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Show THRILLING SCENES. Jlorc DdaIN to Hand of (he lr.tr ful DKaslor on Lake l-cjiin. DERCAVED PARENTS WELL MCH DISTRACTED One HuuJreJ and Fifly Lnrurtnnatc Croatnrfs Strnsplin? To- gcthrr In Ihc Aalcr. HOW THE STEALER VAS WRECKED The NorL of the trclone Hound bjnt M. l'ditl. Tlic Ifa3. nj Telezrara to tne neks i viti i li i itistsn I.. lllnnfp 1 nrflrnlnni n lit lite Sit I Oernrreiicc Imkf Cit, "Miun Ju'j 1' tinournit.it li U-autiful ilttTs tnd fatnirs lands, ltku IVj In d utt ruillrU surface gai. Ioc1j3 Ittt'uti deuce of tltL lirrcc 'ruKlt, with tin ilcnKiitiand of the ileMli-dualini; fur of tlie Ial- that raetl oir tin-, (llj last night With trarcil t note of warniii),' tliert. 1 ur. utioii thih region the Mvtrct hlrm ivtr known in its hLtor and tin l- t f lifo is irojal 1 greater titan tn other siu0Ie calamity tl at mr islteelauv jart of t'le Northtvi't. SixtIght Iwlies Hal Ix-eit rt,'-covered rt,'-covered t hen the search was ill continued tt dark tonight. How man more were Io t is a matter of uncertaiut ThestcanurS'-a Wtng of the Dm niond Jo line earned a jartj of tuo hundreii or more excursionists front Red Wlngtothecamiiof the First Hee,Iment, MmueHita Na'ional Guards, jutlieiou tlieciti When Hie daj was coniin to t cloe Caji-tain Caji-tain W eatheru iirejuriil to return theU.atlo.td to their home Manj -tmoDg them feared tin n I roathiL storm and 1 ked tilat he j-tiwuo tlqartu-e until aftir tlie-tonn Ittd parsed over Tmuking tile storm wou' I not pnvi serious lie mi! I not consent, I tit at ibout s o clock starte-d up the lake towards Red Wing nearl two hundred j"is sengers beine, on loard The tiuJ wis blowing 1 gale V joint of land runs out from the Miunc-oia shore ju't aliout this tlaci, acr from 1hieI1Is wiftt is knnuu as Maiden Rock To pass am 111 1 this luimituas necessarv f or the tcini er to turn f light) Uward tlie W !-cousin !-cousin short, and in. ueJU. eh .'11 hurricane seized hold of the a'rea 1 STltleKILlNt AMI CKUKINC 135- SFL. and tu i teI her out ol the control of her engimst uid ( reu Auattenit to teach her f tiled in I otir she went Hith hir great Ion I of inseu gers. The bare Jini 'irmit, w hieh wasin tow, and onwhiehalvutoi t-quarer t-quarer of the exturioni!a had irowded wasnN) sezed, he" awn ine, ben g crushed in tud the pa seugers thrown into the water 11ns haiened just below the point, ami as the helj less hulks drifted be 'ore the gale The steamer righted lit n-elf f r a moment, but in attothtrmoit eiit sin keeled over The large broke loose and drifted dow u opiiosite the tow n aud tho-e still on board tinuttweii tj in number were rescued llu stiamer dnftetl iu Uaik of the jxilnt aitlsank Man were saed hnu eer, ami the hen i m ol a miiulr of rescuers cannot lie too hi,hl,j 1 nised torioral 11 I Terr c. m jelled tlie seetaturs to n--i t him tud saved the lives of eiLhteen of those who were still cliuaiug to fie wreik Others there w ere like him aud over slxtj wen rescued from whit seemed to lie certain tlcilh Small boatM crui'e-d around for seve ral hours and tcked up some three score if still living unlorlunales sm)ii as word reached the mill tla camji volunteers were calletl ft r and every oi e oluntetred Adju taut General Miller immediate!,) took charge of the rt-nni nt awl the work of rescue wis begun an 1 earned out. Rod aftir tod of men women and eluldren, in si me enses whole families wire taken from the water some alive others unconscious but not dead, tiid yet others from w hieh tlie breath of life hail forever fled SD LX! Eitiners were