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Show CHARGES Of COWARDICE MADE AGAINST CAPTAIN OF SHIP BY SURVIVORS ' continued by the night patrols all last night, but no more bodies were found. I Acting Captain Mitchell of the Sandy I Point station said: ' ' We are all badly done up, hut we '. shall continue to search for bodies, as j before. It was the worst experience any of us has ever gone through, and I T don 't know which was wore, the I mental or the physical anguish.'' Krom the time voung Fred Hiergsell was pulled ashore through the breakers early Tuesday morning until the dead and living were removed to Providence, members f both the New Shop-ham and Sandy Point stations were on dutv continuously for nearly fortv eight hours without sleep. Waist deep in the water that had chilled the Larch-niont Larch-niont victims to death before they , ould drown, these men labored without intermission, in-termission, hauling bodies weighted with thick coatings of ice through the I surf and up the beach to the ta:ions. Their quarters were so .ron.lcl bv the dead and living- that they wer. lit erally turned out of doors, but thev kept up their labors, and today performed per-formed their regular round of duties, although each man was so lame anil ore from frostbites and overexertion -hat he scarcely was fit for the task. The weather became colder a;;ain to. lav The , wind was from the northwest, and the ! beat covered bv each p.Vrol was expos ex-pos d to the full (.weep of the rising gab . PROVIDENCE, R. I., Feb. 15. By the identification late last night of the body of Bernard HoUingsworth, a negro waiter, the number of identified dead in the Larchmont horror numbered fifty-five fifty-five when the morgue opened today to the throngs of anxious friends and relatives rela-tives of missing passengers and crew. The death last night of Samuel La-combe La-combe of Manchester, N. H., one of the nineteen persons who reached shore after af-ter the Larchmont went down, brought the list of survivors down to eighteen. Kighty seven persons who are known to have been on the steamer were still missing or unidentified when the work of claiming the bodies wrm resumed today. to-day. It is now certain that the Larch mout carried out with her on that fatal Monday night loO souls. With returning strength the survivors are aide to recall more clearly what happened iu the terrible confusion of the accident. Storjea j-efleeting on the conduct of sflmc of the officers and crew are related. ("apt. McVer of the Larchmont in siets that he and his men did all that could be done in the fifteen minutes that elapsed from the time the steamer was rammed until she foundered. Miss Sadie Golub of Boston, one of i the two women survivors, and who is unable to be removed, and Fred Hierg sell of Brooklyn have brought direct charges of cowardice against some of the officers and crew. |