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' VOL. XII.
VERY CLIMAX OF HORROR.
The Tornado on Pepin's Treacherous^ Bosom the
Crowning Calamity of All Minne- ;; : ,
sota's ■■; Annals; > ;;
At Least One Hundred and Twenty Lives Swal
lowed Up by the Angry Waters of
the Fatal Lake.
An Appalling Sacrifice to One Man's Determina
tion to Brave the Fury of a Storm .
Irresistible.
Fifty Miles of River Line Plunged Into the Gloom
of Mourning for the Fearful Death of
Loved Ones Lost.
Red Wing Bowed Down With Grief and All Bus
iness Forgotten in the Presence of the
Sublime Horror.
Lake City Under Martial Law, While the Brave But
Ghastly Work of Recovery
Proceeds.
Graphic Pen Pictures of the Frightful Descent of
the Storm King Upon the 111-Fated jg
Sea Wing.
Endless Ages of Horror Condensed Into a Brief Half
Hour When Death Rode on
the 'Gale.
BODIES RECOVERED.
ANDERSON, O. A., Wilmot, Dak.
""" ADAMS. MAMIE, of Hager. j
BLAKER, Mrs. W. S.
BLAKER, CENA. .'.-'.;
RKH ART, KATE. '
BEARSON, PIICEBE.
BROWN. CHARLES.
CREEMER, LEON.
CHRIST, F. J.
DEUSKME, CHARLES.
DALY, KATE.
FISHER,' MINNIE.
FULTON, IRA.
GERKEN, PETER.
GERKEN, Mrs. PETER.
GREEN, IDA.
GERKEN, MENDER.
GERKEN, HENRY.
GERKEN, AL VINA. -"■
GERKEN, GEORGE.
GERKEN. EMIL.
GERKEN, HEINE. -W.
HOTTOMAN, FRED.
HEMPFTLING, Mrs. S. —
HARRISON, MELISSA ANN. .
HEMPFTLING, Mrs. H.
HOLTON, MABEL,
HUMPHERT, JOHANNA.
HEMPFTLING, LIZZIE. ,
HEMPFTLING, FRED.
HERWEDEL, THEODORE.
INGLEBRITSON, JOHN.
JOHNSON, CORD.
LEESON, THOMAS.
LARSON, Mrs. ED.
MERO, MYBLE.
NELSON, GEORGE W.
NELSON, EMMA.:.,
NELSON, Mrs. OLE. ".
NILS, MILLIE.
O'BEIRNE, MARY.
OSKEY, IRVING.
O'SHAUGHNESSY, MARTIN.
•PERSIG, ANNA.
PETERSON, KNUTE. .::" .
PALMER, ALICE, Trenton, Wis.
PALMER, NETTIE, Trenton, WIS.
6NYDER, ANNIE. ..'i
SMITH, FLORA.
BIEBRASSE, Miss. . j
SCHOEFFLER, JOHN.
SCHOEFFLER, Mrs. JOHN. !
SCHOEFFLER, .
SCHOEFFLER,
SLAIGER. ANNA.
REUDERSUN. H.
SCHOERF, Mrs. FRED.
SEAVER, FRED.
SLEIGER. FRANKIE.
SEAVER, EDITH.
SCHOERF, HATTIE.
SCHULENBERG, Mrs. SOPHIA.
WAY, ADDIE.
WELTHERN, PEARL.
WINTER, BERTHA.
STILL IN THE LAKE'S DEPTHS.
AMMOND, JOHN.
AXELSON. EDWARD.
ANDERSON, ARTHUR.
APPENCELLER, JACOB.
boner, w.^MgHHri
CAPSIZING OF THE STEAMER SEA WING AT LAKE PEPIN;
DAILY ST. PAUL GLOBE.
BONER. .
BECKMARK, G.
BERLIN OSCAR.
COOK, GEORGE. .:
DREPENBROECK, GEORGE, J**.
BANIfiLSONiE:'T." ;i ~ '
EKK, AXEL.
FORSSELL, OSCAR.
FISHER, CHARLES.
GARBLAM. F. P.
HERDER, HUGO.
HILL, Mrs., of Diamond Bluff. j
HILL,' Miss, of Diamond Bluff, j
HILL, J., of Diamond Bluff.
HAWKINS, GEORGE.
HAWKINS,- —
JOHNSON, C. A.
JOHNSON, THEODORE. I iy.
JOHNSON, R.F. .
KINNEY, WILL.
KIVAL, JOHN.
LUFT, HENRY.
LAMPMAN, F. C.
