Arizona republican., 1915-07-27
MORE WERE ABOARD
 THAN ANNOUNCED
\ Monev-makinG Arrange ment Has Been Disclosed. The Government Will Conduct a Rigid Inquiry Into Blame for Disaster
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 CHICAGO. July 3s-Flaus for al investisation by federal. state and citf authorities 10 fix the blame for the capsizing of the Eastland have been completed The inquest will start to- morrow. Efforts continue 10 remove the victims of the disaster. Despite an aH day search by divers but dozen bodies were found. Estimates of the number held under the boat vary from 15o to 500.
 The coroner and states attorney re iterate the charge thatall possible c9us- es of the disaster could be blamed 10 the negligence of the federal inspectors and the failure 10 enforce the marine laws. The last inspection was made hy Robert Reed. a government official 2 who declared the steamer fiji this spring and procured a position as chiei engineer of the boat for his son-in-laW J NJ Erickson.
 Efforts to tabulate the dead and de- termine the total death list at rour thousand or twelve hundred as som predict. continue. The Western Electric company say that 100 of its employees are stIll missing. The probability Of swelling the list was announced by de- tective= who assert that the tickets numbered 2.s5o. exclusive of children. mUsieiens and crew and that the totaI may have been 2.S01 instead of 2.4e> the number reported sold.
 Complaint was made that several employees were forced Co buy tickete ta the picnic fearing discrimination log th- foreman. Correspondence seized sho,s that the ship company urged that "the more tickets sold the greater the re- bate in ald of the organization Ac- c0rdine to the state's attorney the let ters showed a rebate offer or one-thirl on all over 4.N00 and less on those above 2.5G0
 Cores pondeuce between Secretary of Commerce Redfield and Wm Hull of Benton Harhor. Michigan, vice presi- dent and general manager of the St. Joseph and Chicago Steamship com panv. the owner of the Eastland in re gard to the effort of inc enforcement cf the new seam7n's law would have had on the Eastland. indicated that the de- uartment of commerce had not conced- ed anything that would tend 70 make the steamer less safe than the law de- manded
 Redfield aroused by the catastrophe at Chicago tomorrow will take charge of the government end of the investi- gation. He has been directed by the president to do everything to disclose the blame for the upsetting of the East land and discover ways of prevent ing a reputiuon of such an accident.
 Ta make sure that none of the mem bers should avoid the inquest and oth- CT inquiries. eight more of the crew were arrested. Nearly all of the seven ty-tWo men employed on the ship are DOW held, in addition to Walter Steele the secretary of the company. owning the boat
 The county grand jury was ordered 10 hold a session to take cognizance of any evidence Of criminal negligence in connection with the ovcrturning of the Eastland. The members of the jury went over the wreck but said they had nothing further to present. The iden- tifica tion of the victims was all but completed tonight. except the corpses still in he river The checking against Implications in the various lists pro ceeded all night. Funerals were held for few of the dead and many more are planned for tomorrow but most of the buTials will take place on Wednes- day
 Bishop Mcdowell or the Methodist church. and Rev. Samuel Failows Of the Reformed Episcopal church took charge Of the funeral sermon arrange ment and gathered volunteer preachers to officiate at the obsequies those for
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