Show TELEGRAPHIC TIlE STSAIZCOAT DIS AS 1 Ett Long List or FtltnI1tiesSccn JIj of Woe and Suffering Fuller Details ol the tatas Irophc Another Sicambout Collision New York 28 Chrld8 Ilabrouck who was enpOjCl on the SeawanJiaka rays We had a crew of four deck hand one deck boy engineer two firemen captain clerk superintendent wheelman wheel-man superintendents clerk porter steward and cook The crew d d their duty like men and few of them lost their presence of mind You con imago inc huw cool they were when tbe cert f who was collecting fire as toon as Le realized the boa was on lire uturned 10 his office and secured all tbs money be had left tlierr Among our passsngen were Charles A Dana Richard O Gorman Gor-man S L M Barlow onu or two of the Harpers pub ishers and a number of thor Ronlloraon nrhojo names X Cannot ecollect but who were in the habit of going to their homes along the island bore by our boat All the gentlemen L have named I understood escaped The vessel burned like ponder after once the flames starttd anl it was a terrible scene Shrieking women and children nuddl aft nntil their clothes caught fire and thoeon the forward part of the boat Were m n who were cut off from communication with or going to the roj cue of their female relative3 and frinds by the flames which burned fiercely about the centre of the boat Mr Moires our porter s wac ild floating on ts back and was going to jump overboard to savo it when a frantic woman clutched his arm saying You are a strong man and I a woman without with-out any friend on board for Gods sake help me The porter left the child to itself and 1 believe savd the woman Tha only one of tbo Siawanhakas boats got out vas the one which had canvass fastened over it AfUr the canvass was got off the b idy of a chili about 2 years old was found lying in the watery bottom bot-tom of the boat Nobody seemed to know bow it got there After 1 got en Uandalld Island I was almost exhausted but the doctors who wore huirying about revived mo by pouring somo liquor down my throat I ached this city on the Sylvam Gltn which also had several cf our passengers on board Other passengers were taken on bard the Osseo the Granite State and the Minnchannock and wero curled to those boats destinations A lady was climbing down the ladder letdiiig from the promenade deck to the main deck but as the ladder is a pretty hard thing for a man to get down on at any time she fell into the gangway and the flames Myself and about half a dozen others rescued her from her perilous position I saw a butcher who belongs either at Great Neck or Sands Point grab up an asparagus aspara-gus box and beforo 1 could stop him he jumped overboard with it I yelled nt dim not to jump or he would be struck by the wheel lie did not heed me and went over forward The last I saw of him he was going under the wneel Several others who went over forward al o went under the paddle wheels The Eastern Boulevard Club Ground East One Hundred and Twentyfirst street ii right opposite the scene of the d caster tiome dozen members were present at the time and gathered a number num-ber neighbors manned all the boats of ho club and biitd others at ad acenl floats These all went across the river and brought about forty persons ta the club house who were burned about the body hands and face The wounds of these parties were dressed and clothes given them The friends of those who wore not able to go home wee notified and came with carriages and removed them In the hurry no names of those saved were taken Dr A A McDonald chief of staff of the luoAtie asylum Wards Island said he was sitting In his room this nfternoon about 430 oclock when he saw the steamer come up the river all on fire as the steamer passed tho Island he saw it was the Seawanhaka The fire appeared to be just forward too paddle wheels and tho steamer turned in as if to land on the Island but suddenly turned out again lie stai ted She w as going at full speed out to follow her At that time there were about 500 patients on tho grounds I and most of them hod seen the burning steamer and they made a rush for the river front and fell in line to witness the sight Orderlies of the institution were sent out and all insane persons were safely ulaced in their room Dr McDonald ordered all necessary artices from the apothecary and at once went to the scene of the accident J3y this timo the steamer had been rtn up on the sunken meadow and was all ablaze Men women and children were jumping from the burning vessel Tho doctor ordered his private boat out and everything I possible was done to relieve the passengers I pas-sengers on board the unfottunatesteamer I The first man brought to land by Wards If land boats was ilr Do evouc a man about 40 years of ago who was being brought