LIDBERG, CHARLES.
MUNSON, ANDREW.
MOLAN, PETER.
NELSON, AXEL.
OLSON, AUGUST,
TURDY, HASKELL,
PURD Y, WILL. . . c - ■-: y >
PERKINS, FRANK, '■'"': " ! '<•■ yiri- "■
REEVE, GEORGE,
RGCK, LUDWIG,
THOMPSON, G. H. .
WAY, FRANK, of Trenton.
WEBB, J.
SURVIVORS OF THE WRECK.
AUDERBERG, JOHN. yy.::':.'" y
BAYRELL, L. S.
BERTRAM, AGGIE.
; BLAKER, WILLIAM.
CASEY, MARY.
DANNUM, R.
DE KAY, W. W. JR.
EISENBRAND, G. .
EISENBRAND, W. J.
EISENBRAND, R. ■ i ;
gilbertson, JOHN G.
JACOBY, C. D.
KEMPE, T. F.
LANDRECK, GEORGE
LARSON. G.rSgg&&
MARTINSON, EDDIB
MORRIS, E. D.
OLESON, O.
OLESON, AH. :
NELSON, HENRY.
NELSON, JOHN.
PLOYS. WILLIAM.
REHDER, HENRY.
SPARKS. VS., of Trentoa.
SAND ST ROM, CLAUS.
SEASTRAND.H.
SIMON. OTTO.
SHE LLSTROM, ROBERT
SHERF, FRED.
SIMMONS, N. K.
SULTZER, C. S.
SMITH, G.
SCHENACH, E. '•.-.'■.
TRUTTMAN, CHARLES
WETnEREN, CAPT. D.
WARD, SHERMAN.
HORRORS OF THE TORNADO.
The' Swirling V Monster and .1- Its :
Awful Work. -^
Special to the Globe. .':.-.;" -
Lake City. Minn., July 14—Sur
rounded- by . beautiful bluffs and
pleasant: farming ■ lands, Lake ' Pepin's
unruffled surface to-day gave : little cvi- 5
dence of the fierce struggle with the Y
elements and of ■ the death-dealing fury
of the storm that raged off this beauti
ful little city last night. .With scarcely
a note of warning there burst upon this
region one of i, the severest l storms ever?
known in its history, arid the loss of life 1
is probably greater than any other sin
gle calamity > that has ever .visited trie
Northwest. St. Cloud's cyclone of Ja •
few years ago was disastrous in ; the ex
treme, but it is as nothing beside this.
Tbe list of dead already ; numbers \ 05, :
and . may exceed \ 103. The 'excursion .
steamer Sea Wing, of : Diamond
Bluff, had V- carried/ a party of
200 ■i or more excursionists . from Red
Wing to the camp; of the First regi- 'y.
ment, Minnesota national guard, which
is just below this city. . When the day.
was " coming to a close Capt. Wetheren
prepared to return his boatload to their
homes. : Many ' among \ them \ feared an
approaching storm, and asked s. that he
postpone his departure until . after the
storm had , blown , over. Thinking the
storm would not prove serious, he
would not consent, but at about 8
o'clock started off up the lake -towards
Red Wing, nearly all of ; the '; over 200
passengers being on board. The
;.-''..-■ Wind Was Blowing a Gale,
into the teeth of which the Sea Wing
tried to make tier way, but the gale was
too strong' for her. A/point; of land
runs out from the Minnesota shore.
just above this place.across from what is
known as Maiden Rock. To pass around
this -point, it wa3 necessary for the :
steamer to turn slightly towards
the Wisconsin shore, and immedi-
ately the hurricane had seized
hold „ ' of the already trem
bling and creaking vessel and twisted
tier out of the control of her en
gines and crew. An . attempt to beach
her failed, and over she went with her *
great load of passengers. The barge ;
Jim Grant, which _ was in tow, and on
which about one-quarter ' of the excur
"~*-s had crowded, was also seized,
!':£& awning • being : crushed in and the
passengers thrown into the water. This
happened just below the point, '. and as
the helpless hulks drifted before : the
gale the steamer . righted herself fora
moment, but was again keeled over and
so badly torn -by the storm that she
could but.lie helpless and let the waves
wash over her.. The barge had broken
loose from the steamer and drifted down
opposite the town, and; those still on ■■
board, about twenty in number, were
rescued. The steamer drifted in back
of the point and sank with most of those
on board. Many were saved, however,
and the jfißflffiffil
Heroism of a Few
cannot be too highly praised. Corporal
B. Perry, ■of St. Paul, compelled, a . :
spectator to assist , ; him and saved the
lives ' of " eighteen of those who were '
still clinging to; the" wreck. ' He went
out on the lake when the storm was at
its height, and seemed to know no fear. , i
c Others there were like .him, and over
sixty Were rescued from what seemed
certain death. . Small boats cruised
around for several hours, and picked up.
some three-score of struggling but still
living victims of the storm. As soon as
the word reached the camp volunteers
were called for, and every one volun
teered to assist in rescuing the living or
searching; for the dead. Adjt.-Gen.
