The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13
SANGASTHEYDIED
Touching Scenes at Sinking OF
the LarchmOnt.
Salvation Army Workers
Drowned at Their Post.
WORDS OF A HYMN.
Onward, Christians Soldier
Floated Over Angry Waves.
Last Thing Heard by tho
Survivors Of Disaster.
GATHERING UP BODIES
Fifty-one Dead Picked Up on
the Shores.
Only Two Women Passengers
Lived to Tell the Story.
Last Thing Heard by tho
Survivors of Disaster.
GATHERING UP BODIES
Fifty Dead Picked Up on
the Shores.
Only Two Women Passengers
Lived to Tell the Story.

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10 a. m. the names of 125 persons who
were on board the steamer Larchmon1
were known. OF these nineteen are
known to have survived, eleven are
among the dead, their bodies having
been identified and ninety-five are
missing. OF the identified dead seven
were members of the crew and four
passengers; of the survivors ten are
members of the crew and nine passen-
gers; of the missing, IL are members
of the crew and S3 passengers.
Block Island. r. L, Feb. 13.-The re-
covery of the bodies of the victims of
the steamer Larchmont sunk in col
lision with the three masted schooner
Harry Knowleton late Monday night in
Block Island sound. proceeded slowly
and with difficulty along the icy shores
of this island during the night and
early part of the day. owing to the
darkness.
Up to o'clock this morning 81 bodies
had been gathered in by coast patrols
and vessels sent to scour the sound as
news of the disaster was learned. This
makes an increase of three over the
reports last night. The list of survivors
still stood at 19. Identidcations had
been made Of five more up to daybreak,
bringing the number of identified dead
up to IL
The list to date of the known dead:-
STEWARD JAMES b. HARRISON
brooklyn.
FIRST ASSISTANT ENGINEER
JASPER HEST. Albany.
SECOND ASSISTANT ENGINEER
EDWARD LOGAN. Providence.
WATCHMAN JACOB ZADMUS,
WAITER GEORGE SMITH, Provi-
dence.
j. H. ECKELs. passenger. Block Is
land.
ERICK ;ELsoN, Elm street. Provi-
- HALL. colored waiter. residence
unknown.
MOSES FOUNTAINE, colored wait
er, residence unknown.
HARRY APPLE, farmer. Block Is
land.
- PAFFER, either of Boston or
Providence.
Purser Oscar A. Young still main
tanned today there were from 125 to $50
passengers on board the steamer when
she left Providence for New York, and
that most of the survivors able to ex-
press an opinion were inclined to sup
port his figures rather than those of
y.
number at from so to 75. From some
of the surviving officers it was learned
that. the Larchmont carried a crew of
45 men of whom only 10 are accounted
for This means that of a total of $50
to 200 people aboard the Larchmont,
nine passengers and 10 sailors have
survived. Their condition is pitiable
but two physicians are almost con-
stantly in attendance upon the sufferers
and express confidence that none of the
rod apo rG1x 70
One of the ships officers stated that
the Larchmont carried eight life boats
and four life RATS.
At O'Clock today it was believed
that five of these boats and one raft
had been accounted for.
Only Two Women Survive
There are only two women among
the survivors, Mrs. Harry Feldman of
New York and Miss Sadie Gallup of /
Boston.
During the night the coast guards !
from the two life saving stations. aided I
by a large number of the populace
patroled the beach and water front for /
bodies. Every corpse that came ashore /
was incased in ice several inches thick.
On piece of the afterdeck of the .
steamer were picked up two survivors I
and a dead man, all that remained of /
sixteen who had sought refuge on the |
frail support. Little hope was felt that
occupants of the missing life boats ana
RATS had survived the fearful cold
which moderated but slightly during
the night. Nearly all the surviving
interviewed agreed that the
crew and officers behaved we'll. With
the first shock and the thrush of water
and escape of steam from the broken
steam pipe, Captain McVey realized
the scope of the accident. The crew
was called to quarters each man
springing to station as the call to de-
sert the ship was taken. Panic strick-
IN passengers aroused from sound |
sleep rushed wildly on deck and mob
bed the boats and RATS. men and wo-
men fighting each other forgetful of
III but the primal instinct of self pres
ervation. Some of the male passengers
'ecovered from their first fright and
lssisted in the work of caring for the
women and children first. Many were
below in their quarters bv
he steam or drowned beneath the
ieck.
Within 10 minutes the boats were
way from the ships side, just as she
ettled low in the water with the waves
iashing over her. The bitter cold and
ligh seas completed the work of de-
truction and the little band of people
Who got away from the Larchmont
vas decimated in groups and in the
helpless drift in the bitter cold it be-