Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-16
LOST IN THE BREAKERS
Fate of Thirty.two in the
Nova Scotia Wreck.
25 BODIES oFvICTIMs RECOVERED
Shore for Ten Miles Strewn With
Wreckage of Hull and Cargo OF
the City of Monticello.

Yarmouth, N. S., Nov. 14.-The
shore of this country for 10 miles east
and west is sitrewn with the wreckage
OF the hull and cargo of the steamer
City of Monticello, which foundered
Saturday morning, and 25 bodies OF
victims of the disaster have been recov-
cred from the sea, which is still raging
with terrific fury. Many people have
assembled at Rockville, near where
the first body came ashore, and num-
erous relatives of mem bers 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 the coroner
who held the inquest gave an opinion
of accidental drowning. All the bodies
are terribly battered.
The first body was found at day.
light, when the zinc liteboat, which
was supposed by the survivors OF the
first boat to have been swamped, was
discovered on the shore. A few yards
distant were the bodies of Mr.. Ell
bridge, passenger; Second Engineer
Poole; Mr.. Fripp, traveller. of St.
John, N. B., and the body of a seaman.
All four had life belts around them.
At short intel walls along the beach IL
more bodies were found, making Is dis
covered up to noon today. They had
all evidently come ashore in the life
boat, and we're killed On striking the
beach, not one escaping.
The watches in the pockets of two OF
the men stopped at 12:45 and 1925
O'Clock, respectively.
The body of Captain Harding, of the
Monticello, was found at Picnic Point,
encircled with life belt and fully
dressed.
1t is coincidence that the ship
Peter Stewart was wrecked off this
shore few years ago in the month of
July, and a boat load of men came III
where the Monticello's boat was found.
Half of the men we're dead before the
boat touched the land and many be-
lieve the same is true of those IN the
Monticellos boat. The fury of the surf
is appalling in this region.
/ The body of o. N. Coleman. COM
mercial traveller, who was not pre-
viously known to have been on board
the Monticello, has been washed ashore
and identified. He represented Ham
ilton, Ont, jewelry firm, and carried
samples worth $4,000. One trunk
has been found.
Wreckage of all kinds litters the
shore-boxes, barrels, pieces of ships
boats and parts of the superstructure
of the steamer. James Ball, mer-
chant of Yarmouth, who was supposed
,e 80 hax, mo
missed the steamer in St. John. Rup-
ert Olive was crossing the bay from
St. John to Yarmouth to rejoin his
own steamer.
Some difficulty has been encountered
in figuring out the total loss of life, as
number of passengers joined the Mon
ticello at St. John without first regis
tering at the booking office. They
.. bought their tickets on board. re-
yised list OF the members of the crew,
prepared at the head Office OF the Var
mouth Steamship Company here, shows
that the officers and crew numbered 90.
The total mum ber of people on board is
now placed at 36. The four survivors
are: Captain Smith, a passenger;
Third Office Fleming, Quartermaster
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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; she became unmanageable,
broke apart and foundered. The sea is
not remembered to have been so heavy
on this coast for many years.
D I,,,rod on the Missouri Pacific
Pueblo, Colo, Nov. 14.-The Mis-
souri, Pacific passenger train which left
here last evening ran into an open
switch at Sugar City, 65 miles east OF
Pueblo, and plunged into freight ca
boose in which were four men. The
passenger engine and caboose telescoped
and fell in heap which at once took
fire and all woodwork was burned.
Engineer Hucket jumped, but Fireman
Nelson remained on the locomotive and
was pulled out of the wreck uncon-
scious. The passengers were uninjured
and their cars went East later. The
wounded men were brought to the Pu-
eblo hospital. The wrecked freight
train was sugar-beat train plying be-
tween Sugar City and Olney.
Fire in Copper Mine. -
Butte, Mont, Nov. 14.-Fire broke
ont in the 2OO-foot level of the Bell