Portland Steamer Portland Lost with Many Lives in Cape Cod Gale
Port land bound for Forest City vanished during a great northeast storm. No passenger list remained, estimates range from 10 to 165 aboard, with about 120 believed aboard including crew. Wreckage washed ashore from High Head to Chatham as life savers search beaches and identify bodies. wheel and wreckage indicate the ship foundered at sea near Thatcher's Island to Cape Cod, with no survivors reported.
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Boston
Portland
Forest City
Cc. F. Williams
William H. Smith
Maude
Thatcher's Island
Mastern Point
Cape Ann
Gloucester
Maude S
Cape Cod
Thatcher’s
Peaked Hill Bars
Blanchard
Banger
Massachusetts Bay
Peaked Hill
New Eegland
Race Point
Orleans
High Head
Cape
Monomoy Beach
Nantucket Sound
Thomas Cooper
Columbia
Plymouth
Provincetown
Lewis
Savannah Line
Chattahoochee
Portland Loss Blamed on Disregarded Orders
General Liscomb of Portland arrives in Boston and fixed the responsibility for the loss of the Portland. Captain Blanghard is blamed and Captain Denison advised Blanchard not to sail. Weather warnings were given but disregarded.
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Liscomb
Dennison
Bay State
Blanchard
Portland
Slanager Liscomb
Boston
Tobiraine
Mr. Lir
Horace Blanchard
Eastern Point
The
Mr. Liscomb
Astern Point
Wiliams
Cave Cod
Liscoib
Tremont
Pla
Mr. Williams
Alr. G. 3
Dudley
I Harbor
Weather Bureau
Portland Wreck Theories Focus On Captain Blanchard
Wreck speculations center on Captain Blanchard defying orders to seek harbor at Eastern Point. Experts suggest the Portland foundered between Race Point and Highland Light or near Thatcher's Island, with life preservers failing and bodies washing ashore.
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Race Point
Highland Light
Portland Mystery: Blanchard Likely Stranded at Sea
Old sea captains weigh what became of the Portland after a gale. Captain Blanchard may have attempted Provincetown or Cane Cod maneuvers with engines failing, leaving the vessel to drift toward a shore or perish at sea. Various pilots describe scraps of sighting near Thatcher's Island.
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Thatcher
Peaked Hill
Captain Olsen
Columbia
Blanchard
Provincetown
Sen
Olsen
Portland
Captain Wellock
Minerva
Augustus Jlooper
Hesper
Portland Wreck Mystery Deepens After Thatcher Island Sighting
An excerpt from evidence about the steamship Portland's final voyage raises questions about the vessel’s course after leaving Thatcher's Island. Pilots at Lewis Wharf, including Captain J. W. Colby, report uncertainty about the steamer's direction once past Thatcher's Island.
A Wall Gravity Alectivans
A brief notice proclaims the beer contains malt hops and purest water without additives. The item emphasizes authenticity of ingredients and gravity brewing as a selling point.
Wreck of Portland Confirmed Total Loss with Casualties
An official confirms the Portland is a total loss with all aboard. Boston agent C O Williams reports three bodies recovered near Provincetown and Orleans, with cargo salvage arranged and crews sought. Claims and photographs requested to identify victims, with coroner handling the remains.
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Portland
CO. Williams
Provincetown
Boston
George B. Dudley
Boston & Portland Steam Packet Company
Thomas Lavender
Samuel T. Davis
Orleans
Mass
Oka VV
Lalovis
Big White Steamer Sighted Off Thatcher Island
Captain Reuben Cameron of the Grayling reports sighting a large white steamer about twelve miles off Thatcher's Island on Saturday night at 11 15. He believes the vessel was the Portland and notes the steamer acknowledged the warning signals and altered course to avoid the schooner.
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Grayling
Portland
Thatcher's Island
Gloucester
Reuben Cameron
Delaney's Passenger Identity Confirmed as George M Delaney
The Portland passenger identified yesterday as G W Delaney of Boston is George M Delaney of 600 Shawmut Avenue. A florist by trade, he had recently worked as a traveling salesman for Standard Oil and later for Johnson Mercantile. He left Saturday without notice to meet a contact at Union Station and may have traveled by boat with that person. He was 27, unmarried, and survived by his mother Mrs William M Delaney a widowed sister Mrs William M Mellen and brother Arthur E Delaney of Norto n Bros florists at Hotel Berkeley.
