The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-07-16
4HE CITY OF THB DEAD.
Hundreds Of Moumers in the
Town Of Red Wing, Mimi,
AFTER THE GREAT DISASTER.
Scores OF Funcrats..Grnvc CHARGES
Against tho Captain and Crew OF
the lIi.Fatcd Stcnmcr-..I,c.
ported They were Drunk,

ported They Nero Drunk.
REQ WtSd, MtS.., July i5.-"Alay
be prepared to 60" was found on the
fly leaf of worn little testament that
waa picked up by ono Of the searchers
around the Sea Wing wreck at Lake City
Sunday night, and the owner OF the
little book had gono to meet her God.
Solemn faces aud nober thoughts are
universal in this city OF tho dead, and
all hearts are made tender and closer 10.
gether by u common grief. 1t IL a sad
thing at any time to witness a funeral,
but when the ilowers Of city are taken
and the monrneys are thousands, sorrow
and grief become overpowering, and
aerious and sober thoughts are In sad
contrast TO tho light hearts and cav
jests OF those who went ou the fatal OK
rnrslon, as well as the smiling faces that
bade them farewell.
AN AWFUL GRIEF.
Neighhors and friends, fathers and
mothers with their children, young men
and women, all joined in the glad antic.
ipatlon OF day OF unalloyed pleasure.
But what II change il this. Those who
went away in joy and in pleasure intent
have come back in the mourn!ul looking
cnliins, or are the sole survivors OF Il
ny - g., H., a.. 4.
gonc on the excursion.
Fred Scaver tloated for six hours on
The face OF the waters with yonng
Adams, Of Lake City, and was then
brought to shore and life to feel the lack
OF fathers care and to mourn tho loss
OF sisters slain. The inexpressibly sad
face OF John Winters when he first
heard OF the death OF His daughter Ber.
tha but family showed the grief that
wruug his heart. And hundreds OF
aching hearts there are in Red Wing to.
day, and hundreds OF mourners have
well nigh exhausted the fountain Of
their tears.
DEsoIATE HOMES.
The sixty-six bodies that were brought
here yesterday were laid out in IN
empty store-rccm, and to this place Of
death came governing friends to claim
their dead or look in vain for tho absent.
All day the long pine boxes, that sus.
gest heart-aches and heart.brcakirg,
were being carried from the store-room
to the stricken homes Of the city, and ut
many hearthstone but one or two sur.
vivors OF n family awaited the coming
OF the mortal clay OF their loved ones
This is day offunerals, nearly all OF
the bodies yet recovered being carried to
the Gods Acre." where the last words
oi farewell aud consolation arc being
spoken, and the falling earth, as II
strikes the coffin lid, beats also upon the
hearts OF the mourners aud the agony Of
their grief comes over them.
RECOVERING BODIES.
The lake shore was made to reverber.
ate this morning with the thunder OF
dynamite, which was brought into re-
QUESTION in the hope that it would be OF
help in bringing some Of the as-yet un-
country people, who drove in from oil
directions yesteIuay, were heAlu ou nhllu
this morning, aud residents Of this place
were also lhcrc ut m early hour watch
ing the workers. The military guard was
kept up all night ut the beach, aud they
kept hack the spectators to-day as they
had done yesterday. The smiling sky in
NO way reminded one Of the great horror
that had come upon this whole section
Of the State. Goodhue county, OF which
Red Wing is the county seat, reaches to
tho edge Of Lake City, and the disaster
occurred in the limits OF the county.
Coroner Kyllo went down to Lake
City to view the scene OF the disaster.
He will hold an inquest at once Oh The
body OF L. A. Johusen, Of Dakota, who
YVES to haye been married to-day, and
whosa belrothed was also one Of those
who perishtd. .M. .
tbs stated lhat the Prosecuting Attor.
ney of Goodhue county il OF the avowed
opinion that this disaster 10 subject
not for action by Coroner's jury, but
should come before the Grand Jury and
that ut once. U' a.I
TIE CAPTAIN TO BLAME.
Under all the stern sorrow OF tho men,