Show An Excursion Boat Capsized and Sunk LAKE CITY Minn July J4The excursion excur-sion steamer Sea Wing of Diamond Huff carried a party of two hundred or more excursionists from Red Wing to the camp of the First regiment Minnesota National guards just below the city When the day was coming to a close Captain Wetherin 1 prepared to return his boat load to their homes Many among them feared the approaching storm and asked that he postpone his his departure until I after the storm was past over Thinking hiuldlg the storm would not prove serious he would not consent but about S oclock started up tho lako towards lied Wing nearly two hundred passengers being on board The wind was blowing a sralo A point of land runs out from the Minnesota shore just about this place across from I which is known as Maiden Rock To pass around this point it was necessary for the steamer t turn slightly toward the Wisconsin I Wis-consin shore and immediately a hurricane seized hold of the already struaglinjj and I cracking vessel and Twisted heL out of the control of her engines and crew An at I tempt to beach her failed and over she I went with her great load of passengers The barge Jim Grant which was in tow and I on which about onequarter of the excursionists ex-cursionists had crowded was also seized her awning being crushed in and tho passengers pas-sengers thrown into tho wuter This1 happened hap-pened just below the point and as tho helpless hulk drifted befOre the gale the steamer righted herself for amoment bit in another moment was keeled over Tho barge broke loose and drifted down opposite the town and those still on board about twenty in number w re rescued The steamer drifted in back of the point and sank Many were saved however and the heroism of a number of rescuers cannot be too highly praised Eightytwo bodies had been recovered and identified when the search was discontinued at dark to night How many more were lost is a matter of uncertainty but it is feared the number will reach one hundred Q L |