The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-07
DEATH LIST LES.
II Sailors iaSte2d CT 4.
Now Probably browne.
klIDSHIPMAN Is EX0NfRAT.
Memorial Services Conducted on Bat.
tleship New Observation-Disclosures
Watch Police and Naval Men
Drag For Bodies.

New York, Oct. 4.-Two of the men
who were officially reported as prob
ably drowned" and three of the men
who were on the missing" list pave
accounted for themselves. thereby cut
ting down the roll of death in the bat.
tleship New Hampshire launch disas-
ter to twenty-seven probably drown
ed" and nine "mlssing" "-thirty-siX in
all. The fact that these men have been
heard from has given a CLEAN of hope
to the saddened fleet that the list may
he still further cut down
The men heard from are ]. Greene,
nm oiler Of Cleveland, O., and T. A.
Bonsall, seaman. who were on the
probably drowned" list. and Seaman
f. A. Herbert of Colunton, Conn.
Fireman J. Van Peer and Bugler A.
Dwinell, whose names were on the ros-
ter Of the missing.
That the launch of the New Hamp-
shire which overturned in the Hudson
river was overloaded is the statement
made by sailor on the New Hamp-
shire.
The boat, he declared. was rated as
being able to hold 100 men at the most.
He avowed that on Saturday night.
when the launch left the float. there
were between $50 and 1GO men In IT.
In the report of the board of inquiry
held TO investigate the accident ii was
declared that no one is to blame for
the accident, that the ensign in com
mand of the cutter which overturned
did more than his duty and acted with
heroism and that the tender was sound
and 1t was not its condition which
caused the tragedy.
A memorial service was conducted
on board the New Hampshire for the
sailors who were drowned. All the
officers and the crew of the battleship
stood with barred heads while the
chaplain eulogized the men who died.
There was hardly dry eye among all
the men as the chaplain ended the
services.
According to the dispatches received
from Washington, nothing save very
skeletonized report of the tragedy has
been received as yet by the officials
there. Messages Of sympathy, how
ever, have been sent out by the navy
department to the families of all those
reported to have been drowned in the
accident.
Naval officials say 1t is the worst dis
aster that has happened since the ma
val tug Nina and her crew of thirty
two men foundered off the Delaware
capes last February and that it is the
largest loss of life that they recall
where the warship itself remained in
tact
The accident will not interfere in
any way with the European cruise of
the New Hampshire with the other
vessels of the Atlantic fleet. A couple
of thousand new men will be shipped
| aboard the fleet before its departure
for Europe mostly to replace those
whose time is about to expire, but in
| order to give as many as possible the
advantage of the cruise there will be
an excess of 800 or more over what
are actually needed for the fleet com
| plement.
Chief Surgeon Vickery of the battle
ship fleet announced that as fast as
the bodies are recovered they will be
| placed aboard the hospital ship So
lace. When properly identified and as
soon as the coroners grant permission
they will be buried in government
| fn hA
the dead. A special launch for the
coroners' use was assigned by Rear
Admiral Vreeland to run between the
landing and the Solace.
Ensign Chevalier, who was in charge
Of the overturned launch and who dis
tlnguished himself by making many
rescues, is still in great distress of
mind over the affair, and when par
ty of newspaper men sent a request
that he see them he asked to be eX-
cusd.
Watched by thousands of men, wo-
men and children, many of them
weeping relatives, lined along the
shore, the police Of the harbor squad
and some OF the men from the war
vessels with the rising sun renewed
their graphing IN the waters of the
Hudson river for the bodies.
Pathetic scenes occurred at the Nine
ty-sixth, One Hundred and Thirtieth
and One Hundred and Fifty-seventh
street docks. where the tenders of the
battleships land. Relatives OF sailors
on the vessels from Connecticut, Mas
sachusetts, New Jersey, Delaware
Long Island and other places fiocked
to the piers to obtain news of thell
sons or relatives. Most of the visitors
were mothers of men serving on the
New Hampshire. Two who learned
that their sons were missing tainted
on the One Hundred and Fifty-seventl
street dock.