Mullen immediately took charge of the
regiment and the work was systemati
cally begun and carried on. 'Body
'after' body. rof men, : women, ' chii
dren —in some cases almost of
whole families— was taken from the
water, some of them alive, others un
conscious but not dead, and yet others
from which the breath of ; life had I for
ever fled. An invaluable '. aid in the
work, both of resuscitation and of lay-"
ing out of the dead, ; was rendered .by
the excellent ambulance corps, which
had been but recently organized. Sad
experiences have been many, and re
markable escapes are not lacking. The '
Globe man had just secured the names
of the latest discovered victims when a
stranger, whose (anxiety ; was apparent j
in ever movement, stepped up and
asked:"' '/V'i-pHftSHi ■■MMm
.• •'ls my daughter heard from yet?"
"What is the name?"
"Bertha Winters," was tlie response.
An inclination of the head and a mo
tion toward the written list told the ; be
reaved father of his affliction, - and he
turned away to go after the lifeless clay
of his child.. "And my boy is riot among
them," was . the sadly half-consblator y
remark of Contractor Carlson, who had .
worked feverishly all : night and all day
without finding a trace of his son. And c
so it went on. :As fast .as the bodies
were taken from the water, they were
identified by mourning friends and rela
tives, and placed in coffins for transpor
tation to their homes. ;By 3 o'clock this
morning "■' fifty i bodies had been recov
ered, identified and sent to Red Wing
By 8 o'clock eight more had taken : the -
ST. ' PAUL; , MINN., , TUESDAY MORNING, JDLY^S;gIB9O;
same mournful journey, arid at 3 o'clock ;
■ this afternoon • : : seven ii. others ~; were .
added to the gruesome number that had
i been carried ii by boat *to Red Wing.
Knute Peterson's body I was" forind about >
'. a mile up the shore -. this T afternoon, but
the others were all taken out of or close *
around the wreck. The watches on the
different bodies!- had '-a stopped 1 : at from
8:15 to 8:30, showing 5 pretty accurately]
■ the time of the wreck, but ; Peterson's;
: watch had kept going for some *: ;:'.' y. '■"_
Tii roe Hoars In tlie Water yy'.
and stopped at 11:30. - Maj. Fitzgerald, ;
surgeon ■• of the regiment,' who > had : .
charge of the hospital corps and of the '
arrangements for handling the bodies, ; .
says that death very quick in every (
case and that : there 7 was * scarcely ;; any
evidence -of T there " ' having i been any
struggle on the part of the dying.
-Neither had I any lof ;: the bodies any
bruises or other marks of '■'•. injury upon )
them. Death was quick j and painless.
The fact that the militia were within
easy call undoubtedly resulted in the
saving of many lives, and , the
willingness ; v.] of ;'<■_. the :-'■: citizen sol- ! ;
diery v; to : r ri work,: I;';their1 ;'; their excellent •
organization and the good management
.of Gen. Mullen and Surgeons Fitzger
ald, Clarke and Came, were notable arid
commendable. When ; morning is_ came .
the weary : all-night workers were . re
placed by relief -from:; comrades
ani the worK went on; systematically '
and tirelessly. The barge lay quietly
on the water just above town, and the
steamer,' toppled over on the , port ; side,
had ; drifted- against : ; her tow, and to
gether they lay, the ) shattered remind^;
' ers of - the storm's power and ; man's V
weakness. : I With axes ; holes were
chopped in the decks and ropes fastened*
to the bodies' under the water arid these }
drawn to the surface, carried ashore an .;
turned over to; the ambulance ;: corps.
The ; bodies ,/of., those who went down
with the steamer were taken out of the '
cabin through a hole cut in the deck in
front of the pilot house and through the ;
cabin doors. Believing that still some
; . : Bodies Were to Be Found ■ , ~\-'
in ■ the ■; half-dismantled wreck, ;; Gen.
