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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-02-15

PERSONAL AND lMPERSONAL


Uncle Rufus Hatch was a fireman on
the Boston & Maine railway when he
was young man, and in 1851 was a
member of the corps of engineers that
did the first days railroad work in Wis
consin.
A family at West Bethel, Me-, con-
sists of compile of eighty-fve and
eighty years OF age respectively, who
live alone and do most Of their work.
But they do not lack for music or ex-
citement-they keep fifteen pet cats.
Mrs. Angelo Rusconi, said to be one
of the richest women in Kentucky, was
recently frightened to death by an al
legged ghost in store at Bellevue. Close
inspection proved the ghostly visitor to
be reflection from an electric light
some distance away.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Rev.
Samuel May and Rev. s. +. Smith re-
Gently dined together in Boston. They
were graduated from Harvard in the;
famons.class of 1920. Eleven members
Of Ulass survive, the gr9stGst a,
whon the genial old autocrat
A man named Powlikowski, who
died lately at Wloclawek, Poland, and
who worked in the fields until last year,
is said to have been 1l5 years ofage. II
is further related that his brother died
at the age of l16 and his father at 126,
while three surviving sisters are aged
respectively l02, 80 and 93 years.
An item that has been going the
rounds Of the papers stating that DIR. w.
NJ. Baird, of New York City, formerly
Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives of New Jersey, was a street ca
driver in that city has been found to be
incorrect. The gentleman is practice
ing physician Of New York and is said
to be well off and highly respected.
Many English actresses have made
aristocratic marriages since 1900. Har-
riet Mellon married the ninth Duke of
st. Albans Kitty Stephens, the fifth
Earl Of Essex; Eliza Farren, the twelfth
Earl of Derby; Louisa Brunton. the first
Earl of Craven. and Maria Foote, the
third Earl of Harrington. Besides
these, the beautiful Miss O'Neill be-
came Lady Becher; Mrs. Ncsbitt, Lady
Boothby, and Helen Faucit, Lady Mar
tin.
The King of Corea, says writer in
the Pail Mall Gazette, is little man,
dressed in handsome dark red silk, rich
" embroidered with gold, wearing
pot hat of similar material. His hands
he kept hidden in voluminous sleeves.
His face is pale, but very pleasing,
brimming over with good nature, and
each of his questions he chartered out
with ripping, nervous laugh like a
girls And each time he laughed we
could see large yellow bead of some
thing he was chewing,
Farmer John Macy, of Uniondale,
n. Y, is clearly entitled to the cham
pionship for corn husking. He was re-
Gently backed for one hundred dollars to
husk one hundred bushels of corn in
seven hours, taking the corn as it stood
stacked in the field. He was to pull
| down the stacks himself. and tie and set
up the empty sheayes. The wager was
accepted by number of persons, who
considered the task an impossibility, but
| Farmer Macy won, and had thirty min
uteS and six seconds to spare.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-02-15
DOWN TO THE BOTTOM.
An Unseen Obstacle Sinks the
Tow-Boat Port Eads.
At Least Seven Lives Are Known to Have
Been Lost.

MEMPHIS, Feb. 1.-THE towboat Port
Eads, Captain Nelson Davis, of the St
Louis and Mississippi Valley Trans
portation Company, was sunk yesterday
morning at the site of the new railroad
bridge, two miles below the city. She
carried crew OF about forty men. The
Port Eads had a tow Of grain-ladel
barges and one fuel barge destined for
New Orleans frora Cairo. They passed
the city shortly before seven yesterday
morning, during heavy fog, hugging
the Tennessee shore closely. The steam
err approached the bridge as slowly
as possible, but, owing to the dense
fog she was unable to locate the
sunken pier. A moment later she WIS
seen to stop suddenly, hang sts
tionary for minute, and then swing
around with heavy force and settle on
one side. Men ran from every direction
to the yawl, fighting each other in panic
stricken desperation to reach it. One
man detached the ropes holding it and
was about 10 climb in when water rushed
in over the boats deck and all ran to
the other side. Another wave closed over
the boats deck and all ran to the other.
Another wave closed over the deck
and she settled lower. Ten of the crew
were taken to the United States Hos
pital near by, suffering from cuts and
bruises, and the remainder were cared
for at the houses along the shore. 1t is
known that seven of the crew were lost.
AS the fleet hit the pier the fuel boat
was thrown on top of it, hung there for
q few minutes, then broke in two and
was carried under and went out of sight
in moment. The six grain.
loaded barges scattered and drifted
off with the current below, carrying
Captain Nelson Davis, of the steamer,
together with his mate and seven of tho
deck crew who had leaped on them as
their vessel went to pieces. The cap
tain and his assistants managed to guido
the barge down to near the foot of Pres
idents Island, They bumped hard
time or two, but were not crushed, and,
drifting into slack water they were fin.
ally landed in safety by the tugs Wei.
come and Mayhower of the Bridge Com.
pany
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Senator's Expensive Absence.

