The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1907-02-16
TERRIBLE TALES
OF SUFFERING
Survivors of Steamer Larchmont
Taken to Providence.
rss LIVES WE'RE LOST

! Showing Effects OF the 'e'''O'9
Cold-Oncers and Crew Charged
With cowardice-Twenty-two More
Bodies at Block Island
Providence. r. l.. Feb H. - A
careful compilation Of figures In
this city shows that 1879 lives are
known 10 have been lost as a result
of the collision Monday night between
the Joy line steamer Larchmont ami
the schooner Harry Knowlton. II Is
known that there were not less than
l57 persons on board the steamer. or
that number only 10 survived. Seventy
one bodies have been recovered. SO Of
them having been identified. There are
suH 100 passengers who are either
missing or unidentified.
Charges of cowardicc against the Of
fcers and crew of the ship were made
Dy Fred H.crgescll an lS-year-old lad
OF brooklyn. y. Y. He said that not
only were women left to their fate.
but that Captain McVey left the sink
ing ship in the very first life boat
that some of the ships employees filled
: the boats 10 the exclusion of the pas
seneers. and that at least one boat
was "''''""' '"'' "'''''
/ the side
Louis mcfarland, a colored waiter
on the larchmont, gave a version OF
me departure %, "'c o"r'" ~. . n'"t
Whl'h was eh'i'''' ui"V' '"' 'o'' We. ','@
gwen 10y i'', 7'S'',. - SOU ,aa,
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doo.r with fba steamer. when Boat
.,-oi, Andrew Tobosop who was on
n.o 5.,l. .o,ol tboir lives nv cutting
,ro ro,o
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e-r,o5 ~. any otbor survivor of the
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