The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-07-27

CHICAGO. July 26-Pisas for
Investigations by federal, state
and city official bodies to deter
mine who wac 20 blame for the
espsixlna of the steamer Eastisnd
" the Chicago river Saturday
Win los. OF hundreds of lives
were completed tonight a eoro-
ners Jury will start an Inquest to-
morrow while federal depart
nnents. headed by Secretary of
Commerce Redhefd. and officers
from the city police department
and the office OF the states sttor-
ney will gather evidence. holding
formal inquiry In abeyanee until
the Inquest has progressed as far
as possible.
Efforts continued to remove VIC
tins OF the disaster from the
wrecked ship today ard to tabUlate
the dead 10 determine whether
the total death list would remain
around one thousand, ss many be-
heved. or creep up 10 200 or
more. az others predicted. Regis
tratlon OF employees by the Wes-
tern Electric Company showed
nearly four hundred missing but
many Of the names Of those were
already Identified. u was said
also that probably a good number
aid not report 4, the plant. al
though safe.
Tn. probability Of swelling the
list above a thousand was suo-
aested. by the announcement of
detectives from the states attor-
ney's office that they had seixtd
the tickets taken from passen-
gers boarding the Eastland for the
excursion TO MiehiQan City, Ind.
They asserted that these tickets
nuUbtred 2.55o and did not ae-
count for children. musicians and
the seVenty-two members OF the
crew. They estimated that the
total number Of persons aboard
the steamer might have been $500
or more. instead OF the 2.4eo pre-
Niousiy announced by officers Of
the Indiana transportation COM
pany. The lesses Of the ship as
serted that 2.Ho9 passenger tick
cts had been collected.
Seized Correspondence.
States Attorney Maclay HOyne Il
his investigation tonigh
seized correspondence which Ia,
passed between officers OF the West
ern Electric Employees organization
which gave the picnic and the Ind
ina Transportation company. operai
ng- the Eastiand and four othe
steamers set aside to carry more thai
seven thousand persons across tn
The states attorneys said this COZ
respondence showed that the steam
er company had advised that IN
more tickets sold. the greater woull
De the rebate paid 20 the employees
organization. Tickets were 10 be soil
10 employees OF the Western Electri
company for IS cents al the factory
or 81 ~ the wharf According TO m,
states attorney. the letters shove,
here would be a rebate OF one thir,
on All tickets over four thousan,
md something less on those abov,
Complaint had already been mad,
BY several employees OF the Wester,
Electric company that thev had beei
almost compelled to purchase ticket
Ior the excursion by fear that officer
on the employees organization VIII,
s'o'd them. would discriminate agains
nose who failed to 20 on the excur
non. The picnic az Michigan CIT,
has been an annual AFFAIR and thes,
men said that employees who had 70
used TO buy tickets in previous wear
had heen given less remunerativ,
work or discharged. although proba
pl' without the sanction OF executive
NJ the company.
To the confusion % determininl
ne total number Of lives lost tber,
Was acGed much wranrling among of
ncials Of different Jurisdictions owe
.entative plans 10 right tho EastIand
Fhich still lies on its port side wber,
y sank within twenty foet Of IN,
'e,ltn n, bsnk Of The river. Just west q
he Clark street bridge
DozeT Oodies Recovered
iulk hv divers and n constspf 49,
iing or the river bed between AZ.
wreck and net stretched across IN,
1ver a block down the currnt onI,
dozen bodies were found Fstimafe.
" the number still held under wafe
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