HELENA, Mont, Feb. S.-When the
Senate met Thursday and none but Re-
publicans answered the roll call, reso-
luton prepared by the Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor was adopted requiring all Senators
to be present to-day at 10 a. m. Another
resolution, also prepared by the Lieuten.
ant-Governor, provides that members
absent without leave shall be fined as
follows; For first days absence, $50
second, 500; third, 5000; fourth, $500;
ffth, $500; sixth day. $1,000.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-02-15
BLOODY FIGHT
Between White and Colored Work
men in Alabama.
The Latter Lay in Ambush and Fire Upon
Their Opponents With Dead
ly Effect.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Feb. s.-Meager
details of desperate light between
white stone-cntters and bridge-builders
aud construction hands on the Brier.
field, Blocton & Birmingham railroad,
in Bibb County, Ala, reached here
yesterday. A strike Ia in progress
among the white workmen growing out
of differences with the contractors about
the employment Of colored help, and
personal fights among the whites and
blacks yesterday were frequent Late
Thursday night, when body of the
whites were passing through strip
of woods en- route to their quarters,
they. were. fired on from ambush by a
band ftceSpaled colored men, and
two whites-Dennis Carney and Toney
kaekcn--vcre reinb .ntls killed, ard Jifo.
Bolton, Pat Lawler and VIM. Cunning
ham severely wounded. The colored
men immediately fed, and, so far as
could be learned, none of them were
hurt. The white laborers organized and
went in pursuit. If the colored men are
caught they will be slaughtered. The
place whore the camps are located is fif-
teen miles from any station, and definite
information is very difficult to get.
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IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.
The Rance Plant Promising to Become
Rival of Cotton for Cloth Making.

Inc hamee rant promising 10 becOne
Rival of Cotton for Cloth Making.
WASHINGTON, yeb. 10. = Botanist
Porte, of the Department Of Agricul-
ture, is of opinion that process has
been discovered by which the Rance
plant can be made into cloth at such
moderate cost that 1t will soon become
dangerous rival to cotton. "About
month ago, said Mr.. Porte, in converse
tion on this subject, ''information
reached the department that Mr.. Thomas
/. Mabbett, Providence manufacturer,
had succeeded in doing with Rance
what hundreds,I might say thousands of
others had tried and failed to do-that,
is, he had at small cost woven Rance
fiber into cloth. The Rance fiber which
he had thus succeeded in weaving had
been prepared by process discovered
by Mr.. Charles Topham, chemist Of
Salem, Mass. Mr.. Topham, by secret
formula, had turned the fiber into sub
stance resembling floss. This floss he
sent to Mr.. Mabbett at Providence, for
weaving. Mr.. Tspham, it seems. had
~ en- experimenting with Rance for
Years, like great many other men, and
only succeeded after innumerable fail
ures. I was ordered by the Department to
go to New England and investigate the
discoveries of Messrs. Topham G. Nab
bett I did so, and what saw has con-
vinced me that the problem of the util-
ization of Rance has at last been salts
factorily solved"
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CHEATING THE DEAD.
A Canadian Archbishop Calls a Halt o
Certain Practices.

A Canadian Archbishop Calls a Halt on
Certain Practices.
MONTREAL, Feb. 12.-Archbishop Fa-
Der has issued a circular letter on burial
abuses, which enacts that mo one must
take from collins or caskets any orna-
ments or mountings, once they are
within cemetery gates" The custom
has been introduced of stripping collins
Of their ornamental mountings before
final interment, and the spoils are
taken home as souvenirs. The archbish-
op also forbids the people to rent coflns
and ornaments, as has been frequently
done. The bodies were moved from
one casket to less pretentious one at
the grave. AS an instance Of the abuses
of undertakers the archbishop cities a
case where a man, having lost young
child, was unable to attend the burial
himself, but relied upon an undertaken,
to whom he gave $40. A few days later
the father called upon the cemetery
authorities to be sure that his child was
properly buried. There was no such
entry on the register. The father then
called upon the undertaken and forced
him to produce the body of the child.
The coffin OF grown-up person was
opened and there the little corpse-was
found serving as pillow to the body of
woman with whom it had been buried.
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"a LITTLE NONSENSE"
in times like these the doctor skilled
His hopes of curing offers,

Drawn from the public's coughers.


