Salt Lake Herald | 1895-03-10 | Page 1 | Pirate Skiffs

PIRATE SKIFFS WAITING FOR A CHANCE TO PICKUP PICK-UP WRECKAGE A Day of Suspense Among flue Rein tixos antl FilemlH of the Victims Of tIe Longfellow Wreck Cincinnati 0 March gThis has been a day of suspense among the relatives and friends of the victims of the Longfellow Long-fellow wreck Searching parties have gone down the river looking for traces of the miming The officers of the packet company were rewarded for their zealousness by finding the body I I of the veteran clerk of the Longfellow Captain J L Carter in the wreck that had been caught and tied to the shore I I near Riverside The aged clerk was I pinned to the holler by a portion of I the cabin deck which had fallen on hIm His body was not mutilated When the river falls as It will doubtless doubt-less by Monday a more extended search can be made in that part of the Wreck where it is supposed the bodIes of Mr Aldridge and of the bartender Chauvet may be found The wreckage of the Longfellow is scattered for a distance of twentyfive miles and everywhere the skiffs of wreckers are busy towing floating cases to shore where they are immediately rifled Pirate skiffs are hovering around the hull waiting for pieces of freight to be detached The companys men are doing everything possible to save the cargo There have been no developments today be to-day enlarged to indicate that the death list will