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AT LAKE GERvAIsE.
Five Killed and Many wounded-Awful
Work of the Wind.

Five Killed and Many wounded-Awful
Work of the Wind.
MINNEAPOLIS. July H.-The storm really
commenced between Snail and Turtle
lakes and passed over them. striking the
northern part of Little Canada, then on to
the Schurmeir and Good cottages, across
Lake Gervaise to Getzke's place; thence
in a northeasterly direction TO Farmer
William Browns place. where it lifted and
disappeared. Its track was about forty
five miles long and from a quarter to
half mile in width. The bodies OF Mrs.
Schurmier and her son Charles and Mr..
Pharpie had not been recovered up to a
late hour tonight. 1t is almost certain
that they are at the bottom OF the lake, as
search of the debris failed to find any trace
of them.
At Kohlmann's hotel are Minnie Weiss
and Bishop Bernard. Miss Weiss is suffer-
ing intensely from wound in the chest,
made by an iron spike which was driven
nearly through her body. Recovery is i'm
possible.
A camping party was at the southeast
shore of Lake Gervaise. They ran from
their tent and sought the shelter of the
overhanging bank just in time to save their
lives. The tent and all its contents were
swept into the lake.
The number of persons injured at all diff
ferent points is large, and the list is being
made out slowly.
Mr. j. H. Schweimer has recovered suf-
feiently to be able to relate what he knows
about the storm. They had noticed the
storm brewing. and as it came upon them
he had risen to close window which the
storm had blown open. The next thing he
knew he was twirled about in the air at
rapid rate On coming to his senses he
found himself near the edge OF the lake.
Making his way up from the lake he came
across tie remains of his son-in-law, q. ].
Miller, and afterwards of Pete, his coschman.
He does not know anything OF those in the
cottage with him after he had risen 10 close
the window.
The storm struck French settlement a
half-mile north OF Little Canada, complete
iy demolishing five houses and slightly in
iuring the occupants. At Frank Geszse's
place, on the southeast shore of Lake Ger
vaise, beside himself and a family of four,
there were about twenty visitors who had
sought shelter. The cyclone struck the
house and lifted it bodily from its founda-
ton, but fortunately not one OF the inmates
was injured.
At Lake Gervaise the dead and missing
are Peter Meiss, George j. Miller, Rev. Dr.
Phaefie, of Brennan. Tex, Mrs. G. II.
Schurmier and Charles Schurmeir. The
sights about Lake Gervaise are awful. The
sites of Goods and Schurmier's cottages
were marked only by their foundations,
while the ground for a radius of an acre or
more is strewn with debris OF all kinds.
Near the cellar of Scnurmier's house hes q
drive well with twenty feet OF cast iron
pipe, which was literally torn from the
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CUBA Is FOR SALE.
Two Hundred Millions Would Buy the
Gem OF the Antilles

Two Hundred Millions Would Buy the
Gem OF the Antilles
wAsHISGTos. July I4.-Senors Murua
and Nunoz, constituting special commit
tee from the Spanish government, have
visited Washington City within the past
few days. The mission of the strangers is
a quasi-diplomatic one to ascertain the
feeling both on the part of the government
of thu United States and of Cuban residents
here as to the possible eventual annexation
of Cuba to the United States. Senior
Nunox said:
Now that Senior Causvas del Castillo has A.
sumed the Office Of prime minister we may fully
expect q complete and formidable reorganixa-
ton of the republican element in Spain The
republicans, or those who favor the overthrow
OF monarchial rule, are almost universally In
favor OF disposing of the island Of Cuba to the
United States
'swhat price Is BET upon the islandf
ssThat I am not prepared 20 say, but am
almost positive that Spain would give an offer
OF $500 10000 serious consideration With the
money that can be Immediately raised from ths
sale Spain would be placed in . position TO
secure its long projected alliance with Franco
and the eventual absorption Of Portugal A
new captain general of Cuba has been ap-
pointed and one of his special instructions from
the home government has been 10 sound the
feeling regarding annexation Of the people OF
that fsiaudn
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FOOTSTEPS OF THE STORM.