His hopes of curing offers,
His pockets are with money filled
Drawn from the public's coughers.
Washington Capital.
This is somewhat of a Irvine
trust" said the young man as his best
girl wound her arms about his neck to
whisper sweet nothings in his large left
ear.-Kearney Enterprise.
-Papa-"If have to speak to you
again III whip you" The Terror-"Say,
papa, what did you have little boy for
if you can't get along any better with
him than you do?"-Philadelphia In
quirer
-Newly-Accepted Suitor-''Well, Bob.
by, you will have new uncle soon; am
your Aunt Mary's choice for husband"
Bobby y(surprisedl- l-''Well, that's strange.
heard her tell mamma, only yesterday,
thatyou were Hobson' choice. Life.
The only man whose melancholy
trip to the bottom of the sea ever stirred
the sympathies of the people as much as
Dan McGinty was the lamented Pharaoh,
who went down in his best Sunday cha
riot some thousands Of years ago.-Chi'
cago Lyre.
-Tramp-"Will you give me permis-
sion, lady, to go into your barn to COM
NIT suicide?' Lady filled with PITY
Poor man! Here's piece of mince-pie
for you" Tramp-"Thank you, marm,
but I've got some Rough on Rats that
will do just as well. IN. Y. Sun.
Mrs. Dolliver Ito the new girl)-
'Noreena, throw this water ont of the
window; but be sure you look out. Ten
seconds later.) What's the matter?"
Noreena-'I looked out, Mum, and l
saw the water go all over as fine gem
tleman as you'd care to meet. PUCK.
First ofiicer-"What's wrong wild
him, Jimmy? Can't yer lift him?' Sec
ond oflicer-"Not hair can | move
him." Party who has fallen-"It's no
use, gentlemen; you might just as we'll
leave me. I've been at the West-side
cookingschool dinner, and r at0- four
amateur doughnuts. Judge.
-"Do you remember Jones who went
out West?" said one travelling man who
was conversing with another in remi-
niscent vein. Very we'll" HE was a
high strung fellow 'lIe was when I
last saw him." What do you mean?"
"a vigilance committee had taken
charge of him. Merchant Traveller.
Lucy (aged eleven, who is reading a
paper)-'It is perfectly dreadful" Fa-
ther-"What's dreadful, Lucy?' Lucy
Another faithiess wife, the mother
of six children, runs off with married
man, who leaves a large family behind.
Dear me, if this doesn't stop pretty soon,
there will not be any parents left
Texas Siftings.
Guest at eating house (grumblingly)
--"Bring me soTe reed birds. Seems to
me ffty cents is u good price for them,
though" Waiter-"Yes, sab. Reed
birds is expensive. They are hard to
get, sab, and we have 20 bring 'em o
long distance" behind the screen
some minutes later "Lively, now.
Hurry up them English sparrows. =
Chicago Tribune.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-02-15
DOWN A BANK

Accident on the Norfolk and Western
Railroad Which viii Result in Three
Fatalities.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Feb. 1O.-Spread-
ing rails on the Norfolk and Western
Railroad near Glade Springs, Va, Sat
urday night, caused a disastrous wreck.
A south-bound passenger train was
thrown down high embankment into a
creek. The engine and three cars
were smashed to pieces and sleep
ers badly damaged. Express Mes
senger George Kerr, of East
vile, Va, was killed, and Mail
Agents Walter Bocock and A. b. Bur-
ton, of Lynchburg, fatally injured. Sew
eral passengers were injured, but no 9TH
ers thought to be fatally. The contents
of the express, baggage and mail cars
were badly damaged by water and part
ly lost No details can be had, as the
scene of the wreck has not been reached
from this place by wire.
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Honoring General sherman.

