Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-07-28
OTHER ARRESTS
LOOKED FOR IN
EASTLAND CASE
Taking Into Custody of Green
baum Only the First, Says
Prosecutor.
REVISED DEATH LIST
ON EASTLAND 1889

CHICAGO, July 9S-With General
Manager w. X. Greeubaum, one OF
the Indiana Transportation Company
officials which chartered the ill-fated
Eastland from the st. Joseph Chicago
line, already under arrest. another ar
rest of higher-up was promised to-
day by Prosecutor Hoyne.
Greenbaum was arrested as he
finished telling the eoroner's jury that
for seventeen minutes he watched the
Eastland with her load of precious
freight tip and then finally go over on
her side as men, women and children
fought for life.
The arrest of Greenbaum came al
most simultaneously with the taking
purser of the Eastland and Martin
Flatow, general agent of the st.
Joseph-Chicago line
Indictments charging manslaughter.
criminal carelessness or conspiracy
will be returned by the State grand
jury tonight if the evidence present
ed to that body warrants such action,
according TO State Attorney Maclay
Hoyne. 1t is expected that the coro-
ner's inquest, which may be con-
Guided tonight will result i'm the
holding of several persons to the
grand jury.
Secretary of Commerce Redfield
was busy today directing the Federal
Investigation. he examined records
of the local steamboat inspection SER
vice and conferred with officials pre-
paratory to beginning the examina-
ton of witnesses tomorrow. Mayor
William Hale Thompson returned
from San Francisco and held con-
ferences with the City Council COM
mittee, which Is conducting an In
vestigatlon.
II brought the total of officials of
the companies and higher officers of
the boat held up to six Captain
Petersen and Chief Engineer Erlck-
son, of the Eastland, and w. G.
Steele, secretary treasurer OF the st.
Joe company, having been held since
Saturday Besides these. almost all
members of the Eastland's crew were
in custody today.
What happened in the engine room
of the Eastland In the seventeen
turned last Saturday morning was
told at today's session of the coro-
ner's inquest.
Fred s. Snow. assistant engineer,
said that he and Chief Engineer ].
NJ. Erickson were busy trying to trim
the ship and restore1t to an even keel
by pumping water In the starboard or
dock side water ballast tanks, and at
the same time trying TO empty the
tanks on the river side.
Snow said he had been on the East
land two days and had worked as en-
gineer on lake boats for ten years,
but never on boats having water bal
last tanks similar to the Eastland
There were five water ballast tanks
on each side of the Eastland," said
Snow. THAT morning when the
boats were loaded we started to fill
tanks and on the dock side and
to empty and 3 on the river side"
why did you work only on tanks
and 3. instead of on all?" asked AS
sistant States Attorney Sullivan.
There were two reasons said
Snow, "the intake pipe would not fiji
all at once and tanks 2 and 3 were
supposed to respond more quickly
than the others
Questioned on Ballast Tanks.
Were the ballast tanks full or
empty when you tied up at the dock
that morning."
~ don't know. There was nothing
In the engine room which would in
dcate whether the tanks were fun
or empty. 1t was customary to
empty the tanks when the ship
docked. then we knew how much
water we had"
The witness said he did not know
how long IL would take to fill the
ballast tanks and trim the snip. He
said he did not think II necessary for
the engineer OF such a ship as the
Eastland to know how long it would
take to fill the ballast tanks Snow
said he did not know how much
water the ballast tanks held.
THE vessel first listed to the dock
side, and we let water into the tanks
on the river side" said Snow. Then
when the loading became heavier she
listed to the river side, and we began
TO fill the dock side tanks and empty
the port or river side tanks
Snow said he left the vessel when
the list became so great that water
poured into the gangway.
Describing the efforts to fill the
starboard tanks, Snow said.
I'VE had pumped out the port
tanks and began to fill the starboard
tanks, when Mr.. Erickson said:
"I think ii is catching. meaning
that the intake was working. We
had no idea that the tanks were not
filling"
The wrecking boat Favorite. said to
be one Of the largest and best
equipped of its kind, began the task
of raising the half-submerged East
land today. and Federal officials re-
placed the police in charge of the
wreck. 1t win take ten days to
raise the boat, according to those in
charge.
While this is going on forty divers
will search the river bottom for
radius of two blocks from the point
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