The Sea Gives Up a Member of the Ganiard Party

EVERETT, Feb. 26.—[Special.]—The body discovered on Saturday last near the mouth of the Snohomish, by two loggers, proved to be that of Wesley Ganiard, not Mrs. Ganiard, as at first supposed. An inquest was held here on the body this morning, and it is being held here at the undertaker's parlors of John T. Rogers, pending instructions from relatives in Ashland, Or.

This is the fourth body of the ill-fated party recovered, leaving only that of Mrs. Ganiard to account for. The body of young Ganiard was identified by means of a rubber stamp bearing his name which was found on his person at the inquest.

(The Ganiard party was lost in Port Gardner bay, off the mouth of the Snohomish river, on the night of Friday, November 18, 1892, during the time of the big storm and flood in this section of the state. On the afternoon of that day at 3 o'clock, a tailor named Harry Leary, who was employed at the Puget Sound Wire and Nail Works at Everett, borrowed a small yacht belonging to Superintendent Campbell. He undertook to convey a party consisting of Prof. Ganiard, his wife, his son Wesley, aged 18 years, and a Miss Thompson, who wanted to go to Marysville. They were musicians and were engaged to play at a ball to be given by the Odd Fellows. They had with them a reed organ and other musical instruments. Leary had asked Campbell for the use of the boat, but the sea was very rough in Port Gardner bay, and he told Leary he feared it would be unsafe. Leary, however, who was an old ocean-going sailor and is said to have been a very cautious man, although without fear, evidently determined to risk it because, soon after they started, a boy saw the boat crossing the bay, and the rowers, he said, seemed to be having a hard time of it. The party had not only to cross the bay, which was sufficiently dangerous on account of the storm, but they had to row in the teeth of the boiling waters which poured down the river from Marysville. They were soon lost to sight. Some hours afterward several Indians on a hill some distance from the shore, looking out upon the seething waters, discerned a boat, which was being tossed by the tumultuous waves, and they saw the women crouching in the bottom of the boat. No help could reach the unfortunate people, and they met death within sight of the shore. No sound came to the ears of the watching Indians. On an awful, stormy midnight the watchman at the Everett mill going his rounds through a heavy rain, heard above the rush of waters and the fierce blast of the gale one long agonizing shriek, that came from the darkness out on the raging sea, borne to his ears by the wind. It was the death note of the last survivor of the Ganiard party. On Sunday morning, November 20, the little steamer Mabel picked up the capsized boat, and later the reed organ was found on the beach. One by one the sea has given up the dead, until now only the body of Mrs. Ganiard remains to be recovered. Some weeks ago, a pedestrian on the beach of one of the islands north of the bay, found a human foot encased in a shoe, and it may be that this was a fragment of the unfortunate woman's body. Prof. Ganiard, his wife and son were known throughout the Sound country as musicians and teachers of dancing. Miss Thompson was a young lady of about 22 years, of prepossessing appearance and was also a musician.)