New YORK, Feb. S.-General William
Tecumseh Sherman is 20 years old to-
day. Hundreds Of his old friends called
to congratulate the General but they
were by far the smaller number of his
visitors. 1t was grand, popular dem
onstration. and the old veteran was
pleased beyond measure. He said that
he did not think the people really cared
so much for him until he found them
coming to congratulate him.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-02-15
DICK HAYES WEAKENING.
The Belief Growing That the Condemned
Man VIII MaLn IA EuIl Canfassian

The Belief Growing That the Condemned
Man VIII Make II Full Confession.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Feb. 1.-THE case
of John Wylie, who has been arrested on
a so-called confession made by Dick
Hawes, was called yesterday and post.
poned until this morning at IL o'clock.
The Hawes confession so far only
consists OF statement by jim
lIawes, brother of the condemned
man, that his brother told him
John Wylie agreed to put his wife and
children 'out of the way" and that he
afterward reported to him that he had
done so. Hawes says he then paid John
Wylie $500 for the job, but did not know
at the time that his wife and daughter
had been murdered. The entire story
so far is discredited here, but it is be.
lieved Hawes will finally make full
confession.
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Extra Session Ca1lad

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Feb. 12.-Gov-
ernor Taylor has issued call for an ex-
ira session of the Legislature to meet
February "a. lie calls attention to
twenty-eight subjects that need legisla-
ton. Principal among these are double
taxation, conflict between the election
laws, to regulate importation of dressed
beef, to enable various cities to extend
their corporate limits, and TO provide
for collection of municipal taxes.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-02-15
BOATS CAPSIZE,
And Seven of the Youthful Occupants
Drowned.

New ORLEANS, Feb. 10.-A sad acci-
dent occurred yesterday afternoon in
Carrolton. Eight boys, all residents Of
the upper city, secured two pinnaces,
and, jumping into them, started out
to take ride on the river. Their course
led them between two empty coal barges
lying at the head of Octavia Strait.
There was strong current running at
the time, and despite their efforts the
yawls were hurled by the currentagainst
the barges, causing both boats to upset
and seven of the eight unfortunate
youths overthrown into the river and
drowned. There names were Frank
Landy, aged seventeen; George Lamp
son, sixteen; Willie Winters, sixteen;
Martin Peniere, eighteen; Louis G. Full
da, sixteen; Alva f. Fulda, thirteen,
and Eddie Knecht, thirteen. Wilton
BODY, aged seven, the only occupant Of
the boats who escaped, saved himself by
catching on to one OF the overturned
boats. None Of the bodies have so far
been recovered.
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The Mormon Overthrnw

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 12.-Of-
fetal returns of the municipal election
give George A. Scott, Gentle. for may
or a majority of 500; Louis Hyams, Cen
tile, for recorder, $50; J. B. Walden,
Gentle, for treasurer, $50; Z. Il. Clute,
Gentle, for assessor, 466: J. NJ. Young,
Gentle, for marshal, 713. The re-
mainder of the Gentle ticket, includ-
ing fifteen councilmen, are elected by
majorities ranging from 800 to 400 This
gives them control of the municipal
council for the first time in the history
of the city
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Novel Cause for a Strike.

ST. JOSEPH Mo-, Feb. 1l.-Thirty-two
conductors, the entire force of the Peo-
pies Car Company, struck yesterday.
The grievance is that the company in
structod them to use new cash fare
register, shaped like a coffee-pot. The
company gave orders for the men to pre-
sent tho muzzle of this peculiar contriv-
ance to the passenger, who would drop
his nickel in the slot.
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Lions in Arkansas.

LITTLE Rock, Feb. s.-Two large
lions have recently made their appear
ance on the banks of the Arkansas, six
miles west of here. Their lair is in a
dense canebrake, from which they
emerge nightly and commit depreda
tions upon the stock of the neighbor-
hood. AS dogs will MOI run the animals
they are hard to dislodge. This animal
has become very rare in this section.
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DAMAGE for a Sons Lifs

MONROE, La, Feb. 1a.--In the case Of
Mrs. McFee VS.. The Vicksburg, Shreve-
port and Pacific railroad, the jury re'
turned verdict in favor of plaintiff for
$4,000. Plaintiffs only son, fireman
on the road, was killed by an engine
turning over on him and scalding him
70 death. lie was the second son OF the
plaintiff killed by the defendant road.
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OF Interest to Medical Colleges.

BALTIMORE, Feb. S.-The medical col.
leges of Maryland issue an address to
the medical colleges of the country in
behalf of an advanced system of medical
education, and call for delegates to a
conference to be held in Nashville, May
81, at the time of the American Medical
Association meeting,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-02-15
Syndicate Starch.

