Show icffi OFA WRECK I Twentythree Bodies RecOvered Recov-ered from nonticellou THIRTYTWO LIVES LOST But Four Survived the Wreck of tho Steamship Shore for Ten Miles East and West of Yarmouth N S Strewn With Wreckage of the Vessel 4 Ves-sel Fury of the Surf in that Region Re-gion is Appalling Heaviest Sea Known There l for Years Cause of the Disnst I i I f Yarmouth N Sv Novell The shore of tthls country rKu ten miles east und west is strewn ulfth the wreckage of I the hull amUcarpro the stuamor City I Monllcello which fouridercd Saturday Satur-day morning find iwerftyfivo bodies oC I victims o the disaster have been recovered re-covered from the sea which Is still raging1 with terrific fury Many people have assembled at Rockvllle near where the firstbody came ashore and l numerous relatives o l members of the crew who nearly all belonged to points on this coast have arrived to identify the dead The bodies were arranged In u room In the public hall and the Coroner who held an inquest gave tin opinion of accidental owning All the bodies are terribly battered found daylight The first body was at when the zinc lifeboat which was Supposed by l tho survivors of the first bout to have been swamped was disc dis-c ered on the shore A few ynrds distant dis-tant were tho bodies of Mr Kldridge a passenger Second Engineer Poole Mr Frlpp a traveler of St Johns N Band B-and the body oCa seaman l four had life belts around them At short intervals along the beach eleven more bodies were found making mak-ing fifteen discovered up to noon today to-day They had all evidently conic ashore in the lifeboat and were killed I I on striking the beach not one escaping 1 escap-ing j I J 1 The remains so far Identified In addition ad-dition to the four enumerated above are Rupert Olive purser of the steamer PrInce Edward Baggage u L I masier wuson uecKiiunus juimaun I Levl Nickorson Robert Nickerson Van Rcnenberg Austin Wlckens James I Colt John E Whitemore Stanley Ringer Rin-ger Harry Copeland and David Bcn ham The watches in the pockets In two of the men stopped at 1245 and 1225 oclock respectively The body of Capt Harding of the Montlcello was found at Picnic Point encircled with n life belt and fully dressed An unknown body supposed to be that of a traveler for a Western boot and shoe firm has been found at the same place with the bodies of Elsie I El-sie McDonald and Second Officer Murphy Mur-phy recovered yesterday Of the members I mem-bers of the crew whose bodies were secured Copeland and Benham were not known to be on board until their bodies w ere identified They were not on the ships arrivals having Joined for the trip only Several bodies are still unidentified r One body was recognized this evening I even-ing as that of John Richmond of Es sex N B a traveler for n boot and shoe firm He was not before known I to have been 0 passenger This swells the known death roll to thirtytwo I Benham took the place of Whltemore I previously reported lost Copeland was also a substitute but for whom it is nol known I I Is n coincidence that the ship Peter Stewart was wiecked off this shore a few years ago In the month of 1 July and a boatload of men came in where the Montlcellos boat was 1 found Half of the men were dead be fore the boat touched the land and I many believe the same is true of those in the Monllcellos boat The fury of the serf is appalling In this region I I The body of O N Coleman another commercial traveler who was hot laveer previously i pre-viously known to have been on board the Montloello has been washed I ashore and Identified i Hu represented a Hamilton Ont Jewelry firm and carried samples worth 50000 One trunk has been found Wreckage of all kinds litters the shore boxes barrels pieces of ships boats and parts of the superstructure of the steamer James Bal a merchant of Yarmouth i who was supposed to been on board is safe having missed the steamer in SI Johns Rupert Olive was crossing the bay from St Johns to Yarmouth to rejoin his own steamer Chief Steward Hopkins of the steamer Yarmouth perished he having taken his brothers place for one trip Swen Johnson was taking Ellsha Cooksplace ha quartermaster 1 quarter-master and Fred ant Viinenburg was substituting sub-stituting as cook for his father The absentees were ofT to vote at the elec tions and to this circumstance they owe their lives I No trace of more than three women being on board the Montlcello could be found They were given places In I the first boat One of them Stewardess Stew-ardess Kate Smith is one of the survivors I sur-vivors and she Is 103 ill to make n statement Elslq McDonald was I drowned In the surf Her body has I been recovered The third woman named Lawrence was colored Her body was seen in the breakers this af ternoon but could not be reached I Some difficulty has been encountered I in igurlng out the total loss of life ns a number of passengers Joined tho Monlieello at St Johns without first ixglstoring at the hooking bfllce frRl bought theln tickets on board r A revised list of the members of the crew prepared at the head ofllcc of ofce the Yarmouth Steamship company here shows that the ofilcera and crew numbered twentyeight The total number of people 01 board Is now placed at thirtysix The four survivors are Capt Smith n passenger Third Officer Felmlne I Quartermaster Wllwon and Stewardess Smith The three men saved agree that the cauee of the disaster was L briefly Tin steamer was pounded for hours by set and pale Hprang a leak and Jlllcd become unmanageable broke apart and foundered Tho BOO im I brolc remembered to have been so heavy on this coast for many years |