Houses and Trees Trampled Down-A
Womau's Experience.
MIyNEAPoLIs, July 14.--According to the
testimony of those who Witnessed the
storm. it first gathered in the vicinity oi
Snail lake, several miles to the northward
OF Lake Gervaise, and something like eight
miles from st. Paul. It proceeded slowly
in its general movement, and first began its
work of destruction about three miles from
the Schurmeir and Good cottages, by de-
molishing cottages, barns and several wind.
mills. After this it seemed to bound into
the air, striking the earth again near the
hamlet of Little Canada. where the first
serious damage was done.
Again it skipped to place about mile
distant, and once again bounded to the
earth and resumed its work of destruction,
its fury eliminating near the shore of Lake
Gervaise, where it caused i've deaths and
injuries to dozen people. Once again the
storm seemed 70 rebound into the air. only
to regain the earth half-mile further on,
where the ruins of the Gaetzke place and
its bruised inmates were left to bear wit
ness to its relentless power. Here its force
seemed to be spent, and as it proceeded
eastward it resumed simplysthe nature of a
high wind, accompanied by q thunder
storm Hail as large as medium-sized
olives was one Of the features of the affair.
A married daughter of Mr.. Good, who
was IN her fathers cottage when it was
destroyed, at Lake Gervaise, tells the fol-
lowing story:
Our family noticed the storm approaching,
and some Of the household suggested that we
get into the cellar, as the storm looked Ike il
was coming hight down on the house of Schur-
meir's and ours After . few moments the
great spinning cloud reached the center Of the
lake, ard saw the water divide and overflow
the banks forty feet Then Mullsnches cot
tage was swept away, and then our barn waa
thrown broadside against our house. just then
my husband threw me down the cellar stairs,
then he threw Miss King and Mr.. Mcpherson
jumped after. Ny husband fell down and
called the others TO follow. The building was
crushed in upon us, then portions of 1t was
hurled skyward, trees were blown by, and q
huge ice chest fell into the cellar and pinned us
down. As We lay there we heard Schurmeir's
house. about fifteen feet from the other house,
crash, aud for fifteen minutes the timber and
furniture of both houses were hurled shout in
the air
After our release from the cellar, we began
looking for members of the household. We
found them scattered about Miss Minnie lay
in the road, her head cut ami mouth bleeding:
Carrie. her sister, lay pinned under tree, hurt
internally; George Miller lay dead aud mangled
in the road; his wife lay buried under the
wreck hurt badly, and Mrs. Hastings and her
dauehter Stella were badly bruised and the
latter win lose the sight of one eye.
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Inaiana KaiIroad accident.

BLooNIsGToS. Ind. July l4--Accommo-
dation and freight trains On the Louisville,
New Albany & Chicago road coliided near
French Lick this morning. Both trains
were badly wrecked and dozen passengers
and trainmen injured, some fatally. The
passenger conductor, Grant Johnston. OF
Chicago; Engineer Whiteseli. Engineer
Hend,ickson and Brakeman Robertson are
in very critical condition. All the others
hurt will, il is thought, recover.
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BLACK
TRICOTINE
SILKS.


Company has decided
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CHINA WILL RETALIATE.
viceroy Ii Hung Chang Advocates ths
Exclusion OF Americans.

