Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-06-22
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New Richmond. Wis, June 16.-With
little or no organization and nothing to
guide their efforts, hundreds of will
ing toilers delved in the ruins of the
town yesterday, following up the seem.
lngly endless search for bodies. They
acted on no general plan, but trusted
to tile guidance of those that believed
they knew where some of the I'M
fortunates were buried. When the
search ended for the day eight bodies
had been recovered, bringing the total
Of the dead above the hundred mark.
The bodies recovered were Mrs. S.
n. Hawkins, Nick Pardon, Miss Addie
Clough, John Prior. Carl N. Larsen,
Lille McGrath, Willie Hughes and the
unidentified head Of child.
The task Of recovering the dead or
accounting for the missing seems to be
we'll nigh endless. There are so many
immediate wants, so much to be done
for the living that it has been neces-
sary to make the dead secondary
consideration. The distribution of
supplies to the destitute. the care for
the injured and the burial of the bodies
already recovered occupied the entire
attention of the committee in charge,
and they were compelled to depend on
the unorganized efforts of volunteers
to complete the rescue.
To add to the chaos during the morn
ing several thousand people were
dumped into the city by the two regu.
lar trains that arrived shortly before
noon and the one company of Wiscon-
sin militiamen that had been called
out was totally inadequate to keep the
crowd back. even when supplemented
by the detail from the st. Paul police
department. Complaints poured into
the general headquarters that relic
hunters were
Carrying Off Everything
of value that was not nailed, and it
was impossible to attend to all the
cases. Especially vehement were the
residents of the Second ward, which
occupies the point where the cyclone
left the city. This was strictly resi-
dence district, and every house was
levnled. The household goods We're
scattered about and furnished an ex"
cellent reward for curiosity hunters,
vino f1ocked to the place and defied the
owners of the goods to drive them
away. The business portion was
guarded by a line Of picLets, and it
was here that the bodies were recov-
cred. 1t was believed that no one
could be alive among the mass Of
tangled timbers when the search start
ed in the morning. but long before noon
this idea. was dissipated by the recov-
cry Of Charles Unidentified, who was
yet alive and able to walk, with some
assistance. He was found in the base
rlent, pinned by the arm, under mass
Of timbers. He could neither talk nor
see, and his hearing had been impaired
by the terrible ordeal he had passed
through. The body of Mrs. S. n.
Hawkins was recovered during the
morning. buried beneath the roof Of
her home, near the old depot. Her
bones were broken, her face was en-
t..rely torn away, and her trunk was an
unrecogniZable mass Of flesh. Her
identity was established by ring on
the second finger of her left hand. John
Prior. a young farmer, was the next to
be brought out from under the wreck.
He was found in Cullen & Greely's sa-
loon, beneath pile of broken boards.
His body was mangled by the weight
that had rested on him, and his face
was
Black and Distorted.
Just before the workmen quit at
noon they unearthed the body Of Carl
n. Larson under the wreck of the ice
house. He was found pinned under
the roof and two sides of the icehouse,
which had been piled together. The
saddest scene of all was the recovery
If the body of little Lille McGrath, the
one-year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
William McGrath. The father and
mother We're both fearfully injured,
perhaps fatally, and the story of the
find was kept away from them in the
fear that it would add the last drop to
their cup Of misery. Two of their chill
dren, Russell and Walter, were killed
outright. So when they inquired about
their little baby. almost continually it
seemed to those that watched beside
them. they were told Il white lie, that
their little child was safe. At this
the mothers face beamei with 10Y,
and the informant almost regretted the
deception that soon must be detected.
The McGratbs lived on Fourth street,
side by side. William and Nick. They
had handsome homes and pretty lawns
with lots Of trees. When the cyclone
struck. both families took refuge in
tile cellar. Mr.. McGrath had Just re-
turned home and mitchell his team in
front of the house. He ran to reassure
his wife that there was no danger. and
he was about to return to the team
when the house was blown from it's
foundation. He tried to get to the eel
lar but he was hurled away. When he
recovered consciousness he was in the
cellar under his brothers house, or,
rather, where the house had stood, for
it had been blown away. Near him he
found what he believed to be
A Lifeless Form,
and when he crawled close to the
bruised face he recognized the bruised
features of his Wife Most gruesome of
all finds was that Of the head of boy
about eight years old. There has been
no report Of such child missing and
no one has appeared at the morgue
who is able to identity it. A workman.
passing up Fourth street, near Main.
stumbled on something which he Mt
first believed to be chicken. He
turned and picked it up. He was hor.