Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-15
MUST AWAIT INQUIRY
Stories of LarChmont Survivors
Are ContradiCted.
WOMAN CHARGES NEGLECT
Capt. McVey Insists That He Per-
formed His Duty.
ADDITION TO DEATH ROLL
Number of Persons Saved Reduced to
Eighteen - Life-Savers Worn
Out by Long Vigil.
ADDITION TO DEATH ROLL

PROVIDENCE, r. l., February 15.-By
the Identification late last night of the body
of Bernard Hollngsworth of Jamaica, a
cOiored waiter. the number of identified
dead in the Iarchmont horror numbered
fifty-five when the morgue opened today to
the throngs of anxious friends and relatives
of missing passengers and crew. The
death last night of Samuel Lacombe of
Manchester N H., one of the nineteen per-
sons who reached shore after the Larch-
mont went down. brought the list of sur
vivors down to eighteen.
Eghty-seven people who are known to
have been on the steamer were still miss
ing or unidentified when the work of
claiming the bodies was resumed today,
and it is now practically certain that the
Larchmont carried out with her on that
fatal Monday night 159 souls.
Larchmont Officers Censured.
With returning strength. the survivors
are able to recall more clearly what hap
pened in the terrible confusion Of the acct
dent Stories rejecting on the conduct of
some of the officers and crew are related
Capt. McVey of the Larchmont insists that
he and his men did all that could be done
in the fifteen minutes from the time the
steamer was rammed until she foundered,
anu MS statements are packed up IN most
of the details by the rest of the crew.
Whether the stories of the survivors are
exaggerated and the Larchmont officers
have been msrepresented. or whether all
that has ben said of the haste of these men
to leave the sinking steamer before the
safety of their passengers was looked after,
Will remain an open question until the gov
eminent inquiry is concluded
Miss Sadie Golub of Boston one of the
two women survivors, and the only one left
at Block Island, where she is still unable to
be removed and Fred Hiergesell of Brook
lyn, n. y. have brought direct charges of
cowardice against some of the officers and
crew.
Miss Golub has stated to several of the
newspaper men that when she begged either
Capt McFey or Purser Young to take her in
their boat they pushed her back and the
Hfeboat left the Larchmont with only six
In 1t, although it would have held twenty
more. When the steamer went down she
placed herself wreckage and remained
On II until picked up ten hours later by the
fishing schooner Elsie. Miss Goub was very
emphatic in her charge against Capt. Nc
Ney and the officers of the Larchmont.
Life Savers Exhausted.
BLOCK ISLAND, r. l., February 10
Search for mere bodies of the victims of
the laundering of the JOY line steamer
Larchmont was continued by the night
patrols of the New Shoreham and Sandy
Point life-saving stations all last night but
no more corpses were found Acting Can
tain Charles Mitchell of the Sandy Point
station said:
we are all badly done up, but We shall
continue to search for bodies as before
1t was the worst experience any of lie
have ever undergone. and l don't know
which was worse. the mental or The ph,si-
cal anguish we went through"
From the time young Fred Eiergesell
was pulled ashore through the breakers
early tuesday morning until the dead and
living were removed to Providence MEM
bers of both the New Shoreham and Sandy
Point stations We're on duty continuously
for nearly forty-eight hours without sleep
Waist deep in the water that had chilled
the Larchmont victims to death before
they could drown, these men labored with
"ut intermission hauling bodies weighted
with thick coatings of ice through the
surf and up the icy beach to the stations.
Their quarters We're crowded by dead
and living that they We're literally turned
out of doors, but with unflinching deyo-
ton 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 over-exertion that he
scarcely fiji for the task
The weather after affording some relet
yesterday through it's rise in Temperature
today became cold again. The wind was
from the north northwest and the heal
covered by each patrol was exposed tc
the fun sweep of the rising gale.