Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-19
SADDENED FACES
Among All the People at the
Isles of Shoals.
No More Bodies Recovered from
Thursdays Terrible Accident.
Relatives and Friends of the Dead
Frustrated With Grief.


fishermen manipulating long-poled
graphing hooks from their boats was
the early reminder, if any was needed,
to the summer visitors ut the Isles of
Shoals, this morning, of last nights
disaster in which IA lives were lost by
the upsetting of whale boat in Il
squall. The men were working in the
hope that they might find some of the
five bodies still missing, nine having
been recovered, last night.
1t was almost Il forlorn hope, how
ever, as the tide runs very swiftly near
+ the scene of the accident and those ia
miiar with the waters about the
islands are of the opinion that the
bodies which were not found last night
We're washed out to sea. There was
thought to be one chance that some
bodies might have become entangled in
the boat and that by locating the craft
and raising it they would be found. To
this end the fishermen were cropping
along the bottom for the boat.
The greatest change possible has
come over the people on Appledore and
Star island this morning. Pleasure, for
which the guests sought the locality
for their summer outing, seemed far
theSt from the minds OF all and many
went SO far as to say that their season
had been spoiled and that they should
take their departure at once.
Sadness prevailed everywhere. Among
The hotel guests because Of the shock
Of the calamity and among the en-
ployes of the hotels because of the sud
den taking off of SO many of their asso-
ciates, who only yesterday We're in
their places as happy as the rest.
A few persons got ready to take the
early boat for Portsmouth. Among
them were Fred Miles, the bOatman
who took out the Inflated party, and
Miss Alice Haggerty of Exeter, two Of
the three persons who were rescued.
Miss Addie Gilmore, sister of Laura,
one of the drowned, and Oliver Adams,
brother of TWO other victims also left
on the Merryconneag.
The departure of the boat was not
attended by unusual scenes as all the
bodies had been taken to Portsmouth
last night. The arrival at the wharf
here however. was witnessed by Il
crowd among whom We're the family of
Skipper Miles and that of Miss Gilmore.
The meeting of Mr.. Miles with his
wife and four children was extremely
pathetic. Few words were spoken, but
the embraces and display of deep
emotion was most touching.
While joy had been the prevailing
element in the Miles greeting and Of
Miss Gilmore and her relatives was be
clouded by the knowledge that at a
nearby undertaking shop lay the body
of one of the family, the disposition of
which had called them together.
Mr.. Miles would not talk of the acct
dent at the wharf and Miss Heggerty,
the other survivor who reached here,
this morning, could not talk about 1t.
She was in a pitiable' nervous condi-
ton. unable, as she said, to think
clearly or discuss the affair. The mere
reference to it led to such symptoms
Of hysteria as to make it apparent that
the only subject could not be pursued.
Mr.. Miles also showed the effects of
his experience and appeared as II II
would take him some time to recover.
Not less affected was Oliver Adams.
Two of his sisters persisted in the
catastrophe, but he did not know that
they were members of the party. He
saw the boat capsiZe. He was among
the first to reach the shore and push
out to the rescue.
With another man in n dory he pulled
two bodies from the water and rowed
TO land with all haste in order that
resuscitation might be obtained with
out delay. Not till the bodies were
lifted from his boat and stretched upon
the land did he see that one of them
was his sister. The shock was severe
and it was only intensified when later
the fact that the other sister also was
drowned became known to him. He
went to his home in the city immedi-
ately after his arrival
At the undertaking rooms here the
bodies of the victims lay over night.
Today, the bodies of the Adams girls
were taken to their home. Arrange
ments We're made by the Gilmore fam
lily to take the body of Laura to Ex-
eter. where she had lived and word
was received by telegraph from rela-
tives of Annie Sheehan at Medford,
Mass. to send her body there at once.
Beyond these instances nothing has
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