Morning journal and courier., 1890-07-15

Lor tne cellar. Soon there was c crash. The barn belonging to Mr. Good had struck colony of safety seekers. They were all more l or less injured. During the storm they re- mained in the cellar, and were compelled to take a thorough drenching. To the people In the two Schurmier residences fortune dealt worse blow. Their places of shelter were twisted to pieces by the first gusts and none of them having previously sought safety in the cellars they were at the mercy of the storm. George Miller, cashier of the First National bank, St. Paul, was carried forty feet and killed. His wife was carried some distance, and found buried under the wreck, with serious injuries. Mrs. J. H. Schurmier, Rev. Pfahs and Charlie Schur- mier were evidently hurled into the lake and drowned, as their bodies could not be found among the debris this morning. J. H: Schur- mier, Hub Schurmier and wife and the fe- male servant were carried but a short dis tance, and landed under some trees. The following is complete list of the killed and injured at this point:
 LIST OF KILLED AND INJURED.
 Killed-Peter Nielsen, driver fo1 J. Fl. schurmier; George Miller, Rev. Dr. Pfaae of Brennan, Tex; Charles Scharnier, Mrs. J. H. Schurmier.
 1njured-Mose Melanoon, legs badly cut; Mrs. Lydia Ann Meisncon, head badly cut ana body bruised; Frank Melancon, seriously cut about head, will probably die; George Melancon, bruised about body and legs; Schurmier, arm broken and head bruised; Mrs. Hubert Schurmier head badly bruised and one eye put out; J. Fl. Schurmier, one arm and three ribs broken; Mrs. George Ailley, badly bruised; Mrs. Pfade, shoulder broken; Roy Good, cut about the head; William Guenther badly bruised; Minnie Meiss, bruised badly back seriously cut and not expected to live; Mrs. E. L. Hastings. body badly bruised and head cut; Stella Hastings. head cut; Joseph Bernard, arm broken and body bruised.
 The sites of the Good and Schurmier cot tages are marked only by their foundations, while the ground for the radius of an acre or more is strewn with debris of all kinds. Near the cellar of the Schurmier house lies a pipe, which was literally torn from the ground, while on the shore is the piano which formerly stood in the parlor of the cottage. In the lake, fifty feet from shore, are two horses which were carried there from the Schurmier barn. Chickens without feather on litter the ground, and articles of wearing apparel are to be seen sticking in trees and bushes half mile away. In the swamp near the lake shore are 8 number of
 
 like field of corn.
 PERIL OF CAMPING PARTY.
 All along the road from Gervais to Vsd- nais the houses have been more or less dam- aged. Nearly all of the houses and hotels in the vicinity have been turned into temporary hospitals. At Paul Melett's residence at Little Canada are Moses Melancon, his wife, and Frank, George, and Jennie, his children, all more or less injured. Frank is so seri- ously crushed about the body that it is feared he cannot live. At Kohlman's hotel are Minnie Meiss and Joseph Barnard. Miss Meiss is suffering intensely from a wound in her chest made by an iron spike which was almost driven through her body, and her re covery is considered almoss impossible. A camping party was on the southwest shore of Lake Gervais. They ran from their tent and sought the shelter of an over- hanging bank just in time to save their lives. The storm really commenced between Snail and Turtle lakes, passed over them and striking the northern part of Little Canada, thence to Good and Schurmier cot tages, across Lake Gervais to Gutske's place then in @ northeasterly direction to Farmer Browns place, where it lifted and disappear ed. Its track was forty-five miles long and | quarter to half mile in width. The | bodies of Mrs. Sehurmier and her son Charles and Rev. Pfehs have not been recovered uI to late hour tonight.
 PATH OF THE STORM.
 ST.PAUL, July 14.-According to the testi | mony of those who witnessed the storm 1t frs gathered in the vicinity of Snail lake, severa | miles to the northwest of Lake Gervais ani eight miles from St. Paul. It proceeded l slowly in it's general movement and first be- gan it's work of destruction about three mile. l from the Schumeyer and Good cottages by demolishing barn and several windmills After this it seemed to bound into the air | striking the earth again near the hamlet ol | Little Canada, where the first serious damage was done. Again it skipped @ space of about | a mile and again lowered to the earth and | resumed it's work of destruction, its fury | eliminating near the shore of Lake | Gervais, where five deaths were caused Once again the storm seemed to re' the earth about half 6 mile further | or where the ruins of the Gsetske home and | the bruised inmates were left to bear witness | to it's relentless power. Here it's force seem ed to be spent, and ss it proceeded eastward 1t assumed simply the nature of high wint accompanied by thunder storm. Hail a large as good. sized olives was one of the feat ures at White Bear. Besides the Good ant Schumeyer cottages, the following person
 arc known to have had their cottages blowl to pieces Moses Milanson, Mrs. J. P. Milan
 son and Mrs. R. B. Shannon. These wer
 situated 8 short distance west of Lake Ger
 vais. Besides the houses destroyed a mum
 Der of barns and windmills were blow | down. No estimate can be made as yet
 however, of the amount of damage don
 to property.
 A partial list of those injured at St. Pau
 is as follows: Simon Good, head and ches
 badly bruised; Mrs. Simon Good, face an
 arms cut. Swan Peterson, badly injure
 internally and externally. H. O. Schur
 meyer, cut abont the head, now unconscious
 Mrs. H. O. Schurmeyer, injured about th
 body and one eye ruined. May die. Mrs
 Hastings and daughter Stella, visiting Nil
 and Mrs. Good, severely injured about body
 Miss Gussie King, visiting MT. and Mrs
 Good, general bruises; George NcPhersor
 slight head wounds. A servant of H.
 Schurmeyer, severely injured about hea
 and arms. Mrs. Fred Gaetzke, seal
 wounds. 0. M. Mullanisn, both legs sn
 arms broken. Mrs. 0. NJ. Mullsnian an
 children, slightly injured.
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