Show THOUSAND LIVES ME ARE LOST WHEN AT A SIZES STEAMER LOADED WITH URE SEEKERS TURNS TURTLE IN CHICAGO RIVER many of victim victims had no chance of escape being penned in sunken veel vessel and drowned like rat rats in a trap chicago chicagoan Chic agoA A thou stud per fernna nna to lost their hies in the chicago rhth en nn july sl ti by the cut earning ot of the ext exhur ur elon sion steamer kaaland tat land while warping from rom ita its wharf with morn more than employee employees of the western company and nd their relatives and friends on board bound for or a plea pleas ure trip across lake michigan pliny were ft ere droned dronek in the cabins the bodies of had been ered monday morning after tor for ty hours ot of searching by adlers around the steel hulk still 1111 lying n its it side ade half submerged Bub merged fully nien men women and chit dren came come don down to the river wharf biart liart to board the boata for a holiday edcur ion sion the lake steamer Fa atland had been loaded a tug wae was hitched bitched to the III fated bessel ropes were ordered cast off and the engines beran to hum the eastland Kat land had not budged bowmer hoft per instead the heavily laden ship wavered eways ard the river bank the lurch war was 0 so o startling that many pa 1 bangers joined the large concourse already on oil the other elde side of the deck decks the ship then heeled back it turned sol but steadily towards KB its left ide side children clutched the skirts of in mother others and bisters sisters to keep from falling the whole bole cargo was impelled toward the falling aide side of the ship water began to enter low er port porthole holes and the ropes snapped off oft the piles plies to which the vessel was tied screams Sc from passengers gers attracted the attention of allow excursionist 8 on the wharf malting the next steamer and picnickers boon soon lined tried the edge of 0 the embank reaching out helplessly toward towards the wavering a vering steamer for nearly five the hip turned before it finally dived under the swift current of the river which owing to the drainage canal system flow flows the lake during the mighty turning of the chip with its cargo of humanity lifeboats chaire chairs and other otter loose appurtenances on the deck decks slipped down the eloping sloping floora floors crushing the be passengers pase enger toward the riling rising waters then there was a plunge with a sigh of air bac ee aping caping from the hold mingled with crying of children and shrieks of women and the hip ship wae was on an the bottom of the river hundreds of its passengers into the he water many ank sank entangled with wit claths cloths cl an rill bundle bundles and did not rise bi t c scores came to the surface giving the the appearance of a crowded bath bachtig tig jach b many seized floating floa tink chair chairs and other object objects those an on shore threw out ropes and dragged in those who could hold these life lines employees of commission firms arms with house houses along the threw crates chicken coops and mthr floatable things into the current but moel most of these were sept ay away by the th stream no coite notts were put out tua tugs rushed to ho the scene with shrieking whittles whistles and many men matched snatched off their coats and prang sprang into the river to aid the drown ing with thousands of 3 ready to aid and the wharf uhan v grasp rap hundreds hund rede went to death despite every effort at rescue one mother grasped her to cliff dren in her arme arms as she all slipped ped from the steamer into the water one chill was torn from her but she he and the oher ollier were saved father fathers ers pr downed after aiding their wives ivea ani children to safety stories of heroism ere almost as a numerous as the number of oa the boeve immediately after the dibas ler ter divers were placed at work ae as swin 48 possible ble and as a the divers gal nel entrance to the hull the scene of die dig tress moved for the time being from the river to the improvised morgues warehouses of wholesale companies alon slon the tile river were thrown open and I 1 bodice were tre laid in rows on the floor floors scores cores of persons taken from the wa ar ter were keyei ee vely ay iy injured and these were taken to the hospital hospi lall built lu memory of 0 ae o bomel women children and a few men who burned and crust 11 od to death in the iroquois Iro quola theatre new now year years eye say av eral years ago efforts to resuscitate those taken from the river were unsuccessful ex