Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-26
ZOO BODIES STILL
IN EASTLAND HULL,
|SDNERS' REPORT
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the steamer. Dynamite will then be
used in the river bed to release those
bodies which may be stuck in the
mud
The rescue work at the steamer con
tinued with a reduced force of divers
today. F. H. Avery, in charge of the
divers, reported to Coroner Hoffman
bodies still in the steamer. but feared
they could not be recovered until the
boat is raised.
Relief Fund Growing.
Relief work to meet distress caused by
the Eastland disaster was continued to-
day under the direction of Mayor Thomp-
sons advisory committee and the local
chapter of the Red Cross Society.
Persons in every trade and industry
are contributing to the fund. It was an
nounced long before noon that $150.00o
had been pledged, and that the remainder
of the 100000 it is planned to raise
would be available within thirty hours.
Confer on Relief Work.
Harry Thaycr Of New York. president
of the Western Electric Company, con-
ferred with Mr.. Osborne Rowe, head OF
the city's welfare bureau. and John D.
O'Connor, director of the Red Cross
here, concerning relief work. 1t was
planned to have the company's 10000
employees aid the stricken families.
Several hundred survivors who swal-
lowed river water, today adopted the
advice of Health Commissioner Robert I,
son and were treated with typhold
fever anti-toxin by health department
physicians
Refused Jobs of the Dead.
Hundreds of unemployed assembled in
front of the Western Electric Company's
plant at Cicero this morning seeking posi-
tons left open by deaths in the Eastiand
disaster They were denied admittance to
the employment Office, and were told that
the company had no positions for them.
Tolice were called to dispense the crowds
and clear the pavement in front OF the
company's Office.
Tragedies Of the Horror.
One Of the tragedies of the disaster
was enacted inside the steel hull OF the
Eastland during the two hours that in
tervened between the time the boat
capsized and the cutting of holes that
would permit of the rescue of sur
vivors George Olinger and his wife
Elizabeth were among those dragged
out after holes in the hull had been cut.
when the boat rolled over | grabbed
Elizabeth and we both scrambled to the
upper side," Olinger said. I'VE chung
there to a post or brace, and looking
down we could see the water pouring
in below us like falls. 1t rushed along
by the stairs and spurted through port
holes. Men and women were founder
ing around and screaming as the water
rose. In the place where we were
ahnuf twenty women and
seven men. The. men assisted the
women to places where they could cling
until help arrived, but many sank dur
ing the first five minutes and did not
come up.
II kissed Elizabeth and we made
preparations to die. Some of the wom-
en- became hysterical. The rescuers
started to pull some of the men and
women through the portfolios. but these
were too small and they were forced
to drop number of them back.
]. Peterson. his wife and her sister
were on the second deck on the port
side. and had the experience of being
washed completely through the boat
after partition had given way.
Il can swim, and 1 rose with the
above me gave way; at least some of
the windows did. and l went UP through
the cabin. 1 caught hold of long
beam supporting the upper deck with
some others. This Deam gave way,
though, and I had to swim again.
While ! was hanging On my wife came
up where 1 had been and a little later
In the same place her sister appeared.
they had been carried up through the
same break in the partition had
passed through. although neither of
them could swim"
Poor and All Alone.
Mary Maran, seventy-three years old,
went to the armory morgue late at night
seeking her two sons She saw her boys,
her daughter-in-law and her grandson
leave home Saturday morning to make
the trip On the Eastland. She went TO
the corner with them and waved goodbye
as they took a street car Later in the
day she heard there had been an accident,
but it was not until the evening that she
learned that there had been loss of life.
When her sons had not returned at mid
night she made inquiries, and was told
there were many bodies at the armory,
and thither she made her way.
Mrs. Maran had made the trip along
one row of dead and part way back, when
she uttered a cry and fell across the form
of youth. 1t was her son Tom Police
men tried to dissuade her from continu-
ing the search, but she persisted, and ten
minutes later found the body Of her
daughter-in-law. In the last row, lying
side by side, she found the bodies Of her
other son and his child The disaster
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