The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1890-07-19

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still have been heavy. Estimates vary
as to the total number of dead. There
were over 200 on the steamer and barge
when they started to return to Red Wing,
very few remaining behind on account Of
the storm, although many protested
against the proposal to steam up the
lake in the face of such q gale as was
then blowing. OF the whole number it
is known positively that about fifty we're
saved. More may have escaped, but
to be safe. That would leave about $50
victims of the disaster, but every one
hopes the number may not go beyond
125. A good number are still in the
wreck and q great many are in the bot
tomIof the lake, where the gale first
struck the steamer. just how many will
not be known for some time yet, posi-
bly, for several days.
CORPORAL B. L. PERRY
of st. Paul saw the wreck early last
night and at once hastened to the shore
to render such assistance as wal possible.
Finding a nan standing near q boat on
the shore, he asked to be taken out into
the storm to the overturned steamer.
Being refused, he threatened to kill the
man unless his orders we're obeyed and,
with the help of his unwilling assistant,
he saved the lives of fifteen or sixteen
women. Adjutant- General Mullen says
the man has earned q commission. From
early morning a patrol Of row boats was
Az-I- .-.-k H. on,h1~ah101 ~ tho
the wreck looking for bodies. Several
were found in that way last night and a
small number was found then, after float
ing and yelling three miles down the
lake from the scene of the disaster. Bat
terry A of st. Paul kept up a cannonad-
ing during the day, trying to raise
the bodies, but without success.
BODY AFTER BODY
of men, women and children-in some
8 almost Of whole families, was taken
from the water, some of them alive,
others unconscious but not dead, and
yet others from which the breath of life
had forever fled. Invaluable aid in the
work, both of resuscitation and of laying
out the dead was rendered by the excel
lent ambulance corps which had been
but recently organized. Sad expert
ences have been many and remarkable
escapes are not lacking. An associated
press man had just secured the names OF
the latest discovered victims when a
stranger, whose anxiety was apparent in
every movement, stepped up and asked:
els my daughter heard from yet?' "Wha
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the response, and an inclination of the
head and a motion toward the written
list told the bereaved father of his Attic
ton, and he turned away to 60 after the
lifeless clay of his child. "And my boy
is not among them?" was the sad, halt
~consolatory remark of Contractor Carl
son, who had worked teverishly all night
and all day without finding a trace OF
his son. And SO it went on. As fast as
bodies were taken from the water they
were identified by mourning friends and
relatives, and placed in collins
for transportation to their homes.
QUICK N PAINLESS DEATH
The watches found on different bodies
had stopped at from 8:15 to $50, show
ing pretty accurately the time of the
wreck. Major Fitzgerald, surgeon OF
the regiment, and who had charge OF
the hospital corps and of the arrange:
ments for handling the bodies, says that
death was very quick in every case and
that there was scarcely any evidence OF
their having been any struggle on the
part of the dying. Neither had any OF
the bodies any bruises or other marks
of injury upon them. Death was quick
and painless.
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