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Divers LOOK FOR BODIES.
Ferryboat Mortified Sunk in Col
lision with Steel-Hulled Mauch
Chunk at New York.
NEARLY 1000 PASSENGERS ON BOARD.
Eleven Persona Reported Missing But
Not n Body Recovered from the
! Boat-BOy's nosly Found Floating
Near Scene of Disaster-TuE Cnp-
/ tain Says Hundreds Were Drowned.

Boat-Boy's nody Found Floating
Near Scene of Disaster-TuE Cap
tain Says Hundrc DIS Were Drowned.
New York, June 17.-The divers at
work on the wrecked ferryboat North
Reid, which was sunk in collision with
the steel-hulled propeller Mauch
Chunk off Staten Island ferry slip Fri
nay night, kept at their task until six
o'clock Saturday morning without
Ending human body in the boats
cabins. AT nine O'clock they went back
10 work again. The first undertaking
bf the divers was to make fast lines to
pull the wrecked boat around so that
bhe would lie abreast of pier 10, and
they were unable to search the cabins
6uring the night.
+ Two of the divers came up after an
hour and half's work and reported
bhat they had found no bodies.
/ Magistrate Crane, before whom
Capt. Abrahamson, of the Mortified,
was arraigned, ordered policeman to
make an affidavit charging Abraham
Son with criminal negligence.
During the forenoon Capt. Griffin,
Df the Mauch Chunk, came over from
his home in New Jersey and gave him
Self up to the police.
believe Her Husband Drowned.
Gen. Charles G. Bartlett, IS years of
nge, of Hart Park, Livingston, Staten
ISLAND, is reported missing. Gen. Bart
TX = 10
Building. He was in infirm health and
Usually crossed from Manhattan to
Staten Island by the. six o'clock boat.
Mrs. Bartlett called at the criminal
Eourt building Saturday morning, look
ing for her husband. She feared he
Eas drowned.
! A report from ST. George, S. L., says
that all of the residents of Staten
island known to have been on the
Mortified have been .aocannted for
except Gen. Bartlettand j. v. Wright,
OF TompkinsyilgS Mr.. Wright was en-
gagged in business in New York, and it,
was his custom to return home every
sevening on the six o'clock boat. Re-
Peated inquiries were made by mem
Ebers of Wright's family at police head
quarters during the night and early
Saturday, but no news of him could be
obtained.
], Injured Rushed to Hospitals.
| Police Inspector Thompson said
many injured persons had been rushed
TO the hospitals so quickly after the
lstranding of the ferryboat that the
police did not have chance to make
n systematic list of them. a census of
AL patients in hospital received Friday
night will be taken and the inspector
said he expected to find some of the
missing in the hospitals. The in
Apector did not think many were dead,
but he said it was possible that some
bodies would be found among the
wagons and horses on the main deck
of the ferryboat.
List of the Missing.
AT II a. IN. the list Of missing was as
follows:
Gen. Charles G. Bartlett, of Staten Is
land.
J. " Write. note teller, Oriental bank.
New York. resident of Staten island.
1mhof, commissary sergeant u s. l.
of Governors island.
4, Van Name. David. Staten Island.
Gotten. r. c.. western purchasing agent
iAmerican Insurance company, Newark. N.
willie.
Anderson, Mrs. Vida. of Port Richmond.
Anderson. John, eight years old, son OF
Mrs. Anderson.
Coopers. George H.. Newdorp, s. 7.
Juan Alloy Benitez. rs years old, of Rich
mond. s. ].
Charles Dickinson. IS years old, of West
New Brighton. S. I.
4 Passensers We're HystericaI.
The majority of the passengers
who were rescued were more or less
hysterical and their stories as to the
loss of life were conflicting to great
extent. Many were of the opinion
that hundreds of lives were lost,
while others thought that but u few
were drowned. AS this dispatch is
ybeing sent the divers are searching
all the cabins, the engine and fire
rooms and other compartments of
the ferry boat for bodies. II is
known that all of the crew got ashore
in safety.
IS
The body of a boy about ten wears
old was found floating In the East
river. The body had been in the wa
ter but a short time. The coroner.s
Office attributed the death to the
Northfield collision and the police re.
corded it as the first known death.
Deeiases Many Drowned.
Capt. Daniel Gully, of the tugboat
Mutual, said that many persons must
have been drowned.
''I saw the two boats when they crashed >"
he said. land am positive that 2e0 per-
sons were drowned. ! saw myself more
than 30 jump overheard as the Northfield
drlfted from the Battery to pier No. 1O-that
was on the starboard side. and cannot tell
nov mahS went over from the port side.
! saw more tban Is in the water when /
ran up to the forthteld. and many of
them gent down. ~. as the ferry officials
say. <eaerc were between $50 and .0s0 ma se
sengers On that ferry hoat not more than
zoo TO 600 got ashore III safety"
Accident TO Transport Inrau.
New York, June l7.-Pending inyes.
tigation by the federal authorities
Joh., y. Robins, of the John N. Rob
ans coa,apnny, refuses to make state
ment concerning the sinking of the
United States transport ingalls, in the
Erie basin Friday. 50 far as known
the accident caused the death of one
man and tho Injury of more tiisn
80 others. he greater number Of
those injured are in seney ospital,
Brooklyn where it WAS said Saturday