Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-18
THIRTY-ONE MORE
Swollen and Distorted Bodies Re.
covered from Lake Pepin.
The Death Roll Now Numbers
Over One Hundred.


doleful tolling of the church bells was
still heard in this city Wednesday. the
list of recovered dead from the disaster
having been greatly increased since
Tuesday Eight bodies were brought
up from the scene of the disaster
Wednesday morning. In the afternoon
sixteen more were brought up, and one
was sent over to Lake City, and in the
evening another boatload arrived.
There are 100 now OH the death roll,
and several others are missing still.
The scene at the lake shore, the dis
ast=f having occurred two miles this
side of Lake City. in Goodhue county,
was sad one. When the first bodies
were recovered, Sunday night and Mon
day morning. the faces We're still calm
and peaceful, and showed little or no
signs of having come to a sudden death.
OF the thirty-seven bodies taken cut
that first night only one presented
spectacle in any way horrible. 1t was
the body of woman, and her wide
open eyes, horribly drawn face and eX-
preston, and cramped position, showed
that death was an 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
OF bruise being the only appearance of
their death by drowning. This rem
dered their Identification compare
lively easy one.
BlOated and UnrecOgniEable.
Not so was it with those found since
% hi bod nj
blackened beyond recognition, so that
We're the only way for friends to claim
their dead.
The warm weather and skallowness
of the water together with the fact that
several big steamers sent up heavy
swells Wednesday as they passed up the
river brought the bodies to the surface
very quickly. The patrolling rowboats,
which have been directed by Ct. A. Carl
ton, of this city, towed the bodies ashore,
where they were identified, boxed and
shipped to this city Mr.. Cartoons own
boy is Cne Of the lost, and the fathers
grief has been intensified by his inabil-
ity to get the missing body, He was as.
sisted by 4 large force Of volunteers from
Lake City and Red Wing and detach-
ment of militia.
Many sad ROmanres.
Many are the romaEces that have been
brought to the surface by this disaster.
One Of those found Monday Theodore
Horweigel had lived here five or six
years, and was taking his first pleasure
excursion. On steamer now in mid
ocean coming from the German father
land, is the young lady whom he hoped
t., al hi 70
son, another of the excursiOnists, was to
next Monday, but he is now dead, and
she is crazcd with grief and her death is
feared.
Additional Deaths.
The following is list Of the bodies
recovered Wednesday:
Mrs. Merritt Green.
julie Persig.
William Ahans.
William Jorgenson.
Fred Christ
Peter Olson
Miss e. j. Crawford.
Joh;i Adams.
Ira Fulton.
Edna Way
Mary Skoglund.
Linus Lillybrad,
Edward Merritt.
Henry Sculenberger.
Henry Newton.
James Wilson.
Louis Brenn.
Johny StrOuse
Randall Olson.
A small boy of Peter Gerken.
Charles Peterson
Albert Blakes.
Matte Flynn.
Ella Adams.
Angustin Elro.
George Hartman.
An unknown.
Mamie Schulinberger.
Martin Scherf
Mrs. Creamer.
Joseph Carlson.
Young Carlson was found Just as his
father was about to order giving up the
search for the day. The body came to
the surface and was picked up, making
the hundredth victim of the disaster
thus far found. 1t is thought that there
are about a dozen still undiscovered.
The Crew sober.
Mr.. Sparks, engineer of the Sea Wing,
Wednesday evening told reporter that
there was no liquor on board the steam
er for sale, and to the charge that the
crew had been drinking he entered an
emphatic denial He says there We're
some rowdies on the barge who had
been drinking, but no complaints were
made to him about them, although he
did order them to keep quiet Others
say for Mr.. Sparks, as well as for Capt
Wethern, that neither of them was in
l,a H. nf Hf-iYr lyip nj f.fA
are indignant at any hint of drunkenness
against them.
Mr. Sparks believes that the rope that
held the boats together slipped off W hen
the steamer turned over. He had
reached the barge and walked along
the uptnrned bottom of the steamer,
without seeing single person. His
wife was in the cabin, and he never saw
her alive again. The captain had sent
orders for the women and children To go
on the barge, but the man to whom he
gave the order, who is dead, shut them
In the cabin instead. This the engineer
knew from his own personal observa-
tion and to his own knowledge.
There Is in the city survivor of the
storm who says he helped cut the rope
that bound the boats together. As the
separation of the two vessels has been
considered one of the causes for the
great loss of life, everything bearing on
this point is being sought after by those
who strive after the causes and blame of
the event.
Captain wsthern Under Arrest.
The report Of the arrest Of Capt