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Show MOKE KOD1KS KFX'OVKltKl). It is Now Thought That the Dead Will Xuiuhcr 150. Kkivving, Minn., July 11. During the night lifty-livo bodies wero recovered. recov-ered. This morning up to 10 o'clock, seven more have been pulled out. At half past ten tho bodies of a woman and a child to which ropes had been attached, at-tached, wero drawn from the water. Tho child was the daughter of John Winters, of Kcdvving, Miun. Fred Kivcrs, blacksmith, was taken out a few minutes later, making a total of sixty -live. From early moruing a patrol of row-hoats row-hoats was kept, all over the neighborhood neighbor-hood of tho wreck, looking for bodies. Several wero found that way last night, and a small boy was fouud floating and yelling thrco miles down from the scene of the disaster. Battery A, of St. raid, kept up a cannonading during tho day trying to raise bodies, with success. Tugs this morning pulled out the shattered shat-tered wreck of tin "Sea Wing," releasing re-leasing thrca bodis, one woman and two young 1110:1. Albra rainier of Trentou was ouo of these, but the two ineu had not been idcntilied up to 1 o'clock". That makes a total of sixty-eight sixty-eight bodies now fouud. Estimates vary as to the total number dead. There were over 2fi0 on the steamer and barge ( when, they .started to return to Ked-wing, Ked-wing, very few remaining behind on account of the storm, although many protested against the proposal to steam up the lake in the face of such a gale as was then blowing. Of the whole num her it is positively known that about fifty were saved. More may have escaped, but only this many aro kuowu at this time to be safe. That wquld leave about 150 victims, but every 0110 hopes the number may not go beyond 125. There is a good number still in the wreck, and a great many in the bottom of the lake, where tho gale first struck tho steamer. Just how many will not be known for some time yet.'possibly not for several days. |