22y 9m 8d Died at Nahant Mass
Sailor on the three-masted coal schooner "Charles A. Briggs" which sunk in a storm off Nahant, Massachusetts, on Feb 1, 1898, with the loss of eight lives.
BOSTON IS AT WORK ONCE MORE
STORM'S VICTIMS NUMBER ELEVEN
Comprising the Crew of the Charles A. Briggs - Bodies IdentifiedBoston yesterday resumed her normal condition as far as street cars and the steam railway traffic is concerned, but the streets are still piled high with snow. The employees of the telegraph and telephone companies were the most desperately busy, but they have succeeded in doing little more than to patch up circuits to New York. Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and Rhode Island are still cut off from telephone communication. From different points in this territory news of the severity of the storm has come in by every mail since the trains on the various railroads began to run Wednesday morning. Word was received yesterday that Wednesday's report of 12 bodies being found on Baker's Island in Salem harbor, cannot be identified. This will leave the number of fatalities only 11, including the crew of the Charles A. Briggs, which was wrecked at Nahant Monday night.
Agent Allen of the seamen's union, Boston, and Mrs. Erickson, who has a sailors' boarding-house in Boston, visited the scene of the wreck of the Briggs yesterday morning and identified the bodies which have been recovered as those of John Haley of East Boston, the steward, whose body was found first; John Charleson, the Norwegian engineer; Harry and LEWIS MILLIKEN, and Samuel Cain. The body of Mate J. J. Young was identified during the night by his widow. Only one body is now missing from the crew. It is thought to be that of Seaman Andrews, as the fragments of a body which were gathered up Wednesday on the shore are believed to be parts of the body of Capt A. W. Wentworth, as the portions indicate a larger man than Andrews. The bodies of the drowned sailors are at the town hall of Nahant, awaiting orders from friends of the dead. If no one comes, the seamen's union will take charge of them. All traces of the wreck on the shore have disappeared, the wreckers have carried off everything, even the fragments of the timber cast up.
Published in the Springfield (MA) Republican, Friday, February 4, 1898, p. 3 (Partial article)
From the Boston Herald, Friday, February 4, 1898, page 12:
Five Bodies Identified
Uncertainty Regarding Two Others of the Crew of the Schooner Charles A.
Briggs.
The police of Nahant are still busy at work looking for bodies of
sailors who were killed by the wrecking of the schooner Charles A.
Briggs, at Little Nahant last Monday night, and men are kept about the
scene of the disaster night and day.
It is believed by the police that only one body is unaccounted for, that
of Isaac Andrews who was a native of Maryland. Andrews once boarded at
the sailors' lodging house on Richmond street, kept by Mrs. F. Erickson.
Mrs. Erickson visited Nahant yesterday, in company with a young man
named Oscar Allen, who represents the Seamen's union of Boston, for the
purpose of viewing the seven bodies recovered, at present in the Nahant
police station, but neither Mrs. Erickson nor Allen could identify any
as being that of young Andrews. Mrs. Erickson stated that Andrews had
some tattooing on one of his arms, but nothing of this kind has been
discovered on any of the bodies.
The remains of John J. Young, identified Wednesday evening by his wife,
will be taken to his late home in Boston this morning.
The bodies of Louis and Harry Milliken, cousins, were yesterday
identified by a sister of Louis, and they will be sent to Ellsworth,
Me., for burial.
Sailor on the three-masted coal schooner "Charles A. Briggs" which sunk in a storm off Nahant, Massachusetts, on Feb 1, 1898, with the loss of eight lives.
BOSTON IS AT WORK ONCE MORE
STORM'S VICTIMS NUMBER ELEVEN
Comprising the Crew of the Charles A. Briggs - Bodies IdentifiedBoston yesterday resumed her normal condition as far as street cars and the steam railway traffic is concerned, but the streets are still piled high with snow. The employees of the telegraph and telephone companies were the most desperately busy, but they have succeeded in doing little more than to patch up circuits to New York. Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and Rhode Island are still cut off from telephone communication. From different points in this territory news of the severity of the storm has come in by every mail since the trains on the various railroads began to run Wednesday morning. Word was received yesterday that Wednesday's report of 12 bodies being found on Baker's Island in Salem harbor, cannot be identified. This will leave the number of fatalities only 11, including the crew of the Charles A. Briggs, which was wrecked at Nahant Monday night.
