St. Paul daily globe., 1889-06-03

leayes the mind confused. There are
mot over a hundred bodies to be seen,
hut while mass of people walked back
and forth they were strangers Not
0ne person in ten that one meets was "a
resident of this vicinity. 1t leads to
the belief that hundreds, perhaps thou
sands. are still buried in the mud and
debris, burned in the awful furnace at
the stone bridge, or lodged further
down than the searchers have yet gone
That many are buried yet is also indf-
Gated by fresh find every few hours,
though no thorough search in the mud
and debris is made. The work OF get
ting the bodies together for easy iden-
tification began this afternoon. The
central point was Morrellville. On
Fairfield avenue is large vacant lot
belonging to Frank Lecky. At 8
o'clock this was almost entirely COW
cred with coffins, while between them,
and STOPPING over them, were
WEEPING MEN AND WOMEN.
Although the number was short of
100 at O'Clock, others will come in, and
there is no telling what the total will
be. In one rough box was a piece OF
paper with the words ''Three chill
dren." Tonight they were lifted out
and all three placed i'll one coffin. The
little bodies were almost naked and
their faces bruised and cut. st. Marie's
German Catholic church stands quar-
ter of mile below the bridge. Its walls
are standing, but inside it is filled with
mixed broken benches and ruined
images. In it were found the mangled
body of P. Eldridge and the remains of
several negroes. The distance to st.
Columbia's Catholic church is half a
mile. The streets to it are filled with
broken houses, and people in those that
were left standing were busy shoveling
mud from the first floors. The scene
at st. Columbia church was awful.
Forty of fifty bodies had been car
ried into it and laid ON the muddy seats.
Lying in row in this church were five
children from two to six years old. No
one had identified them this afternoon.
Their little curls were matted with
mud. Their nostrils were filed with
sand, and their eyes often completely
covered. No one had come to wash
away the dirt from their tiny faces, nor
blood stains from the awful cuts and
bruises.
WHERE ARE THEIR PARENTS?
Across the aisle lay the massive
frame of Hung arian laborer. Strong
men. as well as children, were the tor
rents victims. The following iden IT,
fed dead are lying in the Fourth ward
school house: f. Butler. James G. Cox,
George Raudolf, Harry Barbour, James
Murtha, Mrs. w. Jones, Robert Miller,
Eller Brinky, S. D. Edridge, Mrs. Bar
bour, Jacob Valid, wife and child,
Kate Lindhait, Robert Baldwin,
c. McNally, Frank DimOnd, Will
lam Penrod. P. McAuley, John
Streiner, NJ. L. Davis, Mrs. Defrance.
the two Misses Richards, Ella Harring-
ton. Charles A. Marshall, John Reems,
tie. A. NJ. Jones, Misses Halton (three),
G. K. Butler, Charles Wilson. John
Andrews. John Burns, Mr.. Mccoy, Mrs.
O'Connell. A number of other bodies
are lying in the school house, but they
are unidentified. There were many at
work in the Lower Yoder Catholic ceme-
terry and Grand View. Protestant ceme
terry this afternoon digging trenches.
The bodies that were exposed when the
water began falling are in bad condi-
ton. Some have already been inferred.
In the haste and excitement no definite
arrangements seem to have been made
for funeral services. The only sugges-
ton that could be obtained at Morrell-
vile was that all the bodies would be
buried and general memorial services
held after the present suffering is al
leViated,