The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-07-16
TEN SCORE ARE LOST.
FEARFUL LOSS OF LIFE IA A
CYCLONE.
CapDlzing of "A Steamer ON Lake Pepin-
Half "a Hundred People Killed between
1T. Paul and White bear Lake-Narrow
Escape of "a Trainload of Asssengers.
ST. Paul Mimi dispatch.l


Escape of Trainioad of Asssengers.
Tst. Paul Mimi dispatchl
Devastation visited Minnesota and
Wisconsin Sunday, and the death list
already runs up into the hundreds. A
cyclone swooped to the earth among the
summer resorts north OF here and the
bodies that are strewn along the shores
OF the lakes bear witness TO its awful
work. The most appalling news OF the
storm comes from Red Wing, MINI.
The steamer Sea Wing left Red
Wing, Mimi, I'm the afternoon with $50
passengers on board, bound for Lake
City, where the State encampment of
the State militia is in progress. At
several small towns along the shores of
Lake Pepin enough more people were
taken on board 20 make about $50 when
the boat reached its destination. A
barge was I'm tow which carried 100 OF
this number.
Late i'm the afternoon the party re-
embarked for home and was in the
middle OF the LAKE of Lake City when
the cyclone struck the little city. The
boat became unmanageable at once.
The barge was cut loose and after an
hour drifted TO shore with about twenty
people on board. The other 200 or more
were drowned. 1t is impossible at this
time TO give names, but among the dead
are some of the best known and most
prominent people OF Red Wing and
vicinity.
A number of bodies are already
washed ashore and the citizens have
formed a voluntary police service to
patrol the shores and watch for others.
The storm aid great damage TO pro-
perty in and about Lake City, but no
lives were destroyed on the shore so far
as reported.
Fully fifty people have been killed near
White Bear Lake, the most attractive
and thickly populated re sort i'm this
city, hundreds OF persons from this city.
Minneapolis, Chicago, and other towns
in this section being in the habit OF
going there for Sunday.
Bass Lake Is a spot that tempts many
lovers of fishing, the anglers gathering
there and camping out In large num-
bers. 1t is said that many persons were
killed there.
Lake Johanna has not large summer
population. but the few there did not
escape unframed. Five are reported
killed there.
A young man drove in from Lake
Kohlmann with the information that at
least two persons had been killed aud
over too injured at that point.
The storm first struck the farm of
James j. Hill, the President of the
Great Northern railway, twenty miles
north of here, wrecking several build
ings and killing three farm laborers as
well as several head of stock. The fury
of the storm was fearful and everything
in its path was swept away
The place where the cyclone struck
the ground and caused loss Of lite was
on the shore OF Lake Gervaise, where j.
III. Schumacher of this city had sum
mer cottage In little basin, and where
Simon Good was also located. The
funne-shaped cloud swooped down on
them, demolishing the dwellings and
number of other buildings in the same
neighborhood. The camp OF Col Hellc-
ser of this city. with large party, was
blown down, but the party all escaped
injury. In the wreck OF the Schumacher
house, however, five were killed. and
ten injured there and a. the Good cot
tage.