Show 4 1 THOUSAND mm LIVES ME ARE LOST WHEN BOAT CAPSIZES STEAMER LOADED WITH PLEAS URE SEEKERS TURNS TURTLE IN CHICAGO RIVER many of victims victim had no chance of escape being penned in sunken vestel vessel and drowned like deij d I 1 e ul u chicago A thousand persons lost their lives in the chicago Clil caRO river on oil uly luly 24 by the capsizing of the edcur al lion 0 a steamer eastland while warping waipeng from its wharf with more titan than 2600 of the western electric kompany sorn pany and their relatives and lids on board bound for a pleas are trip across lake michigan many any were ivere drowned in the cabina the bodies of victims lct lina had bad been le recovered covered monday morning after forty t y h hours urs of 0 searching by divers around d the steel hulk still lying on its side halt half submerged the total dead as a result of the hirning over of the ship still remains it approximately 1000 according to toti estimates mates made by coroner hoffman Hol kho whose reports that probably bly bodies bodice still vavro held in tile the athe t the river by th tb superstructure ui of if ho he overturned boat efforts to discover the cause of the accident were begun long before tile the work of rescue was over federal ind and county grand juries were ordered a 1 coroners jury was Im paneled and all the officers and crew of the he eastland Ka atland nere ivere arrested president wilson has ordered that a complete investigation bo be made by she he department of commerce into the sinking of the excursion steamer eastland Bast Rast land acting secretary sweet of the department sent seat him word that ule the cause of the he disaster would bo be looked into arid and the president directed hat hal nothing be left undone to fix tile the responsibility fully men women and ahll iren came caino down to tile the river wharf t to board the bouts boats for a holiday excursion the lake strainer arner eastland Kast land had been cen loaded a tug was hitched to the it ill fitted fated vessel ropes were ordered mt last oft art and the engines began to juin the eastland Kast land had not budged however Ins the heavily laden ship aver sideways leaning first toh fr war ward I 1 e river bank tho the lurch was wait t t t ling lilal nia ny passengers ff 10 oln td the hi large haiie coni concourse ourse already on the other side aide of th the decks the ship then heeled hack back it turned slowly but steadily towards it ita s left side aide children clutched the skirts of mothers anti and sisters bisters to 0 o keep train rom falling the whole cargo was impelled towards the fulling sidd of tile the ship water began to enter low ir r portholes port holes and the ropes snapped aft the piles to which the vessel was tied lied screams from passengers attracted the attention of fellow excursionists on da tile tho wharf awaiting the next teamer steamer Wharf men and picnickers soon goon lined the edge of the embankment eni bank teaching out helplessly towards the wavering steamer par for nearly five minutes tile the ship turned before it finally lived dived under the swift current of the river which allne to tha ali drainage drat nago canal system flows from the lake during the mighty turning of at tile the ship with its cargo of humanity lifeboats chains mid arld other loose appurtenances on OK the decks slipped down tile tho sloping floors crushing tile the passengers toward the rising waters then there was a plunge with a sigh of air escaping from the hold mingled with crying at 0 children anti and shrieks of 0 women and the ship wha waa on the tha bottom 0 ot tile the river casting hundreds of its passengers into alib lib water many sank entangled with clothing slid and bundles and did not rise but scores came to the surface giving the river the appearance of a 1 I crowded bathing beach many seized float tUh chairs and other objects those on shore share threw out ropes anti anil dragged in those who could hold these life lines employees of commission farius with houses along the river threw crates chicken coops and other floatable float ablo things into the current but these were swept away by the stream boats were put out tugs luga rushed to the scene with shrieking whistles and many men mea snatched enat ched off their coats and sprang into the river to 0 o aid the drown ing with thousands of spectator ready to aid and the wharf within grasp went to death despite every effort at rescue one mother grasped her two children in her arms as she slipped from the steamer into the water one child was a torn from her but the ahe and the TAKING SURVIVORS FROM CAPSIZED STEAMER AT CHICAGO 4 I 1 t 1 11 4 40 iw r t I 1 st 1 I av is 1 1 other were saved fathers were frowned drowned after aiding their div wives es and children to safety stories of heroism were almost us ab numerous as tile lie number of persons on tile scene immediately aft after erthe the alsan ter divers were placed at work as ai soon boon as possible and as tile the divers rained entrance to the hull the scene of dig tress iresa moved for the time being from tile the river to the improvised inor morgues gues warehouses or oc wholesale companies along III alio e river wera thrown open and bodies were wera laid in rows on oil the floorn doors scores of persons persona taken from the lie water were severely injured and the these were taken to tile the Irl quola hospital built in inenio memory ry of bf the COO women I 1 children and a ten few men who were burned arid and crushed to death in tile the iroquois Iro quola theatre N new ew years eye eve a several ev years ago I 1 efforn to resuscitate tho those so t taken a I 1 cen front tho the river were unsuccessful except in III two or three instances it was also said that many of those injured hiji lrea would tile die capt harry pedersen 57 years old wit who w waa its in command of the steamer k eastland ast land when it capsized sald said 1 I was on the bridge and was about leady to 10 pull out when I 1 noticed tile tho boat begin to list I 1 shouted orders ordera to OP open en tho the inside doors nearest the dock ind give I 1 tile people a chanen chanco to get awk and g th rout continued to roll bad and a shortly i artly a ter wardi the hawsers hawkers broke and the steamer lumen over on her side alla and was drilling drifting toward the middle of 0 the river when she went over I 1 jumped and held on 0 to o the upper side aide it all happened in two minutes the cause la Is a mystery to 0 o me I 1 havy have sailed balled the lakes for twenty yeara ye arm and previous to that balled on salt water twelve years and this la Is tho the first drat serious accident ct dent I 1 ever had I 1 do not know how it happened to make sure sura that none of tile the members of the crew should avoid the in fa luedt and other inquiries eight more of the crew were arrested nearly all of the seventy two men employed on the tha ship are now held in addition to walter C steele secretary of the company owning the boat the county grand jury wits was ordered held in session to take cognizance cognisance of any evidence of criminal negligence in connection with the overturning 0 ver turning of the eastland En atland identification of victims was all but completed monday night except for corpses still in III the river checking against duplications in the various elbta proceeded all night more alore than was subscribed iby by business houses and individuals on I 1 monday to alleviate any suffering ering among those hose who had lost their sources ot of support lit in that tragedy while several families were almost wiped out most of tho the households affected lost loit only one or two members ninny many of tile the employees ot at the western electric company had been working on part time but with the a aid id of the national lied cross it I 1 Is th thought ought that there will be no suffering for lack of funds william olander secre secretary tiry of the lake Sea meus union sald gald on monday that there wi amo r many other ships on the great lakes as dangerous us as the eastland Hast R Us land because of faulty construction lie he held that the eastland Kast land was not properly designed and charged that united states inspectors under captain charles it if westcott of de chief of the lake district had played into the hands of 0 ship owners at the expense of sailors and passengers lie he said this was ft as shown by the fact that thirty one ships passed by the inspectors had sunk in the great lakes since 1903 1905 several of them taking all on board to death the cordner 6 ei se alie states adorney and city officers reiterate their charge that all tile the possible causes for tile the disaster could be blamed to negligence by federal inspectors or failure of federal officers to enforce marine laws the last inspection of the eastland was made by robert reid government inspector at st joseph mich who declared tho the steamer fit this spring and procured a position as chief engineer of at the boat for his son in law J M ertckson erickson CAPSIZED STEAMER AT HER DOCK NS ad na 4 wao k ilk 1110 P 1 ill ff V 4 49 A jk 44 4 |