Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1890-07-19
THIRTY-0NE MORE
Swollen and Distorted Bodies Re.
covered from Lake Pepin.
The Death Roll Now Numbers
Over One Hundred.

= rlib ti feopie are Iet missing.
Capt.,in Hethern, of the Excursion
steamer SCI: Wing. Under Arrest-An
Invest = .t:on in Progress.
RED WIG Mimi, July lS.-The
dolerul tollins Of the church bells was
still heard i'll this city Wednesday, the
list IT recovered dead from the disaster
having been greatly increased since
Tuesday. Eight bodies We're brought
up from the scene of the disaster
Wednesday morning. In the afternoon
sixteen more were brought up and one
vas sent over to Lake City, and in the
.veliing another boatloaA arrived.
There are 100 now on the death roll.
ana several Others are missing still.
fhe scene ut the Lake shore, the dis
Asler having occurred two miles this
side OF Lake City, in Goodhue county.
was sad one. When the first bodies
were recovered. Sunday night and Mon
lay morning. lhe faces Were sill calm
ami peaceful. and showed little or no
signs OF hiyln.' come 20 Il suddon death.
OF tin. ,hirt, eyen bodies lihen cut
that fr5t right o,ly one presented
specta. .e in any way hon bl.'. 1t was
The bHN IL u woman, AM her wide
open eyes. norsillv drawn face and ex-
pre-: si,sn. alil cr4lnp'.d position. showed
thai de;itl. MAS ail agony 10 her and
thar .hc lad 1it~i III The greatest fear.
All thr o.i.sf vt. und bodies seemed
20 IL s4t-, .lkr - tiicr lag on he beach,
y r ~: c".,.r and al occasional cut
o. ! ,is- in,..r III only appearance Of
IL Va,
derc,. tiri Identification a c,,inlara-
tivei., ei.sy mN.
i.i"ntc'. nEd Unrrr"snilthle.
Not 70 wa> il with this" found since
then. All i them Mere bi"attd and
blucl eued ier,ltd recognition. 80 hat
the dv hing snd Jew lry and paI,ers
We've the only way ior friends To claim
their dead.
The warm weather and shaliowness
of the wIler. together wiki liIe fact hat
scYcl;ti Zig steamers nent up heavy
swt1i- H.>.n. day IL, they pa sed up the
river. l.;C,,r.t The bodies to the surface
very quickly. The lat-olling rowboats,
which have he directed by q. A. Carl
ton II t:.i, city. towed the bodies ashore.
Therc they were iden;i lied. boxed and
shirred to his e3,y. Mr.. Cartons own
boy j, one Il the lost. and the fathers
grief h;s. leeA Intensified by his lnabil-
ity H. get tie missing body. He was as
sisted BY large force If volunteers from
Lake Cit, aid Red Wing and detach-
ment II militia.
Macy Mad ROmances.
Many Vss the p,maEces that have been
@&E b. Aseyr- " fhs fsss4ex.
Ont Il 4ks4. A5dbA Monday Thee dove
hnwsiyA-h2d Hvei here Eve or six
y 5ssnrsi s stss,ner n now f IN mid
ocean, coming from the German father
land, is the yonng lady whom he hoped
soon to claim Ms his wife Knut Peter
son, another of the excursionists, was to
have been married to Miss Johnson
next Monday, but he is now dead, and
she is crazcd with grief and her death is
feared.
Additional Deaths.
The following is list Of the bodies
recovered Wednesday:
Mrs. Merritt Green.
Julia Persig
William Adams.
William JorgensOn.
Fred Christ.
Peter Olson.
Miss E. ]. Crawford.
John Adams.
Ira Fulton.
Edna Way.
Mary Skoglund.
Linus Lillybrad.
Edward Merritt.
Henry Sculenberger.
Henry Newton.
James Wilson.
Louis Brenn.
johnny Strouse.
Randall Olson.
A small boy of Peter Gerken
Charles Peterson
Albert Blakes
Matte Flynn.
Ella Adams.
Augustin ElD.
George Hartman.
An unknown.
Mamie Schulinberger.
Martin Scherf
Mrs. Creamer
Joseph Carlson.
Young Carlson was found just as his
father was about to order giving up the
search for the day The body came t.
the surface and was picked up. making
the hundredth victim of the disaster
thus Tar found. 1t is thought that there
are about dozen still undiscovered
The EIcw sober.
Mr. Sparks. engineer Of the Sea Wing,
Wednesday evening told a reporter that
there was no liquor on board the steam
Ell for sale. and to the charge that the
crew had been drinking he entered An
emphatic denial He says there Were
some rowdies on the barge who had
been drinking but no complaints were
made to him about them. although he
did order them to keep quiet. Others
say for Mr.. parks ss we'll rs for Capt.
Weth-rn. fha, neither Of them was in
the habit of drinking and their friends
are indignant at any hint Of drunkenness
against ,hsln.
Mr Sparks elieves that the rope that
held The boats together slipped off W hen
the steamer turned Over. He had
reached the barge. and walked along
the upturned bottom Of the steamer,
3Ith.tI,t s-pr1a ,.nrcop His