Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-07-18

though enough of the framework re-
manned to hold together and work on.
At half past ten the bodies of woman
and child, to which ropes had been at
tached, we're drawn from the water. The
child was the daughter of John Winters
OF Red Wing. Fred SEWERS, a blacksmith,
was taken out few minutes later. That
makes total of
s1XTY-FIvE BODIES
already taken out, or probably about
one-half the total number drowned. This
morning the little steam tug Wanderer
tried unsuccessfully to pull the wreck
apart and then the Ethel Howard came
up the river and, with the valuable aid
Of the Luella, pulled apart the frame of
what had been the top of the steamer
The Luella then pulled the Seawing up
out of the water, releasing three bodies
one woman and two young men. Alice
Palmer of Trenton was one of these, but
the others had not been identified up to
l o'clock. That makes a total of sixty
eight bodies now found. It is stated
this afternoon that to keep the water out
of the cabin and to keep the people under
shelter Captain Wethern had
LOCKED THE DOOR OF THE CABIN.
If this is true it may explain much of
the loss of life, although the loss would
still have been heavy. Estimates vary
as to the total number of dead. There
we're 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 gale as was
then blowing. OF the whole number it
is known positively that about fifty we're
saved. More may have escaped, but
only this many are known at this time
to be safe. That would leave about 15O
victims of the disaster, but every one
hopes the number may not go beyond
125. A good number are still in the
wreck and great many are in the bot
tom :of the lake, where the gale first
struck the steamer. just how many will
not be known for some time yet, possi-
bly, for several days.
CORPORAL B. L. PERRY
of st. Paul saw the wreck early last
night and at once fastened to the shore
to render such assistance as was possible.
Finding man standing near 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 were 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 commission. From
early morning patrol of row boats was
kept up all over the neighborhood of the
the wreck looking for bodies. Several
we're 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 cannonad-
ing during the day, trying to raise
the bodies, but without success.
BODY AFTER BODY
of men, women and children-in some
cases 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 fed. 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
stranger, whose anxiety was apparent in
every movement, stepped up and asked:
lis my daughter heard from yet?" "What
is the name?" Bertha Winters" was
the response, and an inclination of the
head and motion toward the written
list told the bereaved father Of his affiic-
ton, and he turned away to go after the
lifeless clay of his child. "And my boy
is not among them?'' was the sad, half
consolatory remark of Contractor Carl
son, who had worked feverishly all night
and all day without finding 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 coffins
for transportation to their homes.
QUICK AND 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 81 sisz1
DYNAMITE WILL BE USED
in the morning. There we're q good