Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-14

CAPTAIN GEORGE W. M'vEY. lucky. The body of Harry E. Eckles, who lived here, was buried on the island. These fifty bodies were all that had been recovered when the Ken lucky sailed.
 Eighteen of the nineteen survivors were tenderly placed aboard the Ken lucky to receive care in the hospitals at Providence. The ott~' survivor, Miss Sadie Gallup of Boston, was too i'll to be removed. She is receiving every care here.
 For time before the Kentucky left the sea had ceased to give up more dead. Most of the islanders, worn with their long and awful vigil, had returned to their home for rest. The life savers had gone to their stations, which had been relieved of the suffer CTS and the dead, to recover from fa- tigue and exposure.
 The Kentucky's smoke was still wis lble across the sound, however, when three fishing schooners came hurrying In before the wind with their flags at half mast.
 As soon as the fishermen were with In hailing distance the captains shout ed their news ashore. They had gath cred in twenty-two bodies, two of them women. and the little life saving sta tions were once more turned into morgues.
 Most of the bodies were found drift ing to the northward of the island. All were incased in ice and were kept on the surface only by thu life preserv- CTS.
 The first of the schooners to reach port carried the steering wheel of the steamer
 The position of the sunken steamer has not been determined yet, as she is said to have gone down in sixty feet of water.
 Nearly fifty bodies have been wash ed ashore on the same beach where the survivors had landed, but the list of passengers on the boat was lost, and the company has only the hazy recollection of its purser, whose mind showed plainly the effects of the aw- ful experience through which he pass ed. That any one should have been able to have gone through these terri ble hours when the temperature was at zero and a northwest gale was hurling frozen spray into the little boats was perhaps one of the most surprising features of the disaster.
 In the cold morgues lay fifty bodies covered with ice from head to foot. Although these victims were dead. their bodies told silent story of the disaster. In death they looked as they must have looked as they stood on the deck of the wind swept and sinking steamer. Hands were frozen to ears as though In death the victim was at- tempting to protect them from pierc- Ing wind.
 A statement made by Fred Hierge- sell. an eighteen-year-old New York boy. contained the first direct charges against Captain Mcyey and his crew. Hiergesell asserts that Captain Me- yey's boat was the first one which left the sinking steamer.
 He said that he saw many women on the hurricane deck rushing about heiplessly and begging for life pre- servers. Many of these women plead ed with the panic stricken passengers and crew to direct them to the life boats. but their prayers were unheed- ed.
 z The survivors number only two vo- men, Mrs. Harris Feldman of New York and Miss Sadie Gallup of Boston. The passengers. awakened from their ! slumbers in comfortably heated rooms. were at the mercy of the storm. Many. 1t Is believed. went down with the [ ship. Others. thankful at first that they had escaped drowning. prayed that they might be relieved of the ter. rible pain caused by their frozen bodies. and one man. a passenger whose name could not be learned. cut his throat
 The few who survived were in pit ifuI condition In almost every case their arms and legs hung helpless as they were lifted out of the boats in which they reached shore Their con ] dItion b stiII wrstched, but two physt