Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-11-05
ia IE TEL EGR 4 PEIC ITEMS,
THE WISCONSIN, DISASTER

T.
lntecedents Of the Winona al sneisoas Sisters
and Details Is 70 Other Ytetins Il the Acci.1
dent Of Rio, etc. b n. III;
Eof bruises and confined 70 his bed, Con-
ducto or Searle, Of the Inflated limited train
that was wrecked and DESTROYED at Rio,
| Is better. He viii recover He remern-,
1 bers and can describe seventeen people,
and knows that there were more in the
Lfoaeh, so that il is eyideny that the fatal
! ty must 81. We Deei, icaev~ u,vo..sJ1 s-:..
| probably more. Among those whom he
| describes are: 2 $53z::5z #SE M 55s.s s5#s
! Mrs. 6. scherer 81 Winona, her children
| and her mother-in-law, Mrs. e. Jones: two
Sisters OF Charity bound for Winona;
| Louis Brinkler and Emil W.altersdorf
! Of Columbus. Wis: two women who
| got on at Chicago, one with IA child;
Charles Smith, who escaped; an unknown
man ofabout forty who boarded the train
! az Watertown, and who was bound for
| Mansion, this state; q man with a ticket
for Saltwater, Mimi; three loggers ticketed
Tor Wausau, probably togo to work in the
pineries. :. f555 \ 2S5l5a5: Nj. III,
This list does not include q novitiate,
Who accompanied the Catholic sisters, nor
| Walter Scott, j. T. Lincoln, Mrs. Chas. NJ.
Mohr OF Rock Island, the commercial travel
er Dibble, or Mrs. T. bwry oi Milwaukee.
| The latter is probably a mistake, as no
such names is known here. There is little
doubt that the three p;nery men, who we're
On the car, persisted. He had left them
| but q few minutes before curled up asleep
! on the benches. A Portage dispatch says
| that the work OF 49,, .,.t ~. .
s.s IDENTIFYING THE DEAD
is progressing slowly. The body OF man
whose legs and arms had been burned OF,
! md rt,n Il Sut, f,ro ~
the terrible agony he had suffered, was
! identified as Louis Brinkler. The body Of
Emil Waltersdorfwas found under a pile OF
rods and trusses. His head was burned to
cinder, and every particle OF clothing had
been destroyed. The remains were identi-
fed by ring found On one OF his fingers.
The bodies OF Sisters Albertina and Dionysia
were found close together. One was in a
kneeling posture, with her hands clasp
| ed, as though death overlook her
while she was engaged in prayer. The
body OF a man who is supposed to be Wal
ter Scott was removed from under a seat.
! His name was written on his collar, which
/ strange to say, had not been touched by
the flames. Among the passengers suppos'
ed to be on the west.bound limited which
was ditched at Rio, were W. H. Seaman
| and daughter Of Eastport, l.. !.
The venerable mother superior OF St.
Marys convent furnishes the following in
formation in regard to the two Sisters who
were burned in the wrecked train at Rio
siding:
One was Sister Dionysia thirty-e;ght
years OF age, whose name in the world was
Bridget Begley daughter OF John Begley OF
Newark, N. J. She has been q member OF
: the Sisters of St. Frances for fourteen
years. The other was Sister Albertina,
forty years OF age, whose name before tax
ing the VOWS was Albertina Schmidt. She
came to America three years ago from En-.
zingsinger, Baden, Germany. She had no
relatives in this country.
Mrs. G. A. MARI, who was killed in the
railway wreck on the Milwaukee road, was
a resident of Rock Island. Her husband
is a member Of the United States engineer
corps and they were married Feb, 25 last,
at Buffalo, N. Y. Mrs. Mari was school
mate Of President Cleveland's wife, they
having lived in adjacent houses for a num-
! Der OF years.