Evening journal., 1890-07-16
RED WING Is DESOLATE
BuFying TIE Victims CT the
Cyclones Rsge.
DYNAMITE TO RECOVER THE DEAD

Eighty-eight Bodies Have Been Taken
nom Lake Pepin and Twenty-fhree Resi-
dents Of Rcd Wing Are sfin Missing.
Thrilling Story Of Survivor.
RED WING, MINI, July 16.-All do
Tuesday funeral professions were nassiner
into the city Of the dead, and stricken pap
ents, brothers and sisters wept over their
sleeping friends as they looked ont upon
cruel Lake Pepin, where ripping waves
seemed TO be laughing in mockery over the
appalling disaster Of Sunday evening. The
city was draped in mourning and the con-
stant tolling Of the bells added to the
solemnity Of a day which will never be for
gotten Twenty-three residents of Red
Wing are still missing and the anguish Of
their intimate friends has driven some Of
them 70 their beds The bodies Of some OF
the lost may not be recovered for several
days, as they have doubtless foated down
the Mississippi The dead recovered thus
far number eighty-eight.
Dynamite to Raise the Bodies.
The attempt TO recover the bodies by
cannonading on the shore did not prove a
success, and 80 pounds Of dynamite will
be exploded at the scene Of the disaster.
II is believed that by this means the lake
will be forced to give up it's dead The
scenes along the road from the village to.
the lake shore were most pitiful and
brought tears TO the eyes of the most cali
lous. The spectacle presented at the beach
was a frightful one. The row Of dead bod
les, unshrouded and lying there stiff and
stark, the sad faces Of the guards as they
marched backward and forward keeping
the crowd back, and the blanched faces Of
relatives Of the dead, all combined to make
scene that time can never efface from
the memories of those who witnessed 1t.
coroner's jury is sitting as a mere
formality, but it is not expected to find
sensational verdict, though Capt, Wethern
IS openly denounced for not ordering his
pilot to send the vessel into the Wisconsin,
shore upon seeing the gale approaching.
A Survivors Graphic story.
l. S. Bayrell, OF Arglye, Mimi, was en.
the III fated steamer when she turned oves
He tells the following story; "TheFe wera
| just Sl5 on the steamer when she began b,s.e
trip. When the boat was about in s1las
| middle Of the lake the wind was demlA
ahead and blowing great guns. The cap.
tain, evidently becoming uneasy, shouted
to the pilot, Hold her to the Wisconsirr
shore The pilot stuck to his post nohly.
but in veering round the vessel caught thes
wind on her beam, and after a monentary
stagger careened bottom upward.
1.-THE scene was simply awful. Words
cannot adequately depict the struggles OF
the multitude thus precipitated into the
seething cauldron into which the usually
peaceful lake had been lashed by the fury
OF the wind.
Their Pitifui Shrieks of Despair.
From the water scores of women anfR
children sent up last agonizing shrek OF
| despair as the angry flood closed over them.
| The greater portion were carried under by
| the suction as the steamer turned bottom
upward and were unable to swim out.
/ The water about the boat was soon dottec
| by the heads Of the stronger swimmers.
1 and in a few moments some TWENTY-FIVE,
were safely lodged upon the overturned
boat. In ten minutes all the human
beings in sight were upon the boat. Tho
heavens were black with clouds and
the waves were lashed into mountains BY
the strong wind / can't begin to picture
the scene II should be experienced TO be-
appreciated.
by the Lightning's CHASTITY Glare.
THE heartrending shrieks and cries OF
| agony that went up from the waves would
have wrung with horror the hardest heart
Here and there could be seen as flash Of
| lightning revealed them the white dress OF
some poor woman or child One poor
| creature l saw 70 down clinging to her
child, whom she had been trying to save
"The mother had fastened a life preserver
about her waist and with its aid was try
ing 10 keep herself and child ahoat until
help could reach them. Suddenly / saw
the woman release the hold she had upon
the child and sink beneath the water She
did not rise again, and the child soon fol-
lowed its motheru
Mr. Bayrell Is positive the captain was
sober. Miss Aggie Bartron, Of Lake City,
who was one Of those rescued from the
barge, says all the women and children
were ordered into the cabin from the barge.
She refused to go and was saved.