Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-15
MANY ARE MISSING.
Number Of Lives Lost by Sink.
ing OF the Northfield Not
Yet Known.
A Score Of Prominent People
We're on the Boat When
II Sank.
Efforts to Locate Them Unsuc.
cessful..o Only One Body So
Far Recovered.

cessful..0nly One Body So
Far Recovered.
New York. June 15.-The divers at
work on the wrecked ferryboat at
| Mortified kept at their task until 6
o'clock this morning without finding a
human body in the boats cabin. AT 8
| O'clock they went back to work again.
1t is not known definitely what the loss
| of life was as a result of the collision.
| The official entry on the blotter of the
harbor police says no one was lost, but
| according to the statement of the tug
| boat captains who surrounded the sink
ing Mortified 1t is thought that num-
Der of persons must have pershed. Until
1 early this morning there We're many in
ouiries at the police stations for reia-
tives and friends who were supposed to
have gone on the Mortified and who
had not returned to their homes. The
body of boy aged about 10 years was
4 found floating in the East river this
morning, and was the first recovered
| which was attributed to the collision.
| The majority of the passengers who
| We're rescued We're more or less hyster-
cal and their stories as to the loss of life
! are conflicting to a great extent. Many
are of the opinion that hundreds of lives
/ We're lost. while others thought but a
few had drowned. 1t is known that all
of the crew got ashore safely.
AT noon the list of missing was as fol
lows:
General chas. G. Bartlett. Staten
/ Island.
/ j. " Wright note teller, Oriental
bank. New York, a resident of Staten
Island.
Imhoff. commissary sergeant. U. S. A.,
Governors Island.
David Van Name, Staten Island.
II. G.. Golfer western purchasing
agent American Insurance Company
Newark, n. j.
f. j. Bennett, Tomkinsville.
4 Mrs. Vida Anderson, Port Richmond
4 John Anderson. son OF Mrs. Anderson.
J George II. Coopers, New Dorp.
II Magistrate Crane, before whom Capt.
Abrahamson of the Northfield. WAS ar
raigned. ordered a policeman to make
atiidavit charging Abrahamson with
| noon Capt. Griffin of the Mauch Chunk,
gave himself up TO the police.
A Captain Daniel Gully, of the tug boat
Mutual. said today that many persons
must have been drowned. Il saw the
Il two boats when they crashed" he said
.and am positive 200 persons We're
1 drowned. saw myself more than
4 thirty jump overheard as the Mortified
4 was drifting from the Battery To pier
4 10. That was on the starboard side. and
u j cannot tell how many went over from
the port side. saw more than 100 in
the water when ran up to the North
field. and many of them went down. If.
A as the ferry officials say, there We're
between 500 and 1000 passengers on the
. boat. not more than 500 to 600 got ashore
in safety
!. Iside wheeler Mortified, which has been
in service of the Staten Island Ferry
4 Company for the past thirty eight years
was rammed last night by
i Mauch Chunk. used as a ferry
boat by the Central railroad
of New Jersey The collision occurred
just off the Staten island ferry slip at
the foot of White Hall street and In less
than twenty minutes afterwards the
Mortified, which was crowded with
passengers, sank at the outer end of the
Il Spanish line pier in the east river. The
Mauch Chunk, which was badly dam
aged. landed two dozen passengers who
we're aboard OF her
Over a hundred of the passengers, of
1.-THE Northtield We're dragged out Of the
water by people along the shore and
the crews of the fleet of river tugs
promptly responded to the ferry boats
call for help. a few of the Northtied's S
passengers We're hurt in the accident
and the police believe that some lives
We're lost. Capt. Daniel Gully of the
tug boat Mutual. who saw the ferry
boats crash together. says that mmedi-
ately after the collision between twenty
and thirty of the passengers leaped in
to the water and that many of these
persisted. Capt. Gully also declares that
. he is sure a hundred of the North
. fields passengers We're drowned. The
captains of other tug boats who We're
early on the scene. however, are inclined
. to think that the diasster as not so seri-
Gus as regards loss of life. Thus far no
dead bodies have been recovered.
The reason for such a difference OF
opinion as to TO the extent of the dis
aster is that the widest excitement pre-
vailed on the Northfield. The tug Mu-
; tual saved, in all, about seventy five
persons from the Mortified and the
tugs Unity and Arrow saved between
them $50 persona Two policemen of the.
l old slip station claim to have rescued
! nearly thirty people between them. A.;
. soon as the crowd. which had followed
!, the sinking ferry boat along the river
front, were able to render any aid they
worked with a will and in many in
stances men sprang into the water to
save life. The greatest sevice was
rendered by the tug boats which, as
soon as 1t was possible. circled around
the Mortified and made bridge to the
Spanish line pier and men and women
clambered over the tugs to the shore.
While the Northfield was we'll sup
piled with life preservers which were
slowed In out of the way places. not
more than two dozen Of the endang-
cred passengers were able to get the
life belts on. In few minutes the
: Northfeld sank to the bottom of the
lriver and then all who had not jumped