The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-09
AUTO ACCIDENT
 STILL A MYSTERY Victims of Chicago River Are
 Unidentified kAAkiAJ lhjIi n TlCOQIEC
MANY WILD THEORIES
Max Cohen and Miss Beatrice Shapiro Have Not Been Seen Since Sun day Night and May Have
 Been Drowned.

Chicago November S.-Search for the bodies of the occupants of the automobile which plunged into the Chicago river at the east approach of the Jackson boule- yard bridge last night was resumed to- day by members of the police force with city fire boats. They were aided in their efforts by a diver in the employ of the city. The identity of the victims and the number of persons who lost their lives, however, is still unknown. It was at first thought the automobile belonged to Joseph B. Cosgrif of Salt Lake City, who left the Congress hotel with a party of friends a short time before the accident occurred on the way to the Union station, but it was later learned that the Cosgriff party was safe, and that the machine be- longed to J. W. Schreffler. It is said to be one of two machines he has for hire and was in charge of Ernest Camp MT. Schreffler was unable to locate the car today and feared that the machine be- longed to him.
 The car it is claimed, was hired from the saloon of William Kraemer on Van Buren street but it is impossible to learn who were the occupants of the machine. The car was traced by it's number, 425O Illinois. which was discovered by a diver during the night.
 An early clew that the victims of the accident was the Cosgriff party was ab- soutely disproved today by R. P. Thomp- son, treasurer of the Union Stock Yards and Transit company, friend of MT. Joseph S. Cosgriff. MT. Thompson de- clared that MT Cosgriff and his friends left Chicago on the Los Angeles limited at 10 p. m. last night for Rawlins, Wyo., where MT. Cosgriff is to address a con- vention of wool growers tomorrow
 The most plausible theory regarding the accident now is that T. Camp, whose stand was at VanBuren street and Mich igan avenue, had been engaged by party to make a sightseeing trip of the city, and that while on the way to the west side of the city had driven the car into the river. Camps home was in the south side, and it was learned that his mother was expected here next week to live with him.
 The accident is similar to two pre- vous ones which have occurred here within the last few years and which re- suited in the loss of four lives On Au- gust 1T, 1904. a car containing a woman and three men, all southerners, plunged over the south abuttment of the Rush street bridge. All were rescued, but one of the victims subsequently, died. The following year a car containing five per sons went into the river at the same bridge from the north side Three of the party were drowned
 With the aid of a derrick the automo- bile was pulled out of the river No Indi 11r,A ia ha ina ar,6 the police believe only two persons were in the auto when 1t fell into the water.
 Late tonight relatives reported to the police the disappearance of Max Cohen, a cigar dealer, and Miss Beatrice Shapiro who lived on the West Side Cohen and Miss Shapiro are believed to have been together Sunday night.
 That Cohen had engaged an automo- bile in the downtown districts Sunday night could not be learned tonight, but had he done so the way home would have been via the Jackson street bridge.
 Camp, the missing chauffeur is said to have come here from Nashville, Tenn. He filled his first commission last night but did not appear for his second and has not been seen since.
 Late tonight the police were no nearer solving the identities of the drowned per sons.
 Nashville, November s.-Ernest Camp, chauffeur of the automobile which plunged off Jackson boulevard bridge into the river at Chicago last night. formerly lived in Nashville His father, J. w Camp, was sent to an asylum for the insane near here on October 27 last, after having frightfully slashed his wife about the face with a razor. The couple were here on a visit at the time, having moved to Chicago some two years ago.
 Mrs. Camp has recovered and expected to rejoin her son at an early date. She