The sun., 1901-06-16
ONE DEAD; THREE MISSING;
DIVERS FOUND ONE BODY ON sUNkEN
FERRYBOAT YESTERDAY.

Criminal Cosrts, Among the MissinS Cap
tsins Of Both the Northncld and the Msael
Chunk Mako Their Reports Of the Collision
The known result In fatalities thus far ol
the collision between the Staten Island ferry
boat Northheld and the Jersey Central ferry
boat Mauch Chunk OF the Battery on Friday
night Is one dead OF the large number
reported rs missing a few hours nfter the
accident all but four had turned up alive
before dark yesterday, The one person
known to have lost his life in the accident
was jeremiah V. Wright. 81 years old. note
teller Of the Oriental Bank at i22 Bowery
and living at New Brighton. Staten Island
His body was recovered by Albert Blomberg
a diver, at 800 O'Clock yests DAY afternoon
When the body was found II was floating
feet down In the woman's cabin. about amid
ships, the head touching the cabin ceiling
The diver foated the body free Of the boat
and the police hauled 1t up on Pier 10 The
arms were upraised as II Mr. Wright ha d
attempted to clutch something. The Identity
was established by papers found In the pockets
OF the. coat and waistcoat Besides the
papers. which included blank checks OF the
oriental Bank and receipt for rent made
out to j. v Wright, there was gold OPEN
face watch, SO 10 in money. diamond ring
and other jewelry and valuablcs. The watch
had stopped at e;i7 O'Clock When the police
had established the identity and taken pos
session OF the effects the body was delivered
to an undertaken.
The missing. according to the list revised
lnte last evening. were
GEN CHARLES c. DARrLETT, Fart Park Lv-
ingstone l.. I.
JUAN ABoY DESirz, rs years old, Richmond
road, Staten Island.
CHARLES DiCkENsoN. 55 years old, West New
Brighton. Staten Island.
Grace sullivan Of Roscbank. Staten Island
and Jose r J. Xiques Of Port Richmond,
who were reported among the missing late
yesterday afternoon, turned up last night.
Miss Sullivan WAS not on the Northileld and
Xiaues took plenty OF time to dry of before
reporting to his friends.
The wreckers and divers began work
on the Northned early yesterday morning
Divers were sent down fore and aft Of the
wreck to make an examination before the
wreckcrs did anything The divers came
up to report that there was a great heap Of
dead horses, trucks, bicycles and merchandise,
but. as far ms they had been able to deter
mine, there were no human bodies The
divers told the wreckers where to place the
floating derricks. and about noon a truck
was hauled up. A little later three dead horses
were brought 10 the surface and three bicycles
These were all taken from the starboard side
OF the boat About 2:3J Diver Blomheru
signalled to he hauled up and when he reached
the surtaoehe reported the fnding Of \ mans
BODY. which proved to be that Of Mr. Wright
About the same time divers forward on the
a.
derricks fast to big truck to which the horses
were still attached There was Il oube in
getting the truck free from The tor deck Of
could not be raised with the bodies of the
horses attached. The dead beasts were then
cut loose and the truck raised 10 the deck Of
pulled up later, Then two more bicycles we're
brought up and large quantities Of merchan-
disc, The wreckers and divers quit work
for the day al o'clock. and at that time
besides the merchandise one body. eight derd
horses, three trucks and FIVE bicycles had b, en-
recovered. Work on the wreck win be resumed
", we're toseH to 'BT Barren S Isand ' 'eno
Ii is now believed that Gen cha rles q
Bartlett. who is still among the missing. los,
been be- FOR several years librarian at The Criminal
Courts Building and lived with his family at
Livingston, S | Gen. Bartlett was 2 brother
army He served all through the Civil War
as a volunteer. going out as a ser gcant OF
oT Of s
with the rank Of Brevet Brigadier-G General Of
Volunteers He almost Immediately joined
request after more than thirty years servicc,
when he was colonel of The Ninth United
States Infantry, which served with so much
Esd Whs H% esdns his soc IN
assault upon the walled city u Tientsn on
July i3 OF last ear ~
c bartlett q 3 Locust Hin avenue. onkers
called at Police Headquarters Yesterday,
and asked That general alarm be sent out
er si1 nnh re u sen that e
10 pounds. was of medium height and wore
wh'n he LETT the Criminal Courts luilding
for south Ferry on Friday af,er9noon. = me
graz hair, lnustache and imperial
The body of the hoy taken from the Fast
Eer t S foo, sOS Of FsaiG5 5sD,s5 street s Ulster
Borsch. 10 years old. of IS East Eighth street.
was supposed at first to be that of John
andersen, years Old. Of Port Kehmohd.
the Official list Of missing
capt Abraham lohnson Of the Northheld.
and Capt sylvester Grinin. Of the Meuch
Chunk were cr aligned before Magistrate
Crane in the CeCtre street police court yes
tsrdny morning johnson Was charged with
criminal negligence
Il did not see the accident =" said Policeman
Durkin Of the !rbOr squad who had him
in charge, but placed this man under arrest
on account of Information received There
are no witnesses present Inspector Thoup-
son asks that the prisoner be paroled in nav
custody. pending investigation
Magistrate Creme refused = grant this
request lie s,id
Two old hulks cant go knocking against
ZACH ether around the harhor. with hundreds
u people on board, without somebody being
held IL tho people arrested are brought before
me ! will hold Johnson IN 81 so Go and
look for your bondsmnn In the meantime
Il TO make Mt q short Nfidav't
J Frank Emmons. President Of the Staten
Island Rapid Transit company. appeared
shortly after and haied johnson out
Capt Griffin. who wa arrnRned Mt II
o'clock. was charged with mansau ughtor in
the second degFee. The bail IN his case was
fxed at s2.SOO. and was furnishe1 by Howard
" Maxwell OF 10 Broad street
Capt johnson. whom Inspector Thompson
asked TO have paroled in his custody, il the
Inspectors nephew
Before Capt, Griffin gave himself up he
ID P'trie, United States Local Inspector
OF Steam Vessels for the Port of Now YORK
Here Is capt. Griiln's s,renort =,
Making for the Whitehall street ferry
slip with the ferryhoat Manch Chunk within
one and one.half lengths IN Whitehall street
ferry slip AZ sO2 p VI | noticed the ferry
boat Nortbfeld Of the Staten Island Rnpid
the New York slip. foot Of Whitehall street.
with the Nhcnlman at the wheel In the head.
end pilot hOus" The wheclman blew mo
two whistles and continued on coming out.
h"i ID directly for my slip then rang
two D"lls 20 stop mv engines. two bells 10 back
ard siugl" bell to back fun sleoI 0ste.a,
then blew an nla-m whistle Ave diffc r"nt
,lnes t2 Mortified as a danger signal The
tn ulc yaS running strong food When
.he was thrce-punrters Of her own length
Ia the stream nd headed across the mouth oi
aalir mat l.1f