St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-08
PLEASURE PARTY CAUGHT IN
THE STORM ON LAKE
! GENEVA.
ALL SIX WERE DROWNED.
WIND AND RAIN SWEEP FURI-
OUSLY OVER THE WINDY
CITY,
CAUSING GREAT DESTRUCTION.
Rumors of Heavy Loss of Life on
the Lake Happily Not Veri-
fed.

LAKE GENEVA, Wis, July IA
heavy storm passed over here this
afternoon about 4:30, which unroofed
buildings and demoralized shade
trees. The hail broke a large amount
of glass and ruined corn, oats and
what little fruit there was.
The steam launch Dispatch was
chartered just before the storm by
party consisting of Father Hogan
and Miss Hogan, of Harvard, ILL.,,
and a man thought to be DR.. Franz,
assistant superintendent of the Ell
gin, ILL.,, insane asylum, wife and
child. The boat was in charge of
John Preston, a reliable young man.
They were caught by the storm, the
were drowned. The body of Miss
Hogan was found floating near
Hayes park this evening.
This trip was the boats last be-
fore the evening train to the city,
and this fact led the eXcursioniStS to
risk the waves. The wind had al
ready stirred up a heavy sea. The
boat had not gone half a mile when
the hurricane bore down upon the
lake. The air in an instant was
filled with leaves and broken limbs
from the trees, and the white caps
were lashed into small ocean bill
lows. The hail and rain which fol-
lowed the first gust was the most
furious ever seen here.
1t was possible to see the little
boat from both landings, and the
boatmen watched the battle. The
storm was directly behind it. The
first plunge into the trench drove
was feared the Dispatch had died
at the first onslaught. 1t came up,
however, with the next crest, but
the glass showed one passenger was
missing. This was probably Miss
Hogan, as the searcher found her
body a mile from the wreck, with
a life preserver. fixed in her hand.
This plunging and rolling was con-
tinued for more than AN hour, when it
was seen that the launch's steam had
given out. It's screeching whistle
constantly and vainly crying for help,
was silenced. The eXcursionists were
huddled in agroup in the center of the
boat.
One wave followed another, beating
upon the helpless thing with increas-
ing fury. 1t finally rolled over to the
side, turned the bottom up and sank.
The men on shore took the bearings,
telephoned to the hotels for help, and,
the moment the storm permitted start
ed to search for the bodies.
Miss Hogan's body was found at
Hayes park about sundown. A most
vigorous search by a hundred men has
failed to get a, trace Of the others, and
it is feared they are all with the hull,
held by the engine and machinery
against the bottom of the lake,
NEARLY A CYCLONE.
MILWAUKEE,, Wis, July Wires
are down in nearly every direction out
of Milwaukee, but from meager re-
ports it seems that severe storm ap-
preaching a cyclone has passed over
the southwestern part of the state,
probably doing serious damage. Pas
sengers arriving on a late train from
the south on the Chicago & North
western railroad report that the storm
washed out bridge near Waukegan,
and that the train was obliged to take
the Harvard branch to Kenosha
North of Waukegan, in Wisconsin, tel
egraph poles and trees were leveled
along the line and there were signs of
a devastating storm. 1t is reported
that four men who were out on a boat
near Waukegan were drowned.
DELUGE OF RAIN.
DELAVAN, Wis, July THE most
destructive rain and wind storm that
ever visited this locality came this
afternoon. The wind blew down houses
and barns, uprooted trees and plowed
up cornfields. On the south shore of
Delavan lake the devastation was
greatest. A portion of the roof of the
Mettowee hotel was blown off and great
trees were broken like pipe stems The
wind was accompanied by a deIuge of
rain and great hail stones that broke
windows and leveled the fields of grain
The road and fields the strewn with
debris of trees, fences and buildings
WASHBURN, Wis, July THE
heavy rains of the last two days have
caused great damage in this section.
The fish hatchery way at Ashland
junction is almost destroyed.
OSHKOSH, Wis, July 1.-The most
severe hail storm in years occurred this
evening. Skylights were broken and
much damage must have been done to
crops. The thermometer dropped %
degrees in ten minutes.