Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-07-18
Burying the Dead.

RED WING, July 15-When the rescu-
ers who were taking out the dead bodies
of the victims of the Seawing disaster at
Lake City Sunday night reached the
cabin. they found clasped in it's mothers
arms and held to the breast that nour-
ished it the infant child of John Schoef-
f1er, of this city. Tenderly mother and
child we're lifted from the wreck and
placed in the long row of dead, none de-
string to withdraw the seemingly sleep.
ing infant from the protecting and sus-
tanning arms of her to whom the child
was just beginning to look as it's best
and dearest friend, and together their
bodies still are. Where they now lie
they are alongside their husband and
father, and bapy's child sister-and all
are in the German Lutheran cemetery,
about two miles west of town. The same
cemetery to-day received the bodies of
eight members of the Gerken family.
Herman Hemphing and his bride we're
buried from the German Lutheran
church and their bodies are now inferred
in the same cemetery. Their aunt, Mrs.
Hemphing, and her son Fred and daugh-
ter Lizzie, were buried at Oakwood ceme-
| terry on the hill top, south of the city,
where q large number Of the others were
buried last night and to-day. The Cath
olic cemetery is beyond Oakwood and
still others lie near there. It was
mournful day and the sight of funeral
professions was sadly commented on,
but the sharpness of the grief of the be-
reaved and the sympathy of all others
increased rather than diminished. AL
together forty-four of the dead we're
solemnly and sadly carried to cities of
the dead and laid beneath the sod by
rev rent hands amid falling tears.
Last night, Phoebe Brearson, Mrs. Fred
Schaerf and Hattie Scherf were carried
away to their last resting place, and to-
day the sad work was resumed. At ir-
regular intervals, in various parts of the
city the slow funeral pace of mourning
friends following after the cof1ined forms
Of now one, and then five or eight VIC
Tins of the storm kings fury, went out
from the city full of life and of health
and of past happiness and of present sor-
row, to cities of death and silence and of
the grave. Sad it is to witness the funer-
al of but one, and indescribably sad is it
to see young and strong and
happy stricken down in their
vigor, but much greater is the sorrow
and mourning over the city of the dead.
Under all the stern sorrow of the men
and the wailing of the women is a feel
ing of bitterness, not so much at the fate
that has robbed them of their loved ones,
as at supposed carelessness and incompe-
tence which they consider was shown in
the management of the illfated Seawing.
Strong words and bitter thoughts are on
the lips and in the hearts of almost every
one that is to be met with around town.
Captain Wethern, who commanded the
Seawing, and his crew, are denounced
vigorously, and il all that is said were
true, they would surely deserve speedy
justice. ~. -.
JAILED FOR SAFETY. sa
The report comes from across the
river tonight that Captain Wethern is
under arrest, having been arrested at the
instance of his friends, who considered
him to be in danger Of his life from the
friends of the victims of the disaster,
and had him placed in jail for his own
protection. He is now said to be in Jail
at Ellsworth, the county seat OF Pierce
county, in which county Diamond Bluff
is located. rs 5s
Henry Battell, farmer, and Herbert
Mclean, aged 10, were Instantly killed
by lightning Wednesday, at Moose Jaw,