STEAMER RIO de JANEIRO DISASTER
LIST OF LOST PASSENGERS
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 23 February 1901.
Thank you to Cheri A. Smith for transcribing this material.


Steamer Rio de Janeiro Is Lost at City's Door
Strikes in Fog and Then Swiftly Sinks.

The bodies of eleven victims of the Rio disaster lie at the Morgue.  Only seven of them have been identified. The identified remains are thos of Mrs. Sarah W. WAKEFIELD, aged 50, a native of New York, widow of the late S. B. WAKEFIELD, residing at 1057 East Twenty-seventh street, Oakland.  Mrs. Alfred HART, from Manila, formerly of Los Angeles, and wife of Alfred HART, who was also lost in the wreck; Charles DOWDALI [or DOWDALL?], a barrister of Shanghai; Edward BARWICK, a German, 35 years of age, butcher on the Rio, residing at 544 Olive avenue; Angelo GUSSINO, identified at an employe on the Lowery sugar plantation at Spreckelsville, H. I.; Mrs. Julia DOHRMAN, aged 55, stewardess of the Rio, residing at the Sailors' Home when in port; and a Japanese, identified at the engineer's mess boy, name unknown. The other four bodies are those of inidentified Chinese.

Lost

Cabin Passengers

Mr. and Mrs. Rounsevelle WILDMAN and their two children.
Mrs. S. W. WAKEFIELD, and Miss WAKEFIELD.
Mr. and Mrs. W.A. WOODWORTH.
W.A. HENSHALL.
Miss S. R. JEHU
Dr. and Mrs. O. KAWAHARA and their servant
Leong CHUNG
Angelo GUSSONI
Charles E. JACOX
Dr. A.W DODD
H.C. MATHESON
Charles DOWDALL
Mr. and Mrs. A. HART
H.F. SEYMOUR

Steerage

Harry GUYAN
Mr. and Mrs. TAKATA
Mr. SAKURAI
Mr. ODA
F. SITO
Y. SAWAJI
T. KAWAMURA
Z. YAMADA
Mrs. Dika HAMASOKE
Miss HOKIASEKI
Miss M. HAMASAKI
Senijiro TSMURA
Chinese and Japanese in steerage

Officers and Crew

Captain William WARD
J. C. JOHNSON
John ROONEY
C. J. HOLLAND
D. A. CARVIN
J. BRIGHTON
R. T. MACCOUN
W. A. BRADY
W. A. MUNRO
William SAVAGE
H. N. LEWIS
J. H. SMITH
I. (or P.) Walter SMITH
Fred B. GREENWAY
H. A. SCOTT
Paul GUIRO
Edward BARWICK
Mrs. J. L. DERMANN
A. MALCOLM
J. A. MCARTHUR
Chinese in crew, 42.



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