Mullen ordered the tearing away of ; the';
upper works of the ; vessel and the push
; ing of > the wreck :: farther toward ; the
shore, ;•= where \ she was \ ; righted. This
work was done by the Lriella; and the
Ethel Howard; and as soon as the wreck
could be got at in its new' position,' Gen. l i
Mullen and his 7 military helpers -went \
all through the Sea Wing, ; recovering
three more bodies, bringing the total up
to sixty-five, and convinced -themselves \
that no more bodies . were to be f found
there. > The shattered old-hulk was then :;
left to drift at will, arid her broken and ,'
battered framework was In sad contrast ; j
with the bright skies and smooth waters.
During the morning a systematic patrol
of i-r. the water ■;.;:: over ■: which * the
hulls had drifted '.after;.; being first
struck by the >* gale • had been kept up
citizens of Lake City. After the ; last \
bodies had been taken from the wreck,
Gen. Mullen pressed into service all the ;
row boats within reach, and, with • four
soldiers in each boat,' began late '•_ this -
afternoon a thorough "dragging of the
lake all about the scene of 'the disaster.
No bodies were found late this after- \
noon, and at dark - ■'•_.; r„ iyi
Search Was Abandoned '.
for the day. 7 Dynamite will be used in
the morning. There were a good many
who made use y. of "the life preservers,
but ] probably. none :. had as good or as
much use of them as had , Robert
Adams, the seveteen-year-old son of Dr.
Adams, of - Lake City, and a
neighbor, whose home is ;. in Red
Wing, They had three life preservers ,
and were in the' water six hours before ;
being rescued. -Young Adams could
swim, but :( his;. companion could not.
They had the good sense to float quietly
and "■ not .attempt to fight : against- the '
waves to -^ trie v. shore. % During the six
hours they were in water, from 9 to
3, they -buffeted :; by the; billows,
and .blown •: hither and yon by the gale.:
They first •; drifted ; about a mile ; down ;
past town, and then a change in the
wind ;. carried ; them }, up the river : to ;
Frontenae, seven miles T from ; here,
where, they were rescued by Dr. Cai tie
and party, "still alive and well, but con
siderably the worse r for ; their hard ex- ;
perience. . ;. , 7 ..' _-„-•.; sys.
LAKE CITY IN LUCK.
Only, the Tail End of the Tornado
ir,:} :.-ii ' .' Struck It. y.'T..
Specials to the Globe:? -/
Lake City, July 14.— 50 far as Lake
City itself is concerned, the "damage, .
considering the - fearful i force _of '■:, the i
storm,- is very light.* It • seems that the :
fury of. the cyclone expended itself more:
on the lake : than on \ its shores. ' Main
street, which is .in direct line with the
course : taken :; by the storm cloud, was
• wrecked: that is, / most of the buildings;
on the ; street ';■ were :/ unroofed,/ and the
awnings of wood which covered the side
walks for the entire length of the thor
oughfare were blown into splinters and
carried out of i, sight." - All : the • trees on
; both sides of the road were blown down
and some very large trunks carried sev
eral hundred '■■ yards away. - Along the ;
e west shore -S of the lake between
Lake City and >■"■■:; Central Point
the \ dense ;•'. timber is '■ piled "-; up in inex
tricable - confusion, some ', trees of great
thickness : being . broken short off at the J
roots i or*, torn T : bodily out of the ground; i
A number of -boats owned by residents
along the shore; which 'would have been:
of great service' in the work of rescue,;
were smashed into kindling wood, not a
vestige of them being discoverable iii's
any direction^. Capt. John, an ex-steam
boat captain, who t stood on the steps of
one 7 of the . residences which line the
lake shore from the village to the scene]
of the accident, tells i in '• a graphic man
ner the story of ? the cyclone as he saw
it lit up by the ; continuous flashes of
lightning. "It " was -* so ? dark, V- he said,
"at the time of the accident that :■_ you \
couldn't ; see , your hand 1 before you, ex- \
cept for the . light ning.*; I t was figuring \
on getting the folks down cellar, when I •
\i; Heard Shrieks and Veils, -_ ;
but I thought at first ;it was the wind/,
Then there came a flash that lit up the*
sky from east to west, :; and - right . out
there - beyond the point I saw the Sea;
Wing. : She was heeled clear over,-, but;
hadn't capsized yet. It was so light for J ;
a couple of :' seconds ; that * I could \ read ;
her name _on ' the :' paddle boxes. The
sight paralyzed me for a few seconds,
but § every ,'r flash that came • gave me a ;
fresh view of the boat, and at last 1 saw
her with her stern high in the air, and I
could see ; the people falling off her
decks into the lake. 1 rushed up to the
point as soon as i the wind go tso that I
could walk at nil, arid- there were ; /aj:
lot of other men going up there to try i,
yii-rnggm^^-:
and help the drowning people. I never
saw worse sea on Lake Michigan than
; was running along the middle \. of " Lake \
Pepin at that time. It didn't seem :as
though the best skiff that ever was built
could live five seconds after leaving the
• shore, but there is no telling what -can ;
;be done when brave men stand ;- willing :
to do : ; it. v One man— didn't learn his .
