Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-09-05


victims Of the disaster believed to be
either In the vessel or the water. Hun
tlreds of men, are dragging the sriver
bottom with graphing irons today, and
they will continue TO do so until every
person who was on the boat IS 40
counted for.
Y or the ! l bodies that have been re-
covered, 10 have been Unidentified. The
identified dead are. John r. Chew OF
Camden, N. D., assistant engineer OF the
City of Trentun Miss Elizabeth Green
of Philadelphia, passenger; Arthur
lansing, IA years old, of Trenton, ~.
J. James O'Connell, fireman, of
Philadelphia; Mott Mable, fireman.
of philadelphia; August Mable, deck
hand, OF Philadelphia James Graham,
engineer, of Trenton; William HI. Keen.
a passenger, Of PHILADELPHIA, and
James Mccormick, o paseenge, OF Will
mington, Del. The unidentified body
is no badly burned that the sex cannot
be determined Htt
According to the statement of the
wife OF the dead assistant engineer, John
P.tChew, the man had preHentimentBof
death. Mrs. Chew says that before leay-
ing home for work, on Tuesday night,
her husband said: Lizzie, | may
never see you again. have PRESENT.
ment that there will be an explosion on
the boat. If'there 10, there will he no
escape for me. They are running at ton
high o steam pressure; and il an acci-
dent should occur, | and many others
will be killed.
Augustus Reiphart, an expert ma
chinist employed by the Neatis 4 Levy
Shipbuilding Co., the builder of the
City of Trenton, recently overhauled
the boats boil He said today that
there is no doubt 10 his mind that the
explosion was due to the exhaustion of
the water in the boilers. He gave it
as his opinion that the boat was being
run too fast, and this exhausted the
water. The boat was Is minutes late
when she left her wharf yesterday
afternoon, and it Is stated that much
of this lost time had been made up
when the explosion occurred. The
captain and other officers of the boat
and the officials OF the company deny
emphatically the statement that the
City of Trenton was racing with the
steamer Twilight of the opposition line
when the explosion occurred. The
Twilight and the City OF Trenton were
close together at the moment OF the ex-
plosion. the former being in the lead.
Those on hoard the Twilight did not
hear the explosion or know of the mis-
hap to the rival until too late to be of
assistance.
Philadelphis, Pa. ,Alg. 30. Another
body of victim of Wednesdays steam
boat disaster was recovered from the
Delaware River by the police this
morning. it is supposed to be that of
Harry johnson, SO years old, grocer
of Hulmeyille, Pa, who was on his
way home from Philadelphia. He
leaves q wife and five children. This
makes the 10th body..recovered, of which
eight have been identified. Two bodies,
those of a woman and small girl, are
unidentified They are SO badly charred
and dishgured that they probably will
never be identified positively Nine
teen are missing, and it is almost Ger.
tain that all oil these are dead. OF the
eight persons remaining In the hos.
pital, two are almost certain to die.
Thus, the net result of the awful ex-
plosion will be iu the neighborhood of
30 deaths when the melancholy returns
are all in. ,tt
A statement made today by Mrs. B.
Grant Chaplain, who was passenger
on the City of Trenton with her two
daughters, Edna, aged Z years, and
Amanda, aged i, establishes beyond
reasonable doubt the fate OF Mrs.
William il. Keen, who had been re-
ported among the missing. Mrs. Clap
ham was in the cabin of the steamboat
when the explosion occurred. She was
severely soRlded by escaping steam, and
became separated from her children.
While making frantic search fer her
little ones, Mrs. Chapman says, she was
accosted by Mrs. Keen, whn said che
was badly injured, and begged piteously
for assistance. Mrs. Chaplain was
| forced to leave Mrs. Keen to search for
her children. She found both Of them
sealded by steam. but she succeeded in
getting them to place of safety,
| FROM which they were taken by the
rescuers. Until today, Mrs. Chaplain
was too much Frustrated to make her
statement regarding Mrs. Keen, Will
| liam ii. Keen, the husband Of the
woman, now placed in the list Of known
dead, took his wife and their daughter,
Fanny ID. Keen, 20 years old, on the
City of Trenton for pleasure trip He
was found crushed to death in the
ruins of the steamboat. The daughter
was terribly burned and scalded, and
the hospital physicians say abe cannot
recover. With the death of the
daughter, the entire Keen family will
BIZ wiped out of existence. Mr.. Keen
was the superintendent OF large
Philadelphia dairy. r
Philadelphia, Pa, Aug. 31-The
bodies of two more victims Of the ex-
plosion on the, steamboat City of Tren-
/ ton were recovered from the Delaware
River this morning. Both were OF
women, and one was identified as the
body of Amanda Cross, q years old,
of Philadelphia, who had been in
cluded 10 the list of missing. One
body was taken from the river at the
scene of the explosion, and the other
was picked up several miles below.
The recovery, Of the two bodies today
increases the number of known dead to
IL, and decreases the number OF miss
ing to 10.
One of the bodies recovered yester
day and identified as Harry johnson
OF Hulmeville, Pa, was viewed today
by relatives, who said it was not
Johnson's body.
Men are at work, clearing out the
hull Of the burned vessel; and it is
expected they will find several bodies.
Later In the day the bodies of two
more men were recovered. One of the
hodits is probably that of fireman, rs
it was found in the hull of the vessel,
/ but il ia on hadlv nharFa1 that sdantif