The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-02-15
IhE LAST HOPE VANISHED

+ Is Reasonably Certain That Ms.
Corners Was i Passenger
On The Elbe.
:. so'ners Died Suddenly at Belin, and Mrs.
Sonners Was Bringing the Remains
Home.
The last vestige OF hone enterta ind hv
.he many OF Mr.. and Mrs. Corners
mat the reports concerning their misfor-
tune might yet prove unfounded and
untrue has disappeared. giving place to
deep sorrow and universal sympathy.
IL a been learned that Mr.. Corners
died suddenly at Berlin, and Mrs. Corners
vas q passenger on the Elbe, being on
her way home with the remains, and all
that is earthly of man and wife now
rests beneath the troubled waters of the
North Sea. The particulars OF the awful
disaster were chronicled in our.ast issue.
AT the time III citizens were loath to
believe the solumn details. but subsa.
quent developments have substantiated
the first reports in their entirety.
The name DIM. G. Corners was familiar
from Chicago to the Pacific coast owing
10 the extensive transactions that he
from time to time, figured in. He ownen
heav.y stock interests on'the range north
west OF here, being connected with va
rlous out it's, directly or indirectly. be.
sides being the sole owner OF the NC
brand, with the home ranch on Powder
river, Montana. After the hard winter
OF 1867 s'ockmen who, the summer
before were worth thousands, found that
their immense losses on the range during
that winter had reduced them to COM
paratlve poverty, and were forced to
abandon that pursuit. Not so with M.
T.. Corners. Instead of displaying an
eagerness to wash his hands OF the range
business, he entered into the business on
a more gigantic scale than ever, buy,nr
the remnants OF former large herds, as a
result reaping a comfortable profit. Mr..
n originally started the Cross
Anchor brand, on the Belle Fourche river
in 1880, selling out to the Weare Land
and Lave Stock company in 1898. Be-
sides his live stock interests, he was the
owner OF considerable mining property
in the Hills, being principal owner of the
Spanish R property at Carbonate. and
through his determined efforts the poor
men interested in that were
shielded from the loss of what.little they
had already invested. Mr.. Corners as
Stunning the assessments and debts in
CURED. He was also largely interested
in Spearfiish real estate, and was twice,
elected mayor OF this city, performing
the functions OF that office with much
credit to himself. and to the great salts.
faction OF the entire %populace. He was
born in Buffalo, N. Y, in the year 1852,
and was therefore about SO years OF age
at the time OF death.
For the past two years Mr.. Corners
had been effected by a peculiar disease
that caused II swelling Of the neck, and
which local medical skill could not sub.
due. Last fall his physician advised
that he cake a voyage upon the waters
OF the Mediterranean, and spend the
winter in that climate, as he though it
would benefit him. Mr.. Corners though,
he would rather visit Carlsbad, Ger
many, other to battle IN the Dealing
waters OF that place. to which the phy-
stefan readily consented, SO Mr.. and Mrs.
Corners accordingly set sail for that
place IN the early part of December.
Mrs. Conners wrote two letters to her
sons here after they arrived at Carlsbad
the last one being dated Januars 18th,
IN which Mrs. Corners stated that Mr..
Corners WAS much improved, and was
experiencing Il gradual mend, but moth
ing was SAID infering that they contem-
plated returning home in any short
time; rather that they would remain
there until Mr.. Corners had thoroughly
recovered. This letter came the da,
the intelligence of the Elbe disaster was
received.
Mrs. Corners was born in the state OF
Connecticut, and no one was ever more
universally loved and admired. An ap.
peal for deserved charity to her was
never ignored or disposed OF by q mega.
tive; she was a Christian in every senst
OF the word. Gentla in her man1Ao.