The Washington herald., 1907-02-14
RIGID INQUIRY OPENS
INTO SEA DISASTER
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periences in their night Tor life on this raft
/ for over twelve hours is one that they will
never forget.
| Thirty-ffve were on this piece Of the
| deck when il fioated away. Seven per-
| sons alive and the body of another were
found on it when the fishing schooner
came alongside just before noon yester-
/ day.
survivors Taken TO Hospital.
Seven men landed on the island from
the captains boat, three reached shore in
second boat. one boy swan ashore
from a boat that went down half a mile
| from the island. and another was picked
/ up on a raft some distance out
The eighteen survivors reaching here
tonight on the Kentucky were sent 10
| the Rhode Island and the East Side hos
pitals Capt McVay was the first to be
taken off the boat. He was carried off
on stretcher He is In a very serious
condition, and was rushed 10 the hos
pitai. Several of the other survivors were
| taken off on stretchers, being unable 10
| walk II is feared that their limbs viii
| have 20 be amputated.
Coming of the Funeral Ship.
| An enormous crowd had gathered at the
| Fox Point wharf when the funeral ship
was sighted coming up the river late this
| evening. Ambulances from the two hos
pitfalls were waiting at the dock for the
! survivors, and several patrol wagons were
ready 10 receive the corpse, The police
were forced TO rope off the pier, and al
| lowed only a few to do down to the ship.
/ Waiting at the lines was a crowd OF Weep
| ing men and women. In the crowd was
a group of members of the Salvation
Army They had come to see If they
could ind among the bodies any Of their
comrades who sailed for New York on the
| ship night before last. They seemed over
come with grief.
None Of the bodies was In collins, and
all of them were frozen stiff and
| incrusted with ice in many cases the
arms were, raised as If the ice had incased
them while they were in the very act
Of fighting the fate that was in store for
them.
work of Identification Begins.
OF the bodies which had been recovered
when the Kentucky left. only five were
women. There were no children, though
| there were some aboard the vessel
II took some time to prepare the bodies,
and the work Of Identification Il the
morgue did not begin until late this even
| ing.
Providence has been filled all day with
relatives Of the missing ones The rea-
son for the delay in the Kentucky reach
| ing here was due to the difficulty in get
! ting the survivors and the bodies on
/ board Of her az the island. She could
not get very near the shore owing 10 the
/ Ice. and consequently the bodies had 20 be
| taken out &c her In small boats. as did
| the survivors They had been landed
| five miles from where the boat lay and
! had 10 be brought the five miles in
wagons.
Survivor Afraid to Go on ship.
Sadie Gallup. Who lives IN Boston, re-
/ fused 10 allow herself 10 be taken aboard
the Kentucky. though she was urged 10
do so IN order that she could get proper
/ treatment at a hospital here She is
! threatened with pneumonia. and is also
/ frostbitten. She is almost crazed from
| her experience and nj the idea Of going
1 on another boat she became delirious.
The experiences Of Miss Gallup and
! those on the part Of the hurricane deck
that foateG of when the ship went down
were related by Mrs Harris Feldman.
/ the other woman on this makeshift raft.
! who was saved. with her husband both
! being from New York and by David Fox.
4 Of Bridgcton. y. J.
Tragedy on the Deck Raft.
The Feldmans were in a stateroom on
/ the second deck when the accident hap
| pened. and fought their way up the stairs
| TO the hurricane deck, where the boats
were. Feldman put his wife I'm a boat,
but many had crowded into this boat
and he found that he could not get
aboard himself He is "a big man and an
old Black Sea sailor. Seeing that he and
his wife were liable TO be separated, he
pulled her out of the boat just as the ship
began TO settle and the water had risen
10 the deck. They grabbed on 10 the
deck and suddenly there was grinding
noise and they found themselves floating
on an improvised raft made no OF about
half Of the deck Two women and a
man were found In the water and a mo-
ment later they were hauled aboard, but
they died almost Immediately. Their
bodies frOZe at once and were washed
overheard one after another the others
Z
the cold and died, and the swirling seas
quickly took their bodies away.
Would Not Let Wife Die.
If it had not been for Feldman the two
women would have died.
All night long, said Mrs. Feldman,
my husband kept beating the other
woman and myself to keep the life in our
bodies. Then he would seize US and make
us walk up and down, holding on to him.
There was never a moment that he gave
it up. Most Of the others were stiff and
sat down to die. but my husband would
not give it up. He told me that I must
keep alive.
Miss Gallup could not keep walking
and finally fell down and lay between
two dead men on the raft We could not
get her up. but my husband kept beating
her all over her body The waves swept
over US constantly, and we were covered
with ice. Some Of the people prayed
We could see the lights ali the time, but
not a single boat We shouted. but there
was no answer. All we could do was to
pray. Finally. when we had almost given
up. We saw the fishing boat and knew
that we were safe
Walks and Prays All Night.
When taken aboard the fishing boat the
clothes of the women were frozen to
their bodies, but Feldman, the Black Sea
sailor. had kept the blood moving in them
and had saved their lives.
David Fox. Of Bridgeton, n. J.. worked
with Feldman through the night in this
heroic task. He is big man, too. He
was on his way home from attending
Bible conference. His stateroom was
stove in by the schooner. He was the
man who gave up the fight TO get I'D the
stairs. and, with the water rushing into
the cabin through a hole that was as big