The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-02-14
ON ILL FATED
FRENCH Liner.
Three Americans Among
Hundred and Fifty Dead.
BODIES FLOATING ASHORE

Remains Of Victims Of Mediterranean
Disaster, Many Clad in Night
Clothes, Recovered on the Coast
Near the Scene Of the. Wreck-Lone
Survivor Still Unable to Give a
Lucid Account of the Catastrophe.
Marseilles, France, Feb. 14.-It is
believed that the only Americans
aboard the ill fated French steamer
General Chanzy, that went down off
the north coast of the island of Minor
ca, were Miss Elsie Henry, aged TWEEN
ty-eight years, address unknown;
Leon Derenda and possibly Derenda's
partner, a man named Green, though
there is doubt whether the latter was
an American or an Eng1ishman. Deren-
da is said to have come from San
Francisco and is also said to have had
home at Portland, Ore.
The three Americans were members
of vaudeville combination bound on
a tour of the colonies. Derenda and
Green are described as jugglers and
acrobats. Among the other perform
ers in the combination were several
Englishmen, including man named
Nestor, and the two Strakelys, bar
performers. The two Strakelys came
from Antwerp, but their nationality is
not known, as passengers from the
colonies are not required to name
their home country. The most prom
inent of the artists was Francis Dufor,
music hall performer, who was very
popular in Paris.
Among the other victims was Sec
ond Engineer Lorenzetti, who was
survivor of the La Bourgoyne disaster.
At that time he was picked up after
having drifted for days in an open
boat. Captain Cayol of the General
Chanzy was considered by his employ
ers, the French Transatlantic Steam
ship company, as one of the most ex-
perienced and careful of officers.
The death list in the General Chan
~ wreck is l56.
Bodies Are Floating Ashore.
Palma, Island of Majorca, Feb. A.
Bodies, many of them clad in night
clothes, are floating ashore from the
wreck of the Chanzy. The authorities
posted men along the coast to recover
the bodies and also to watch for small
boats. The last named precaution
was undertaken in a desperate hope
that some of those aboard the steamer
might have escaped. -
Marcel Rodel, the Algerian customs
official and only known survivor, is
still unable to give lucid account of
the disaster AS the vessel went down
= he chung to a piece of wreckage and
was washed ashore. When tossed on
the rocks he was rendered insensible
and remained in this condition through.
out the night. Reviving in the morn.
ing he wandered about aimlessly most
of the day, finally stumbling into the
village of Ciudadela thoroughly ex-
hausted and also demented. From bis
rambling story the authorities first
learned of the disaster and rushed help
to. the nearest land point. They found
only mass of wreckage piled up on
the coast.
The villagers say that even if the
small boats had been launched the
tiny craft would not have lived in the
sea that ragged at the time. 49,.
The Spanish officials announce that
a powerful light will be Immediately
erected on the north of Minorca island
in the hope that further wrecks at this
dangerous place may be avoided.
Owing to the di1iculties Of communi-
cation between the villages in the alb
sence of telegraph lines few additional
details of the wreck have reached here
Hope remains that others from tbs
vessel may have been picked up frou
the small boats -I