The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1890-07-19
She was Returning to Red Wing With
an Excursion Party From
the Camp Grounds.
It is Estimated that About One Hun
bred and Thirty People Found
q Watery Grave.
The Cabin Doors We're Locked and
the Unfortunate People We're
Caught in q Trap.
Volunteers From the Camp Begin the
Work of Recovering the Bodies
of the Victims.

Heroic Deeds, Remarkable Escapes,
Sad Experiences and Heart
Rending Scenes.
A Foolhardy Captain.
LAKE CRY, Mimi, July 14.-The
storm which resulted in such great loss
Of life at Lake Pepin, opposite the west
ern end of this little town was q straight
wind, blowing at a terrific rate of speed
and it completely overpowered the sxcur-
sion steamer Seawing. Lake Pepin is
an expansion of the Mississippi, about
thirty miles long, and extends east and
west. The steamer was returning from
the camp of the Minnesota national
guard, with a party of Red Wing people
and was fighting into the teeth OF the
wind. The gale was too much for the
steamer and the boat was fast getting be-
yond control. Captain Wethern tried
to save the lives of his passengers by
running the boat aground on the Wis
consin shore, but as oon as the vessel
turned around q little to face the wind it
was seized by a strong grip and it was
impossible for the engines to right it.
THE BOAT WAS TURNED Owe
and quickly scores of people were strug-
Cling in the waves, from which many of
them may never be recovered. The YES
sci tried to regain its erect position, but
quickly was sliced once more aud a sec
ond overturn upset nearly all of those
who still chung to the wreck. A few
reached the shore, but the most closed
their eyes under water, to see light
again. Search for the bodies began at
once and over sixty had been taken out
by daylight.
THE SCENE OF THE DISASTER
lie across the line from Lake City to-
wards Red Wing, and rs most of the VIC
Tins were from that city the coroner was
notified and ffty-two bodies were taken
there this morning after being first
viewed by him at the lake side. The
following bodies have been recovered
and identified or are known to be dead:
Miss tempting, Charles Hempling. Fred
tempting, Miss Way, Charles Duis-
hnge, Henry Stifinson, Annie Sleeger.
Francis Sleeger, Minnie Adams, Kate
Daily, Miss Bierson, Minnie Fisher,
Charles Dansling, Peter Gerken and wife
and five children and servant, Fred
Scherf and wife and one daughter, Mrs.
Capt. Wethern and two children, Fred
Christ, VIM. Baker and family Of three,
Mrs. tempting and daughter, Miss
Flynn, Basee Adams and Ira Fulton.
Fred Seaver, Heine Geoken, Charles
Brown, Knute Pearson and Bertha
Winters, of Red Wing; Alice Palmer
and Nettie Palmer, Of Trenton, Wis.
During the night fifty-fve bodies were
recovered and this morning up to 10
O'Clock seven more bodies had been
pulled out. Under command of Ad-
jutant-G General Mullen
THE MILITIA wER DRAFTED IN
TO service and worked nobly on the
wreck. The barge had been wrecked
back of the point which is known as
Maiden Rock and is anchored there.
The wreck Of the steamer occurred of
this point and the very greatly disman-
tied wreck drifted ver against the barge.
She lay over on her port side and was
broken almost into kindling wood, al
though enough Of the framework re-
NAMED to hold together and work on.
At half past ten the bodies Of q woman
and child, to which ropes had been at
tached, we're drawn from the water. The
child was the daughter Of John Winters
Of Red Wing. Fred SEWERS, q blacksmith,
was taken ont q few minutes later. That
makes g total of
sIXTY.FIvE ODIES
already taken out, OF probably about
one-half the total number drowned. This
morning the little steam ting Wanderer
tried u~nsucceasfully to pull the wreck
apart and then the Ethel Howard came
up the river and, with the valuable aid
Of the Luella, pulled apart the frame Of
what had been the top Of the steamer.
The Luella then pulled the 6eawing up
ont Of the water, releasing three bodies
one woman and two young men. Alice
Palmer OF Trenton was one of these, but
the others had not been identified up to
/ o'clock. That makes q total Of sixty
eight bodies now found. II 10 stated
this afternoon that to keep the water ont
Of the cabin and to keep thepeople under
ahelter Captain Wethern had
LOOKED THE D0oR OF THE CABIN.
II this = trus il may explain much Of