Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-07-19
THE HORROR GROWS.
Details of the Frightiul Disas-
ters in Minnesota
Only Add to the Awful Story Of Lives
Lost and Homes Made Desolate.

Graves in Lake Pepin-work of Recov-
ing Bodies Goes on SteaSiily-Calamities
Mt Other Points.
LAKE C1TY, Mimi, July 15.--The work
of pulling in the wreck of the steamer
Sea Wing was commenced yesterday
morning as soon as it was light enough
to see. A steamer was brought into
service, and the wreck pulled around
near the shore and barge ran along
side to permit the working forces to use
it in the work of tearing away the tim
bers and getting other bodies out of the
cabin. An army of men was employed
and with the aid of axes and picks
largo portion of the cabin top was
knocked away at an early hour. AT
eleven o'clock six more bodies were
taken from the cabin and there were
still more deeper down under tho water
| The body of woman as yet unidenti-
fed was picked up on the shore of the
lake near here. The lake is filed with
debris from the wreck--chairs, boards
and life prescrvers strewn on the beach
for n mile up the lake shore. Hundreds
of citizens of Lake City flock the shore,
among them many friends and relatives
of tho missing ones whose bodies are
still beneath the water. AS l finish
this telegram rope has been attached
to the leg of the body of woman and
1t is being hauled up from the black
water, making the sixtieth body recov-
cred. The general opinion is that the
estimate of the loss of 125 lives will be
verified. The sixtieth body proved to
be that of Miss Alice Palmer. Another
body, that of young girl, is just being
removed, making sixty-one.
The body of Fred Sever, of Red Wing,
was taken out of the wreck at 1O:45. The
work of cutting away the cabin pro-
gressed slowly, owing to the fact that the
saving and chopping had to be done un-
derneath the surface of the water. AT
eleven o'clock two guns of the battery
of the First Artillery were brought to
the lakeside and since that timo they
have been fred at intervals of every
five minutes, in the hope of bringing
other bodies to the surface. The nsme
of Boze Adams, of Lake City, was sent
out early Monday morning as one OF
those that had gone down with the
wreck. Adams, however, is alive and
we'll, having floated in the lake nearly
all night, finally landing about five
miles above Lake City and walking
down home after daylight.
Adams had a life preserver on, and in
addition secured huge plank on which
he floated throughout the night He
states that as he was floating away from
the wreck he noticed a woman and child
clinging together, each with life pre-
server on. He observed the woman
finally leave the child and sink out OF
sight and few moments later the child
disappeared. There is a great deal OF
adverse comment in regard to the life
preservers used. When cut open only a
few of them were found to be composed
of cork, majority of them being filled
with a seaweed that would not hold
itself afloat after it became saturated
with water.
The latest report from the scene oi
the disaster shows that remarkable
work is being done in recovering bodies.
Doubtless there are many who will
never be found, as it is almost impossi
BILE to get into the cabin of the sunker
boat. That is where many of the un
fortuuates took refuge, and it necessi
tates considerable cutting and tearing
of timbers to obtain even an entrance
to the cabin. The work of the boys O
the First regiment, who came dowI
from their camping grounds, is marvel
There are two steamers working at the
wreck trying to draw it asunder, il
hopes that the bodies confined may be
released. The nearest report that cal
be gathered is that there were ia OF
board the fated steamer when she wen
down. Captain Witheren, in command
of the steamer when she wentdown, ap
peared Yesterday morning and the re
port that he fled, owing to his indis
Greet conduct, is of little worth.
seems that the officer was ovsrcom
completely with fear and when h
turned tho steamer about she sunk.
MINNEAPoILs, Mimi, July 18th
storm which burst over Eastern Mime
sofa Sunday evening was in many re
spects unique in the annals of cyclones
Seldom has the same storm caused havo
and loss of life in so widely separate
, localities as Lake Gervais and LAX
Pepin. The first named is a small bod
of water five miles north of st. Pau
while Lake Pepin is simply broader
Ing OF uHS MlSoioSiPPi iifci, DcpWco
Minnesota and Wisconsin, many mile
further south. The storm ut Gervai
was veritable funnel-shaped cyclone
terrific in it's force, but limited in il
: sphere of action. For some miles
either direction considerable havoc wa
{ wrought to farm houses, barns an
trees, while some people were injured
d But it was just on the southern shol
d of Lake Gervais thatthe elements foun
L their victims. Here, in a little vale
near a charming lake resort, the C.
e clone burst killing six persons at lea
and possibly a half dozen more. Th
d cone-shaped cloud swept everything b
fore it, carrying number of horses I'M
y the lake, along with the bodies of thre
persons not yet recovered. The path
!; the cyclone left an awful wake of barre
l country 30 piled up with broken tree
q and debris as to be almost impossible.