Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-02-14
FRIGHTFUL SUFFERINGS OF
THE HANDFUL OF SURVIVORS
Hurried From Heated Cabins Into Teeth of Biting Gale
People With Frozen Limbs Pray for Death to Come to
Their ReIief-Of Two Hundred Souls on Board But Nine
teen Escape AVe--ICe EnCaSed Bodies Washed Ashore.

Block Island, r. L., Feb l3.--
Twenty-Five more bodies Of victims
of the Larchmont disaster We're
brought ashore late today by fishing
SChOoners.
The survivors of Monday nights
disaster off Watch Hill were today
taken to Providence on the steamer
Kentucky whore they vii receive
medical treatment
The fifty bodies recovered yesterday
also were taken aboard the steamer.
The Kentucky had just cleared the
harbor when in came two schoonefs'
one after another, with their grew
some loads, and with their flags at
half mast The little life-saving sta
tions then were once more turned
into morgues As on yesterday, the
surf boats were run out and the dead,
were placed on the floor side By side
10 await'thc arrival of another steams
cr to carry them to Providence.
The bodies brought in today were
with one exception, fully clothed, and
i'm addition had life preserverS strap-
ned on them. The victims evidently
had remained on board the Larch7
mont longer than those whose bodies
were recovered yesterday, All were
encased in ice. TO remove this COW
ering the life-savers worked long and
patiently in the hope of making
Identification as easy as possible
Block Island, r. l., Feb. 12.-About
$50 persons went to their death III
Block Island sound last night as a re-
suit of a collision of the three-masted
schooner Harry Knowlton and the
JOY line steamer Larchmont bound
from Providence to New York, 1t IS
estimated that, including the crew.
there were nearly 200 persons on
board the steamer when she sailed
from Providence. OF these only eigh-
teen appear to have survived the dis
aster, ten members of the crew and
nine passengers Forty-eight bodies
have been recovered.
Awakened from their slumbers IN
their state rooms, the unfortunate pas
sengers were at the mercy of the fates.
MANY, it is believed, went down with
the ship. Others, temporarily thank
full that they had escaped drowning,
PRAYED that they might be relieved or
The terrible pain caused by their
frozen bodies, and one unknown pas
senger plunged a knife into his throat
and ended his sulferings
The few who survived We're in .pitl-
full condition. In almost every case,
their arms and legs hung helplessly as
they were lifted out of the boats IN
which they reached shore. During the
day forty-eight bodies came ashore,
either in boats or thrown uD by the
sea. Only six of the forty-eight bod
les were identified. The bodies identl-
fed were:
STEWARD JAMES b. HARRISON,
FIRST ASSISTANT ENGINEER
JASPER HEST, Albany.
ASSISTANT ENGINEER EDWARD
LOGAN. Providence.
FIRST WATCHMAN JACOB u.
ANDREWS, Paterson. n. j.
WAITER GEORGE SMITH, Provi-
dence.
HARRY ECKLES. Block Island.
An investigation will be made by
the United States steamboat inspectors
of the Providence district.
Owing to the condition Of the sur
Vivors, 1t was impossible to get from
them an estimate of the loss of life.
From seVenty-five to $50 persons went
to their death and at late hour to-
night it was believed that the latter
figureS are nearer correct
The steamship officials estimate that
about $50 passengers and crew OF
fifty were on board the steamer when
she left Providence last night. Forty
eight bodies reached these shores to-
day and nineteen were alive when
taken from the llfeboats. Taking the
estimated figures of the steamship Of
fciaIs as basis. there are stiM 1873
persons to be accounted for. The only
positive evidence of the steamers VIC
tins Is lying at the bottoN of Block
Island sound The list of passengers
and crew, handed to the purser Just
before the steamer left Providence,
was locked in safe and was not re-
covered
The cause of the accident has not
vet been satisfactorily explained. 1t
occurred lust off Watch Hill about IL
o'clock last night, when the three
masted schooner Harry Knowton,
bound from South America for Boston
with cargo of coal. crashed into the
steamers port side amidshlps. Cap
tain George McVey Of the Larchmont
declares that the Knowlton suddenly
swerved from her course. luffed up
into the wind and crashed into his
vessel.
Captain Haley of the Knowlton as