| Show I MANY RESCUED M FROM DROWNING r I II I Divers 1 Go Down in Hull Hul of the I l Sun Sunken en Ship to to B Bring ing Up I Bodies of Victims i f I I l BABE FOUND STILL LIVING LIVIN t I Fireman Recognizes Body He f Recovered From River as i That of His Daughter f t r Continued From Page 1 1 l In the tie arms of oC their parents parente who were fl finally saved Hundreds of ot girls freed for tor a da day L from their tasks of ot making telephones I and oth other r electrical apparatus us in the tho i factory of the Western company com corn l pany dressed In their smartest white panY V frocks drown drowned d ml miserably It Kolln KoHn avenue a small smal street near near the this thet c t factory of ot the Western estern Electric companY company com corn pany was In universal mourning to to- to night Ever Every house lost from one to all al Us Is occupants In the te disaster and many man nr of or the Ill fated fated I-fated residents o of this r street lay in the morgue or beneath the steel hull hul of ot tho the Eastland over o which searchlights shot their blinding glare while hundreds of oC men ment t searched for tor mor moro bodies io SHIPS SHIP'S SIPS SIP'S OFFICERS ARRESTED Efforts to discover er the cause of ot the tho i. i accident were begun long before the ther r 4 c work of ot rescue was as over or Federal and county count grand Juries were ordered a coroners coroner's jur Jury was Impaneled and all al the officers and crow crew of at the tho Eastland were wee arrested W W. C. C Steele secretary and treasurer treasurer treas treas- of ot the tho St. St Joseph Chicago Steamship Steamship Steam Steam- I i ship company compan which owned the tle steamer Eastland built on Lake Eric Erio in 1903 and remodeled later because top hea heavy It Is said was arrested to tonight tonight tonight to- to night and locked up at a a police sta sta- tion ton The steamer was leased b by the Indiana Transportation company whose officers said the they were not responsible for the licensing of the time ship and did tint Tnt control thA crew cre LOADED LOADED UP TO LIMIT I nT Under misty skies men women and children wended their way to the river wharf early today to fill ti five large larg-e lake steamers with holda holiday mirth In a trip to Michigan City The steamer steam steam- stear- stear er r Eastland brou brought ht to Chicago from Lake Eric Erie after acer an no unsatisfactory Career ca career ca- ca reer reel was the tho first to bo be loaded Rain bO began ln to fall fail fal as IlS the wharf hart su- su lifted the thc gangplanks from the Eastland declaring that the government limit of ot 2500 passengers had been reached White dresses I peeped from raincoats along the shore rails rals as those aboard waved wa good bye to friends on shore waiting to board the other vessels Then the passengers swarmed to to the left let side of or the ship as the other steamers drew up the river towards the wharf A tug was sas hl hitched hed tb the Eastland ropes w were re t ordered cast off ott and the engines began to hum The Eastland had not budged t however PASSENGERS STARTLED UY BY LURCH Instead the heavily laden ship wavered was was' wa ered tred sideways leaning first towards the theL L' L river bank The lurch hutch was sas so startling that tha man many passengers joined the large larg large concourse already on the other side of ot the decks The ship then heeled hEele back bade It I turned slowly 1101 but steadily towards Its is left side Bide Children clutched the skirts of ot mothers and sisters to keep from falling The whole car cargo o was Impelled towards the tho faling falling ido of or tho ship 1 Water began to enter lower losser portholes and the ropes snapped off the piles to tol l which the time vessel was tied I Screams from Crom passengers attracted the attention of fellow excursionists on on tho the wharf awaiting the next steamer and ind picnickers con scon lined the tIme edge of ot the embankment reaching teaching out helplessly towards the wavering steamer f DIVES DS D S TO RIVER BOTTOM t 1 For 01 nearly five minutes the time ship t turned before it finally nal dived under I I t the swift swit current ot of the river which owing to th the drainage canal system flows from the lake Inke During the thet t mighty turning of the time ship ship with Its Is IsI cargo of ot humanity lifeboats chairs and other loose appurtenances on the decks down the sloping floors I crushing tIme the passengers toward the rIsing waters Then there was a plunge with a 0 sigh of ot air all escaping from the hold mingled with wih crying of children and of ot women men and the ship was wason as on tho the bottom of ot the tho river casting hundreds o of its Is passengers into the 1 water ater Many sank entangled with wih clothing and bundles and did not rise but scores came to the surface giving S1 1 the river liver the appearance a of a crowded crowde r. r bathing bathinG beach 1 Many 1 n seized floating j t chairs and ad other objects RUSHED TO ro SCENE E. E Those on shore threw out ropes and andI I dragged in 10 those who could hold these fo Huc lines himmes Employees of commission I firms with houses housos along the tho river 1 threw crates chicken coops and other font floatable things Into tho the current but buti i i ro roost most t o of these were