The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-07-26

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be raised. A suggestion that the
ship be broken up by dynamite, was
fatty turned down by Coroner Hoff-
man. He insisted that other means
would prove sufficient to get all the
bodies without the use of an agency
that might mangle some of the dead.
The marine engineers planned
more thorough examination this aft
ernoon.
! AS they left the hull, divers who
! were working inside the boat, re-
ported they had located many bodies
near the stern, damned between the
ball room floor and the steel ceiling
above it. A heavy wire screen door
held the bodies in.
! The divers sent for tools to rip
| out the wire before redescending
| Dredgers in the river outside the
| hull found the first body since the
search was left off about three
o'clock this morning. floating near
the middle of the stream, about 100
yards from the Eastland. 1t was the
body of fair haired girl of II or IS
/ years.
The finding of the body on the
surface led officials to believe that
more, not held down by the ship it.
self or by other weights to counter
act the natural tendency of water
victims to rise after being in the wa
ter a certain length of time. will be
found at the surface from now on.
At Eight O'clock.
CHICAGO, July 26.-Eight hun
dred and sixteen bodies HAD been re-
covered from the Chicago river and
the hull of the doomship Eastland,
Coroner Hoffman informed the Unit
ed Press at s o'clock this morning
The total of dead and missing at
that hour reached 1.265.
OF this number, ISL had passed
through the Second Regiment ar
mory where 735 were identified and
729 Of the latter removed by rela-
tives and friends. This left six
identified and sixteen unidentified at
the armory.
There were sixty-ive additional
bodies at undertaking establishments
and morgues at o'clock.
To this total OF known dead is
list Of AGO persons whose frienss or
relatives say were on the Eastland.
the steamers hull or TANNED into
the heavy steel sides.
Coroner Hoffman said no bodies
had been removed since three
O'Clock this morning.
Bodies Come to Surface.
CHICAGO, July 26.-Just before
noon the bodies of two men and boy
were recovered, bringing the total to
$40. The BODY. of one man and tho
boy about thirty-six and fifteen years
respectively, were seen to rise to the
surface. Theyother body was taken
from the hulf He was apparently
forty-two years old.
Firemen chopping out the side OF
the boat near the bar where it is be-
|lieved a number Of bodies are con-
fined, found hand bag. On it was a
commercial travellers tag bearing
the name &c. B. Hadley, Utica, ILL.,"
Despite belief among some marine
circles that 1t would be next to i'm
possible to raise the overturned boat,
Coroner Hoffman announced this aft
ernoon he had concluded contrac:
with w. J. Wood, a naval architect.
TO raise the boat. Wood left at once
for the scene, accompanied by Assist
art States Attorney Michael ]. Sulli
van who will be specially in charge
of the work of guarding against do
struction of any part of the boat
where such action would tend to re-
move possible evidence Of the alleged
unseaworthiness Of the craft.
The horrors still held in the ugly
denths of the wrecked hulk are telling
on the nerves Of the divers.
Retween two and three hundred
dead are believed still in the wrecked
hull Some are pinned beneath iron
orders. Many others are beneath
big nile of coal that smashed through
from the bunkers and overwhelmed a
crowd OF passengers in the bow. Sun
others are slowly bobbing about in
chastity dance of death in the partly
flooded ball room.
Diver Reginald Bowles, after forty
hours of steady plunging, was taken
off the Job by Police Deputy funk-
bnuser when he came to the surface
,yjth the body of a baby in his arms,
ba was muttering to himself
cts their faces" said BoWles.