Exclusion OF Americans.
New YoRK. July l4-Frank 9. Carpenter,
in letter 10 the World. writes that in an
interview in China with Viceroy Ii Hung
Chang, the viceroy said:
II wish you would say for me. through your
newspaper, 20 the American people, that ii the
exclusion act be not repealed we shall certainly
advise our government to exclude Americans
from China, and I think we shall be fully justi-
fed In such action. You may amphfy this
statement, and may make it % strong az you
piease aud trust your paper viii put II In so
strong light that the American people VIII do
Justice 10 our people.
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FRESNO, July 1.-THE second and third
floors OF the Mead building were burned
tonight. The cause was explosion OF a
lamp. The building was occupied by J. C.,
Dials as lodging-house The loss is 5000,
insurance 5000.
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SAS FRAscIsco, July 1.-THE cruiser
San francisco viii go on the dry dock to-
morrow to be scraped and have her hull
painted. Next Monday preliminary trip
viii be made by the vessel to test her ma
chinery.
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ANNIE NAY
Few of the bodies had any bruises or
other marks upon them. The fact that the
militia were in easy call undoubtedly re-
suited in the saving of many lives, and the
work OF citizers IS and soldiers and their ex-
cellent organization and good management
OF General Miller and surgeons Fitzgerald.
Clark and Cain were notable and commend
able. During the morning systematic
patrol OF the water over which the boats
drifted after being first struck by the gale
was kept up by the citizens of Lake City.
After the last bodies had been taken from
the hulis General Miller pressed into SER
vice all the row-boats within reach, and
with the soldiers, began this afternoon q
thorough dragging of the lake. At the
scene Of the disaster no bodies were found
up to dark. when the search was abandoned
for the day. Dynamite will be used in the
morning.
There were q good many who made use
OF life-preservers. but probably none had
as good service as had Robert Adams, the
17-year-oid son of DR.. Adams of Lake City,
and another boy. They secured three Life
preservers and were in the water six hours
before being rescued. Young Adams could
swim, but his companion could not. They
had the good sense to float quietly and not
attempt to fight against the waves. During
the six hours they were buffeted by the
pillows and blown hither and thither by
the gale. They drifted about a mile past
the town. and then q change in the wind
carried them up the river to Frontenac,
several miles from here, where they were
rescued. and today are nearly as well as
ever.
Captain Wetheren. proprietor and COM
mander OF the Sea Wing. is severely blamed
by citizens and others for what they al
lege to have been criminal negligence on
his part in putting out into the lake with
such crowd when the sky looked so
threatening. The captains wife and two
of his three children lost their lives under
the waves, and that fact, together with the
loss of his vessel and the great loss of life,
unnerved him so that he kept pretty much
out Of sight during the day. and those who
did see him got but an imperfect state
ment from him. He did not consider
the danger very great and thought he
saw break in the clouds promising clear
ing away of the storm. This is not well
taken by the people in this neighborhood.
who say the sky was black with the most
threatening kind of clouds and that it was
clearly evident very heavy storm was
about to break. Another excuse, If such
these may be called, is that the manager
of the excursion, whose profits would be
cut down by any delay in the departure of
the boat, was so urgent in his insistence
upon an immediate departure that the
captain yielded and took the boat to her
destruction.
Many incidents of the awful night are
being related. James Webb. of Red Wing,
and lady companion had just jokingly
finished fastening life-preseryers to each
other when the storm struck the vessel,
and their joke proved their salvation, for
both were saved.
The cannonading which went on during
the morning did not bring any bodies to
the surface, and was abandoned during
the afternoon.
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Fire in Dallas. Texas.

DALLAS, Tex, July IA building oc-
cupied by the general offices of the Texas
& Pacific railroad. and an adjoining build
ing, were destroyed by fire this morning,
entailing q loss of $4,000. Fully in
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VIRGINIA CRY, New, July H.-Last even
ing at the divide between Virginia City
and Gold Hill, Bernard Curley shot Charles
McDermott in the breast. The bullet
passed through the right lung and McDer.
mott cannot live. Curley had been drink
ing, and imagined that his neighbor had
got into his room at night and flashed a
magic lantern into his face. He warned
him several times not to do So or he would
kill him. This is thought to be the reason
for the act Curley came into Virginia City
to give him himself up.
LArER-McDermitti is dead. and his as
saiIant in custody on q charge of murder.
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English Cutlery Manufacturers Fear
Loss OF Their Market
LONDON. July A-At Sheffield todsy
meeting of 1900 persons, presided over by
the mayor. protested sgainst the Mckinley
bill and urged the government ii IL were
passed to take protective measures against
h
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WAR WITH GUATEMALA.

