The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-07-28
Work Of Raising Vessel Com
menced, But Not Expected
to be Completed Before Ten
Days at Least. 4.
REDFIELD PREPARING
TO PROBE CATASTROPHE
Grand Jury Expected TO Re-
turn Indictments Tonight
Charging Manslaughter and
Conspiracy.

Chicago. July ss,---Wlsh thirty
persons either under arrest or DO
teined na witnesses. Official inquiry
into the steamer Eastland diAester
proceeded today In AN effort 10 fix
responsibility and punish The guilty.
Indictments charging mansiaugh-
ter. criminal carelcssnoss or o0naplr-
acy VIII be returned BY the state
grand jury tonight II the evidence
presented 10 that body warrants sucis
action. according 20 states Attorney
Hoync. II W expected that the cor
oner's Inquest. which may be con
cladcd tonight, will result in the
holding 70 the grand jury of several
persons whom the testimony Of wit
nesses has shown to be guilty 0f Grim
inal carelcasness 0r worse.
Secretary OF Commerce william
Redficld directed the Federal lnecs,i-
CATION. He examined records of the
local steamboat inspection service
and conferred with officials prepara-
tory TO beginning the examination o.
witnesses tomorrow.
Mayor Thompson returned from
San Francisco on q special train and
held conferences with the city coun-
cirs committee which Is conducting
the Investigation.
! Whine vafious invcstikntfons WE'RE
/ In progress 500 victims of the tragedy
were being buried with appropriaf
ceremonies. Auto trucks. vans and
other vehicles we're pressed into serv-
ice TO carry the dead Through rain
swept streets.
II was BLACK wednesday In cic-
ero and the surrounding suburbs
where the plant of the Western Flee
| trio company Is situated and where .
majority of the victims resided.
The day was DESIGNATED as a day Of
mourning for the Eastland dead and
the city officials honored the victims.
Work OF raising the Eastland was
began but it will he at least ten days
before the steamer Is placed on tH
keel again ana the search for the
missing resumed. Latest figures on
the dead and missing are;
Identified dead o............. S2e
Unidentified dead ............ s
Western Electric co.'a revised
list:
, Mlssing o.. ....ss..f f..........'f Dol
+, Total .......,.....,....,.. .l.Shf
4 states Attorney Hoyne said;
"rhe states attorneys Office ~
proceeding ON the theory that some
body Is guilty Of mansIaughter and
, certainly some owners OF common
carriers are guilty Of gross crlmina
negligence. section 90 OF the Grim
inal code in the latter connection
makes Il necessary only Ia endange
/, lives of passengers--they need not b'
4 lost
, There arc three contributing agen
soc IL. They are the government IN
q spectors. steamboat people and th'
\ operating force or crew OF the boat
Secretary of Commerce Rednep
today appcaled To the citizens of Chi
m cago not 60 prejudice the Eastian'
ease before the Inquiry Is made. no
I, 20 blame or attack any individual un
n tl that Individual Is heard.
"Frdm fSo facts now before me
I do not hesitate ia saying that l be
!. iieve the passenger inspection wa
= first class" ne added. These me
seem 10 have dorn their duty and n
j., Lobdcn more than did his duty
!, taxing his chance and risisins his M
y with the others on the Doat Wit
7 such mon as these the departrnei
cannot but feel that this branch
NNh WV = WfNH AWAt' IARftNNt
General George uhler. supervislI
Inspector general ot the FEEDER
= stcaniboatins pcction service. arriv'
7, in Chicago from san Francisco IA
today and went into conferences wi
Secretary Of Commerce Redfield
y garding the Eestland disaster invss
e cation.
Two theories as to the cause of I
~ disluster were suggcsted hy Gcnei
~ uhlcr following the conference. o
Is that there was an obstruction
'' the river at the Clark street doc
which had been avoided ia sol
ie manner BY other ships and the 9th
~ Is that the bed OF the river may ha
ns been too high 90 allow the Eastia
~ 10 turn properly ana that when I
keel touched the spot she overturn'
This Is one Of the most horril
disasters I have ever had any exp
~ fence with" said General Uhler -
ser are going 60 invessiEate 4 from
'p- top To the bottom ana no one will
pc shielded. We have nothing IA GO
led ceal and a complete and searching
ior quiry will be made.
ton n never raw the Eastiand