DIES MONIES, Ia, Feb. 10.-President
Gilbert, of the Gilbert Starch Works,
and Secretary Work, of the Sleeper
Starch Works, of this city, have just re-
turned from Buffalo, N. Y. They state
that the sale of these factories has been
consummated. The sale was made to a
syndicate said to be backed by English
capital. The price paid for the Gilbert
factory was $500, 1000, and for the Sleeper
factory $4,000. 1t is said that this sale
places the syndicate in control Of all the
large starch factories in the United
States, with one exception.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-02-15
Carueeie's Offar Aceepted.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. 1.-THE offer
of Andrew Carnegie to expend not less
than Sl,OO0,0o0 in public libraries for
this city was presented to council yes
terday and accepted. The city will give
$40, 900 per year to maintain the libra
ries. Chas. j. Clarke, another million.
aire, has offered site valued at $780,
900 in the East End, for the central
building,
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Mrs. KrNDLy-"I'll tell you where
you can find Job Of saving five cords
of wood, poor fellow" Tramp (eager-
ly) "Where, mum~ Mrs. K.-"Just
around the corner OF the next street.
Tramp-"Thank ye, mum, much
obleeged; might have run right into 1,
II 1t hadn't been fur ye."
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EARTHQUAKE at st. Louis.

ST, Louis, Feb. l1.-At 1905 o'clock
last evening two distinct earthquake
shocks were felt in this city. The dis
turbance was most powerful in tho
southern portion of the city, where
many people were SO badly frightened
that they ran into the streets. The bot
ties in drug-stores and bar-rooms were
shaken together, and in some few in
stances broken.
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Presidents Trip Abandoned,

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE Presi'
dent has abandoned his proposed trip to
Pittsburgh, Pa, to open the Carnegie
Library in that city, on Thursday, Feb
ruary 10. Recent sad events here have
interfered so much with his attention
to public business that he does not fee
that he can spare the time and go away
for few days, to the neglect of urgent
public business.
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Comte de Paris to the people. The Gov.
ernment was aware of his presence in the
city and he was at once taken into GUS
tody for violation of the law banish-
ing royal pretenders from France. He
was arrested at the house of Due de
Luynes and detained in the conciergerie.
In the afternoon he was taken before
the military bureau, where he declared
that having attained his majority he
placed himself at the disposal of the
military authorities. NJ. Constans, Min
lister of the Interior, ordered his further
detention.
The Due came to Paris and attempted
to enlist in the army but was unable to
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-02-15

MALE Parent (sternly)-"Now. air,
young man, have caught you--stuck
In the Jam, ~ usual, whom your mother
10 away" culprit--''lrl bst . quArtsz
ma Ia stuck In the Jam, too," Nals
Psrent--"wheres" cuiprit-"pewn q
ths millinery opening"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-02-15
co,ored Woman K,,,ed bv Cars

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, w, Va,
Feb. IA passenger train on the C.
and o. road struck and instantly killed
a colored woman who was picking up
coal on the track.
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Killed with a Coal Pick.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Feb. l0.-At Coal.
burg Mines desperately fatal fight oc.
Cured, resulting in the death of vii.
liam Cummings at the hands of John
Davenport. Davenport seized coal.
pick, driving it three times through Cum
mings' body, killing him almost instant.
ly. The trouble was ever Davenport's
wife.
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A RrAya Officer Regarded.

BosroN, Feb. 1O.-The Massachusetts
Humane Society has awarded gold
medal to Captain Norman II. Farquhar,
of the United States ship Tren ton, for
extraordinary courage and bravery dis
played in the rescue of 140 of the officers
and crew of the U. s. ship Vandalia at
Apia, Samoa, March 10, 1889.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-02-15
Dancers RudeIy Interrupted.

PATERsoN, n. j., Feb s.-Washing-
ton Hall, which occupied plot Of
ground on Broadway 400 by 600 feet in
size, was burned to the ground at about
. o'clock a. m. The loss will not fall
much short of $4,000 A ball was in
progress when the fire was discovered,
but all the guests got out in safety.
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FAMILY DROWNED.
The Anguished Parents Rush to their
Children's Rescue aud Go Under the Ice
with Their Little Ones.

Childrens Rescue aud Go Under the Ice
with Their Little Ones.
KINGSTON, n. Y, Feb. 1O--The four
children of Jacob r. Slater were skat-
ing on the lake at Binnewater, about
six miles from here, yesterday after
noon, when the ice, which was but few
inches thick, gave way, and the little
ones were precipitated into the water.
Their shouts were heard by the MEM
bers of the family, who lived near by,
and the father and mother rushed to the
rescue. BY the time the parents reached
the lake the children had disappered be-
meath the ice, The mother, frantic with
the thought of her children's peril,
rushed upon the ice, which gave way be-
meath her weight, and she sank below
the surface. Mr.. Slater then attempted
to reach his wife, and he, too, was
drowned The entire family is wiped
out of existence. Last night hundreds of
people were gathered about the lake
searching for the bodies.