The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-14

pants could De buried. Inc dead D0QieS
were found many rods from the houses
they had owned when living.
Help was asked from White Bear, but it
was impossible to send any physicians.
Many citizens, however. went to their aid.
Half 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, and the others viii remain at
Colemap's until claimed by friends and
taken heme.
Citizens are doing everything possible
under the distressing circumstances to
properly care for the dead, and alleviating
the sufferings of the wounded. At the
Coleman oouse. every room upstairs and
down is filled with cots, upon which suffer-
ers are laid and corps of doc
tors are in attendance setting
and amputating limbs and dress
ing wounds. The black robed Sisters
OF Mercy are flying about and seem to be
everywhere administering comfort and as
sisting in the work of relieving pain and
distress. Corps of assistants were kept
busy making bandages, tearing up great
rolls of linen and making 1t into strips
OF requisite dimensions. which doctors
put to almost immediate use. In one of
the upper rooms there were seven wounded
living on cots, most of them insensible or
under the influence of opiates. The
wounded were also in the attic. In fact
there was not room 10 accommodate all OF
them and number were carried to private
houses in The neighborhood.
1t is believed that the number of
wounded may be even higher than forty.
A good days work will be necessary to
get anything like a correct list of 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 are hor-
rihly mutilated. and all had their faces so
blackened as to be almost unrecognizable.
THE DEAD.
The killed are:
Mrs. z. III. ScHURMIER.
CHARLES ScHURMIER, her son.
REV. Mr.. PHEFLER. of Brennan, Tex.
GEORGE MILLER, assistant cashier of the
First National bank of this city.
PETE" Schurmier's driver, whose last
name is not known.
The bodies of Mrs. Schurn,ier, her son,
and Mr.. Phafler have not yet been found.
THE INJURED.
The injured are:
II. Ii. ScHURMEs, scalp wound.
CHARLES GooD. serious injury to the scalp.
Mrs. PHEFLER, shoulder broken.
THOMAS bARSARD, not seriously.
Mrs. GEORGE MILLER, injury to the head.
Miss CARY Moss, wounded on the head
ana shoulders.
CLARK HANSEN, bruised hip.
injury TO the spine.
MR. CENTER scalp wound.
Miss MINNIE Moss, scalp wound and
head bruised.
1t is stated that the cyclone was confined
to district only three and half miles
long and that the worst damage was done
within limit of hall mile.
ANOTHER DESCRIPTION.
ST. PAUL, July ia disastrous cyclone
occurred this afternoon at Lake Gervais, a
summer resort, four miles west O ST.. Paul,
in which six persons were killed and about
twenty injured, nearly all being residents
OF st. Paul. Shortly before 5 O'Clock a
small funnel-shaped cloud was observed in
the northwest. 1t travelled rapidly, grow
ing in size and gathering strength as it
went. At almost exactly 5 O'Clock it struck
Lake Gervais and small section surround
ing the lake, destroying nearly all the
houses there, consisting entirely of summer
cottages, and killing or wounding some
twenty-five people. So far as known, no
other damage was done in the state the
cyclonic cloud rising in the air after devas-
tating the Lake Gervais cottages and dis
solving away.
The city was filed with startling rumors,
one being that over 100 people were killed.