San Salvador Declared to BE in . State
of Siege.
LiBERTAp, July 1.-THE government of
San Salvador today issued proclamation
declaring the country in state OF siege.
War with Guatemala is imminent Nearly
2o,000 men are stationed along this side OF
the frontier, and great enthusiasm prevails.
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KANSAS Cry, July 1.-The i've weeks
spell of extreme hot weather was broken
today by a heavy rain-storm. 1t was ac-
companled by furious gale, which did
some damage in outlying portions of the
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AslD, The Sinners
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WANTED,

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ssa.ss :. Brlekyard hands. s5as " SO ii, asS 80
ss&s. - rs@ vi aud si2 per week. Cnsmher.
ea - mouth. wood choppers, 8. Is ner
IN Isssnen, *sS to $50 Farm hands. s9s
~ awe. rs s. for hotel. $50 per monsh.
- ,tr a., 40 Per Cay. Men for lime Kiln.
one barker, $40 per month.
ns.u- iheaser Building, Cor. wash.
- snd south second streets,
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A HUNDRED PEOPLE DROWNED.
ALI Day Long Corpses Were Dragged
Ont of tie Cruel Water.
Incidents OF the Terrible Disaster-sixty-
Eight Bodies Recovered-Ruined
Homes and Injured People Mark the
Broad Sweep OF the Wind.

MrssEAPoLIs, July i4-At an early h our
this morning q special train bore a corre-
spondent of the Associated Press from st.
Paul to the scene OF the terrible cyclone.
No sign of the terrible havoc was visible
until the top of the hill, overlooking Little
Valley was reached. when on the side of
hill was seen the house belonging to Mr..
Harris. with the roof blown off and part of
buildings scattered in sdemoralixed con-
dition. No one was hurfat this point.
A quarter of mile north the whole
scene of devastation lay yspread before the
eye. Along the shore q the point where
he storm turned to cross the lake stood
the houses OF Schurmisr and Good, and
another house in which each had an inter-
est, all utterly demolished. All the trees
in the neighborhood were torn and twisted,
and stripped of bark and limbs, and
showed on the mangled trunks many hun
dred articles of clothing or bedding. In
the lake are the bodies of four horses foat-
ing, as an illustration Of the force of the
wind. An iron pump and two feet of iron
pipe were torn from we'll in front OF
Good s house, and twisted and bent almost
double. and deposited fifty yards
from the well. On the edge OF the water
is pile OF boards covered with turf lifted
from swamp 200 feet away. Strewn all
about the pier are furniture, books and
stoves. Wells and cellars are filed to the
top with building debris, and in Schur-
meir's cellar lie the mangled remains of
horse. The ground about these houses has
the appearance from distance of having
been gone over with plow, while from
this point on to Gaetzke's trees were blown
down in vast numbers and crops demol-
ished.
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EDDIE CHRrsToPHERsoS
MRS. NzLLIE WoKHM and son.
MILLY NEiIs
BIEzsoN FEY
CoRDy JOHNSON.
FLAG SIXTH.
MYRTLE MERL
TEA FELToS.
FRED SEAvEK.
HEfSE GERKEN
CHARLES BROWN
< PETERSON and BERTHA WINTERS, Of Red.
wing.
ALICE PALxEs and NErrrx PALMER. Of rren.
ton, Wis
Miss BRENNAN.
PHOEBE BIERsoN.
KATIE DAVIS
JOHN ESGELBERrsoS.
MISS IDA GREEN
FRED HENrL1S.
THEODORE HAEpwELL
LIZZIE HARRISON.
MABEL HoLToN.
EMMA NELSON
OREGON 0sKY.
JULIA PEERsG.
ANNIE PEERsG.
MRS. SLAwsoS.
sciIErrLEs, wife and two children.
Miss SIEBRAss.
ANNIE NAY
, 1890-12-25