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Portland
G. W. Delaney
Boston
George M. Delaney
Shawmut Avenue
Post
William M. Delaney
South Iind
Standard Oil Company
Johnson Mercantile Company
Tremont Street
Au Man
Union Station
Delaney
William M. Mellen
Arthur E. Delaney
Norton Bros
Hotel
Berkeley
Mrs. Carrie West Identified as Hersom on Port land Steamer
The missing person case reveals Mrs. Carrie West is actually Mrs. Arthur F. Hersom. She and her husband boarded the steamer Saturday, correcting yesterday’s report about her identity and status.
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Carrie West
Portland
Arthur F. Hersom
Hersom
Local Couple Married Two Years Die in Tragic Incident
Of Charlestown, a Prescott Grammar School graduate, she worked in a Winter street dry goods shop. Her mother lies prostrate in Chelsea. He was a eo salesman for the Hammond Beef Co. The couple, married about two years, were 29 and 23, and left no children.
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Charlestown
Prescott Grammar School
Winter Street
Chelsea
Hersom
Hammond Beef Company
Itiersom
Two New Bedford Men Missing After Portland Sinks
Andrew Wilson and Paul Gardiner of New Bedford are believed lost after the Portland disaster. Both were polo players recently signed to the Gardiner polo team. Wilson lived with parents in Gardiner, worked at Acushnet Mill, and trained cyclist Jack Gatenby. Gardiner also played baseball.
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New Bedford
Andrew Wilson
Paul Gardiner
Portland
Wilson
Gardiner
Acushnet
Century Wheelmen
Jack Gatenby
Mystery Figures Lure Boston Visitors From Maine
In Medford Mass a mystery surrounds Mrs. Ezekiel Dennis and Miss Faith Morong both of Jesden Park Maine. Dennis 42 tall 5 3 with scars from surgeries. Morong 28 6 1 2 tall jet black hair and dark skin. Co F Wilson Bethel Me a lumber merchant aged 54 aboard the Portland vised by Boston residents.
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Medford
Ezekiel Dennis
Saith Morung
Jessenden Park
Portland
West Medford
Eleaner Jordan
Dennis
Boston
Mrs Elmira Timmons Missing After Portland to Malden Trip
Mrs Elmira Timmons of 138 Garden street Maplewood and her son Fred traveled from Portland to Somerville and then to Malden. Mrs Timmons about 50, born in Portland Maine, was seen on the Portland to Boston boat journey and then last spotted there.
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Malden
Portland
Elmira Timmons
Garden Street
Maplewood
Fred
Boston
Timmons
Somerville
Suson Heuston’s Wife Not Among Portland Victims
Relatives of Suson Heuston a colored second steward on the Portland telegraph that his wife and her sister were not among those aboard, contradicting earlier reports.
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Gardineier
Suson Heuston
Portland
Nine McCormick Citizens Indicted for Conspiracy in Phenix Trouble
A McCormick, 8.-C., grand jury returned true bills against nine well known residents for conspiracy to drive away J. W. Tolbert during the Phenix trouble. Bench warrants issued and Marshal Clayton sent to McCormick to arrest the defendants. Trial hoped for at the current term. Defendants named include M. Is, B. Sturkie, John Dunlop, Wade Cochrane, Thomas Bentley, Henry Martin, Pucker, Bes Bch Hiwell, Reynolds.
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Columbia
C. Novi
United States District Court
McCormick
B. Sturekie
John Dunlop
Wade Cochrane
Thomsas Bentley
Henry Martin
Pucker
Bes Bch
Hiwell
Nes BN Aka
Reynolds
Notable Vice Presidents of the Anti Imperialist League
The executive committee released a list of vice presidents including Andrew Carnegie George F Edmunds Charles Francis Adams Samuel Gompers John Sherman Herbert Myrick Edward Atkinson Patrick A Collins Samuel Bowles Carl Schurz and others The group urged members nationwide to write Senators and Representatives to oppose extending U S sovereignty over the Philippine islands.
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Anti-Imperialist League
Executive Committee
Andrew Carnegie
George F. Edmunds
Charles Francis Adams
Samuel Gompers
John Sherman
Herbert Myrick
Edward Atkinson
Patrick A. Collins
Samuel Bowles
Carl Schurz
League
Congress
United States
Philippine Islands
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Portland Steamship Company
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Yarmouth
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Steele
Taylor’s Undertaking
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Oren Hooper
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Portland Line
Thatcher’s Island
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PMN
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Cornelia M. Mitchell
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Bud & Gough
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Miss Small
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