St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-11-17
WENT DOWN TO DEhTH
THROUGH IN OPEN DRAW.

car when it made the plunge Seven
unidentified bodies were at the
morgues at 10 p. M, and one man,
whose name had not been learned
was at a hospital in an unconscious
condition. SO far as could be learned,
he was the only one who escaped in
slant death.
The work of rescuing the bodies
went on by the faring light of the
lamps on the fire boats. By 1890
five more bodies in addition to those
already taken to the morgue, max
ing twelve in all, had been taken
from the river. Among them was
young woman with blonde hair and
fairly well dressed, being the body
apparently of shop girl going home
from work. By her side in the dead
wagon lay the body of woman about
fifty years of age, and near her was
another woman about forty years
old. Scores of persons living on
the South side who had relatives
or friends working or visiting on the
East side flocked to the scene of
the accident and visited the morgues
to make anxious inquiries about their
missing friends. In the confusion,
however, but. little could be learned
from them. Perhaps the persons for
whom they were looking were in the
throngs about the bridge, for up to
II o'clock not single body had been
identified A dredge has been Sc
cured to raise the wrecked car bod
lily from the river, thus facilitating
the recovery of the remainder of the
bodies, for it is probable that few, if
any, of the bodies floated away, the
river being practically without cur
rent at that point.
INEXPLICABLE DISASTER.
Horace Andrews, president, and ].
J. Stanley, superintendent, of the
Cleveland Electric railway, say they
have investigated the accident so far
as it is possible to do so tonight, and
they are at a loss to understand how
it happened. Mr.. Andrews said that
the motorman, whose name is Rogers,
who had been in the employ of the
company four years, was regarded as
a thoroughly competent and reliable
man. The conductor, whose name is
Hoffman, and who is in the wreck,
had been on the road two years, hav-
ing been employed for two years be-
! fore that in the car shops of the COM
pany. He also had the full conf
dence of the company, Mr.. Andrews
said
The first body identified was that of
Henry w. Mecklenburg, a tailor.who
resided at 5S Mary street. His body
/ is at-tfe morgue.
The bodies recovered up to mid
night numbered thirteen. Three bod
les had been identified at that hour.
They are those of Matthew Gala
han, who lived on Hamilton street;
Mrs. Sauerheimer,o of Professor street,
and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Martha
Sauerheimer, of 154 Merchant avenue.
The man who was taken to the hos
pital in an unconscious condition is
Patrick Looney, of Lyman street. He
/ recovered consciousness before mid
night, but is in critical condition.
IDENTIFYING THE DEAD.
After midnight three more bodies
were identified. One of them is that
of Bessie Davis, aged twenty-one, of
Noyes street. Miss Davis was school
teacher. James Mclaughlin, aged
thirty-five, of II Trowbridge avenue,
mad his neck broken. Henry w. Fos-
ter, aged twenty-one. of Mentor ave-
nue., a clerk, was drowned. Battal-
ion Chief Rebbeck, of the fire depart
ment, was crossing the bridge at the
time of the accident. He was on the
opposite side of the draw from the
one over which The car plunged. He
does not know what caused the acci-
dent. When he first saw the car he
thought 1t was standing ON the op-
poSite of the draw. All of a sudden
it plunged over into the river. Chief
Rebbeck was the first to give the
alarm by telephoning to the police
and fire departments.
Thousands of people remained at
the scene of the accident until long
after midnight, and hundreds of anx-
ious searchers moved in procession,
from one morgue to another, looking
for friends or relatives who were
supposed to be missing. The scenes
about the morgues when the dead
were identified We're touching in the
extreme. One of the unidentified
bodies is that of a boy about nine
teen. In the pocket was a handker-
chief with the name of Curt Lepehne
Newspaper clippings in the pocket i'll
taI ho1
Gently arrived with his mother from
Europe, and that he had stayed at
the Queen hotel in Halifax. A wom-
an named Sadie Logan, aged twen-
ty-nine, is missing. She started from
her home on Muirson street at
o'clock to go to the South side, and
at midnight she had not returned. 1t
is believed She was in the wrecked
car.
SOME OF THE VICTIMS.
CLEVELAND, Nov. 17.-2 A. M.-The
list of dead so far as Identified is as
follows:
MRS. MINNIE BROWN, aged forty
five, residence unknown.
- HOFFMAN,, conductor of the
car.
HENRY w. MECKLENBERG. aged
thirty-five, of IS Mary street tailor.
CURT LEPEHNE, aged nineteen,
residence unknown.
BESSIE DAVIS, aged twenty, Noyes
street, school teacher.
JAMES M'LAUGHLIN, aged thirty ?
five, of n Towbridge avenue, a printer.
HARRY w. FOSTER, aged twenty
one, of 81 Mentor avenue, clerk.
MATTHEW CALLAHAN, twenty
five, of Hamilton street steel worker.
MRS. SAUERHEIMER, aged thirty
five, Professor street
MRS. MARTHA SAUERHEIMER,
aged thirty, of Isl Lerchand avenue.
MRS. A. w. HOFFMAN, l4l5 Pearl
street
HARVEY HOFFMAN, fifteen years,
son of Mrs. A. W. Hoffman.
Rogers, the motorman of the car,
was arrested late tonight at his home,