represented Levy Brothers & Co.,, jewellers, Hamilton, On- tarlo, and carried samples in trunks worth $S0,000 One trunk has been found. Wreckage of all kinds filters the shore-boxes, barrels, pieces of the | ships boats and parts of the superstruc- ture of the steamer.
 James Bam, merchant of Yarmouth, | who was supposed to have been on . board, is safe, he having missed the | steamer in St John. Rupert Olive was crossing the bay from St. John to Tar mouth to rejoin his own steamer. Chief Steward Hopkins of the steamer Tar mouth perished, he having taken his brothers place for one trip. Swen Johnson was taking Elisha Cooks place IS quartermaster and Frederick Van- enburg was substituting as cook for his 'ather. The absentees were off to vote 1t the elections, and to this circum- stance they owe their lives.
 No trace of more than three women having been on the Monticello can be They were placed in the first boat. One of them, Stewardess Smith, S one of the four surviving and she Is co i'll to make a statement. Miss Elsie De Boe was drowned in the surf. The hird woman was colered, named Law ence, and her body was seen in the breakers this afternoon, but could not ,e reached.
 Some difficulty has been encountered Il figuring the total loss of life, as a lumber of passengers joined the Monti- cllo at St John without first register ng at the booking office. They bought heir tickets on board. . A revised list of the members of the f rev, prepared at the head office of the { Steamship company here, ( hows that the officers and crew num- l ered twenty eight, of whom Third Off, t cer Fleming, Wilson Cook, deck and and Miss Smith, the stewardess, ! we're saved. The total number of people who were | n board is now placed at thirty-six. he four survivors are Captain Smith, 2
 passenger; Third Officer Fleming, c Wilson and Stewardess t mith. The three men saved agree that il