STEAMER AT CHICAGO CAPSIZED TAKING SURVIVORS FROM aff T I 1 I 1 it it j ak 0 IV 7 4 A capt in two or three lne tanca it wai ai also maid that many of those injured would ille lie capt harry pedersen Pc dersen 57 u lars old w ho was in command ot of the attayer Fa etland when hen it capsized aid said I 1 I 1 wax was on the bridson and nail as abo abbit it ready to pull out when I 1 noticed the boat begin to list I 1 shouted orders to open the inside doors nearest the dock and ghe the people a chance to get out the boat continued to roll and shortly afterwards the hawsers broke and the tile steamer turned over on her side and was drifting toward the middle of the river when she went over I 1 jumped and held on to the upper side it t all happened in to vao min utes the cause la Is a mystery to me I 1 hae sailed the lakes for tw twenty five beara ears and previous to that sailed on salt ater water twelve years and this is s the first serious accident ac ident I 1 ever bad had I 1 do not knon know how it happened Lipp ened loforte to dis disposer disc coser the cause of the accident were begun long before the work ork of rescue mss aa over I 1 ederae and county grand juries were ordered a coron caronte cor onTe rs jury was as it lu paneled and all the officers and crew of the eastland president wilson has ordered that a complete investigation be made by the department of commerce into the sinking of the excursion steamer eastland acting secretary sweet of the department dent sent him word that the cause of the disaster would be looked into and the president eilt directed that nothing be lett left undone to fix the responsibility identification of victims was all but completed monday night except tor for corpses still in the aher checking against duplications in the tallou var lour lists proceeded all night more afore than as subscribed subscrIbe 4 by business houses rind individuals on monday to alleviate any suffering among those who had lost their sources of support la in the he tragedy orty while several families ere almost wiped ot most at of the housell ads affect 4 lost only one or two number many of the employees of the west ern electric company had been vork ing on part time but with tho the aid of the national bcd 4 cross it Is thought that there il III be no buffering suffering tot for lack i of funds william olander secretary of the he lake union said on monday ton d ay that thero there were many other ship on or the great lakes as dangerous as the eastland because ot of faulty construction K H belli held that the eastland Ua etland aas aa not properly designed and charged that united states inspectors Ine under captain charles 11 II westcott ot of dc de chief ot of the lake district had played into the hands of at gt the exlene of sailors and baasen assen gers lie aid said this was shown shon by the tact fact that thirty one ships pasted passed by the inspectors had eunk sunk la in the great lakes since 1905 ameral ot of 1 ra tak ing all on board to death the coroner the state s attorney and city officers reiterate their charge that all the possible canses for or the dis dig aster could be blamed to negligence by federal inspectors or failure of federal officers to enforce marine laws the last inspection ot of the eastland was as made by robert areld government inspector at st joseph mich who wito de dared the steamer fit this spring and procured a position as chief engineer of the boat for his son in law J at E ickson captain john 11 0 beara of the tug kenosha Kc nosha which was hitched to the eastland to tow the ship out ot of the river testified that be he did not take hold of the eastland until utter after several minutes after the snip ship had bogun to list flat according to other wit nesses even than be he malted waited tor for word to go ahead and the captain of we tl eastland was as not working out the stem us as waa vias nece necessary teary te t the screws captain omeara bald he an ally got the word to go abea I 1 but before the towline as taut the east land fated lilted dangere danger oisy ily and he stopped but the ship never righted he ile had toned towed the eastland Ea etland four times and she listed he bild overloading under ballasting and grod grounding riding on the aher bottom were cited la in tos at the coroner coroners inquest by to two experts as reason reasons why the steamer Fa atland toppled over at its wharf and drowned hundreds of CAPSIZED STEAMER AT HER DOCK 4 mo ll 11 t 41 2 4 venz I 1 AM ce ITI I 1 t v 01 A veba v pg cf 3 tl tw nr 4 41 44 0 I 1 ar |