Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-02-24
The AWFUL DISASTER Of
san FRANCISCO HARBOR
INVESTIGATION PRO-
CEEDS.
THE DEAD LIST REACHES 1928
THE PURSER'S PASSENGER LIST
AND CANCELLED TICKETS
DISCOVERED.

SAN FRANCISCO, FEBRUARY ESQ
far as can be ascertained from reliable
data, one hundred and twenty-eight
lives were lost in the wreck of the
Pacific Mail steamer City of Rio De
Janeiro. Some fishermen early this
morning found a packet containing the
papers of Purser Rooney. Among
them was the passenger list and a
bunch of cancelled passenger tickets,
and as there were names on the list
whose cancelled passenger tickets did
not appear among those recovered, it
is assumed that they laid over either
at Yokohama. Kobe. or Honolulu.
That they were not on the vessel at
the time she went down is certain.
The list of passengers as given out
by the steamship company and COM
piled from the papers of the purser
found to-day is:
From Hong Kong.
CABIN: VIM. Castle and wife, laid
over en- route; w klose, laid over en-
route; Consul General r. Wildman,
wife, boy and infant; Mrs. Katie Mich
OILS. (maid of Mrs. Wildman), and ma
tive servant; ]. X. Seymour; Mrs. c. K.
Mcintosh, laid over en- route; Mrs. J..
w. West, saved.
European steerage: =. E. Howell,
T. 3. Lee.
From Shanghai
IL I
Herne, saved; A. Hart and wife; Ed
ward Secretin Captain Hecht, saved.
From Nngasnki
CABIN: Russell Harper, saved. From
KCoe, (steerage), I. Stsumura.
From Yokohama CABIN:
H. Cripps Matheson. H. S. Olcott,
laid over en- route.
Steerage:F. Sito. X. Sawiji q. ANA
dia, saved T, Kawamura, Mrs. Dika
Hamasako, Miss Hiki Aseki, Miss
Marsa Hamarako.
From Honolulu
Cabin: Mrs. S. W. Wakefield and
daughter; Mr. and Mrs. w. A. Wood
worth W. A. Henshaw; Miss l.. r.
Jesu; Mr.. Gkahawaharu, wife and fam
lily; 4eong Chung; A. Gusoni; DR.. A.
w Dcda.
Steerage: r. A Long, saved; Harry
Guyan; Mrs Frances hipley, saved;
Mr.. Tak2ta and wife; Mr. Sagurai;
William Casper Charles E. Jacox;
Philip Nuzzenblatt, saved.
Passengers from unknown points,
presumably from Honolulu, on lay
over checks: Mr. Knotse, saved; W..
b. Ra&der, saved; Mr.. Nuzenbaum,
saved.
YhuS Far Only Eleven
bodies have been recovered, six whites,
four Chinese and one Japanese. The
whites are:
Julia Dodd aged 50 years, steward
ess OIL the Rio De Janeiro; Angelina
CUISINE, labor agent in the employ of
the Spreckels at Spreckelsville, Hawa-
iian Islands; Edward Barwick. aged IS
years, ships butcher of the Rio; Mrs.
Alfred Hart, formerly Of Los Angeles,
but recently from Manila: Mrs. Sarah
w. Wakefield aged so, late resident
of Oakland, (The remains of her daugh-
ter, Naomi, are still missing); Charles
Cowdell, attorney and capitalist.
survey of the Port Spear
ocean near Bakers Beach. and along
the bay shore inside Fort Point Thus
far his men have picked up four mail
bags, one CT these washing in near
Bakers and the other near the Fort
Point life saving station. The surveyor
has given orders that all fishing boats
must report at the custom Office.
All bodies brought in by them and
all wreckage and fotsam picked I'D by
fishermen must be accounted for to
the officials at the barge office. In this
way it is thought that looting of mail
bags and trunks may be stopped
Among other effects picked UP by
fishermen was the box containing Cap
tain Wards papers.
TIE police have established patrol
outside the beach south of Fort Win
field Scott.
The value OF the cargo of the Rio De
Janeiro has not been determined ow-
Ing to the absence of important pa
pers, but it is variously estimated from
100000 to 100000. Among some pa
pers found floating near the scene OF
the disaster was copy of the mani
festo, showing all the consignees with
the exception of the Chinese firms.
The Cargo Consisted Principally
of silk. tea, rice and other oriental
products There was no treasure
aboard as was at first reported.
Of the two hundred sacks of mail
carried by the Rio De Janeiro. only
twelve have come to the surface.
The investigation into the loss of the
steamer will probably be held next
week. Graham Coghlan. the senior
surviving officer of the Inflated vessel.
called on Captain Boles this afternoon
to report and he was instructed to
make his statement Monday morning.
The inspectors are in a peculiar posi-
ton in the matter Captain Ward,
the man held responsible for the navi-
cation Of the steamer, is dead. and
the investigation of Pilot Jordan will
be under the direction of the State
pilot commissioners. The government
inspectors can only inquire into the
navigation of the ship as far as the
second officer knows and will inyesti-
gate the management of the boats and
similar matters. Pilot Jordan will be
summoned as witness The pilot
commissioners, who are Captain Le-
land and MeSsrs Alexander. and Pratt,
will hold regular meeting next Mon
day, but in courtesy to the govern
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