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 496 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY the rescue of the living and the recovering of the dead. A dis- patch was sent to Red Wing and on the request of the chief of police a special train was sent by Division Superintendent Under- wood, of the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Company, about midnight. The steamer Ethel Howard. Captain J. G. Howard, arrived at Red AVing about 6 o'clock. Monday morning, with forty-two bodies of the dead. 3*nd the steamer Nettie Durant with eight others about noon. Later on Monday the steamer Luella, Captain Antoine Rocque, of Wabasha, a powerful raft-boat, on her way down, came oppo- site the scene of disaster. Captain Rocque made his raft fast to the "Wisconsin shore, steamed across the lake, and placed himself. boat and crew, under the direction of those in charge of the search for the Lost. 11 was through his labor, continued all day and until nothing more remained to do, that the wreck was pulled aear to shore, and under the force of the Ethel Howard also, so pulled to pieces thai the cabin could be opened and the whole wreck thoroughly searched, in the course of which fifteen other bodies were found and forwarded to friends at Red AVing. Adjutant-General J. 11. Mullen was very helpful in inspiring and directing the work on Monday and Tuesday. The hike ^vas vigilantly patrolled on Tuesday, and dynamite was employed in the hope of raising the bodies, the operations being conducted from Captain Berkey's steam launch by Lieuten- an1 E. P. Glenn, I'. S. A. Only one body was recovered, however. On Wednesday the same watch for Moating corpses was main- tained by skill's and by the steamer Wanderer. The passing of the steamer Menomonee over the place of the disaster caused one of the bodies to appear, and the services of the boat were bespoken to endeavor to raise the others. She continued her movements with such success thai thirty-one more, making all of the victims but one, were recovered and sent to Red Wing. The last, the ninety-eighth body, was found Thursday morning, and with its recovery the work at the lake was finished. Through Monday the work upon shore, at the scene of the disaster, was mainly in the hands of the officers and men of Com- pany G, First Regiment, M. N. G., Captain C. A. Betcher, the citizens of Lake City, and other members of the soldiery from the camp. During subsequent days the people of Lake City were led by Mayor Stout, and the soldiers assisted, operations being then in charge of a force sent by the Red Wing City Council, nineteen men under the charge of Street Commissioner William Llewellyn. The force was kept constantly at work by proper reliefs. A representative of the city council was present nearly