Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-15
TWENTY-FIVE DEAD
Sums UP the Lost in the III
Fated Sea Wing.
THE ONSLAUGHT OF THE TEMPEST
Description of the Destruction of the
Doomed Steamer-A Scene
of Awful Terror

Nearly Complete List of the Drowned
Work of the Recovery of the Bodies
Going on-Deyastation by the Cyclone
in the Lake Region Near st. Paul
Eight Killed and Twentv-four Wound
LAKE CITY, Mimi, July 15-The excite
ment consequent upon the awful events
of Sunday night, as reported in detail eX-
clusively by the United Press, has now
wreck of the steamer Sea Wing has a
place in history as the greatest catastrophe
that ever occurred in this vicinity. All
yesterday the rescuing crews were ut work
on the wreck in the continued search for
bodies of the victims. Two small steam
ers attached lines to the overturned Sea
Wing, and succeeded in hauling her nearer
the shore, where during the day corps of
volunteers, with axes and picks, succeeded
in cutting away all of the inner walls and
partitions of the two decks of the boat,
leaving only the bare hull, which will
probably be blown up with dynamite.
Seventy-one Bodies Recovered.
reeded in taking seventeen more bodies
from the wrecked steamer which, in adj
dition to the fifty-two taken to Red Wing,
one picked up on the shore of the lake
near this city, and another mile above
the wreck, brings the total number OF
bodies recovered up to seventy one. The
body picked up near Lake City was that
of a woman, as yet unidentified. The one
found above the wreck was that of John
Peterson, of Red Wing. All day the First
battery of artillery, n. G., S. NJ, from
st. Paul, was firing over the lake Mt inter
walls of every five minutes in the hope of
raising some of the bodies, yet on the
bottom away from the direct vicinity of
the wreck
Were the Steamer Officers Drunk?
1t is now reported that the officers of
the Inflated steamsr were more or less un-
der the influence of liquor when the boat
started on the home journey. The mum
Der known to have been saved is now esti
mated at about seventy-fve, which leaves
about lis people thought to have persisted
in the wreck. This number will undoubt-
eddy be diminished AS full returns come
in of those who escaped.
The Loss i'm Lake City and Vicinity.
From all that can be learned the storm
did not seriously affect any other locality
than the vicinity OF Lake City. Some OF
the crops on the farms near by, which
were in the path of the hurricane, were
more or less damaged by wind and hail
The damage to buildings in Lake City
will probably not exceed 500. 900 all told
and may fall considerably short of those
figures. The bodies taken out yesterday
were taken to Red Wing by steamer
where they were identified as fast as
possible.
Almost Complete List of Dead.
LATER.-The following is a list of those
who were lost with the Inflated Sea Wing
1t is not yet complete as several bodies
have not been identified and some may
never be seen again: Miss Katie Doley
Miss Brenner, Kate Burkhart, Ed Chris
topherson. Herman and William Hemp
ping and daughter, George Harrison,
Mrs Schoenberg, Mrs. Nellie Wethern
and son BERTHE, wife and son of Capt
Wethern; George Nelson, o. O. Andy Or
sen Miss Nellie Miller, Mr.. and Mrs Fred
Hempfing, and daughter Lizzie; Cora
johnson, Miss Dora Smith, Myrtle Nero
Mrs. Slawson, Sadie Person, Charles Din
Stage, Mrs. Humbert, Arthur Hoglen,
Thomas Leason. Hattie Sheriff, Orion
Ozky, Annie and Frances Slider, John
Shelter, wife and two children, Miss
Schurberg, two children of c. H. Render
Mary Skoglund, Mrs. Minnie D. Fisher,
Miss Annie Snyder, Mrs. Fred Scherpe
and daughter, Fed Sewers and
daughter, Fred Christ, Ira Dorlton,
a daughter of Capt. beats, Theodore Har-
wedel, Charles Debslager, Julia and An
nie Persig Fred Harlan, John S. Strap,
John Englebretson, Peter Gerkin, wife
and five children, Mrs. Blaker and two
children, John Bahrnes and wife, Adde
Wing and sister, Fl. Redlus and two chill
dren, Mamie Adams, Henry Stifforly, Ka-
tie Burkhart, A. o. Anderson. Herman
and Will Hyper, George Harris
Milly Niles Bierson Finley, Floy Smith
Ira Fulton, daughter of John Winters,
Alice Palmer, Annie Way, Phoebe Dear
son, c. johnson, Miss Siebrasse, Thomas
Lesson, Emma Nelson. Mrs. Merritt Green
Mrs. Nelson, frankie Staiger, Ida Sewers
hal lot