The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-25

"a ken 10 tho second feeia .,;sEI,ilI,I
City 81 Mourning.
Mayor " 11fiam Hale thompson
was In San Francisco and Chief OF
}Poiice {. SC. HeaIey was algo out OF
town but Acting Mayor M0orhouse
sent ont areQuest that the city dis
kpIa signs Of 11ournin Flags zcn'
public buildings were placed at haif
with mourning Baseball games
were postponed and festivities
largely ceased. IS.
While those on land were dtsp
| In OF the dead injured andzrescNed,
the divers in the heart of the sunken
vessel sent an almost constantystream
| of corpses from the submerged decks
First It was gaily dressed girl In
her teens; who had been caught be-
tween a pile OF chairs and cabin wall:
! Next it was slight boy, gathered
from the life1ess arms 5of fond
! father, who had chung to hfs on
spring even In death. Then followed
j an old woman who had gone aboard
!. the ship to watch the youthful pten-
sures OF her grandchildren or a
| little girl with bare legs and boottes
! with gay ribbon sodden agafnst the
lace of her holiday gown.
Girl Baby Found Alive.
one thrill passed through the
| crowd as word came from the
steamer that girl baby had been
found alive among the hundreds or
i dead in the ship. The child was
discovered in a starboard stateroom
where she had been held from the
water by chair that damned against
the berth. The baby was only haJs
awakened as # was carried to land
It's mother could not be found.
Two women were found alive. In
/ another stateroom on the protrudfng
side Of the Eastland, but that ended
! the hopes that any number had es-
capped death in the trap. There We're
still 900 persons In the hold when
these three persons in the hold when
alive and the explorers OF the hulk
said that all were dead.
Work of tagging the bodies OF the
dead and placing them in accessible
places for Identification proceeded
all day and night. Reports from
various temporary morgueS gave
total OF ITO bodies but fluctuations
became so confusing that it was de-
cided to take all bodies to the Second
regiment armory SO that those VINO
were looking for lost friends and
relatives could view all the victims
In one place.
Affecting scenes at sMorgues.
Identification was slow and scenes
at the morgues were as affecting as
those at the river when the steamer
capsized Mothers fell across the
biers of children whom they had sent
away only few hours befose on
what was intended to be day Of
pleasure Men had to SUNNI on all
the stoical qualities they possessed
to retain their composure as they
wendell their way through rows OF
corpses looking for missing children
or wives.
Federal Judge Lands ordered a
grand Jury empanelled to investigate
the Catastrophe; State Attorneys
Hoyne prepared a county grand jury
inquiry; Coroner Hoffman selected
a jury to look into the cause Of the
I oficers OF the Eastland and the
health commissioner arranged to
purify the river for fear disease
might be spread by the presence of
SO many bodies in the stream.
Probing for Cause.
Arrangements were also made to
get at the sunken vessel to deter
mine the underlying causes OF lne
accident. Derricks on scows were
taken to the side of the Eastland and
marine engineers were engaged to.
inspect the treacherous ship.
Those in charge of the various
works OF. clearing up. the toll of
casualties and determining the re-
sponsibility for the capsizing of the
boat tonight said that the endeayors
would necessarily be slow because
of the large number of persons
aboard the Eastland and the diff
Guilty of getting at the hull Of the
steamer.
Traction Engine Flowing Ever Is
Done In West Virginia.
HUNTINGTON. July 24--F'or the
first time in the history of southerE
West Virginia agriculture. a field was
ployad tbs week near Milton by a
TRACTION engine. More than 100 farm
Iers from eastern Kentucky anc
southern West Virginia. INCLUDING
several prominent agrfculturists from
Putnam county, we're present. The
demonstration was held through the
efforts of County Agricu1turist j. F.