The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-06-17

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| dread talezofth General -Slaenm-dis.
aster-is fully told--when-the
blackened% body-has been =takeil-ffeaa
the burned hnll@and the@sWift waters
of=HeH Gate give up p=their=dead=-th
catastrophe will take=its place aszthe
most appalling that has ever occurred
Izin1the inland Waterszof america.
mite figures on the loss Of =life-eanHot
yet be given.1h more than sen
persons perished is a horrihc ees-
tainty, but how much in excess of that
number the total will run will only be
known when the missing column is
| finished
At noon, according to the best OBJ
tainable information, about $50 pc
sons are reported to be missing. Inc
colonei,'s office, the CHIEF of the thc
department and The police agree III the
| estimate that the total loss of lie viii
closely approximate loco.
All during the night and tMonsh the
early dawn the sad work oI exploring
the S1ocum's hull went OH ans, from
dock to morgue the procession Of am
balances, each With it's pitlIul @loaSl.
! wound its way from the river front 10
| the morgue at the foot of Twent yssiNtl!
| street, until at go p. IN. So bodies
| lay on the slabs.
/; Most OF these came from the wreck,
but the night long patrol Of the waters
OF East river added its ghaslly quota.
There are many bodies still i'll the
L ~ fbil's Il1I, ~
to the divers and wreckel,s. but the
| river is looked To to complete the liSt.
During Wednesday 2O3 PERSONS Wee
taken to hospitals. Aftef tll.atnient ~
was found, in many oascs, chat the in
juries were not serious enutssh t3pfe-
vent their going home ail, th>y scie
allowed to depart. Some III tiioe VINO
remain in hospitals, however, arc still
in critical condition..
SEARCH FOR BODIES GEES
ON WITHOUT lfs-fERisgj Y 3TIoN.
All through the night and ~ TO the
present time men in diving suits aI,;!
others with graphing hooks in their
hands stood on the decks ol tugs
which lowered about the suaiseu wreck
h
| q man in one Of the weird looising suits
would slip over the siie q !. Tug and
sink--to- the bottom. i=atte thef
diver would appeal. OIL the sa.laee.
Probably he had come 10 the surface
for rest and air or Heti!aps he held
tho body OF q woman OF the body of
child in his rubber coated arms. Tne
chances We're that he had come UP
with the dead.
AS a diver would bring body to the
J surface a giappling hook was placed
under it ale il Was raised 10 the deck
OF ii tug. Some OF these bodies wefe.
! beyond recognition. When several
bodies Were recovered another tllg &
| from which divers were not working
would pull alongside and transfer the
dead. How many dead lie in that
| charred and snnken hull cannot ever
be estimated until every nook and
corner OF the shell has been gone over
blythe divers.
Unlike the Iroquois theater and 9TH
er great caeastrophes of recent years,
where the Woe Of the disaster reached
Throughout the land, the -DlOM-of 1.-The
SloeEln mortality falls practically
upon one little neighborhood OF a
great city. st. Marks parish, which
furnished nearly every victim, Hes
within ten crowded blocks OF the East
Side and there is hardly a house there
| that is not one of mourning.
The membership OF the little Lll-
theran church is practically German,
| or of German descent, and all OF the
| comparatively well-to-do class.
MANY DEEDS OF HERolsM
TO BRIGHTEN SAD STORY.