The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-07-15
A CYCLONES WORK.
ONE WHOLE VILLAGE SWEPT
AWAY.
Several People Kiiled-.Disaster to Sew
eral Row BOats---A Little Family
Carried into the Middle of a Lake
and DrOWned.-An Excursion Boat
With 2oO People A bOad Capsized.

Carried into the Middle of a Lake
and Drowned--An Excursion Boat
| With zoe People Aboad Capsized.
| by United Press.]
ST. PAUL, Minn., July 14-Reports from
Little Canada, a village of three hun
dred people, seven miles from here, in
dicate that cyclone struck that place
with full force.
| Twelve Houses Were Blown Down.
three people killed, anG eight or ten
killed The killed We're: Michael Afoe,
George Burt, and Hiram Nederstrom.
| Only meagre reports can be obtained, as
| two bridges between this and that point
are washed out, and
Trees are Blown Down
across the highways in every direction
| Near Lake Gervaine, widow named
Mullaney and her four children, the eld-
est boy of II years, ran to the shores
Of the lake when they saw the storm
cloud approaching. The mother and
children
Lay Flat in the Sand
hoping against hope that the cyclone
would pass them by. Instead, the swift
rolling cloud picked up the little family
and in its embrace they were
Carried out in the Lake and Drowned.
The body of Mrs. Mullaney and her
second son were recovered by grapples
at l. O'Clock last night The bodies Of
the two other children are still in the
depths of the lake. Between 4:45 and
o'clock the boatman at Lake Kohlmans,
met sixteen row boats, each of which
carried from two to five persons, and
Only -Four of the Sixteen
Have returned. Many of those pee
, pie were no doubt drowned, but as
most of them lived in the city their
names cannot be learned until their
bodies are recovered.
In few moments the news was abroad
} that al excursion boat with over 900
; people on it was
Capsized in the Middle Of Lake Pepin.
The boat was the steamer ''Sea Wing, "
!. which came down the lake from Dia-
mond Bluff, small place about seven
teen miles north OF Lake City. The
work of pulling ia the wreck of the boat
was commenced as soon as it was light
: enough to see this morning
Al army Of men was employed, am,
: with the aid Of axes and picks, q iar.e
g portion of the cabin top was knock d
e away at an early hour. At II O'Clock
5 Six Bodies Were Taken
s from the cabin, and there are still more
deeper down under the wafer
The body Of woman, Is yet unideu-
Identified was
y Picked up on the shore
of the lake near here this morning Tht
lake is filled with debris from tnt
: wreck--chairs, boards and life preseryer.
e streun on the beach for mile up thu
Lake City flock the shore, among then
many friends and relatives of the miss
- ing ones whose
u Bodies are Still Beneath the " ater
N AS finish this telegram rope ha
ID been attached to the leg Of the body Of
TO woman, and it is being hauled up from
the black water,
Making the Sixtieth Body
y now recovered. The general opinion
~ 10 is that the estimate of the loss cf l 2
~ ~ lives will be verified. The sixtieth bod
g proved to be that of Miss Alice Palmer
- -, Another body, that of a young girl,
al just being removed, making sixty one
- The work Of cutting away the cabi
u I'll progresses slowly, owing to the fact ths
DO the saving and chopping has to be dor
- underneath the surfcce Of the water. 4
ae ae II o'clock two guns of the first batter
.2 "e of artillery were brought to the lai
'u oi side, and since that time they have bee
l. oE
,an aa in the hope of
,o+ Bringing Other Bodies to the Surfac
we Boze Adams had a life preserver O.
Ike and in addition secured huge pla1
he on which be
,is- FIoated Throughout the Night.
!. He states this morning that as he W
floating away from the wreck he MOTTO
; a woman and child clinging togethe
each with life preserver on. He 0
seeved the WOmrn finally
OK Leave the Child and Sink
am out of sight A few moments later t
am child disappeared.
ere LAKE CITY, Mimi, July A. I
md latest report from the scene CT the dis
= q ter shows that remarkable work is bel
is done
nv. In Recovering Dead Bodies.
ing Doubtless there are many tt
Try. will never be found, as it
'wn almost impossible to get into
am cabin Of the sunken boat. It seems tt
ion is where many of the unfortunates to
few refuge and it necassitates cOnsldera
cutting and tearing of timbers to obt
even an entrance to the cabin.
a Whole Village Demolished and Ell
en- People Killed.
ST.. PAUL. Mimi, July l4.-The ent
ION village of Vadnais, six miles north
7ere here, was wrecked by last evenings
nds clone. Not building was left stand
Tho in sound condition, most OF them
= - ing blown to pieces. Eleven people W
~ 10 instantly killed.
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