Los Angeles herald., 1890-07-14

no organized system OF reHcI, ana cOnSe-
quently everybody is at sea as to the
real extent of the casualty. 1t is be-
lieved, however, that six would cover
the number killed, but there are several
wounded who are likely to die.
dicate that the loss of life at that point
news comes from the keeper of the boat
house. This man says he let out this
afternoon at least fifteen boats. None
of these had less than two occupants,
and some three or four. Since the fear
full storm passed over the lake no trace
of the boats unfortunate passengers has
been found.
Still, it cannot be positively stated
that these people are lost. 1t will be
impossible to find out as to that until
tomorrow. Should it be proved that
they have all gone down it would
swell the reported loss of life at
various points to at least so. 1t is most
difficult to obtain any definite news to-
night as telephone and telegraphic COM
municatiOn is interrupted. Many peo-
pie feel certain that the loss OF life will
not exceed ten.
From Lake Gervaise the cyclone passed
almost due east, and it is reported to
have struck settlement twelve miles
southeast of Saltwater, demolishing it
and killing several persons. Telegraph
lines are, however: all down and
no dispatches can get through.
The scenes at Lake Gervaise
along the path OF the storm, just after it
passed by, were heartrending. Help
was on hand at once. The wounded and
dead were dug from the buildings and
taken to the houses of neighbors
and to the hospital. The dead
were all collected in the hotel
of John Coleman. The majority of the
buildings were light frame structures
which were so completely blown to
pieces that there really were no wrecks
under which the occupants could be
buried. Dead bodies were found many
rods from the houses they had owned
when living. Help was asked from
White Bear, but twas impossible to send
any physicians. Many citizens went to
their aid. Half a dozen ambulances and
twice that number of physicians went
from St. Paul at O'Clock to minister to
the sufferers. Several of the dead bodies
were brought to this city. The others
will remain at Coleman's until claimed
by friends and taken home.
The citizens are doing everything pos
sible under the distressing circum-
stances in properly caring for the dead
and alleviating the suffering of the
wounded. At the Coleman house every
room upstairs and down is filled
with cots upon which sufferers are
laid, and corps of doctors are in at
tendance setting and amputating limbs
and dressing wounds. The black-robed
sisters of mercy are flying about and
seem to be everywhere administering
comfort and assisting in the work of re-
lieving pain and distress. A corps OF as
sistants were kept busy making bandages.
tearing up great rolls of linen and
making it into strips of the requisite
dimensions, which the doctors put to
almost immediate use. In one of the
upper rooms there were seven wounded
lying on cots, most of them insensible or
under the influence of opiates. Wounded
were also in the attic. In
fact, there was not room to accommodate
all Of them, and a number were carried
to private houses in the neighborhood.
1t is believed the number OF wounded
may be even higher than forty. A good
days work will be necessary to get
anything like correct list Of
the dead and wounded. 1t is impossible
tonight. Everything is excitement and
confusion, and one can hardly tell who
was his next door neighbor. Some of
the dead were horribly mutilated and
all had their faces so blackened as to be
| almost unrecOgniZable