Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1915-07-29

the scene of distress moved for the
time being from the river to the ex-
temporized morgue. The warehous-
es of wholesale companies along the
river were thrown open and the bod
les were laid in rows on the floors.
Scores of persons taken from the wa
ter were severely injured, and these
were taken to the Iroquois hospital
built in memory of the 600 women
and children and the few men who
we're burned and crushed to death in
the 1roquois theater New Years eve
several years ago.
City I'm CONSERVATION.
Efforts to resuscltate those taken
from the river were unsuccessful ex-
cept in two or three instances. It
is also said that many of those in
jured would die. The whole city
was soon in CONSERVATION over the
catastrophe. Word of the accident
spread rapidly and to the thousands
already at or near the wharf other
thousands added themselves. The
Clark street bridge near the wharf
was crowded until it threatened to
collapse. Streets had to be cleared
by the police to allow the movement
of the ambulances.
Business men sent their automo-
biles and motor trucks to help aid
the injured and to carry away the
dead. One warehouse was soon filled
with bodies and other dead we're
taken to the Second Regiment arm
ory, mile away.
While those on land we're dispos-
ing Of the dead, the injured and the
rescued, the divers in the part of the
sunken vessel sent up an almost con-
stant stream of corpses from the sub
merged decks. First was a gaily
dressed girl in her teens who had
been caught between a pile Of chairs
and cabin wall. Next it was a
slight boy, gathered from the life
less arms Of fond father, who had
clung to his offspring even in death.
Then followed an old woman who
had gone aboard the ship to watch
the pleasure of her grandchildren or
little girl with bare legs and boots
with gay ribbons sodden against the
Jay Of her holiday gown.
: Baby Found Alive in Ship.
One thrill passed through the
crowd as word came from the steam
er that girl baby had been found
alive among the hundreds of dead
in the ship. The child was discov-
cred in a starboard state room,
where she had been held from the
water by chair that jammed
against the berth. The baby only
half awakened as it was carried to
land. Its mother could not be found.
Two women were found alive in
another stateroom on the protruding
side of the Eastland, but that ended
the hopes that any number had es-
capped death in the death trap itself.
There were still 800 persons in the
hold when these three persons were
taken out alive and the explorers of
the hulk said that all were dead.
40 Bodies Recovered.
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 a
total of 770 bodies but tabulations
became SO confusing that it was de-
cided to take all bodies to the Second
Regiment armory. SO that those who
looking for lost friends and relatives
could view all the victims in one
place.
At Least 1900 Bodies.
It is estimated that as high as
1900 persons were drowned, while
other estimates run as high as 1000,
but these do not agree with the state
ments that not over $500 were on
board.
Men worked at rescuing all night
The steamer lay on the bottom Of
the river. one side protruding like q
monument to the hundreds it
drowned when it turned over. The
cause Of capsizing has not been de-
termined tonight, but federal, city