New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-27
RPEATH OF LIFE
IN ONE VICTIM
Last FlutterinG Heartbeat
Comes as Doctor Waits
for Motor.
VACANT JOBS SOUGHT
COMPANY Refuses All Applica-
tions-Stunned Survivor
Waits for Wife.

nv Ttcsrsra 90 The Tribune
Chicago. July 26. Something like an
accurate estimate of the length OF the
Esstland death list was possible to-
night. When the last Of the divers
had been hauled up from the capsized
hulk SIS bodies had been recovered.
Figures compiled by the Western Elec-
tuc Company enabled the authorities
10 make close guess at the number
OF victims still in the depths Of the
steamer or pinned IN the mud.
Checkers who went through every
department OF the big plant at Haw-
thorne reported that besides the iden-
tined dead 39l employees who started
on the Michigan City excursion were
missing from their desks and benches.
Il all the missing met death the COM
pleted roll Of victims will contain 1917
names. 1t is expected. however, that
many Of those unaccounted for will
turn up. On the other hand, not all
those on the Eastland were employees
Of the Western Electric Company.
Tomorrow the work of raising the
Eastlsnd will begin. A big dredge
brough; from Dulu:h is ready for ac-
ton and is lying overnight on the east
side Of the Clark Street Bridge, few
hundred feet from the wreck. This
work will take at least ten days.
Life in Body Recovered.
Fewer than a dozen victims were
brought up by the divers on the third
day OF the search One. huskily
built man of thirty-fve, was still liv-
ing. He died while Dr. Thomas A. Carter,
.hie; police ambulance surgeon, was
working over him.
Harry Halvorson, q diver for the
1rea, Lakes Dredge and Dock Com
p-ay, found the living man among the
dead. DR.. Carter's stethoscope dis
covered a futtering heartbeat.
Alive barely alive he said.
There was a hurry call for he lung
motor, long since retired from service.
An injection Of strychnine sent glow
Of warmth racing through the man,
who had lived for two days IN the
ghastly hulk. Mist gathered on a
pocket mirror held 20 his nostrils. HIS
barred chest lifted, almost lmperCeptl-
bly,.
Many Divers Passed Him By.
He'll have a story IL they can save
HIM" Hslvorson said. "Cfances are
he had his senses until a little while
ago. II Id only known ne was there
waiting. I've passed the place dozen
times without seeing him.
He was UP over my head, md, eX-
cept that my line fouled he'd have
died there. I looked up TO see where
the trouble was, and saw him perched
in the wreckage Of the companionway.
! guess he had used his last strength
10 crawl there.
"He must have known he was about
all in, and felt himself slipping. Any
way, there he was, straddling stancn-
ion and propped up so his head would
stay out of water, whatever happened.
Il flashed on me that maybe he was
alive, and climbed up after him, for
getting about the fOuled line.
And sure enough he was alive. !
could tell when ! took hold OF him.
he wasn't like the rest. He was sort
OF limp, not stiff
As the diver dnished his story the
man died.
Eight hundred and twenty-one'
then he said, and splashed back into
the hull.
Girl in River 100 Feet Away.
The first body recovered was taken
from the river about hundred feet
away from the aalf submerged East
land, yellow-ha'Ic1 girl of fourteen IN
lacey picnic dress Of white. lhree
more bodies were brought out of the
hull at l0:30 o'clock, a boy IN salIor
suit and two meh. About the BOY
neck crucihx Of gold was suspended.
The next body was that of girl
about eighteen. bl nd and petite. she
wore d white skirt. white waist. white
stockings and white tennis shoes Gun-
cerSOn. d diver. said he had TO use
like pole 70 get the body out OF the
cabin. A half hour later three more
small girl. d giIl Of nineteen and an
elder woman, were recovered from one
OF the after staterOOms.
Between then and $3.50 o'clock, when
The exhausted divers quit work. hve
more victims had been sent TO the "a
Regiment Armory morgue. -Four were
women, the fifth boy of eight, IN a
tedraggled Indian suit. A young
woman found near the boy. probably
his mother wore d white corded suit.
White stockings. white slippers and
leaH earrings.
Survivor Waits for Wife.
While the divers worked a survivor,
too stunned by his loss TO cry. kept
vigil on the hull. He had no police
permit. no reporters pass, no star, but
no one tried to drive him away. The
man was W. l.. Lukens. of 27O6 South
Flfty-ninth Street. Cicero. lie was
waiting for the river TO give up the
Lodv of his wife.
Lukens's story won for him the sorry
privilege of remaining on the hulk.
Il want 70 stay until they find her,
he said There are four little boys
I'D Urls out home-our kids-but
''''' bear to go back TO them until
know.
Barbara was sitting up on the upper
deck with me when the boat started TO
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