The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-06-20
NUMBER MISSING
Loss OF LIFE BY COLLISION OF
NEW YORK FERRYBoATs NOT
DEFINITELY KNOWN.
SEARCH FOR BODIES GOES ON

the Wreck of the Vessel but About a
Dozen Passengers Are Unaecounted
For-one Man Dead and Thirty In
jured as a Result of the Sinking OF
the Transport ingalls,.
New York, June 1.-THE Staten Isl
and ferryboat Mortified, with 500 pas
sengers on board, was sunk In the
East river at the foot OF Coentles sup,
where she had drifted after having her
hull smashed in a collision with the
Jersey Central ferryboat Mauca
Chunk. At least two of the 500 pas
sengers are known to be dead and o
dozen others are missing. Fully
score received injuries necessitating
their removal to the hospital.
The divers at work in the wrecked
ferryboat kept at their task until .
o'clock in the morning without ind
ing a human body in the boats cab
ms. At 8 o'clock they went back to
work again. It is not known yet def
nifely that there was loss of life by
the collision. The Official entry on the
bIotter of the harbors police say that
no one was lost, but according to the
statements of tugboat captains who
surrounded the sinking Northfield, It
is thought that a number Of persons
must have persisted.
The body of man about 80 years
old was taken from the wreck OF the
Mortified shortly after o'clock.
Stories Very Conflicting.
The majority of the passengers who
were rescued were more or less hys-
terical and their stories as to the loss
of life were conflicting to a great ex-
tent. Many were of the opinion that
hundreds of lives were lost while 9TH
ers thought that but few were
drowned. It is-known that all of the
crew got ashore in safety. The body
of boy about 10 years old was found
floating in the east river. The body
had been in the river but short time.
The coroner's office attributed the
death to the Mortified collision and
the police recorded it as the first
known death. ~ r.
Captain Daniel Gully of the tugboat
Mutual said that many persons must
have been drowned.
81 saw the two boats when they
crashed" he said, "and / saw
more than 80 jump overheard as the
Mortified was drifting from the bat
terry to pier 1O-that was on the star
board side. and I cannot tell how
many went over from the port side.
I saw more than Is in the water when
/ ran up to the Northfield and many
of them went down. If, as the ferry
officials say, there were between 800
and 1000 passengers on that ferryboat
not more than 500. to 600 got ashore in
safety" g..
Number of People Missing.
General Charles G. Bartlett, IS
years of age, of Hart Park, Living
stone, Staten Island, is reported miss
ing. General Bartlett was librarian
of the criminal court building.
Police Inspector Thompson said
many injured persons had been rush
ed to the hospitals so quickly after
the stranding of the ferryboat that the
police did not have chance to make
a systematic list of them: A census
of all patients in hospitals will be
taken and the inspector said he ex-
pected to find some of the missing in
the hospitals. The inspector said he
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 ferry
boat. At IL a. M. the list of missing
was as follows:
: General Charles G. Bartlett, Staten
Island; j. v. Wright, note teller,
Oriental bank, New York; Commits
sary Sergeant Imhof, U. s. Army, Gov
ernor's island; David Van Name, Stat
en- Island; r. G. Golfer, Western pur-
chasing agent American Insurance
company, Newark, N. j.; F. J. Ben
nett, Tompkinsville; Mrs. Vida An
derson, Port Richmond; John Ander-
son, 8 years old; George H. Coopers,