Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-05-16

ces, now on the way from St. Paul, are receiv.
ed, will make a thorough and systematic
search.
A Visit to the lake
Yesterday morning a GLOBE reporter was
detailed to visit White Bear lake and get all
the additional particulars of Sundays tragedy
that could be obtained, and to note what pro-
gress was being made in the search for the
bodies of the victims.
Arrived at the lake at 1890, the facts as de.
tailed in yesterdays GLOBE were soon authen.
ticated: That Messrs O. D. W. Young, audi.
tor OF the Omaha road, Irvine Moore, clerk in
Mr.. Young's Office, and J. B. Gossick, mate
rial clerk of the same road, put out for sail
on Whlts Bear lake about II O'Clock Sunday
morning; that atheir boat was an
amatuer built zraft, much too
heavily ballasted and leaky, and
with a large, square sail; and that suddenly,
without the occurrence being seen by single
person on the lake or its shores, their boat
capsized in a squall and went to the bottom
like stone, carrying its occupants with it.
After these facts had been definitely ascer-
tanned, the reporter made haste to join the
searching parties, who occupied number of
row-boats and two sail boats, which were
cruising back and forth between Spirit island
and the south shore of the lake. the supposed
| locality of the disaster. The row-boats were
equipped with 200 foot rope and two shorter
| ropes. These were armed at short intervals
with large fish hooks, and the mode of using
them consisted in each skiff taking one end
of the ropes, allowing the large blight thus
formed to drag in the lake.
| The process OF dragging these ropes along
| the bottom OF the lake had been going on
since early dawn, and the workers were pretty
| thoroughly tired out and gave up the search
| soon after the reporter arrived in their midst
until after dinner.
| In the meantime telegram had been sent in
| TO Mr.. Winter, assistant president of the
Omaha road, to furnish longer rope and
| more perfect appliances, it being found that
| the short ropes left large amount of the lake
| bottom untouched. This arrived on the noon
| freight and about 2 o'clock the line of skiffs
was reformed and the really effective work of
| the day began.
Capt. Leaman undertook the direction of
| the searchers whose names are as follows:
Victor Richards, White Bear; T. Benson and
Geo. Getty, White Bear; Mr. Horton, St.
Paul, and an oarsman, r. L. Lyons, Mr..
Seehutter and Geo. Bouch, Thos. Seehutter
and Moses Tart, Chas. Perry and Geo. Les
sing, John Bender and John Pulford.
The work was tedious and dispiriting. At
intervals the hooks on the rope would
catch on some obstruction and the word
| "halt" would run up and down the line, till
the roped had been hauled up and unlocked.
The seaweed at the bottom of the lake was
great hi nderance to rapid progress, and it
was impossible to make more than one trip
| from the island to the south shore of the
! lake per hour. At each stoppage the skifs
| occupied by spectators, of which there were
several, would cluster around, half hoping,
half fearing to see some white face or ghast-
| ly figure rise from the depths; at each failure
| sigh, half relief, half OF disappointment,
| would come from every breast.
Carefully and slowly the search proceeded
| through the long afternoon; ard when tne
reporter was forced 20 return to the city later
| In the day the rowers were still working with
| will. Capt Leaman assured the GLOBE
representative that the search would be con-
| tinued in the same methooical Manner" until
| the men gave out, or until" and here he
| stopped, but the remainder of the sentence
WAS readily supplied.
The difficulty in the way of finding the bod
| les becomes apparent when the facts are
understood:
1. That the locality where the "Mabel"
| capszed cannot be ascer tanned definitely with
| in half mile in either direction.
Q. That the water in that part of the lake
| is from twenty to thirty feet deep, with occ
! sionally hole that is much deeper.
The probabilities are that several days will
elapse before the bodies are found The water
| is so cold that over week will pass before
| they rise to the SUBJECTIVE gas which light
ems the bodies being generated much more
slowly in cold than warm water.
Among those who went 10 White Bear yes.
| terday mornisg was Mr.. Horton, of the firm
of Ransom & Horton. He was near friend
of Mr.. and Mrs. Young. He will probably
| remain, at Mrs Young's request, until Mr..
Young's body is obtained. The unfortunate
lady has no friends at the lake, and her
despair and anguish is terrible.
Mrs. Gossick returned to St. Paul yesterday
morning. She is not in the best Of health,
and the terrible shock has so unnerved her
| that she is scarcely mistress of herself. She
has friends here who will care for her.
The disposition which is manifested in
some quarters to attribute the blame for the
| terrible tragedy to the dangers of White Bear
lake, and to the jewellers at the lake, is to be
deplored. Tie unfortunate gentlemen, whose
bodies now lie on the lake bottom, were re-
peatedly warned of the danger they incurred
in venturing out in such poorly put to-
gether craft; and 1t requires a bold man to
positively forbid party, who are in their
own boat, from doing what they choose.
/ Ali the public boats at White Bear are
staunch craft, and they are handled and
manned by experienced sailors, under whose
guidance no accident ever occurred. It is only
where some bold spirits, whose knowledge of
the water is not sufficient to make them fear
it, venture out in an unseaworthy boat that
the press is called upon to record, and the
friends and citizens generally to mourn, such
heartsickening calamity as that OF Sun day.
David Crockett.
That Frank Mayo has grown to be a favorite
In St. Paul, was evinced by the large audience
which greeted him in "David Crockett" last
n;obf Uhop bo laet on1orad hora II,