Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-07-26
LATEST DISASTER LIST.

III Probably dead. Lffo
II Total on board. d.................... Z4oo
II Total passenger list.............. 24oS
III Total crew. w.............,......''.'. - IL
II Bodies recovered ....,........... s9z III
H Identified .......................... 4so II
III Unidentified .....................s w III
III Known rescued. lVV% ii
II Missing and unaccounted. ...,.. eSo II
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Special by United Press Wire.
Chicago, July 26:-Chicago took
the first steps towards fixing respon-
sibility for the Eastland horror
shortly after noon. At that time
State Attorney MacLay Noyne called
before the county grand jury
Charles H. Westcott, of Detroit, su-
pervising inspector of the eighth dis
trict federal inspection service, who
issued the license that gave the
Eastland's owners government per-
mission to carry $500 passengers.
He would be the only witness today
under the plans.
While hundreds of stream
ers OF crepe fluttered Imply in a
spray-filled breeze on the doors OF
more than half the homes of Cicereo
and Hawthorne, the sections from
where almost all of those whose
holiday" was turned into 'doom's
day" by the overturntng of the East
land, official and citizen Chicago
who Is to blame?"
The dead may reach total, some
officials still insisted today, of 1900.
1t may be as low as 1000 At 8
o'clock this morning the latest esti-
mate given by Deputy Police Super
intendent Scheuttler and Coroner
Peter Hoffman was from 1900 to
,aas6o. ..,...,s,z,,, -,
reco7d pThe ldmnered
1856. OF these 730~ been en-
balmed and were awaiting burial In
the grief stricken homes. OF the
twenty-five bodies still at the ar
mory fifteen were known merely by
numbers today. Sixty-five addition
al bodies were at other morgues.
Fear that a flood of typhoid fever
might follow the survivors OF the
Eastland tragedy due to emersion In
the Chicago river, led Chicago phys1-
clans to volunteer their services In
large number to the health depart
ment. After a conference of more
than thirty doctors with health COM
sioners, steps were taken to estab-
lish line of stations where East
land survivors may secure treatment
Andrew Furufeth, president of the
International Seamen's Union OF
America said today:
fNn naSSanppr bOaf is safe thai
will not stand up without water bal
last and with it's maximum load OF
passengers all on one side. Ballast
Is used only and merely for trim
ming purposes helping to keep
ton, make speed and reduce cost OF
fuel.
"All seamen knew the Eastland
was cranky ship. That was her
reputation That meant she was not
carrying the proper solid ballast. If
she had been properly weighted then
all the passengers on her could have
stood ON one side of the ship and it
would not have turned her over
The federal steamship inspection Is
again at fault for this disaster. In
vestigate it from top to bottom"
One of the first matters District
Attorney Moyne went into today was
to inquire into issuance by Robert
Reid, federal inspector of hulls, of
permission of the Eastland owners to
engage in passenger traffic on Lake
Michigan. Reid's son-in-law, ]. s.
Erickson it was learned, was chief
engineer, a high salaried position, on
the boat that toppled over, carrying
so many to their death in the shad-
ow of great Office buildings. AS
chief engineer Erickson was In
charge of the ships water ballast OF
= machinery.
The coroner's inquest hung fire
until Coroner Peter Hoffman is sat
isfied most of the bodies are removed
from the wreck. He said he might
decide to wait until Wednesday or
possibly Thursday.
The first funerals were held today
The first body to be returned to Its
earth bed was that of Mary Kane,
of Cicero.
Divers and dredgers went back
today to their work of removing ad-
ditional dead from the ship of death
In the Chicago river.
suggestion tudC the snip pe
broken up with dynamite was turned
down by Coroner Hoffman. He in
sisted other means would prove suff1-
cient to get all bodies without the
use of an agency that might mangle
some of the dead.
AS they left the hull divers report
ed they located bodies near the stern
jammed between the ball room floor
and the ceiling above. A heavy wire
door held the bodies in. The divers
sent for tools to rip out the wire.
Despite belief among some marine
circles that 1t would be next to i'm
possible to raise the boat Coroner
Hoffman announced this afternoon
he concluded a contract with W J.
Wood to raise the boat. Wood left
at once for the scene.
The horrors still held in the ugly
depths OF the wrecked hull are tell
Ing on the nerves of the divers. Be-
tween 200 and 800 are believed to be