Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-09-13
THE LAKE MICHIGAN CALAMITY.
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The CONSERVATION produced among our people
(says the Chicago Times Of Monday bv the intel
iigence of the appalling calamity on the lake, has
seemed to increase instead of subside All day
Sunday, the beach for miles this side Of Winetka
was lined with people Searching for the bodies Of
the lost. There were also some, we regret 70 say,
whose search along the shore was for a Different
object. These Were plunderers- villains In Quest
Of plumber Whenever the waves washed IN an
article Of baggage rom the wreck, these robSers
storing IT to the relations Of the deceasrd but to
carry away and conceal 1t. Nor did the "a pacity
OF toese human cormorants stop with the plumber
OF trunks and baggage; even the bodies Of the
dead were stripped Of what valuables Were found
upon them, provided no honest person was near
to prevent the robbery. In this way large ouan-
tty OF money and valuabes were stolen on Sunday
by thieves In the neighborhood of Evanston.
During Sunday nearly thirty bodies were
picked up along the beach, between Evanston
| and Lake View They were brought to the CITY
ana placed In the ante-room Of the old marshals
office, under the court house. Twenty-Five or
twenty-six human bodies Were here arrayed side
by side and % closely was the apattmen MT packed,
that the bodies Of infants had to be placed upon
those OF adults. There were gray-headed men,
| matnred women, youth and infancy; some faces
| which seemed only sleeping, 30 calm and white
Were they; others swollen, distorted, and black
ened; some dressed in rich garments, others fin a
few rags and shreds-all that was left In that ter
rible conflict for life. One sweet little child
| whose experience Of life embraced scarce half a
Il death
had imprinted the smile upon its beautiful face.
| here fair young girl cut off In the pride Of
youth and hope; there strong man, upon whose
locks the hand Of time had sprink ed its early
\ SHOWS Youth and infancy, age and strong armed
manhood. slept side by side the sleep of eternity
Ii was a dreadful picture Of the Destroyer-such
a one as no living eye can behold without feeling
| destinies Of us all
| Turning from the dead to the living and the
picture Of this awful disaster was complete In its
most terrible aspect In the enclosure without
| were hundreds Of anxious, excited men and wo-
| men, all striving to get sight of the dead AS
they approached, friends gazed at their distorted
| features, striving to recognize the well known
| countenance Of some one who was known to be
| among the lost Parents sought for their children
sisters for their brothers, and brothers for their
| sisters. The anguish which followed the recog-
milton cannot be described We beheld stalwart
men bow down and sob like children over the
lifeless forms Of their offspring while gentle wo-
men gave tears even for the sorrow Of others. The
agonies OF death were as nothing to those who
died compared with the living hearts that loved
| them.
The bodies of all the Milwaukieans that have
been recovered Were taken to that city by the train
| and relatives Of the lost returned home on the
| same train The train presented the appearance
Of funeral cortege than Of all ordinary travelling
conveyance.
BAGGAGE AND PROPERTY RECOVERED.
Two Of the trunks of Colonel Lumsden and
wife were found on Sunday hidden in haystack
L q short distance
| sonth of Evanston. The trunks had been broken
open and their contents distracted. Justice Hun
| toon and Constable Lindcott, Of Evanston, hear
| ing Of the tansaction, proceeded to the Dutch
mans house They found there only a woman
Of whom they demanded the articles taken from
the trunks The woman denied knowing any
| thing about them. "I'll tell you what it isf'
said the constable, 81 want the contents of those
trunks, or want you; or the other has got to
go TO Chicago" The woman tbereup Don produced
portion OF the property, consisting Of valuable
silk dresses, lewelry and other articles Of ladies'
wearing apparel. She also informed the consta-
BILE that more Of the articles would be found at
the houses Of two other countrymen Of hers i'm
the neighborhood. The officers proceeded thither
and found the articles al the woman had stated
Articles taken from Col. Lumsden's trunks were
also found In four other houses In the ghbor-
hood; making seven in all among which the
WHY SHE WENT Down. a-
1t 10 now evident from the appearance Of that
part of the wreck that lies at Daggett's Point
near Wankegan. that the final catastrophe was
brought about by the dropping Of the engine
walking beam, etc through the bottom At the
point above named, all that part Of the hull abaf
the midshiPs on the larboard side, lies upon the
beach-a full fourth Of the hull from the plank
shear TO the keel The most rational explanation
Of the disaster 10 that the lding vessel carried
away the larboard wheel, and most Of the engine
braces that side, and that as soon 40 she rolled
a-port, the engine, walking beam, ETC., having
nothing to sustain them, carried away a large
part Of the hull, and went out on the larboafd
sloe OF the Keel, producing the catastrophe which
all describe az very sudden 1t is probable that
the first violent roll after the collision did the
fatal work On no other hypothesis can we ac-
count for the separation OF the hull and explain
the positive testimony Of some Of the oficers,
that the walking-beam went down before the
upper works foated of
THE LATEST.
CHICAGO, Sept lip. m.-Up to the present
hour no further tidings from the wreck have been
received, nor have any more bodies been re-
covered 1t is quite likely, from the sudden sink
Ing Of the vessel In such deep water that the great
majority Of those lost now lie confined In the
wreck. As regards the safety Of any Others be-
sides those already mentioned, there 10 not the
shadow Of hope. The boat itself, from extern
sive inquiry, was In totally unprepared condi-
ton to meet such disaster, and had there been a
sufficient quantity Of ifeboats life preservers
on board, added with proper discipline, NAVY
would have been saved. The Indignation OF the
friends OF the lost at the want Of these precautions
Is very great.