Ogdensburg Advance - Thursday Oct 13, 1910
After ten long anxious months and constant search, Lake Erie has given up its dead and the body of Captain Thomas J. Bell of this city has been recovered and brought home for burial. A party of fishermen discovered the body Friday near Marlin, Canada, where it had been cast upon shore. The place is about twenty miles from the railroad line and as soon as identification was established the friends here were notified.
James P. Bell, brother of the captain, left at once for Marlin, and positive identification was happily made. The body was clothed in the Captain's uniform of the Anchor Line and his heavy fur overcoat. On one foot was an overshoe, and from the other foot the overshoe and also leather sole of the shoe was missing. His watch chain hung from his vest and bore his Knights of Columbus charm, but his watch was gone. The ring upon his finger was also identified, but the clearest means of identification was furnished by the letter from his wife under date of Nov 24, 1909, addressed in care of steamer Clarion, ship papers found in his pockets, also a small diary in which he had written his own name and the request that in case of death or injury his wife be notified at 202 State Street Ogdensburg, NY.
The body arrived here in charge of his brother, J. P. Bell on Monday morning, the funeral being held at the home of the deceased, thence to the Cathedral, with solemn requiem mass celebrated by Rev. E. J. Brown and interment in the Cathedral cemetery. The bearers were Dr. J. H. O'Hagan, James J. Doyle, Charles E. Murphy and Daniel J. Kennedy. The honorary bearers, Captains William D. Wait, James Owen, Daniel Murphy, and John J. Powers.
It was while running up the lakes on his last trip last fall to go into winter quarters that the steamer Clarion caught fire and was burned. In leaving the doomed craft, Capt. Bell and twelve of his men put off in a yawl boat. There was a heavy sea running and none of that boat load lived to tell the fate of the others. However, there is a great consolation in finding the bodies even at this late date.
After ten long anxious months and constant search, Lake Erie has given up its dead and the body of Captain Thomas J. Bell of this city has been recovered and brought home for burial. A party of fishermen discovered the body Friday near Marlin, Canada, where it had been cast upon shore. The place is about twenty miles from the railroad line and as soon as identification was established the friends here were notified.
James P. Bell, brother of the captain, left at once for Marlin, and positive identification was happily made. The body was clothed in the Captain's uniform of the Anchor Line and his heavy fur overcoat. On one foot was an overshoe, and from the other foot the overshoe and also leather sole of the shoe was missing. His watch chain hung from his vest and bore his Knights of Columbus charm, but his watch was gone. The ring upon his finger was also identified, but the clearest means of identification was furnished by the letter from his wife under date of Nov 24, 1909, addressed in care of steamer Clarion, ship papers found in his pockets, also a small diary in which he had written his own name and the request that in case of death or injury his wife be notified at 202 State Street Ogdensburg, NY.
The body arrived here in charge of his brother, J. P. Bell on Monday morning, the funeral being held at the home of the deceased, thence to the Cathedral, with solemn requiem mass celebrated by Rev. E. J. Brown and interment in the Cathedral cemetery. The bearers were Dr. J. H. O'Hagan, James J. Doyle, Charles E. Murphy and Daniel J. Kennedy. The honorary bearers, Captains William D. Wait, James Owen, Daniel Murphy, and John J. Powers.
It was while running up the lakes on his last trip last fall to go into winter quarters that the steamer Clarion caught fire and was burned. In leaving the doomed craft, Capt. Bell and twelve of his men put off in a yawl boat. There was a heavy sea running and none of that boat load lived to tell the fate of the others. However, there is a great consolation in finding the bodies even at this late date.
Ogdensburg Advance - Thursday Oct 13, 1910
After ten long anxious months and constant search, Lake Erie has given up its dead and the body of Captain Thomas J. Bell of this city has been recovered and brought home for burial. A party of fishermen discovered the body Friday near Marlin, Canada, where it had been cast upon shore. The place is about twenty miles from the railroad line and as soon as identification was established the friends here were notified.
James P. Bell, brother of the captain, left at once for Marlin, and positive identification was happily made. The body was clothed in the Captain's uniform of the Anchor Line and his heavy fur overcoat. On one foot was an overshoe, and from the other foot the overshoe and also leather sole of the shoe was missing. His watch chain hung from his vest and bore his Knights of Columbus charm, but his watch was gone. The ring upon his finger was also identified, but the clearest means of identification was furnished by the letter from his wife under date of Nov 24, 1909, addressed in care of steamer Clarion, ship papers found in his pockets, also a small diary in which he had written his own name and the request that in case of death or injury his wife be notified at 202 State Street Ogdensburg, NY.
The body arrived here in charge of his brother, J. P. Bell on Monday morning, the funeral being held at the home of the deceased, thence to the Cathedral, with solemn requiem mass celebrated by Rev. E. J. Brown and interment in the Cathedral cemetery. The bearers were Dr. J. H. O'Hagan, James J. Doyle, Charles E. Murphy and Daniel J. Kennedy. The honorary bearers, Captains William D. Wait, James Owen, Daniel Murphy, and John J. Powers.
It was while running up the lakes on his last trip last fall to go into winter quarters that the steamer Clarion caught fire and was burned. In leaving the doomed craft, Capt. Bell and twelve of his men put off in a yawl boat. There was a heavy sea running and none of that boat load lived to tell the fate of the others. However, there is a great consolation in finding the bodies even at this late date.
After ten long anxious months and constant search, Lake Erie has given up its dead and the body of Captain Thomas J. Bell of this city has been recovered and brought home for burial. A party of fishermen discovered the body Friday near Marlin, Canada, where it had been cast upon shore. The place is about twenty miles from the railroad line and as soon as identification was established the friends here were notified.
James P. Bell, brother of the captain, left at once for Marlin, and positive identification was happily made. The body was clothed in the Captain's uniform of the Anchor Line and his heavy fur overcoat. On one foot was an overshoe, and from the other foot the overshoe and also leather sole of the shoe was missing. His watch chain hung from his vest and bore his Knights of Columbus charm, but his watch was gone. The ring upon his finger was also identified, but the clearest means of identification was furnished by the letter from his wife under date of Nov 24, 1909, addressed in care of steamer Clarion, ship papers found in his pockets, also a small diary in which he had written his own name and the request that in case of death or injury his wife be notified at 202 State Street Ogdensburg, NY.
The body arrived here in charge of his brother, J. P. Bell on Monday morning, the funeral being held at the home of the deceased, thence to the Cathedral, with solemn requiem mass celebrated by Rev. E. J. Brown and interment in the Cathedral cemetery. The bearers were Dr. J. H. O'Hagan, James J. Doyle, Charles E. Murphy and Daniel J. Kennedy. The honorary bearers, Captains William D. Wait, James Owen, Daniel Murphy, and John J. Powers.
It was while running up the lakes on his last trip last fall to go into winter quarters that the steamer Clarion caught fire and was burned. In leaving the doomed craft, Capt. Bell and twelve of his men put off in a yawl boat. There was a heavy sea running and none of that boat load lived to tell the fate of the others. However, there is a great consolation in finding the bodies even at this late date.
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