The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-07-18
DROWNED BY SCORES.
Terrible Effect Of a Cyclone in
Minnesota.
LOSS OF AsTEAMER ON LAKE PEPPIN.

The Vessel Was Loaded with Hundreds of
Pleasure Seekers, and When the Storm
Came Many of Them Sank Never to
Rise Again-A Large Number of Bodies
Recover.d-Enect of the Storm I'm Other
Localities.
ST. PAUL, July 14.-Sunday evening a
cyclone or hurricane struck the little city
Of Lake City, located ON Lake Peppin,
about seventy miles below here, and
large number of people were killed by
the sinking of steamer. The steamer
Sea Wing was coming up the lake at
about 0 o'clock at night, and when OPP
posite the city the storm struck in fairly
and sent it to the bottom. There were on
board some $50 people from Diamond
Bluff, and about fifty more were on a
barge which was in tow. The steamer Sea
Wing left Red Wing in the afternoon
with $50 passengers on board, bound for
Lake City, where the state encampment
Of the state militia is in progress. At sew
sral small towns along the shore of Lake
Peppin enough more people were taken
on board to make about $50 when the boat
reached its destination. A barge was in
tow which carried 100 of this number.
Late in the afternoon the party re-em-
barked for home. The steamer was in the
middle of the lake, off Lake City, when
the cyclone struck that place. The boat
became unmanageable at once.
Bodies Washed Ashore.
The barge was cut loose and after an
hour drifted to shore with about twenty
people on board The others were
drowned. Among the dead are some of
the best known and most prominent peo-
pie of Red Wing and vicinity. A number
of bodies are already washed ashore, and
the citizens have formed a voluntary po-
lice service to patrol the shores and
watch for tho Others The storm did
great damage TO property in and about
Lake City, but no lives were destroyed on
shore so far as reported. The tornado
also swept the shores of Lake Gervais,
nine miles north of st. Paul, killing
eleven people outright and injuring forty
or more, some of them fatally.
A Long List of Dead.
The following is the list of the names of
bodies that have so far been recovered:
John Heffler, and wife and two children,
Peter Gevlen, wife and five children, Mrs.
Baker and two children, Mrs. Hemfob-
and daughter, Minnie Fisher, Mark Skog-
lund, Katie DAILY, Mrs. f. Sherf and
daughter, Fred Christ, Annie Steiger,
Bahrns and wife, Charles Dinstage,
Fred Sewers and daughter, Tom Larson,
Addie Wing and sister, II. Redlus and
two children, Fred Hattemeyer, Mamie
Adams, Henry Stiffney, Katie Burkhardt,
A. o. Anderson. Eddie Christoferson,
Herman Hyper, George Harris, Mrs.
Nellie Woohrn and son, Milly Niles, Bier
sohn Fiby, Cordy johnson, Floy Smith,
Mirty Meero, Ira Fulton.
Many More Missing.
1t is quite probable that there are yet
fifty or sixty people missing in addition to
the list of identified dead. It is thought
that all of these are in the wreck which
lies off the point near Lake City The
undertaking establishment here is crowd
ed with friends of the dead and many
cases of prostration have occurred. Bush
ness is completely at a standstill. John
Gerkin, wife and five children, comprising
the entire family, are among the dead. 1t
is reported that "Rad" Moro, brother of
Charles Nero, an insurance agent of Min
neapolis, was drowned, together with his
entire family. They went down wrapped
in each others arms and were picked up
floating together in the embrace of death.
The scenes at the morgue are simply in
describable.
Over 100 Lives Lost.
The work of pulling in the wreck Of the
boat was commenced as soon as it was
light enough to see Monday morning At
IL o'clock six bodies were taken from the
cabin. The body of a woman, as yet un-
identified, was picked up on the shore of
the lake near here. The lake is filled with
debris from the wreck-chairs, boards and
lifepreservers strewn on the beach for
mile up the lake shore. Hundreds of citi-
zens of Lake City flock the shore, among
them many friends and relatives of the
missing ones whose bodies arestill beneath
the water. The general opinion is that
the estimate of the loss of 1875 lives will be
verified.
Along Lake Gervais.
ST. PAUL. Mimi, July 15-Late reports
Of ha cyclnna fhat v,;o;fad ba e,,oroo~