I was at the rescue myself! There were eleven or more dead bodies driven in there, and you'd take them up and bring them into Cappahayden Station. That was the only place suitable to bring them. The train was running a scattered time there.

There were places on the shore you couldn't get to, it was so rough. But when a body drifted into any sort of a cove or a half smooth place, you had to take them out of the water. You'd bring them up from the beach to the road. Then you put them on the cart and took them to the station.

I often remember the woman that I brought in. That was Mrs. Butler. She belonged to the east end of town (St. John's). I didn't know the Butlers, but they said that's who she was. She had on a brown fur coat. That was all that she had on her.

And then there was a man from St. John's whose last name was Snow.

When it got dark, I stayed in Cappahayden, because I had an uncle up there. Then I came home with the horse the next day, Monday. My father stayed up there.

In her book, A Winter's Tale, The Wreck of the Florizel, Newfoundland writer Cassie Brown lists the names of those people whose bodies were recovered. Among them were Mrs. William F. Butler age 40, and Mr. Fred Snow, aged 22, both of St. John's.