swept away by the t 4 I stream tream tem i- i Boats were put out out tugs rushed to toJ J the the- Ic-ena Ic scene with wih whistles and N many InLay m men n snatched off ot their coats and Prang into the river to aid tho the drown drown- j lag ing With Wih thousands of or spectators ready teady to aid and the wharf within trap grasp hundreds went to death despite v Very ry of effort tort at ft rescue Ono mother grasped her two chil- chil c oren dreu In her arms aa as nl she slipped from fromI I I the steamer into tho the water ater One child was as torn from tram her but she and the tho Other were saved Fathers were owned drowned after aiding their wives and children to aaret safety I WATER CLEARED CLEAnED I IN HOUR noun Stories of ot heroism were almo almost t as i i numerous tonight as the tho number of r i fi Persons ron on the scene Immediately after atter the cl disaster astor Boats Boots as 3 soon as full tull I took toole rescued passengers to tho the wharf pr PI r to the steamer Theodore Roosevelt Roosevel which had pulled up as near the Eastland Eastland East- East land and as possible In an hour tho the water was cleared of excursionists Those who ho had not been taken to land had bad sunk or were swirling down tho the river towards the drainage c canal locks at Lockport Ill Il man many miles mies awa away The Thc locks w were re raised to stop the tile current curent and arrangements wore were made rade to take bodies from the river along alonS' Its Is course through h the time southwest part o of Chicago go Short Shortly after ncr tho the water was cleared ship engineers and helpers were on the tho exposed side of ot the tho Eastland's s 's hull hun cutting through h Its steel plates with wih gas flames fames Divers were hurried Into underwater suits A bridge of boats was formed between the pier and tho capsized ship WAREHOUSES USED AS S MORGUES As the time divers gained entrance to the thie lull hull hul the scene of or distress moved for forthe forthe the he time being from the river to the improvised morgues Warehouses of ot wholesale companies along the river were thrown open and bodies were laid In n rows on the floors Scores of persons per pel sons taken from the water were se severely severely se- se verely Injured and these were taken to the Iroquois hospital built buit in memon memory mem mem- or ory on o of the women children and a afew afew afew few men who were burned and crushed to death In the Iroquois theatre New Years Year's eve Q e several years ago Efforts to resuscitate those taken from rom the river were unsuccessful ex except cx- cx in two or three instances It I was wasil il d n II that mans mans' man nf ot those d n would lc- lc die e CITY IN CONSTERNATION I The fhe whole city was soon Hoon in consternation consternation con con- over the catastrophe catastrophic Word of ot the accident spread rapidly and to the thousands already alread at or near tho the wharf other thousands added themselves themselves them them- selves The Clark street bridge near the wharf was crowded crowdell until It threatened threatened threat threat- ened cried to collapse Streets had to be cleared by the police to allow alow the movement of ambulances Business men sent their automobiles and ind motor trucks to help aid tho the Injured injured In- In lured and carry earn away aa the dead One warehouse soon gOOn was filled tied with wih bodies and other dead were taken to the tho Second Second Sec See ond end regiment arror armory a mile mie away Mayor William Hale Thompson was wasn In n San Francisco Fancisco and Chief of Police Pollee C C C. Healey Henley was also out of town ton but Acting Mayor sent tent out a n reque request t that the time cl city display signs of m mourning Flags on public buildings were placed at mast half and man many winces places plAces were draped with wih mourning mourning Baseball games were postponed and festivities lar largely ely ceased DIVERS SEARCH HULL nULl While those on land were disposing of the dead Injured and rescued the divers sent up almost a constant stream of or corpses from the su submerged decks decka First it was a gaily galy dressed girl Irl in her tier teens who had been caught be between between between be- be tween a n pile pie of chairs and a cabin cahn wall wal Next It was a boy gathered from the lifeless arms of oC his father rather Then followed an old woman who had gone one aboard the tho ship to watch her grandchildren or a little Ite girl with bare legs and boots with wih guy gay a ribbons so sodden don against the time lace o of her holiday gown gown ALIVE IN STATEROOM One thrill passed through the tho crowd as word sord camo came from the steamer that thata a girl baby had been found round alive aron among the hundreds of ot dead In iii the ship Tho The child was waa discovered In a starboard stateroom where she had been bean hold held from Iron the water by n a chair that Jammed against the berth The Tho baby only half haJt awakened as It was sas I carried to land Its Is mother could not nOl I Ibe be found Two women were svere found alive in an another another an- an other stateroom on the tho protruding side of or the Eastland but that ended the tho hopes that any number had haj es escaped escaped es- es death death In the tho tie deathtrap Itself Itsel There were