to shore by two other men but when ho was landed it was beyond the power of medical gentlemen rescusitate him and he died The bcdy of a woman who was identified by marks on her cothes as Mary Reed came a ° hore on the island A rope which had evidently been fastened about her body to lower her to tho water from the steamer was found around her neck and between strangulation and exhaustion the woman had died Next came the body of a woman burned to a crisp with an infant 7 months old in her arms aho burned to death Then two chi dren neither of them more than 2 years old were picked both alive and apparently but little up injured A young girl was found floating float-ing just away from the wreck and taken to the hopital She was terribly burned I about the body Mr Lanes a passenger who lives mca Sea din but aoo Loioee in ibb City ca named Ida was rescued with n young lady Jell Smith Mr Laps said the steamer left the dock on East Hivcr at 415 pm A stop was made at Thirtythird street where seventyfive or 100 additional pas encers were taken on boad Just about at Hell Gate I went forwar I to seek same friend and as I looked back I saw flames coming up through the coal hole just under tho pilot house 1 made my WilY to the bow of the steamer and hed out as long as I could and then 5a com smith jumped over puny with Miss Mpitb Oird after furnishing her a preserver The iifeb ats of the cawanahafa were not lowered because it ws impossible to lower them The cantata of the steamer stood at his post until the last moment I even saw him turn his head while at the wheel to avoid tho smoke and flames lie would have run in toward to-ward the Wad but the ropes connecting with the rudder wew burned oft Charles Smith captain of the Scatca nahaka was found in the hospitnl on Randalls IslaQd suffering from severe burns about the arms and fce lie said About 4 30 I board a loud dull report cxplotit n Quick as thought turned lo sea what was the matter when I taw time vessel in flames about mid I ship I saw the steamer Granite State on mv starboard side and turnirg my portside Finding that my steamer was on fire I immediately h derl her for the sunken meadow and with full head of sccam although the engineer en-gineer had been driven from his pot 1 I landed her about fjrly feet uron the meadow Most of the passengers were at the b aw of tho vessel and those on the stern were at the mercy of the flame as all passages to tho row WHO cut off Many jumped oa Urd whio others jurnpd into the w ter I ttojd at the wheel until the last minute and then jumped overb ard nod was picked up by I H small tot Ye bad lotreight on I bosrdsnd I do not know what caused the explosion The SeatcanhaLa can carry 11300 I persons but Monday is j generally a dull day and we had only about 250 or 300 on board this afternoon The engi neer tf the steamer Frank Weeks and his son Edward who was fireman on the seamer wen at their posts at the time orthe fire The former explains that Eome cf the small tubes of the boiler mu t have burt throwing the furnace door open and scittcrng hot coas around and se fire to the vessel lie like his fatherwas driven from his post by the fltmes bot > escaped with severe burns The number of lives bit by the accident Cannot be learned the sleamer being merely a daily tanspprt used between ne r poir ts kepi no ngister It is not likely that the list of lost will nuinbr more than fifty At midnight ehven bcdia nine adults one i i bud and two badie W TO brought to the morgue At Bellevue Hasp tal a Lumber Lum-ber of persons who had relative and f i lends on tbe Setiwanfiaki were waiting to identify them among tno unfortunates lost and the scone as the idles were carried in from tbe boat and coffins penod was heartrending Ono old gentleman tleman Mr DeBevoisu was frantic with grief when ho denuded tin body of his on David II DeBavoue of 3UL Pacific stet Brooklyn The hd of a beauti ful young woman about 20 years of age WitS Identified as that of Mary Heed Tn body of a stout lady abjut 50 years of ae was supposed to be that of Mrs iitchte of Locut Grove L ng Islan SIt It is reported that there sire about ilfieon bJdin on Randalls Island and a Dumber Dum-ber on LoiiiCfTsland shore The body of a i young man was picked up by a rowboat row-boat and moored to f F ako at the foot of One Hundred aid Fifteenth street It is i ccown that some of the crew did not do their duty but jumped into the river and swam ashore When the flimes broke out the Seawanahaka was passing through Hell Gate but was run on u til she nearly biirnoi to theater the-ater edge and had entered Little Hell Gate However members of tho crew say she could tnt have been beached sooner No doubt more bodies if not picked up by boats will be found on Long Inland shore tomorrow