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Show mm RAVAGES. Minnesota Swept tijr a Cjclone, lte alllfiar la) tile Dealh of SsSe 0() Vtiimh A STEAMBOAT LOAD OF EXCURSIONISTS EX-CURSIONISTS DROWNED Jn Cnglueer's loretliought and (iood Judgs-rnt bares a Host or rsenyers. THRILLING NARRATIVES OF SCENES WITNESSED. t .,.a 1 r- Trenitndoas ConfIs;ratlon In I'iilla- delplila. Tic 3Ixor nnil TrlepJibn J.lrJ. Br Telerrst a t 11 Vrw j 4 utrvT jAms. ui'Ltir. 1 Ijelonr In mmiesnln Itrslroya Orerno lllimau Uelnirs. far Pali, July IT.- A t.v momenta mo-menta before o o'clock this after-noon, after-noon, clcuds which had been threatening a storm began to collect col-lect our tlie nglouof lake Mclr-rea, Mclr-rea, tnoorthn-u miles north of this J Ity,.sra Lahljrj. on it rtitarj mo lion and tho lerilb'c api-eara'tN; cf 3 cyclone. Hundreds of cillZdis watciied the clouils as tlicj swipt together, and followed thelrcourse to the northwest, In which dlnc-lion dlnc-lion many friends had gone to sjiend tlie da j at some of the msnj" little-lakes little-lakes sc-.ittired over the couutrj. The ijcIolc t!eveloiie-d Jroma terrillc storm of wind to rain ami hall,w hlch Jit in at ."..3d n'llock and ra,cd -ritli unabated fury until nearly t iviock. At t!i l-tter hour thei.ouu liiUielou'liwutMiddbu-lj liiUielou'liwutMiddbu-lj as-umed a fuuuil 1'ke ebaje, the edge King fringed with a faccwork ol fleecj w hlte. Whin the eddjing monstir gained its full momeutum the wind suildenlj veered from the east to the south. Almost in a tw inkling the great mass spread out like a fan and.sweepingacross I.ake Oirvaite, leveled everything in its iatli. The scene absolutely btggars de-scrif de-scrif tion. The number of dead is uot definitely knuwu. aud thire Is no means of ascertaining who the wounded an-. There must be from twenty-five to brtj- wounded, sume of tht 111 -iriou-lj , but most ct Hum rlighllj . Thej have been taken to n-sldeni-s In various parts of the cit, and no one liasanj idiaasto who they an Tin re is no organized sjtm of rellif, ami consequently cverjlwdy Is at ea a- to the real extent of the ca-ualtv. Itisleleved, honcvir, Uiatsia'wUI-Jvrtl,.- M VII Ut OS Kll 1 l, but thireareseviral wouudedwho are likelj to die A jouiigmau drove In from Iiku Coleman soon afurwards Willi information in-formation that at least two persons were killed, and over 100 injured at that wint. He bad been out there with a joungladj friend, aud luring lur-ing gone aftir a bugj to drive huiiii, 011 his return to where- she had been standing he found his comjiaulon seriouslj Injured by the -torni which had -uddiulj conic up, on them Oilier rtiwtls followed thick and fast, each tieiug a little worse than what liad needed it To the north and east of the ilj there are a great number ol little lakes which are sought bj a multitude multi-tude evirj Suiidaj, and on the shon s of thee lakes niaiij- rami r ia.-- tin hot months of summer. LaVo Co'eman is one of thin, and the damage there was verj heavy George Miller, teller of the First National Bans., was killed W Inn tlie storm struck the little lake, the boathouse was lifted up bodilj and ovirtnrned.in thu watir, and a lsat loaded w it Ii tiersons given similar treatment. Othir buildings ui re di mol'shcd or liadlj vv recked. Pas-ing from the starting K)Int, the tjcloue struck I .ale Joanua, Itke Girval". Iake Nadais, Little anada an 1 pas.-iel oil about four miles east of White Bear I.ake. I rum Lake Oerv als the ij clone Iiassetlalmos due east, and it is retorted re-torted it struck nscttlt ment twelve miles southeast of Stillwater, dc-molisliing dc-molisliing it and Ml I IM, SKV f ILM. 1 1 IbsJN-t. The tclegraih llnesi arc, however, all down and no tlisetlchcs can lie got through The seems at Lake ticrvaise, along the j.utli of the storm just afttr the storm jossed by, wire heartrending Htlp was .11 hand at once, and the wounded and dead were uug from under the buildings and takiu to hou-es of neighbors, and to hospitals, and the dead wire all collided in the hotil of John Coleman A majority of the building wire light frame structures, which weiesocomplctelj blown tu pieiesi that Hiiro reallj were not wricks under which the oceiiiauts could lie buried. The dead bodies wire found main rods from the houses tht j had ow ued whtii living. Help was asked from White Bear, but it was impossible to send nny phjskiaus,many clUzeiis. however, wmt to their aid. Half a dozen ainbuLmeis aud twice that rutnber of physicians went from .St. Paul at S o'clock to admlntstir to the- sutler-em. sutler-em. fceviralof Hiedcadbodicswire brought to this city aud the others will rtmaln at Colimau's until claimed bj' their friends and taken home. The cltl zens an- doing everything IKi-sible under the dl-trt-seing circumstances cir-cumstances in properlj caring for the dead and alleviating the sufler-ingsof sufler-ingsof the wounded. At the Coleman Cole-man Hou-e eviry room upstairsand down is filled with cots upon