The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24
HAVE LITTLE HOPE
Parents of Sarah and Cora
Shull Are i'm Despair.
Still Waiting AnXiOusly for
Word of Daughters.
MAY YET BE SAVED.
Older Girl Known to Be Espec-
tally ResOurceful.
Late kilograms Relate Only to
Presence on Boat.

The family and friends of Cora and
Sarah Shull daughters of Mr.. and Mrs.
Elias Shull of 1921 West Sixth avenue,
| who were on the i'll fated Columbia
| which went down off the coast of Cal
| ifornia Saturday at midnight have
about given UP hope that they may be
among the unidentified rescued Their
| names were included on the ships list
| of passengers and several kilograms
have been received from friends advis-
| ing the parents that their daughters
| were included among the passengers
| The first accounts received in this
| city through the newspapers stated that
a raft and two boats loaded with pas
SengerS from the wrecked ooat were
| unaccounted for. Later reports. h.-w-
| ever, fail to confirm this story and
! hopes that they may be among the pas
sengers saved have all but been 4han-
doned.
At the home in this city the gloom
deepens as the hours pass and 3Io re-
port of the missing daughters is re-
ceiVed. The suspense is something aw-
full, said one of the neighbors Who,
with others have gathered to console
the aged father and mother, "ard while
we are hoping against hope II seems
that it is useless.
There are a number of reasons
which have led us to feel that the girls
may be among those saved. Sarah was
wonderfully resourceful girl and she
her when many another woman would
lose her presence of mird. We had
hoped that they We're On the opposite
side of the boat from where the COL
lision occurred and feel that If such
was the case that there is yet hope shat
they are saved and landed in some so
lated place where they have not been
able to communicate with u.s."
The father, Elias Shu1I, was for a
time buoyed UP by this knowledge
and hope but has about concluded
that the hope is a vain one and that
the girls must be numbered among
among a thousand that they have
been saved" he said this afternoon,
"and all that We have left is that
hepe. / have wired my son John,
who was with a surveying party at
Holly, Col, and he has gone directly
to San Francisco, and we hope to
hear from him sometime tomorrow.
Il feel that if the girls were among
from them before this time, unless
they have been landed at some point
where communication is impossible.
This is the only hope that we have
left and it is slender one"
Cora Shull who is "a years of age
and employed as a stenographer by
the board of control a the state house
accompanied by her sister, Sarah who
is three years older and employed in
a similar capacity by the Aetna In
surance company. left Topeka on the
3rd of July for Los Angeles to attend
the National Educational meeting. 1t
was their intention to then make
trip to Portland and return by way of
San Francisco and it was while they
were on this part of the trip that the
accident which undoubtedly cost them
their lives occurred.
The Shull family is one of the old
est in the city, Mr.. Shull having been
a resident of Topeka sincce 1869.
Both of the daughters were born in
Topeka, where they have a wide cir
Gle of acquaintances, having gradual
ed from the city high school and held
stenographic positions since then.
s E. Barber, the state representative
of the Aetna Insurance company in
whose office Sarah was employed,
wire the local manager of the Aetna
company in San Francisco and asked
him to make every effort to locate the
missing girls.
A telegram was received by Mr.. |
Barber this morning confirming the |
story that the girls were passengers |
on the wrecked boat and further con- |
frming the belief that they are among |
those who perished. The telegram
read: "Girls were among passengers /
of wrecked boat. 1t was reported that |
boats and a raft left side of sinking |