The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-15
Grim Work at Scene of Larch =
mont Horror Continues.
Fifty-f five of the Dead Have Been
identified.
ONE SURVIVOR GONE.
Leaves But Eighteen Alive From
Wreck.
More Evidence of COwardice Of
the Crew.

Providence, R. l., Feb. 15.-By the
Identification late last night of the
body of Bernard Hollingsworth OF
Jamaica, colored waiter, the number
of identified dead in the Larchmont
horror numbered So when the morgue
opened today to the throngs of anx-
ious friends and relatives of missing
passengers and crew.
The death last night of Samuel
Lacombe of Manchester, n. H, one of
the 19 persons who reached shore
after the Larchmont went down,
brought the list of survivors down to
Is. Eighty-seven people who are
known to have been on the steamer
were still missing or undermined wnen
the work of claiming the bodies was
resumed today and it is now practical
ly certain that the Larchmont carried
out with her on that fatal Monday
night 159 souls.
With returning strength the sur
vivors are able to recall more clearly
what happened in the terrible confu-
sion of the accident. STORIES renectlhs
on the conduct of some OF the oIlcers >
and crew are related. captain Nc
Vev of the Larchmont insists that ne
ana his men did all that could be done
in the IS minutes that elapsed from
the time the steamer was rammeu
until she foundered and his staleiIieIIt staten -
are backed up in most OF It's oetdAS ny
the rest of the crew.
Miss sadie Golub of Boston, one OF
the two women survivors and the ohiy
one left at Block Island Where sne -
still unable to be removed, ana Ieu "
Hiergseu of Brooklyn, n. Y, nave
brought direct charges of coWarolce
against some of the officers ana crew
Search for Bodies.
R1ocl. Island. r. /, Feb. 15.-Search
for more bodies of the VICTIMS u ~ ttiS
sinking of the steamer Larchlnoht We
New Shoreham and Sandy Point nIe
saving stations all last night, but no
more corpses were found &
Acting Captain Charles ~. Hli'cHeiA'
1--WE are all badly done up put we
sbau continue to search for bodies
before. 1t was the worst experleneSs
any of us have ever gone lnrous ,ouea the
mental or the physical anguish we Went
~, 1Iiarosal1
was pulled ashore through the breakers
aarIv Tuasday morning until the dead
and living were removed to Providence,
members of both the New Shorenatli
and sandy Point stations were on Guy GUY
for nearly 48 hours WIN
out sleep. - ia
waist deep in the water that had
chilled the Larchmont victims TO
death before they could drown these
men labored without 1nterIhlssio,l
hauling bodies weighted Win thlch
coatings of ice through the SURF ana
up the icy beach to the stations Ihelr
quarters were so crowded by the deao
and living that they were Hterally
turned out of doors but with unf1inch-
ing devotion they kept up their labors
and today performed their regular
round of duties although each man
was so lame and sore from frost bites
and other exertion that he scarcely
vas fit for the task. The weather
after affording some relief yesterday
through its rise in temperature today
became cold again. The wind was
from the northwest and the beat COW
cred bv each patrol was exposed to the
full sweep of the rising gale.