The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-07-11

gan arriving in Pekin from the scene
or the disaster bringing the first OF the
bodies of the victims.
A large crowd gathered at the
morgue in the little river city and there
We're many pathetic scenes.
Soldiers detailed from camps Brad
ley and Herring arrived in Pekin early
to preserve order.
Coroner E. L. Clary, of Razewell
county, swore in his c~oroner's jury and
left with the members for the scene.
SobbIng Crowds at Morgues.
Sobb1ng crowds thronged the three
undertaking establishments in Pekin,
Identification. Men and women half
crazed by grief rushed from one little
morgue to another searching for loved
ones.
Half the population of Pekin hurried
70 Wesley at daybreak and gathered
N hysterlcal crowds on the river bank.
Several women collapsed. Soldiers
from military camps near Pekin We're
sent to Wesley and Pektn to preserve
order.
Heartrending scenes were enacted as
each body vas brought ashore. Fran
TIC people struggled to view the corpses.
ii!lorts were being made to check the
surviving persons to whom tickets for
the excursion a been sold. Coroner
Cleary held to his belief that not more
than 100 had persisted, but other Of
metals We're certain the death list will
far exceed that figure.
Collapse and shattered, the super
slIuctufe OF the BOAT stood out in clear
outline in the morking sky.
Haunting their imitation waves in
the faint breeze, the two electrically
hghted flags which adorned the shin.
stood upright-the outstanding part Of
the tragic craft. No a globe in them
was broken.
Weird memories of an excursion
crowd were seen IN every hand. Knit
ting that same Industrious matron had
been laboring on just before the crash
was found floating between the decks
of the collapsed boat. The needles
hung loose in the wool of the sweater
which she had started.
Shoes, hats, dancing pumps. sweaters
and wraps of all characters were hauled
from the water covered checking room
in the dance lobby.
Over the uncertain plangink, ratings
and life RATS, jumbled in an unrecog-
niZable pile Of w~reckage, the seekers
acquaintance crawled with prccarious
footsteps.
Then the wreckage was cleaned of
all save officials, undertakers and
newspaper men. The work of recover
ing he bodies began. If they were
luGllll1lSU tags were dlldClleuS 10 lIlS
baskets in which they were placed and
then We're taken to shore. If none of
. the officials, the crew or the old Pekin
| and Kingston mine residents knew the
blue. distorted faces, they We're hur-
ried to Pekin.
All victims identified - hours after
the accident We're residents of Pekin
or n~eighboring towns.
DIVERS TO RESCUE DEAD.
Chicago, Ill, July 6.-Harry Halder-
son, professional diver who brought up
scores of bodies from the steamer East
land that took hundreds to their death
when she overturned in the Chicago
river two years ago. started for the
scene of the Columbia wreck today
with his diving apparatus. He was &C
companied by Alexander Dahlstrom,
another diver.
Capt. John Anderson of the United
States coast guard service M nine
men also are en- route to Peoria to aid
in recovering bodies of the victims.
Judge Jesse Black, chairman of the
Red Cross for TaZewell county, tele-
graphed Chicago Red Cross officials
today asking hat blankets and other
supplies be sent to Pekin.
c.. C. Stillman. director of civilian re-
lief for the Red Cross in Chicago,
started at once for Pekin, with five
Red Cross workers. They took the
needed supplies.