The evening world., 1890-07-14
Story of the Sea Wing Horror.

STORY OF the sea wing HOrrOr.
rtrycrAL TO rHE rvESIsp WORTH.
MINNEAPOLIS, July 14.-Further reporti
from Lake City indicate that nearly 20l
people were drowned in the disaster which
overlook the excursion steamer Sen Wing
in last nights cyclone on Lake Pepin.
The Journals special gives the follow
ing names of persons whose bodies have
been recovered and taken to their bomeI
ut Red Wing;
JoHN HEFFER, wife M two children.
PETEn GEvLES. wife and Ave children.
Mrs. BLAZER and two children.
Mrs. H~EMFoBLISo and three children.
Mrs. S%oHUELBERo and daughter.
MINNIE FISHER.
MARIE r. SKooLUSD.
KATIE DAILY.
Mrs. +. SHERRY and daughter.
FnED CHRIST.
ANNIE SrEIoER.
Francis STEIGER.
GEoRaE NELSON.
JOHN BAHRSs and wife.
CHARLES DISsTAdE.
FRED SKRERs and daughter.
Ton LARSON.
ADDIE WING and sister.
H.. REpLus and two children.
FRED HATTEMEYER.
MAMIE ADAMS.
HENRY S%TEFFSER.
KATIE BURKHARDT.
A. o. ANDERSON.
EDDIE CH~RIsToFERsoS.
HERMAN HYPER.
WILL HYPER
GEoRGE HARRIs.
Mrs. NELLIE WocHRN lnd son.
MMLI NILS.
BIERsoS FIBY.
CoRDY JOHNSON.
FLoY SMITH.
Myrtle MIRO.
Ira FULTON.
The Sea Wing left Diamond Bluff and
Red Wing in the afternoon. bound for d
point q mile below Lake City, whore the
State encampment of militia is being held,
With what passengers it carried i'll the
start and what il picked up ON the way
the steamer carried at least $50 people tc
the camp, while a barge which it took il
tow carried nearly one hundred more.
This party concluded its visit to the
camp very pleasantly and re-embarked fol
the homeward trip early in the evening,
The steamer had just reached the middle
Of the lake when the cyclone. which was
when first seen approaching, believed &c
be nothing more than an ordinary electric
storm, burst out in fury and in q shorI
time the steamer was entirely at the
storms mercy. the waves washing high
over the boat.
The steamer grounded for q moment
on q bar, but was soon adrift again, the
barge having been cut loose in the in.
terVAl.
A number of those on the barge jumped
and swan ashore.
The barge then hoated again into deeE
water. Those on board, in the midst OF
their own terror. were Mortified anew al
seeing the steamer cspsizs and spill it,
cargo Of l6s people into the water.
The barge eventually drifted nearer the
shore and all its passengers were rescued.
For the few moments after the barge
vas cut away, before the steamer sank
the efforts of the boats crew aud of the
more cOol-headed passengers were eyi
IDENTIFY devoted TO preparations for the
worst.
A dozen or more of the frantic ones Sc,
cured the few life-preseryers that were tC
be found, and jumped into the water,
pTeierring to take their chances.
In hye minutes more. the waves begau
to wash INTO the boat and fill the lower
decks and while hAilstones as large a,
hem eggs came down on the heads Of the
pool, ierror-stricken creatures who wer,
euddled together On he top a huge wave
struck the craft ON the side at the sam,
moment that a terrible blast Of wind came
up and tipped the boat over.
Twenty-Five or thirty people were mex
seen floating on the surface, some of then
climbing up IN the uplurned bottom,
others making frantic efforts to reach the
caps,z ed steamer.
In these efforts a few were assisted by
those who had first reached the temporary
refuge.
When all within reach had been pulled
~ % had shuGsd upon the overturned