The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-07-17
A SAD DISASTER.
Terrible Fate of Party Enjoying Sun.
day Sail on Lake Minnetonka-A Fierce
Gale Sweeps Over the Water, Capsizing
the Little Craft-An on Board Lost
The Victims Number Ten, Among Whom
was Ex-nayor Rand. of AYiuneapOIis.

IerflDie Fate OF Party Enjoying Sun.
day Sail on Lake Minnetonka-A Fierce
| Gale Sweeps Over the Water, Capsizing
the Little Craft-AH on Board Lost
| The Victims Number Ten, Among Whom
/ was Ex-Mayor Band, of Minneapolis.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, July 13.--When
ex-Mayor Rand, his family and few
friends, started out for an excursion in the
little steam yacht Minnie Cook, yesterday
afternoon, the clouds hung dark and low.
| Friends tried to dissuade them from en-
barking. Mrs. Rand, as she stepped off the
/ st. Louis dock onto the frail little craft
| with Its Tapping tarpaulin shades, laughed
| at the circumstances and replied gayly
that she had braYed worse weather on
lake Minnetonka. Her two sons followed
and took seats by her side. The yacht
started off to the narrows, the intention be-
Ing to visit the upper lake. 1t was scarcely
odt OF sight before a terrible wind-storm
| swept over the lake from the northwest
| Thunder followed in rapid and reyerberat-
ing peals. The usually calm water rolled
IN hugh pillows that came beating up over
the lighthouses and quays, and to COM
| plete the disturbance the rain began to
fall in torrents. It was like a New En-
| gland lake squat, coming with no warning
save the loaded clouds, and raging with
binding force for only brief spell.
| The huge passenger steamers whistled
/ hoarsely as the rain clouds settled down,
and high above the din could be heard the
seemingly tragic shrieks from the whistles
of the steam yachts, many of which were
crossing from the st. Louis landing to the
Lafayette pier when the hurricane struck
them.
| y Although the storm only lasted few mo-
| ments, it is impossible at this hour to tell
| the extent of the loss of life and property,
The first evidence of disaster was found
in pieces of trimming from the Minnie Cook
| which floated in on the waves at the east
shore at Wayzatta Bay. The news was not
| slow in passing along the lake shore clear
| to Lafayette. Large, sturdy boats went in
| search of the Inflated little craft, but no
further trace of her could be had. 1t was
| at last determined that she sank and that
the ten passengers, who embarked on their
| perilous journey in such happy spirits, had
| persisted.
Later boatman named James Carroll,
who had miraculously succeeded in wealth.
ering the tornado in yawl, appeared on
the Wayzatta Bay beach, dragging his min
| iature craft after him. When he had recov-
cred sufficiently from his fright and eX-
haustion to speak coherently he
told of having passed the Minnie
| Cook just before the squall struck
| the bay. He thought the party
| had observed the danger, and was quite
certain that Engineer Mcdonald had turned
| the yacht from her course into the bay;
the next moment his boat raised heaven
ward, as if lifted out of the water by some
vst1rar1, +l1A
| yeloped in spray. Soon afterward he heard
| a Shrek like that of a woman in acute dis
tress, and looking off through the almost
| binding mist to the spot where the yacht
was moment before floating, nothing was
| to be seen but the white caps and the
| waves rolling mountain high. He is sure
| the shrek he heard was that of Mrs. Rand,
| and that the Minnie Cook at that moment
| capsized. For safety he fell into the bot
tom OF his yawl and there chung until the
| sQuall had passed.
The following is a list of the passengers
on the yacht:
| Ex-AIayor Rand aged fifty-six; Mrs. Rand.
| aged fifty; Mary Rand, aged sixteen, daugh-
| son: FEank Itands aged eighteen, nephew;
! j. r. Coykendall, aged thirty-fve; Mrs. Coy
kendall, aged twenty-seven: Katie Coyken-
dall aged four, daughter of the above; engi-
| neer George Mcdonald; Robert Hussy, aged
ten. employed on the yacht.
The bodies of Mrs. Rand and Engineer
Mcdonald were recovered and brought to
Minneapolis by special train at ten o'clock
last night l.5...f. s..
Mr.. Rand's two terms as chief magistrate
of the city were served previous to the in
cumbency of Mayor Ames The ex-Mayor
was quite wealthy. John CoYkendall was
a member of the firm of Coykendall Brother
| d Co, Which owns one of the largest and
best-known dry-goods stores in the city.
The two families belonged to the highest
| business and social circles i'm the citv.