name— tried to get fa crew ito;; man a
S boat f or . the first trip, but it : looked . too
' 4 much like throwing life • away,' arid '■■ the
fellows didn't want to go. This soldier
•pulled ; a gun from his pocket '.-and
: walKed up to the biggest fellow in the
cfbvvdiatfflßpptei^*;
r ; j'7; 'Got in That Boat :
or ; I'll blow your brains into the lake,'
he said. The man looked at him, and
remarking that force wasn't ; necessary,
he got 7 in. These two men together
saved sixteen i lives, ;' and would have
saved more ,. but V for the J fact that , the
boat ; got ■ stove in 7- against i the wreck,
and came near drowning : the .rescuers
themselves before they got ashore f rom '<
the; last trip. ; Other rescuing parties
were out, and many lives were saved at :
great risk." i-iT'T-'y iTiis.7.7T77 : v. yi
THE WORK OP RESCUE.
Brave "; Militiamen - ; - in : the Role lof
Grace Darlings.
Special to the Globe. ' iyT ~T77: -
Lake City, Minn., July 14.— Early";
yesterday morning a line of hacks arid;.
! busses i- began running y between ;;i the
village and the scene of the wreck, and
hundreds of people were ; congregated :
.there during the entire day. ■■■; A .barbed \
wire 'enclosure ; had been built by- the \
militia under Adjt. Gen. Mullen around"
the scene of the; operations, arid a mili
tary guard with fixed .bayonets kept the
morbidly; curious'/ from^hampering the;
work of those engaged in the search for
bodies. '■' Here and there along the shore l
t were ■ groups of v women who wept in- .
cessantly, and ; anxiously scanned each;
body : recovered, fearful ,; that it . might i
prove to be the corpse of ; - some
loved one. Une mother -witnessed.,
the •; finding of T- her daughter's ' body,
a beautiful girl about nineteen ; years of l
age. She was cabght by the hooks and L :
dragged ashore. Her face was white as
marble, but beautiful and smiling even',
in death. A T soldier; of : Company
rushed into";; the shallows, and; raising;
the dead girl, . bore her to I the beach. •'
Her long black V hair had ; become un
.coiled and hung 7 with the " : lake water
dripping from it over the shoulder of s
him who- bore; her shoreward. The
streams of ; the ; mother.-; as '- she recog- :
nized the features of her child were ap
palling. Men's s hearts sank 'within;
them as they heard : . her, and witnessed :•
the abandon of her grief. - Such scenes
were all too : frequent, ■-': however, and
there.was too much work to be done to •
aljow for • lengthy^; demonstrations of
sympathy. % A father was there looking *
for his daughter. "Three bodies recently •
recovered lay upon the , beach covered
by tarp-mlijus, aiuL among:., tbgm^as. a
young girl. A soldier was, about to un
cover , her face *to ";' trio \ view of ; '; the
"searcher? but -the | latter i stopped him
'with ; the exclamation T "Wait; for
(iod's sake wait a few moments." .He;
leaned against one of the few trees left i
by the storm, ; and ; closed ;: his 7. eyes yin •;
■; prayer. .' Then ; ; he "7 walked deliberately
;to v the shrouded . form, tore away; the "
tarpaulin, "arid l found his daughter.
i"God help us all," he" said; "it will kill
her mother."
. - DISMANTLING THE HULK.
•Tbe Wreck Pulled Apart and Her
\ : yy ; Dead Cargo Landed. .•
Special to the Globe.
