The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-15

Where the Bodies That Were Found
Inferred as Rapidly as the Bodies
Can Be Prepared for the Ground
Forty Remain to Be Inferred
Saddest of All Scenes.
Staff Special to the st. Paul Globe
NEW RICHMOND, Wis, June 14-To-
day has been one of expectation and
anxiety. The city is crowded with home
less people, both from the country and
those who live in the city and lost all
in the devastating tornado of Monday.
AS the city awakens to the full horror Of
the storm the real gravity of the situa-
tion is not increased in the least. Father
Degmon, who knows every man woman
and child in the city, said this afternoon
that there were over 100 people still un-
der the ruins of the business portion of
the city He persists in the assertion
and many of the survivors think he does
! not put the figures too high. Gangs of
men were at work at an early hour ex-
cavating the basement ruins of the Main
street buildings.
The following bodies were recovered:
TAKEN FROM RUINS.
JOHN PRIOR, twenty-five years, taken
from the basement of Cullen & Gree
ley's building.
| MRS. HAWKINS, recovered from the de-
bris near the Omaha track, 1000 feet
from depot sight.
T. ]. McNALLY, taken out of the base
ment of one of the Main street build
ings alive but unconscious. Cannot
live.
TWO UNIDENTIFIED BODIES found
in hQG Of
INFANTS HEAD found in debris at
Second street. Taken to Congregational j.
| UNIDENTIFIED MAN found in base
!, HENRY larson, eighteen years of
INFANTS Bones found on Main
street and turned over to the doctors
PATROL THE RUINS
The strictest order was maintained by
! Wisconsin national guard boys, who
patrolled the ruins and no one was al
lowed within the patrol limits without
a written pass from the military author
] tiles.
The work of excavating the ruins was
\ exasperatingly slow, and all sorts of ru-
! mors were afoat on the street. TO the
efect-hat- people were still alive within
the basement of the Williams building.
In addition to the above list the work
men found several arm, leg and rib
bones, badly charred in different parts
! of the ruins, but from these the COM
mittee could make out nothing.
The first body found was that of Mrs
Hawkins, the mother of the fll-fated
family. She lay under a pile of boards.
| up the railroad right of way. about three
| blocks from the site of the Omaha depot.
! A thrill of horror ran through the
I crowd when the body Of r. J. McNaIIy
was reached in the basement of one of
the buildings on Main street. He lay
with his head against a huge scantling,
and cook stove rested on his head In
/ his mouth was half-burned cigar He
was badly burned and his face was very
| black.
With care the crowd of workmen raised
| the surrounding timbers, and after q
half hours hard work his body was
lifted to the level Of the street The
crowd detected motion of life and in
a few seconds the supposed dead man
was on his feet walking towards First
street, when he stumbled and fell over
a pile of scrap He did not rise again.
and he was borne by a dozen stalwart
men to the McEally home He is not ex-
pected to live. How he managed to sur
vive is more than the physicians can
understand. He was pinioned under ten
feet of wreckage, weighing many tons
He is unconscious.
Two unidentified bodies We're unearthed
In the basement of the Alliance building
shortly before noon today They were
borne in litters to the Congregational
church by the workmen, but up to a
late hour were unidentified
An unidentified man was taken out of
the basement of the Dodge building at 12
clock When the eXcavatOrS opened up
a basement door which was finally reach
ed, the stencil was so bad that the crew
could scarcely continue the work The
two upper floors yere resting on top of
each other so that 1t was impossible to
4 TTTlr a
supply OF canthooks were brought from
! Hudson and from that time on the work
| went easier. The workmen did not get
! to the inner chamber in the basement OF
! the Dodge building, where the remains
| Of several of the dead are supposed to
| be.
An Infants head was picked up on Main
street early in the morning. 1t was
! bruised and distorted somewhat. A thor
| ough search was made for the trunk but
| the workmen were unsuccessful. During
the day some of the men went to their
homes for brief rest, as many of them
| have scarcely had any sleep since the
| first news of the cyclone. This left hut
a small force at work. All the dead
horse and other domestic animals killed
in the storm were removed yesterday.
JOHN PRIoR's BODY.
The body of John Piror was found at
| 2 p. m. in Cullen & Greeley's basement
and taken to the Catholic church, where
all of the dead of that faith are being
taken for temporary embalming and bur-
ial. white sheet was thrown over the
body and it was carried through a line
of about 1000 people who are in the city
sight seeing. Priors father is farmer
and was dangerously wounded. He is
being cared for in New Richmond by
friends Young Piror's body was shock
ingly mutilated.
In the Williams store the work of ex-
cavating was doubly slow because large
amount of the $50 900 stock of merchan-
disc is in the basement on top of the
other debris. BY noon a greater portion
of the loose rubbish had been cleaned out
and work on the bed of limsetone, brick
and scantlings begun, but up to the timo
the workmen were compelled to leave
the place none of the bodies that are sup
posed to be buried beneath were dis
covered. There are many frantic rela-
tives beseeching the committee at all
times, but 1t is powerless to do anything
further than 1t has done.
Shortly after 1 o'clock the remains OF
Nick Larson's son were reached on the
east side of Gillen's building. The work
men had been working in the basement
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