New-York tribune., 1901-06-16
ONE BODY IN WRECK.
DISASTER BRINGS OUT CRITT-
CLSM OF S. l. LINE.
CAPTAINS MAKE REPORTS TO STEAM.
BOAT INsPECTORS-AGITA FOR
A NEW SERVICE TO RICHMOND.

officials Of the Staten Island Rapid Transit
Company have announced that the submerged
ferryboar Mortified is TO be raised. repaired
and placed in service again as soon as possible
although many people OF Staten Island have
been demanding a better ferry service. and
there have been expressions of belief that the
ferTyboats now in are too old and rotten
for safety. Tho steamboat inspectors declare
that the Northfield was seaworthy
A careful search by divers in the cabins of
the Mortified Pier No. 10, East River. yes
terday resulted I'm the discovery of the body
of jeremiah V. Wright and ii was known that
al least one life had been lost as the result of
the collision between the Mortified and the
Mauch Chunk off the Battery on Friday after
noon Mr. Wright was reported missing yes
terday morning The failure to find other
bodies on the felTyboat. and the fact that few
persons who could have been on the ferryboat
at the time of the accident We're reported miss
ing yesterday. led the police 10 believe that not
more than two or three people could have per-
ished in the sinking of the Mortified. The list
of the dead and missing Al late hour last
night was as follows:
DEAD.
WRIGHT Jeremiah Y. sixty-two years old.
check and collection clerk at the Oriental
New-Brighton, Staten Island.
MISSING.
BARTLETT. General Charles G., sixty-lve
years old. Of Hart Park, Livingston. Staten
Island General Bartlett has been librarian
Of the Criminal Courts. He left his office at
40 .. m on Friday with his sister-in- law.
He placed her on a Broadway car and then
went to a clothing store in Nassau-st. He
hut mot
get there. His friends said yesterday that
he probably was on the ferryboat and was
drowned.
BENITEZ, Juan Aboy twenty-five years Old
single of Richmond, Staten Island.
CLARKE, A. c.. Of Brooklyn. was believed TO
have started for Staten Island to keep an
engagement and did not return home.
DICKINSON. Charles. ffty-five years old. Of
Egbert-ave. West New Brighton, Staten ISL
and; reported missing by friends.
STEVENS. Beaumont, Of New-Dorp. Staten
Island.
REPORTED MISSING. But FOUND.
Coinmissary Sergeant Imhof started for
Staten Island on Friday having left the bar
racks on BedlOw's Island i'm time 10 catch the
6 O'Clock boat. He was reported among the
missing, but was at his post of duty again yes
terday.
Friends of +. +. McIvOr, who was reported
missing SAID that Mr.. McIVor took another boat
and was at home and we'll.
Miss Grace Sullivan. the ticket seller at the
Manhattan end of the Thirty-ninth-st ferry.
who was supposed 10 have been among the
missing. was reported safe.
The police received word that Jose f. j.
Xiques, of Port Richmond. who had been re-
ported missing, was Al his cigar store in Broad
way.
Captain Griffin of the Mauch Chunk, sur
rendered 10 the police yesterday morning. He
was arraigned before Magistrate Crane in com
psny with Captain Johnson, of the Northheld'
who had been locked up all night and both
captains were held in bail for examination on
June % on the charge of criminal negligence.
The two captains made official reports TO the
local Board Of United States Steamboat In
spectors which will soon begin an investigation
Of the collision. Each captain blames the other