Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1890 — WOULD LYNCH THE CAPTAIN. [ARTICLE]

WOULD LYNCH THE CAPTAIN.

People Ab:>ut Lake Pepin Wrought Up Over the Disaster, St. Paul, (Minn.) telegram: A mob gathered last evening near Diamond Bluff, Wis., tho home of Capt, Wethern, who commanded tho 111-fated Sea Wing, with the purpose of lynching him He was made aware of the approach of tho crowd and was plactd in a buggy and driven rapidly to Ellsworth, tho county seat of Pierce county, and Mimed over to the Sheriff for protection. The feeling among the friends of tho dead at Bed Wing, Diamond Bluff, and Trenton is verv bitter against the Captain, and their anger has increased since the sudden and unsatisfactory termination ot tho inquest. It is said the United States Steamboat Inspector has a warrant which he intends serving on Capt. Wetheru, charging him with overloading his vessel. It is pretty certain it carried over 200 persons, though its capacity is but 140. Rod Wing, (Minn.) special: As time progresses and the missing are heard from it becomes apparent that the victims of Sunday’s cyclono on Lake Pepin will number a few over 100; but tliis, it is hoped, will not be exceeded by more than six or seven. To-day wa* devoted to a fruitless effort to recover more bodies, dynamite being used in profusion on the shores of the lake to bring to the surface the corpses buried beneath tho waters.