i Lake : City, Minn., July : 14.— Not -; a
life has been lost from*; Lake City, yet
the town is in mourning. Every ;. face
is sad? for the terrible events of Sunday
njght have cast a gloom ; over- the vicin
ity which it will take.; time ;to dispel,
During, the greater part of the day the
bells of the village ; . churches ]■[ tolled
mournfully, and business is at a stand
. still. ; A mile and a half above the town,
off the sandy beach which stretches far
out Into' the lake, and which is called
Central iyi Point, with : %] her;^.i upper;
decks above the water, lies ': all .that is
" left of the wrecked steamer . Sea Wing. \
A number of tugs from .various; points
along the lake arrived on the scene
yesterday morning; and, by the com
bined efforts lof several of these, the
wrecKed steamer, with her freight fof
dead, .was warped V into -the .- shallow
"water, where ".'she; lay beached. Even
then her decks were scarcely vis
ible above '/ the water, - and /it;;, was
'determined to tear her to pieces if there :
was ; steam i power enough in the half
dozen boats to do the. work. Stout cables
were made fast to her upper works and ;
] two ; powerful : tugs 7 ? began hauling in
•opposite directions. Both went ; ahead;:
with a full head of .- steam and 7 the de
sired ( result / was • attained. The craft
was / literally/: pulled to pieces i by the
steam and the hull turned over in such
■ a/manner that the bodies , in; trie cabins
were easily got ' at. Thirteen ?.. bodies
were found between decks, the last
•thirteen '- contained in the list "of " ; . the
dead. / A careful ''ssiyyiisiiTT 'C-i :
I'Jrvi -Search' of the Wreck;,
i revealed that none were left, and the
shattered remnant of what on Sunday
I was considered ras staunch a boat as
: sailed the inland waters %of Minnesota ;
\ was abandoned with scarcely a ; whole
f timber iii her. The attention of the res
cuers was 7 then devoted Sto dragging,
I and during % the '•: afternoon f our J more ■
• bodies were recovered by this t means.
Every 'arid/ In fact, every sort of r
*cVaft which, the storm had left in a con
dition to float, was pressed into" service"
l tijr<the military, and a fleet of / a / dozen ;
or more small boats, manned by soldiers
of the National guard, have been afloat
arid : their crews working.: without: in
termission since 7. daylight : yesterday :■
/"morning. Drags I and -"grappling;
": hooks : iy have yy been sent ~:; from
! Wabasha and other points,' and there* is
'rib lack of the necessary, utensils for the
recovery/of trie bodies. Half a hundred
/coffins" are piled along the : shore await
ing occupants, and. the indications are
"at present that almost that number will
be needed. : The steamer Ethel Howard
"has carried all the bodies recovered to
4Red /Wing as" fast" as practicable, and in ■
fact almost all the dead are natives of
'that town, with a few > from Diamond
fPoint, from which place the : excursion'
"'sorted, and a few from Trenton. Wis.
-Several bodies, two of them those of
were caught by trie hooks some;
Jclistance out in the lake Jate iiri trie after-,
noon, but the hold was '. insecure arid "
: they were lost v again. / '. The body of ■
, Knute Peterson, of L; Red Wing, was ;
'pulled- from r : the water, about i
o'clock, and was one of the
last sent to Red Wing. Prob
-2 ably i .-'.j "■-; never ': ' in . ' the li \ history.
of the state have so .many deeds of in-'
-dividual heroism been "i performed in a
"single night ; ; as occurred * immediately -
after the wreck while over a hundred
shrieking women "arid '■-. children, young
men and girls, were ;..
;'";.-' Struggling in the Waiter, ;
fighting .- desperately for a hold ; on the )
"slippery bottom of "the" capsized excur
sion boat. ; The / : wind s still blew with
such fearful force ■ that the; surface of ;
the lake was -; lashed into a white foam,
and the boat upon > which a few had ob y
tamed a precarious perch threatened to
turn half over at every swell.; One boy
; named : Johnny Swensbri," a ten-year-old :
son of Trenton* parents,* fought desper
ately .with his sister Ernestine to put on
; a life preserver. : She i laughed at him. ;
"You are i like , a ; girl," she - said, . "so
frightened." A few "moments later the
; fearful squall strucK the boat, arid with
one great lurch j' she went over. Johnny
: Swenson, with his _ life preserver j on,'
i swam ashore, but the ; girl is among the
missing. It was not the first overturn
ing of the boat? which drowned her un
fortunate passengers. Fully 125 of them
had clung to the sides ; and:' would have
"'been saved but for, the fact that a sec
ond gust of ; wind struck the hull arid •
turned it half over again.' This broke:
the frail hold on life of most of those
clinging to her, and they ; went down in
■ groups eof •■; two : and ; three > and half a
dozen, shrieking .wildly ; for assistance, ;
calling alternately on ; God 'arid man to
aid them in the hour of ; death. .Every
boat engaged in the ;; search for missing
bodies •' is draped from fore . to ' aft
; with" crepe; Many of . the work
■ ers, most 'of ; : whom 7 are . mem
bers ;of ; Company G, of Red y Wing, i
; in charge of Capt." C. S. Betcher, of that
city, wear crape badges :or a band of
crape about their arms. Many of these
; brave fellows, who have worked ; unre
mittingly since i the first streak of day
light ; yesterday, have : relatives ■.■ and
friends in the depths of the lake. They
work with look of stern determination
on their faces, : and .their steadiness
under such fearful circumstances shows
to what : y77':.7i y ' 77- .:■'-...
