St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-25
DROWNED SEVERAL DAYS.
Before Her Father Discovered
Her Little Body.

New YORK, May 24.-Carrie Hartl,
the three-year-old child of Joseph Hartl,
a dealer in human hair goods at No. 469
Broadway, Brooklyn, was found deav
yesterday morning in partly filled
caSk of water in the cellar of her fathers
house. At the bottom of the cask Law
her little doll, which she had probably
been playing with on a box alongside
the cask when she lost her balance, fell
into the water and was drowned. The
house in which Hartl lives and carries
on business was almost entirely de-
stroyed by fire three weeks ago.
HartPs loss was heavy. For a
year or'more he has been unfortunate.
His wife died year ago, leaving five
children, of whom Carrie was the
youngest. There has been much sick
ness, too, in his family, and the destruc-
ton of his business added to his
trouble. Recently the insurance was
adjusted and carpenters were set to
work repairing the interior. Hartl as
sisted them. During the day the three
youngest of his children amused them
selves in their own yard, and also in
the adjoining one, separated by a small
fence. When the children finished
their dinner on Friday afternoon they
returned to the yard to play. Carrie
selected corner in the yard for
herself, where she amused her
self with her doll, Her lit
tie brother and sister went
into the adjoining yard. Carrie,
unobseryed, made her way into an un-
occupied room in the basement of the
house. At o'clock i'll the afternoon
Hartl called his children into the house.
Carrie did not answer. He searched
for her but failed TO find her. Neighbors
assisted him, but when dusk came he
had obtained no tidings of her. He
made another search of the house, and
a careful hunt through the cellar. He
passed and repaSsed the cask several
times, but never thought Of looking in
side of it. Hartl reported his child's
disappearance to the police, and a gen
eral alarm was sent out. All night long
he waited i'll the hope that the police
would call at his house and bring him
news of her. He was doomed to disap-
pointment, however, and at 3 O'Clock
yesterday morning he searched the
house again. He visited the cask sew
eral times, and as before failed to look
inside OF it. lie tried to sleep, but his
nervous condition precluded it. At day
light he left the house again to look for
his child. He returned at o'clock and
told his eldest daughter, aged twenty
one years, that he feared Carrie was
dead. After sitting at the window half
an hour he went to the bed where the
little one usually slept. He told his
eldest daughter he would search the
cellar again, as he remembered it was
quite dark when he made his previous
searches there and he did not look
inside the cask. When he got
to the cellar he rolled the cask
on its edge over where the
sunlight shone through the cellar graf
ing. What he saw almost paralyZed
him. A pair of tiny feet protruded
about six inches over the surface of the
water. He caught hold of them and
drew the body of the missing child out
of the cask. He carried it up stairs,
and, after laying it on the bed, fell
senseless to the floor. The neighbors
soon learned that Carrie had been
found. When it became known that
she was drowned there was much SYM
pathy expressed for the father. The
police were notified and also Coroner
Lindsay.