Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-25
Holes Cut in Ship
BY Steel " orkers
Efforts BY Captain to Stop Then,
Results in His
Arrest.
Especial to The Timcs-Dispatch.l

lSpcclal 10 The Times Dispatch
CHICAGO. July 24.-"iIcy. stop that
You'll spoil the boat"
That was Captain Harry Petcrsons
! greeting TO the fifty steel workers
called from work on II new skyscraper
| TO cut holes in the side of the over
| turned steamer EaStland to rescue
! i'o"o imprisoned men. women and chill
/ ufeh. The men, armed with powerful
/ acetNiene burners. were melting holes
| in the steel hull
Who told YOU to do that" the can
| tain demanded
wclder 81
Well l don't want the boat spoiled
YOU get off here" shouted Peter.
son.
Just then First Assistant Supcrin
tendent Of Police Herman Schuettler
saw Peterson.
arrest that man and every member
Oh MS crew shouted the commanding
poicr o"iciai This old tub ought to
nave pech burned before this happened
Four priests took their lives i'm ,h,ir
nahds that the passengers on the East
i'h"' VINO had Il breath of, life hui who
We're doomed because OF their injuries
| might die with all the rites of the
| church. Father Thomas Kelly. of the
| Precious Blood Parish. Fathcr Jobn
3 II.
the Cathedral Parish, and Father u J
buiine went out upon the side OF the
snip lEInE out Of the water and admin
! isterod conditional dissolution 10 all
ABOARD. Father OHcarn went into the
mold and heard the dying confessions
oil a dozen men and women He came
out only when the firemcn noticed his
| !aiht condition and made him leave
form OF terrible wrath which made
the police and all others stand aside.
VAS that OF Louis Schwichert. carry
ng the body Of his twclve-year-old
LAUGHTER Louise from the sunken
steamer TO his home at 1850 South
u9omis Street. miles away, tonight
cart OF the journey he made by street
ear and part by wagon.
Schwichert was among 200 firemcn
getting bodies from the ship and river
lie pulled AT dress which looked fla
miliar when one of the divers came up
With one more body.
The fireman pulled the body through
4 hole upon the slime covered deck and
saw the face of his child. For five min
dtes he stood cursing the Eastland and
ner crew. Then he picked up the BODY,
boarded launch for shore and car
lied off the body. swearing vengeance
10 anybody who stopped him.
Officers instructed TO see that all
oodi'n We're taken TO one OF the tenn
porary morgucs, stepped aside and let
:hc big uniformed fireman pass with his
dripping, dropping burden.
The erucsomc work of recovering
bodies from the stricken steamer had
an interruption OF tears hysterical
laughter and cheers from shore.
II occurred when baby, possibly
one year old, was taken from the hull
OF the boat eight hours after the ac-
cidcnt--alivc.
Cheer after cheer rang from the
shore ms the baby. who actually smiled
at 81 fireman as he carried il ashore.
was rushed to II hospital. y physician
on the scene said that the baby had
suffered only a slight scratch and had
fallen in such a position as not to be
Immersed. Its little white stockings
and blue boots were still upon the
little legs.
One captain and several patrolmcn
set upon a diver, who had just come
ashore after bringing thirty dead
bodies from the river. and beat him
unconscious when he did not move
along" AT their order one patrolman
made the mistake of hustlinE Joseph
Geary, a civil service commissioners.
I'm Mr.. Geary," objected the Of
fetal.
Il don, give a d-n who You are.
get out of here" yelled tho policema n.
I'm going 10 demand that the hoard
make full Investigation Of the be-
havior OF tho noliCe,' said Gcary. It
want every man or woman who was
misircatcd by a policeman TO come be-
fore us with complaints. The police
are ordered TO treat everybody with
courtesy"
Although some policemen were criti-
cis"d for needless rouahmcsS and dis
courtesy in handling the crowds. there
was nothing bat praise for others of
the force. who achieved many rcscucs