'7y, , .'A Degree of Efficiency
discipline will bring men. : One : splen
did, soldierly-looking f young fellow had
worked for thirteen hours without ceas
ing r- and " r seemed determined 7to - find
"some particular person among the dead.
He scanned the feature? of each of those'
drawn from the wreck with a look of
agonized expectation. .
* "The corporal's girl was in the boat,
arid she is missing," said; a private of [
the company, who stood guard over the
enclosure reserved for the bodies. Later
in the afternoon a dispatch was received
at the shore addressed to the 7 anxious
officer^ He tore it open. eagerly, ; read
the contents, and then fell on the sandy
beach insensible. , J The dispatch in
formed him that the girl he lcved had
missed* the boat .by Aye minutes,, find
was safely at home with her friends.';;;
METHODS OF, THE MILITIA.
The First < Regiment / Stands I'd
' Crucial Test. : : " : ';'fJj
Special to the Globe. : . -'•.;
Lake City, Minn.,July 14.— Camp
Lakeview the news of the disaster
received' within ;* a short time after its
occurrence. It was the greatest test to
which * any regiment of the national
guard in Minnesota - has ever been sub;
jected. J Most of the men were in camp
after a hard day's "work; arid many, in
fact, turned in for the night. When
the roll of the drum arid the bugle call
rang out, 'most;: of them sup
posed ! it was to ■". test . ." their
efficiency, and never.was a troop of cay
"airy; nor a column of foot; got into line
in shorter /order. Adj t. ; Gen. Mullen
took command at once, arid the "• march
; to the : scene of ' the ' terrible calamity
was begun" at double quick. Practically
the town "was from that moment under
martial law— the i
military Had Supreme Control. •_•
. Corporal ;" Perry /.who . was near the ;
scene of ahe accident when it occurred,
did / riot j await ; orders, / but proceeded ■
amid : the howling - wind' and the" light
ning flashes to the spot. There were '
but 4 few there as yet, but r trie awful ;
shrieks from the ; wreck appealed to
them 'to them to risk their lives for trie
salvation/. ot T their : 'i fellows. ; . Corporal :
Peary tried frantically to induce some of ;
those on the spot to go with him to the
"rescue/ The aspect was too thereatening.
It looked as though no boat could live in
such a sea. ;At last, in . sheer despera
tion, Perry drew a revolver, and select-/
: ing the most able man in the crowd, com
pelled him at the muzzle of the weapon
to embark. The first; trip was made in;
safety/ 7 arid five ': of / the excursionists
were landed. Again and again
those two men made the peri
lous / journey, and > had succeeded
in ' savinar /;; sixteen/ lives when
the arrival of the regiment and the es-
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/SCENE OF RUIN AT THE GOOD AND SCHURMEIER COTTAGES,
THE CYCLONE AT GERVAIS.
Five Dead and Nearly Fifty Injured Make the Total
Cost in Human Life and
Limb.
Daylight on the Track of the Tornado Reveals
Scenes of Destruction that Baffle >
Description. ; ;
Searching Beneath the Waters of the Lake and the
Debris of the Storm for the
Known Victims.
The Track of the Storm Was Like a Besom of De-
struction in Which Resistance
Was Death.
The Face of Nature and the Work of Man Alike
Torn and Mutilated Beyond All Rec
ognition.
Scenes and Incidents After the Havoc in the Vl*
cinityofthe Once Beautiful Kohlman
and Gervais.
• '* « « A TV 'J. m
Indescribable Devastation Wrought Upon the
Small Farms in the Territory Round About
Little Canada.
Many of the Farmers Have Lost Their All, Even
the Prospect of a Crop, and Are in
Actual Want.
Py:i: ", ' DEAD. _"
>J Mrs. J. H. SCHURMEIER.
t- GEORGE J.MILLER. . -
: CHARLES SCH URMEIER,
Rev. M. PFAEFLE (Brennan, Tex.) '-.:
':■ PETER WILBUT (Schurmeier's man.) ■'.'?■
■, SERIOUSLY INJUREDt
.'MINNIEMEISJ^-'-'' ■''. '**' !