still at least persons In time the hold when these three Persons persona were taken out alive alve and the explorers of or th tho hulk sa d ll that all ni wore dead RECOVERS EnS J. DAUGHTERS DAUGHTER'S ns n's HODY Ono One ef city fireman leaning far over an opening cut in tho the hull hul pulled ala at al ata ata a body bod passed to him b by a n diver lie ho II turned the form torm over and fainted an na anho naha ho he gazed into the face of his own daughter Similar scenes wore constant con con- stant When M. M JI T 1 McGovern a city fireman fireman fire fire- reman re- re man reached a n hod body floating In tho the river which he had been heen sent to rescue res res- cue ho 10 he discovered ered It to b bo be that of his law ln law ln Miss Catherine Sheridan h He Ho brought the tho body to the batik bank and carried it in his arms to lo a temporary mOl morgue uc SIX INSPECTORS ON OX HAND Six government Inspectors were working on the tho docks when tho East East- land hand turned over The They were In charge chargo of or Inspector R. R II I McCurry Two Inspectors were assigned to the Eastland McCurry said to see that tho the boat was not Tho The ship had hal taken on all that tha she would hold and tho the t o Inspectors had turned man many others awa away She was as ready to sail when the tho accident oc occurred occurred oc- oc The sinking o of the ship camo came cameto to me rue 1 like c a a. streak of ot lightning it I all al happened so suddenly CROWD MENACES CAPTAIN N. C Capt Capt Harry Pedersen and First Mate Iato Dell Del Fisher of the Eastland were placed under arrest t h by First Deputy Deput Superintendent of Police Polee When hel Captain was arrested a man whoso whose clothes wore were dripping and who had apparently apparent Just been In the water sater made a dash at him and landed a n heavy blow blo bloon on the captains captain's face Cace The crowd that had hind g gathered closed Inon in inon inott on ott tho the steamers steamer's captain and the tho polIce police po po- po- po lice had to use their clubs cubs to protect him When rhen firemen fremen chopped and forced their wa way through the side of ot tho the hull hul o of the overturned boat they found bodies piled pied up on one another like Iko to many boxes of merchandise They began taking them out and placing them upon the tug tUI Racine which stood alongside and from there thero they placed on stretchers and carried ashore As s fast tast an as bodies Were taken on the tho docks the they were wore carried to the steamer Theodore Roosevelt or Into nearby buildings or the stretchers set sot down clown on the streets where scores of ot physicians and volunteer rescuers began at attempts attempts attempts at- at tempts at resuscitation Bodies were removed to downtown mor morgues ues in where clothing of the victims was examined In an at attempt attempt attempt at- at tempt to identify them Sixty per rr cont nt nf ot tho lrA wnm n n C coroner i said t Faces of the women e bore the ap appearance appearance ap- ap of ot a desperate struggle for life Some were scratched and clawed their clothing clothing- was torn and their faces bruised SEEK SECK TO REVIVE JU IYE LIFE IFE As fast as th the bodies were brought out of or the hull hul they thoY were laid on stretchers and covered with wih blankets A tug tUI moored between the wreck and the dock lock formed a bridge The Tho stretcher bearers pass passed d between two priests one of whom gave 0 absolution while the theother theother other anointed the bodies On the tho dock Dr A A. Carter of ot the tho cl city health department searched for signs o of life In the tho victims If I he found any pulse In the tho throat he would call cal for a and the stretcher would I IK- IK ran anle led to the time sidewalks where lows rows of victims were laid out under the awnings of at tho the commission houses and other oilier establishments on S. S Water Water street When no beat was apparent to Dr Carters Carter's finger ho he would announce an nn- simply gone the body was waa then carried to a n. truck and taken to a morgue As the hours passed there thero were fewer calls for the tho Amidst all al the horror and heartache officials of various departments at attended attended at- at tended tende to pressing pressing duties of ot disposition of ot the dead and Injured tracing of ot the time ml missing Inquiry Into the cause of ot the tho disaster and precautions against disease disease dis die ease from sunken bo bodies les and arHl the time carrying carrying car car- of ot corpses up tho time river towards tho the canal locks Federal Judge Ln Landis ls ordered a grand Jury jur impaneled to investigate the U catastrophe State Attorney torney Hoyne Honc prepared a 0 county count grand Jury inquiry Coroner Hoffman Hotman selected a Jury jur to look Into tho the cause of ot tho time deaths deatha the police arrested all al the officers of tho the Eastland East East- land hand and tho the health commission ar- ar to tn thin river for ff rt ar r f dT disease cn ml might be spread d by ly ih e the pr presence s il ilof of so 80 many mani bodies In the stream Arrangements Arrangements Arrangements Ar Ar- also mado made to get at atthe atthe the sunken vessel to determine the Underlying un underlying un- un causes of ot the tho accident |