CHICAGO. Dec. "a. -President Harri-
sons proclaim alton today was everywhere
10 the city regarded as the most enjoyable
e~-s IT, 49, - r r-s--
position is nov settled. Chicago is to
rave a worlds fair; the world will know
it and is invited to attend. The proclaim
alton marks an epoch 10 the exposition.
No digging or building could be attempted
until it was known, beyond doubt, that
Chicago was to hold a worlds far. The
question could not be settled until the
president issued his proclamation. Now
the United States government has de-
clared that tho Worlds. Columbian Ex-
position will he held in Chicago in 1898;
announces 10 the nation that Chicago
has made adequate provision for
grounds and buildings and has raised
$4,000. 900 for the uses o. the fair. With
this sort OF a guarantee from the president
the exposition is given a standing with
the government, and the invitation to each
nation goes well accredited. One of the
directors said this evening: The p%rodla-
nation m when it is most needed and
when its first fleet is likely to prove most
beneficial The board of control will
probably be called to meet in a few DAYS
10 appoint a committee TO visit legislatures
and keep the agitation warm. The heads
of more bureaus will be appointed and
preparations for digging will be begun at
the next meeting of the directors. From
this time on work will be visible.
, 1890-12-25
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

W. r. Daniels, the wealthiest dry goods
merchant in Colorado, died Yesterday OF
paralysis.
Cologne officials have seized American
bacon valued at 60,000 marks and ar
rested the merchant who imported it.
There was little. if any change in the
condition oil Gen. Spinner last night, but
relatives fear that death is near ut hand.
Kinch Freeman, a negro, charged with
the murder Of N. B. Adkins and his
mother, vas lyneRed yesterday near Rich
uond, Va.
The pope has erected the ~vicarate Of
Utah into a diocese. Father Scarettan
has been appointed the first bishop OF the
new diocese.
Judge Reed Of philadelphia Yesterday
rendered a decision holding he state law
f%orbidding the sale of oleomargarine IN
constitutional.
Pedro Antonio Lopez died near Santa
Fe, n. NJ, Yesterday at the age Of lis
years, surrounded by several generations
of his descendants.
The directors Of Twelve roads in South
ern Kansas, controlled BY Gould, have
voted to consolidate the twelve under the
hAulC " AhC AAAu1aFt OtAbtaAh "a 4 81
Miss Mary Patrice Whitbeck, an act
ress, has begun suit at Chicago against
A. p. Blakeslce, a Young Board Of
Trade man, Tor so. 200 for breach of
promise.
The store Of Charles X Lynch. an ex-
tensive retail boot and shoe dealer of
Chicago, was closed By the sheriff yester-
day on confessions OF judgment amount
ing to over $2l 900.
Judge Cyrus &. Hines, for thirty years
a resident OF INDIANAPOLIS and fifteen
years a law partner OF President Harrison
was striker with apoplexy at Ludloy. n.
H.. yesterday, and will die.
Vice President Reinhard of the Atchi-
son system states that the Colorado Mid
land purchase was completed without in
creasing disqualification OF the AtchIson.
which stands at $l02, 000, 900.
Assistant Secretary Spaulding has de-
cided that natural gas piped from Canada
into the United States shall be subject to
duty as prescribed for unenumerated
manufactured articles, viz: 10 per cent ad
valorem.
Mrs. Bridget Donuelly was murdered
by her husband, Henry Dounelly. yester-
day in a tenement house in Brooklyn.
The murderer was arrested. The cause
of the crime was the woman's refusal to
live with her husband.
The Savannah Fire and Marine Insur
ance company wound up Its affairs yes.
terday. The company was organized IL
1887 with a cash capital of 500, 600.
Threatened adverse legislation was the
principal cause of the closing up OF the
business
, 1890-12-25

HALIFAX, Dec. 24.-Papers from New
foundland represent the people of that
island as being IN a furious state Of indig-
nation over the official that
the modus vivendi between Eogland and
France is to be extended another year.
and in the meantime England undertakes
to effect a settlement with or without the
assent OF the Newfoundland parliament.
A writer 10 the Herald says: We are
determined that only one flag shall float
over Newfoundland, and that flag shall
be the stars and stripes unless England
does her duty. There is a movement on
foot in connection with this matter that
will startle the people when parliament
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