Agent Allen of the seamen's union, Boston, and Mrs. Erickson, who has a sailors' boarding-house in Boston, visited the scene of the wreck of the Briggs yesterday morning and identified the bodies which have been recovered as those of John Haley of East Boston, the steward, whose body was found first; John Charleson, the Norwegian engineer; Harry and LEWIS MILLIKEN, and Samuel Cain. The body of Mate J. J. Young was identified during the night by his widow. Only one body is now missing from the crew. It is thought to be that of Seaman Andrews, as the fragments of a body which were gathered up Wednesday on the shore are believed to be parts of the body of Capt A. W. Wentworth, as the portions indicate a larger man than Andrews. The bodies of the drowned sailors are at the town hall of Nahant, awaiting orders from friends of the dead. If no one comes, the seamen's union will take charge of them. All traces of the wreck on the shore have disappeared, the wreckers have carried off everything, even the fragments of the timber cast up.
Published in the Springfield (MA) Republican, Friday, February 4, 1898, p. 3 (Partial article)
From the Boston Herald, Friday, February 4, 1898, page 12:
Five Bodies Identified
Uncertainty Regarding Two Others of the Crew of the Schooner Charles A.
Briggs.
The police of Nahant are still busy at work looking for bodies of
sailors who were killed by the wrecking of the schooner Charles A.
Briggs, at Little Nahant last Monday night, and men are kept about the
scene of the disaster night and day.
It is believed by the police that only one body is unaccounted for, that
of Isaac Andrews who was a native of Maryland. Andrews once boarded at
the sailors' lodging house on Richmond street, kept by Mrs. F. Erickson.
Mrs. Erickson visited Nahant yesterday, in company with a young man
named Oscar Allen, who represents the Seamen's union of Boston, for the
purpose of viewing the seven bodies recovered, at present in the Nahant
police station, but neither Mrs. Erickson nor Allen could identify any
as being that of young Andrews. Mrs. Erickson stated that Andrews had
some tattooing on one of his arms, but nothing of this kind has been
discovered on any of the bodies.
The remains of John J. Young, identified Wednesday evening by his wife,
will be taken to his late home in Boston this morning.
The bodies of Louis and Harry Milliken, cousins, were yesterday
identified by a sister of Louis, and they will be sent to Ellsworth,
Me., for burial.
22y 9m 8d Died at Nahant Mass
Sailor on the three-masted coal schooner "Charles A. Briggs" which sunk in a storm off Nahant, Massachusetts, on Feb 1, 1898, with the loss of eight lives.
BOSTON IS AT WORK ONCE MORE
STORM'S VICTIMS NUMBER ELEVEN
Comprising the Crew of the Charles A. Briggs - Bodies IdentifiedBoston yesterday resumed her normal condition as far as street cars and the steam railway traffic is concerned, but the streets are still piled high with snow. The employees of the telegraph and telephone companies were the most desperately busy, but they have succeeded in doing little more than to patch up circuits to New York. Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and Rhode Island are still cut off from telephone communication. From different points in this territory news of the severity of the storm has come in by every mail since the trains on the various railroads began to run Wednesday morning. Word was received yesterday that Wednesday's report of 12 bodies being found on Baker's Island in Salem harbor, cannot be identified. This will leave the number of fatalities only 11, including the crew of the Charles A. Briggs, which was wrecked at Nahant Monday night.
Agent Allen of the seamen's union, Boston, and Mrs. Erickson, who has a sailors' boarding-house in Boston, visited the scene of the wreck of the Briggs yesterday morning and identified the bodies which have been recovered as those of John Haley of East Boston, the steward, whose body was found first; John Charleson, the Norwegian engineer; Harry and LEWIS MILLIKEN, and Samuel Cain. The body of Mate J. J. Young was identified during the night by his widow. Only one body is now missing from the crew. It is thought to be that of Seaman Andrews, as the fragments of a body which were gathered up Wednesday on the shore are believed to be parts of the body of Capt A. W. Wentworth, as the portions indicate a larger man than Andrews. The bodies of the drowned sailors are at the town hall of Nahant, awaiting orders from friends of the dead. If no one comes, the seamen's union will take charge of them. All traces of the wreck on the shore have disappeared, the wreckers have carried off everything, even the fragments of the timber cast up.
Published in the Springfield (MA) Republican, Friday, February 4, 1898, p. 3 (Partial article)
From the Boston Herald, Friday, February 4, 1898, page 12:
Five Bodies Identified
Uncertainty Regarding Two Others of the Crew of the Schooner Charles A.
