Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-07-07
THE DENNY FUNERALS
Will Occur This Afternoon a
the Congregational Church.
Additional p Particulars.

The body of Frederick II. Denny
was recovered about 4:30 Wednesday
afternoon, having been pulled up by
the ear by means of alarge fish-hook.
There was a good deal of diving and
dragging of the river, but it seemed
to be of little use. Coroner FOrtier
says that the dynamite used was of
no use whatever. He is of the opin-
ion now, after trying several times,
that it never is. There has been to-
day eight or ten boats and a large
party at the scene of the drowning
searching for the bodies of the chill
dren. Mr.. Denny's body was found
but Il few hundred feet from where
the boat went down. Lyman Ayers
landing is the place where the dis
aster occurred. Mr.. Sheldon, the
father of Mrs. Denny, brought the
drowned party to the river Tuesday
afternoon, where they intended to
cross to visit his fathers place at
Green Prairie, on the other side, but
he had left them and started for
home before they set out upon the
river. Mr.. Sheldon wanted to take
them around by way OF Little Falls,
crossing the river on the bridge, but
they would not listen to that propo-
sition, because it would be so far.
Mr.. Denny's brother, Albert, was in
waiting on the other side to take
them to the Denny residence.
The boat was full of cracks and
had not been used for some time.
They filled the cracks with rags and
then endeavored to cross. The river
is about 400 feet wide at that point
and it was near the middle of the
stream that the boat went down.
The water where Mrs. Denny was
drowned was only FIVE Or six feet
deep, and where Mr.. Denny drowned
it was about eight feet. Soon after
Albert Denny, who swan out to res
cue his brother. had let go OF him he
struck the bottom of the river so
! that he could stand with his mouth
and nose out of water. 1t is said
that had he not struck this place and
rested he would surely have been
drowned himself.
The funerals of the Denny family
will occur tomorrow afternoon at
the Congregational church in this
city. 1t is expected the exercises will
commence at about 2:3O o CLOCK and if
the bodies of the children are re-
covered the remains of all of them
will be brought here for interment,
and if not those OF the parents alone.
The funeral services will be conducted
by Revs. Davenport and Moore. By
special request of the bereaved family
Mrs. Staples, Miss Dell Hill, Mr..
Laird and Mr.. Harding will render
some of the favorite songs of the
family and deceased.
There is a theory today that Mrs.
Denny tainted in the boat and thus
might have caused the accident.
When it was filling with water she
was seen to take the children in he1
arms and stand up and then to fall
it ia said. But it seems settled that
the boat was leaky one and was
primarily the cause of the accident.
Frederick Denny and wife have re
sided in this city for several years
lpast, and, prior to the accident fo1
some time, boarded at % Fifth stree
NE. Denny was a miller and worked
in the Northwestern mill land the Pills
, bury A. Mrs. Denny several month
; ago went to Little Elk to spend tn
summer and her husband joined be
the day before the Fourth. TIL
funeral will be held in Little Elk an,
party OF friends and relatives q
2 the deceased, consisting of Il. r
t Newton and wife, Mrs. T. E. Hughe
and Miss Minna Sheldon, left thi
morning to be present at the funera
ceremOnies.-Minn Journal.