St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-17
Lake Pepin Still Giving Up
the Victims Of Sundays
Awful Disaster.
The Death Roll Now Reaches
a Hundred and Many Are
Missing.
All the Bodies Recovered Yes
terday Blackened Beyond
Recognition.
Capt. Wetheren Examined by
the Steamboat Inspector
in st. Paul.

RED WING, Mlnn., April 1o.-I Ho
doleful tolling of church bells was still
to be heard in this city to-day, the list
of recovered dead from the Sea Wing
disaster having been greatly increased
since yesterday. Eight bodies were
brought up from the scene of disaster
this morning. In the afternoon sixteen
more were brought up and one was sent
over to Lake City. And tonight an
other boatload arrived. There are
100 now on the death roll and
several others are missing still.
The scene at the lake shore (the, disas-
ter having occurred two miles this side
of Lake City, in Goodhue county,) is a
sad one. When the first bodies wele
recovered Sunday night and Monday
morning, the faces were still calm and
peaceful, and showed little or no signs
of having come to sudden death. OF
the thirty-seven bodies taken out that
first night, only one presented spec
tacle in any way horrifying. 1t was the
body of woman, and her wide
open eyes, horribly drawn face and ex-
preston, and cramped position showed
that death was agony to her and that
she had died in the greatest fear. All
the other early-found bodies
Seemed to be Sleeping
as they lay on the beach, their wet
clothes and an occasional cut or bruise
being the only appearance of their
death by drowing. This rendered their
Identification comparatively easy mat
ter. Not so was it with those found last
night and to-day. All of them were
bloated and blackened beyond recogni-
tion, so that clothing and jewelry and
papers were the only way for friends to
claim their dead. An unknown man
was brought in this morning and lay for
several honrs in the coroner's room and
none came who knew him. Finally a
plain gold ring was cut from
his finger and the lettering. "Annie.
1882 -S-12, OH the inside led to
his Identification as Peter Olson.
Body No. IS was that of boy of four
teen, to whose buttonhole his straw hat
was still tied. Frank Stroupe was one
of those who gazed long and earnestly
at the horrible faces, but he saw moth
ing familiar there. Finally he drew
from his pocket piece of flannel and
compared it with the boys shirt, which
was changed somewhat by the water.
Still it was the same, and a
glance at the peculiar shoe buttons
caused the fathers eyes to fl
and overflow. Nothing more was need
ed to tell those around that his son
Johnny's body had been recovered.
The warm weather and ShallowneSs of
the water, together with the fact that
several big steamers
Sent Up Heavy Swells
to-day as they passed up the river,
brought the bodies to the surface very
quickly. The patrolling row boats,
which had been directed by G. A. Carl
son, of this city, towed the bodies
ashore, and there they were identl-
fed, boxed and shipped to this city.
Mr.. Carlson's own boy is one OF the
lost. and the fathers grief has been in
tensified by his inability to get the miss
ing body. He was assisted by large
force of volunteers from Lake City and
Red Wing, and a detachment of the mi
litia. Many are the rOmanceS that have
been brought to the surface by this dis
aster. One OF those found Monday was
Theodore Horwedel, who had lived
here five or six years and
was taking his first pleasure excur-
sion: on steamer now in mid-ocean,
coming from the German fatherland.
was the young lady whom he hoped
soon to claim as his wife. Knute Peter
son, another of the excursionists, was
to have been married to Miss johnson
next Monday. but he is now dead, and
she is crazed with grief, and permanent
insanity is feared. A. 0. Anderson, the
Dakota man who was visiting his be-
trothed, was buried this morning, while
the young lady, Miss Randina Olsen,
was among those brought up on the
Wanderer this afternoon. Miss E. j..
Crawford, of Graysville, O., was also
among those found to-day.