Briggs.
The police of Nahant are still busy at work looking for bodies of
sailors who were killed by the wrecking of the schooner Charles A.
Briggs, at Little Nahant last Monday night, and men are kept about the
scene of the disaster night and day.
It is believed by the police that only one body is unaccounted for, that
of Isaac Andrews who was a native of Maryland. Andrews once boarded at
the sailors' lodging house on Richmond street, kept by Mrs. F. Erickson.
Mrs. Erickson visited Nahant yesterday, in company with a young man
named Oscar Allen, who represents the Seamen's union of Boston, for the
purpose of viewing the seven bodies recovered, at present in the Nahant
police station, but neither Mrs. Erickson nor Allen could identify any
as being that of young Andrews. Mrs. Erickson stated that Andrews had
some tattooing on one of his arms, but nothing of this kind has been
discovered on any of the bodies.
The remains of John J. Young, identified Wednesday evening by his wife,
will be taken to his late home in Boston this morning.
The bodies of Louis and Harry Milliken, cousins, were yesterday
identified by a sister of Louis, and they will be sent to Ellsworth,
Me., for burial.
Sailor on the three-masted coal schooner "Charles A. Briggs" which sunk in a storm off Nahant, Massachusetts, on Feb 1, 1898, with the loss of eight lives.
BOSTON IS AT WORK ONCE MORE
STORM'S VICTIMS NUMBER ELEVEN
Comprising the Crew of the Charles A. Briggs - Bodies IdentifiedBoston yesterday resumed her normal condition as far as street cars and the steam railway traffic is concerned, but the streets are still piled high with snow. The employees of the telegraph and telephone companies were the most desperately busy, but they have succeeded in doing little more than to patch up circuits to New York. Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and Rhode Island are still cut off from telephone communication. From different points in this territory news of the severity of the storm has come in by every mail since the trains on the various railroads began to run Wednesday morning. Word was received yesterday that Wednesday's report of 12 bodies being found on Baker's Island in Salem harbor, cannot be identified. This will leave the number of fatalities only 11, including the crew of the Charles A. Briggs, which was wrecked at Nahant Monday night.
Agent Allen of the seamen's union, Boston, and Mrs. Erickson, who has a sailors' boarding-house in Boston, visited the scene of the wreck of the Briggs yesterday morning and identified the bodies which have been recovered as those of John Haley of East Boston, the steward, whose body was found first; John Charleson, the Norwegian engineer; Harry and LEWIS MILLIKEN, and Samuel Cain. The body of Mate J. J. Young was identified during the night by his widow. Only one body is now missing from the crew. It is thought to be that of Seaman Andrews, as the fragments of a body which were gathered up Wednesday on the shore are believed to be parts of the body of Capt A. W. Wentworth, as the portions indicate a larger man than Andrews. The bodies of the drowned sailors are at the town hall of Nahant, awaiting orders from friends of the dead. If no one comes, the seamen's union will take charge of them. All traces of the wreck on the shore have disappeared, the wreckers have carried off everything, even the fragments of the timber cast up.
Published in the Springfield (MA) Republican, Friday, February 4, 1898, p. 3 (Partial article)
From the Boston Herald, Friday, February 4, 1898, page 12:
Five Bodies Identified
Uncertainty Regarding Two Others of the Crew of the Schooner Charles A.
Briggs.
The police of Nahant are still busy at work looking for bodies of
sailors who were killed by the wrecking of the schooner Charles A.
Briggs, at Little Nahant last Monday night, and men are kept about the
scene of the disaster night and day.
It is believed by the police that only one body is unaccounted for, that
of Isaac Andrews who was a native of Maryland. Andrews once boarded at
the sailors' lodging house on Richmond street, kept by Mrs. F. Erickson.
Mrs. Erickson visited Nahant yesterday, in company with a young man
named Oscar Allen, who represents the Seamen's union of Boston, for the
purpose of viewing the seven bodies recovered, at present in the Nahant
police station, but neither Mrs. Erickson nor Allen could identify any
as being that of young Andrews. Mrs. Erickson stated that Andrews had
some tattooing on one of his arms, but nothing of this kind has been
discovered on any of the bodies.
The remains of John J. Young, identified Wednesday evening by his wife,
will be taken to his late home in Boston this morning.
The bodies of Louis and Harry Milliken, cousins, were yesterday
identified by a sister of Louis, and they will be sent to Ellsworth,
Me., for burial.
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