; Mrs. HUB C. SCHURMEIER. - :.'r>,
Mrs. PFAEFLE. • * . -
C. M. MULLANCIN. . * ir.ii
Mrs. L' J. CLARE. ;-
J JOE BRENNART.
yji INJURED.
■■■ J. H. SCHURMEIER Sr.
f SIMON GOOD. ■*;■-'.'
Mrs. SIMON GOOD.
' ROY GOOD. ;:.'
--•;, SWAN PETERSON.
CHARLEY GOOD,
:: CARRIE WEISS, s. '■
" : - Mrs. GOETCKA, -
: Msr. G. J. MILLER, yyi-.y-y
HUB C. SCHURMEIER,
CLARO HAVEN, -.. ,
A mrs. mullancin. !
r a. guenther.
: : mrs. hastings.:
* stella hastings.
■ gussie king.
: g. Mcpherson.
• mrs. Fred gaetke. h. - '■
; Female servant (J. 11. : Schurmeier).
--.": Female servant (H. C. Schurmeier).
rr FRED OWLER.
'ii,'- A painful impression was created
; throughout the city yesterday when the
full extent of the Lake : Gervais cyclone :
became'- fully known. The edition of
the Globe containing the fullest ac- !
count of y the disaster was ■•; quickly
bought \ up, and "_• by 9 o'clock there
was not i a copy of the paper -to
be : purchased, *> and the Keen 1 feeling
, which" was ; manifested exhibited = itself
by the hundreds of people who jour
neyed to the lake. to view the sceue of "
trie tragedy. During the afternoon the
lake : ; shore . was alive with people.
There:. were plenty of onlookers and
only too! few workers. . The work of
searching for the dead bodies was most
painstaking. -The major portion of the
day was spent in searching the lake. It*
was thought that the bodies of Mrs i
Schurmeier,:. Charles Schurmeier : and
Rev. vM.S Pfaefle X had •• been ~: blown
into e^the^ lake.: Up to" 7 o'clock
none of the bodies had been discovered,
notwithstanding - a vigorous investiga
tion: among the debris of the cottages.
READ THE WANTS
IN
MONDAY'S GLOBE
. The Monday's issue of the Globk Is read
by several thousand people who do not read,
Sunday papers. It pays to -read Monday*
advertisements.
NO. 196.
Capt. Han ft has charge of the search
ing party, and he .proposes to-day to
have', the , im mediate . field '-. thoroughly
. searched by a large band of men.
There is a probability that the bodies >
may be found .' a -hundred' yards;
west .of the lake, among some
j brushwood ror in one of the many corn
i "fields which abound. Every attention
;is being paid the injured people. With
the exception of Joe Brennart, : ail -the £,
injured. people that.spent Sunday; night \_
at Lake Kohlman: have been removed «
to their homes •-• in St. 7 Paul, and *
with one • exception they are all '
doing well. The exception in: this re
spect is Miss Minnie Meis.': , The worst •
is feared respecting her. The Mullan
cins, who were reported missing, have
been found. They had taken refuge in
the cottage of : a neighbor. *.' A son of
Mrs. Mullancin -was removed to
the city hospital during 'the day. He
was awfully cut "and bruised, and Dr.
Ancker has doubts -of ■ his recovery.
The fury of the cyclone was not, how
| ever, spent .entirely on Lake Gervais
arid its lovely shores. .". A farmer named
Goetcka. living on the Kohlman side of
the work, had his homestead destroyed.
There were twenty people in the house
and only one woman was injured. The
farmers of New Canada are in a serious
plight. Four of them have ] not -only.,
had a narrow escape of their lives, but
they i, have lost everything in the world
they possessed— their houses; their ; fur- *
niture and their . ' crops. . Everything ;
has disappeared. 7' Their condition is is fl
deplorable. The men . are dazed .at i-r
their loss, the , women cry with grief •
and trie children look . sad and misera- .
;ble. . The . effects , of : . trie cyclone, mo
mentarily, have been very severe in
New, Canada, arid the condition of the
Augzs = aud Clark merit the attention of
phi lantln'opists; ;^3gHßßfflfiffl@
SEARCH FOR THE DEAD.
A Band of Men Grapple the Lake
Without Result. '-; '-;.;.'?: .
The sun had hardly tipped the horizoh -.
c yesterday : when ; a . small band of : meu
left the city for Lake Gervais : to ; search
for trie : missing? bodies of Mrs. Schur- i '
meter, Charles Schurmeier. and Rev. ; M. .
Pfaefle.' A beautiful day had fairly
dawned when" they arrived ' upon the
scene of .the cyclone's tragedy. The
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