The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-09-21

The banks, where went ashore, are forty
feet high and very steep, so that many Of
those who succeeded in reaching the land
were dashed out again by the waves. o4i
MR.. CHRIsT1ANsoN's STATEMENT. IN -.
Mr.. Christians0n went with four ladies
two of them were daughters of a cooper
named Hanson, living on Walkers Point
the other two were named Weeks. The
latter have sister living near Green Bay,
in Door county, and another in Iowa, and
one in Minnesota. 1t is desired that the
sisters should come to Milwaukee and at
tend to the property of these ladies. Mr..
Christensen was the only one of this party
saved, and be is now in town in very crit
ical condition. t.....'.....
The number of passengers on the Elgin
was about $50. Of this number only II
succeeded in reaching land in the boats.
The Chicago Times Of Monday publishes
list of the saved. 1t says: .,t +
Some twenty-five or thirty of cur citizens
went to the scene of disaster Saturday
morning by the express train, which reach
ed Winetka at 10 o'clock. Upon arriving
at the beach, about fifty persons were seen
floating on RATS and pieces of the wreck,
near the shore, but unable to reach it On &C
count of the raging surf and their own ex-
IRENE exhaustion. The people on shore
were without boat, or other means of sue
cor, except rope provided by the students
from Evanston. With this they bravely
entered the surf, and wading as far as pos
sible, would succeed in throwing one end of
it to the struggling victims.
By the means above referred to, sixty-two
persons were saved, nearly all of whom
were residents OF Milwaukee. Seventeen
persons succeeded in reaching the shore on
the boats, making the total number saved,
up to Sunday night, 10.
In the list of the lost, we notice the names
of Col. Lumsden, wife and two children, of
the New Orleans Picayune, Herbert Ingra-
ham, M. 2. and proprietor of the London
illustrated Nesvs, and son; and Geo. Norton,
Superior City. Among the saved are Mr..
Waldo, of Lake Superior.
INCIDENTS.
| Numerous incidents are told, showing
great heroism, or the total want Of such a
quality on the part of the drowning people.
1t is said that one man, a passenger, who
was saved in one of the boats, left his wife
and child on the vessel, and in his abject
fright did not seem to think of them until
he was himself safe on land. 1t is pity
some worthy person had not been saved
| in bis stead.
Not less than hundred persons were
washed from the floats to which they chung,
and drowned within twenty yards of the
shore before assistance could reach them.
For five miles along the shore, the surf
was filled with fragments of the wreck.
Furniture, doors, the piano, carcases of
cattle, and fragments torn from the boat,
told the fearful tale of destruction and death.
Some of the Chicago party traversed the
beach the entire distance between Winetka
and Evanston, but could find no persons
alive, nor discover any of the bodies of the
dead, additional to those they had succeeded
in rescuing.
Col. Lumsden and wifes trunk was found
broken open and about thousand dollars
worth Of jewelry taken therefrom. The
property was afterwards recovered at Ev-
anstOn.
| FURTHER PARTICULARS.
Capt. MALoTT, of the schooner Augusta,
was arrested at Chicago, on the 10th,
to await the final report of the Coro-
ner's jury. The Augusta, it will be recol-
lected run into the Elgin, causing the disas
ter. 1t is said the schooner showed no lights.
The Chicago Times of Tuesday says:
During Sunday, nearly thirty bodies were
picked up along the beach, between Evans
ton and Lake View. They were brought to
the city and placed in the ante room of the
old Marshals Office, under the Court House.
twenty-five or twenty-six human bodies
we're here arrayed side by side, and so close.
ly was the apartment packed that the bodies
Of infants had to be placed on those ofadults.
There we're grey headed men, matured wo.
men, youth and infancy; some faces which
seemed only sleeping, so calm and white were
they; Others swollen distorted and blackened;
some dressed in rich garments, others in
| few rags and shreds-all that was left in that
terrible conflict for life. One sweet little
child, whose experience of life embraced
scarce half dozen winters, had smiled in
dying, and 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 sprinkled its early SHOWS.
Youth and infancy, age and strong-armed
manhood, slept side by side the sleep of
eternity. 1t was dreadful picture of the
destroyer-such an one as no living eye can
behold without feeling the presence of Him
who holdeth in his hand the destinies of us
| all. f ..-o. st.t a,: :tr -.., ~
Turning from the dead to the living ard
the picture of this awful disaster was COM
pIete in its most terrible aspect. In the en-
closure without were hundreds of anxious
and excited men and women, all striving to
get sight of the dead. As they approached
friends gazed at their distorted features,
striving to recognize the we'll know counten-
ance Of some one who was known to be
among the lost. Parents sought for their
children, sisters for brothers, and brothers
for sisters. The anguish which followed