which sullcrcrs are laid, and S. OOlllVa OF DOCTORS are in attendance sc tting and ani.ti-tating ani.ti-tating linils and dn-s-ing wounds. The black-robed SUters of Meny an tlying about aud sera to I cverj rliere admlnl-tering comfort, and assisting in tlie work of relieving reliev-ing the pa'n and distri-s. A cons of assistants weru kipt busy makirg Uindagts, tearing up lolls of llren and making it Into strips ufnqulsite dimensions, which the doctors putf to almo-t Immediate use. In cue o the upiier rooms there wire seven wounded lying on cot-, the most of Hum Insensible or under the influence influ-ence of opiates. The wouuded were also in the alUc. In fact, there was not room to accommodate all of them, and a number were carried to Frivatc houses in the neighborhood, t Is believed Hie number cf wound ! may beta en hlgiur than forty. A good daj 's work w III be uecess-irj-to get anything like a correct list of the dead and wcunded Lvirjthlngis excitement and confusion and one can hardly tell who was bis next-door neighbor. Some of the dejd were horribly mutilated and all had their faces so blackened as to be almost unrecognizable. The place where the cyclone struck the ground and caused THEL053 0FL1FF was on the shore of LakoGcrvaUe where J. II. Schurmlerof this city had a summer cottage, and where Simon Gccd was alto located. The-funnel The-funnel tliajtd rlondsvre I Uon-n o(j I them and demolished their dwellings dwell-ings and r numberof other buildings in the same neighborhood. Th'. camp or Colonel Hellltr or this citj was blown down, but the party all escape lujurj'. In the wreck 01 Schtirnilet's and Good's hites flowere killed and the rest Injured. Tb killrf v-ee, Mrs, J.U. Scburmlir, Ciiaricj fjcln'rmier, Rv. Mr. Phsefler of Bnnnan, Texas: George Miller or Hie First National Bank of this city; "Pete," fachurmier's driver, whose last name is nol known. The bodies of Mrs Schurmler and her son, aud Mr. Phaetlcr are not jet round. It is said the cj clone was confined to a district only three and a hair elites luDgi.ayd that the worst Jam-sgcwn Jam-sgcwn dbn -r'lhl'i th-limits of half a mill. Tliu passengers on the St. Paul ati3 Duluth train, which left White Bear at -1 53, w ere approaching Gladstone when they observed the tycloue forming, and watched its motion with interest rather than fearer exclttmuiL. Xoteowlth the nglnicr, however. He sur the thccstttnlng aspect of the storm, and nl'tl i st-j'led lopk to si-e If tho road were clear, pulled bir ll-e throttle aud the engine Iead forward. Ills judgmentand quick action undoul t-edly t-edly saved the IIMSOl THFTIUIN LOAD, for tho twisting, terrifying devastator devast-ator crused the track scareelj more than a minute after the train bad pated. Htlp that had beet! called for Pum the, stricken district was at once sent io ihtfi, do'-iors and othir assistants going as fa-t ns he? cqtld be taken. The lodit s of those men-tioneil men-tioneil were brought to the cltj this evening aud turned over to friend-. New sccmesfrom the kei ptrof be at-houscat at-houscat l.ako Kohlman, who says he let out this afternoon at least fifteen boats. None or them had less than two occuiants, and some Uiree or four. Since the fearful storm !isd hxee the laae no trace or Uie boats or unfcrtJnitb insstuer5 can be found. Still, itcaunot lie positively stated tonight that these jeopleaie lost. It will be inissible to fiud out as to that until tomorrow. Should it be true that thej- hav c all genu down, it would swell the n ported looser lift at various loints to at least fiftj It Is most dilllcuit to obtain auy definite news lonilit, as telephone and telegrai h co umuulcatioiiis in-tinu in-tinu led. Many opIe feel certain cer-tain that Hie loss of life will not exceed ex-ceed ten. num. two niNMKiii mtowNin. M!N:hAla)LI-, Julj n. The steamer Sea Wing Kit I.ed -N in,', Minn , tills afternoon w itti pas sengers 011 lxiard, bouud tor Iake Cltj, wlure the -state eiicampineut ot the-iuate militia was in prugre-s. At seveial small towns a.onr the shore ot Lake Pi Hi eubJgli j-enf-le vv-e tdkeu on toard to uuKc tirjut a" I. Wind tie Iwat reached its di-tinaUoU f barge was in tow w hlch carried 100 ot th'snumbtr. Late this afternoon the arlj- f embarked ror home aud was in the middle or the lakt, oir Inke Cit J, w hen the cj cloue struck them The boat became unuuuageable at once. Thularge w as cut loose, and after an hour drifted to shore with about twtutj people on board. The others, two hundred orniore.neredronned. It is Impossible at this time to give the names-, ,ut among the dean are S me-ot the liest known uid most pmniucnt meu or I led W ing auJ viclnltj A number or bodies have alreadj wasliul ashore, and the citizens citi-zens have fonued a voluntarv jollcc service to iatrol the stioles and watch for others. The -anli will continue through the night. The storm did great damage to iropertj- in and about Lake Cltj, but no lives were lost on the shore, as far as nportcd. |