Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-02-20
MORE VICTIMS FOUND
FlohIN0 BOATS BRING IN ~ ICE.
COVERED BODIES.
TWO OF THEM ARE WOMEN
Survivors Of the Larchmont Disaster
and Many Corpses Are Taken
to Providence-Inquiry
Is Started.

Block Island, R. I.-Block Island
had a brief respite Wednesday from
the scenes of death and suffering
which followed the collision off Watch
Hill, Monday night, between the Joy
line steamer Larchmont and the coal
laden schooner Harry Knowlton. The
survivors of the wreck had been car
sted to the steamer Kentucky, which
was to convey them to Providence for
medical treatment.
Fifty bodies also had been placed
on board, and as the vessel steamed
out of the harbor, those who were left
on shore returned to their homes,
many of them to recover from the
fatigue caused by their long vigil on
the beach.
The scene of death and suffering
seemed to have shifted. The life savers
returned to their stations, which but
an hour before had been filed with
the dead and with those few who had
escaped with their lives. The Ken
tuckys smoke was still visible across
the sound, however, when a little fish
ing schooner came hurrying in before
the wind with her flag at half-mast.
A moment later a second fishing boat
was seen heading in shNe, also flying
the signal of death from her masthead.
A third schooner and then a fourth
sailed in, each with a half-masted dag.
When the vessels reached shore,
life. savers and others were waiting,
tired as they were, to care for the
dead as they had cared for the living,
and to prepare for shipment to Provi-
dence the additional victims of one of
the most horrible disasters that has
ever occurred off the New England
coast.
AS soon as the fishermen were with
in hailing distance the captains shout.
ed their news ashore. The sea had
given up at least portion of it's dead
and the seamen had gathered in %
bodies, two of them the bodies of
women. The little life saving sta
morgues. AS on Tuesday, the surf
boats were run out and the dead were
placed on the floor, side by side, to
await the arrival of another steamer
to carry them to Providence.
The bodies brought in Wednesday
afternoon were, with one exception
fully clothed, and in addition had life
preservers strapped to them. This
fact leads to the belief that the vic
Tins, unlike the others who drifteG
ashore, had remained on board the i'll
fated steamer long enough to faster
the lifebelts about them.
Early in the day it seemed apparent
that few more bodies would drift on tt
the beach and small fleet of fishing
vessels went outside to search the
sound. Most of the bodies were fount
drifting to the northward of the is
land. All were encased in ice ant
were kept on the surface only by the
life preservers.
The first of the schooners to reach
port carried the steering wheel of the
steamer and six bodies, two of then
women. The second boat had FIVE me1
on board. Then followed the othel
schooners, the first with five bodies
and the second with six.
New London, Conn.-United States
steamboat inspectors of this distric,
have begun an investigation of the
collision in which the steamer Larch
mont was sunk off Block Island. The
investigation comes within the juris
diction of New London district anl
not in the Providence district, as pre-
viously reported.