morning as the wind was blowing in that dinc lion If the catastrophe occurred even an hour later the loss of life would have been frightful It occured jut at a time when Sound stetmers and Harlem and other local boats were in tho immediate neighborhood The ScawanahaLa was about fourteen years old She was a regular day boat running betvveen New York and n lyn LI calli gat WhtteetoneGrertt Neck Sanda Point and Glenwood the arrives ar-rives in this city about am and leaves on the return It 4 15 The passer gors on her are generally bankers business and literary men who live on Long Island and come to the city in the mon log returning in the afternoon Frequently Fre-quently lady members of th ir families stud servants accompany them No regular company managed the boat but it is said she was run in the interest of four owners whose names are t A DanaS L M Btrlov M Kirkof Glen Cove and Mr Eidie of Great Neck Some of the owners had special rooms in the steamer New York 2JTho New York Herald gives tho following lit of tho dead as far as known Mamie Beach 2 years of age daughter the late Judge Beach of Glen Cove L 1 Martha Bolet 8y ars of ago Fiftythird stre11 between Second and Third avenues Constantine Cherry d years of age No 232S Second avenue MM Geogo W Colton No 1350 Pacific street Brooklyn Drowned Jones colored child uf Chanty Jones No 109 West TwentySiath street Mrs Mary Reed nedSbaler child of MM Shaler No 406 West FiftyThird street who Wa saved with her other child Van dernater 2 years of age of Glen Cove L L body not recovered Waton unknown dead male child 8 months old burned female child 12 months old drowned a woman 40 years of age burned to a crip boy 3 years old German Ger-man woman baby 18 months old drowned M DuBovoicc Mary Reed Abram P Skedmore Edward Watson of Whitesone Long Island wholesale liquor dealer in either New York or Bro klvn and five not identified Quito a number are reported missing and a compute list of the casualties cannot be bad tonitht I he body of a broker named James Hicks living at Sands Point Long Island was thought to have been discovered dis-covered at War Island and Lewis Green of Norwalk Conn is reported missing midnight Joseph J Stein of 202 East Fiftysecond street exas spmblyman was a passenger on the ScaicanahaLa tonight lIe was reported re-ported ES missing by his friends at police headquarters New lork ttj Wm 11 Grace 87 Wall street reported lost together with fan wife and child by the hurt ing of the steamer Seawanhafa last evening is am ng tho saved The three were res cutd after being in the water half an hour Henry Arthur leather merchant 84 Gold street is alo among tbe saved The body of H Skidraore 281 Pearl street was found at the foot of One Hundred and Fifteenth street He jumped overboard from the steamer after baking hands with his brother who was saved A body at tho morgue supposed to be that of Hey J W Diller DD former rector of St Lukes Church Brooklyn has not yet been identified Two more bodies wore picked up oft Wards Island one a man 40 years old light complexion sandy hair and whisker and dressed in a blade coat checked jumper and blua overalls the other was a man about 48 sandy moustache mous-tache dressed in ark < pants and checked jumper Tho bodies 01 Mrs Eveline D Bennett and husband A B Bennett IS and 20 Liberty street were identified at the morgue and removed to their late residence Brooklyn Tbo bodies of iirs B Kouscher and Miss Lizzie Shalor 36 Vest Fiftyfourth street wero identified and removed Edward J Booth a lawyer Liberty street was a passenger and has not been heard from since the disaster Charles Appleby 155 Broadway Broad-way reported lot with his wife writes that both are safe and uninjured Constantine Con-stantine Sherry a child brought to the morgue this morning was dun d-un taken away by its father who lies at 327 Uccoinl avenue David H Do Bevoie aged 31 of 3t Bowery was re cog ized by his father and the bcdy t E fcon oay 4i u uing Biisan is C < ileton Aged 45 years wife of George W Coleton agent lied Star Steamhip Line is among the dead Mary A R ° ed a girl about 20 years old wa identified this morning by a woman who said with tears in her eyes Miss Reed was engaged to be married next monh and had not a relative in the world The body is still at the morgue The body of Barbara Rxuschor Grman aged 31 year was lying on a marble slab her arms clasping t > ler breast the body of an infant child The husband and father recognized the dead wife and child tday and they were removed to their home 420 West Fiftythird street 3 izzie Shaler 406 West Fifty third street wa recognized among the dead in the morgue Theo Gauther grocer Sherifl street Clarence Vande water and an unknown negro were identified Four bodies are still un claime |