thoe of man urents wuo ha I eliildrt.il mi-sing an I other tieopie looking for friends an I rela lives ran uji ami dow n the beat h all night -in 1 loda, inimiring if an more boditst liad been recovered and for the nanus of tile identified dead The anguish of the mill jareuts whoe. chil lren ha I been ruthles 1 torn fiom them 1 the an ful eulami t cannot 1 e liortra ed At o clock this morning fifty Indies had been recovered idt nti fied aud sent to Red W ing R b o clock mr re had taken the same mournful jourue, aud afSo'cIok tills altenioon seven others were ridded to the gruesome uuml-er few of the bodiesliad anj I rui es oi otlier marks of iijur untheni The fact that the militia wen. in eas call undoubted! resulted in lhesaingof main lives litnerai Mullen and fcrteauts 1 itzneral I Clark anJ ( am were uitalle aud commendable During the morning a sytematie patrol of the water over whiih the boats drifted after liein firt struck 1 thegale waske) t uply (Itizens of Iake Ctt After tlie ias' bodies had been taken from the hulls General Mullen j reused into service all row boats within reaeh, with which the soldiers Ivgan tins after noon a thorough dragging or tlie lake at the scene of the til-aster No bodies were found up to dark when tbesearcii wasabanioned for the day Dynamite will be ued in the morning There were a good man who made use of LISE 1KESFKVTKS Irit probably none were so fortuuatt as Roliert Adams the 17 ve-ar-old son ol Dr Adams of I.akt Oil aud another bo Tluv fecureil thne life preservers and were in tlie water six hi ur before beiug rescued oung Adams could swim lait lis companion could not. The had the good sense to float quietly and not attempt to fie,ht tjainst the wares' during the six hours they wer buffeted 1 the billows mid blown hither and yon 1 thegale. The drifted alwut n mile down jw, t the town, and then a change in tlie wiud carried them up the river to t rontenae, seven miles from here, where they were rescued b Dr Kain and party, aud today arc nearly as well as ever TIIF UL.VI1 Following Is a lit of tlie dead, so far as identified, in addition to tho-e given ntove John Hefilcr, wife and two chil dren Teter Gellen, wife an I flvi chillren Jlrn-RIokeranltwochll dren, Mrs. Hemfol ling and three children, Jlrs. hchmlberg and daughter; Minnie Fl'her, Marie fragluad, JCatie Daly, Sirs .buerf and daughter Fred ( hrist, Annie and Francis bteegcr.George elson, John Bahelns and wife, Cuarlw. Denslage, Fred Perer and dugh- ttr, Ttm Darsou H Kedlus ami two children, J-red llatlemter, Mamie Adam, Katie Rurkhardt, V O Vnierson, Fddle Cliristopber-son, Cliristopber-son, Hennau an I Will Hlps-tr, GooritA! Harris, Jlrs. Nellie Wrehan and son Millie Mli-s Iliersoul-in, Con.y Johnson, Ha Smith Mvrlie Mero, iiuie Way Ira tultoii hreit Seaver Heine G rken, ( has I.ruwii, K lVterrau, lkrtinUIn ttrs of Red W ing Alice an I N. ttle Palmer of Trenton WIs Miss llren nan I'ho be Rlcrson Katie Davis John 1 uelucrstun, Ida Green tretl llrnij htiu- Theodore Ha'twell Litxie Harrison, Mabel Holtou, I mmi NelMiu, Orrin Osk bad Pearson Julia and Almte lVrsig, tethefller, wife and to children Miss aeibraste C MTAIN A LATHJ StN, I mprietor and rommancer of tlie 6c 'I7, has lieen severe! blamed 1 eitizensaul others for what the allege to have Inn criminal nei,ll r-'i n- o 1 his part iu pulliiiv, out Into the lakcwitii such 1 crowd when the looked so threatening The t-ai.Iaui's wife and two of his three tlilldren lot their lives under the waves and that tact together with the lo-sof his vetel aud the t,reat Ios of life-. unnerT"! liiw o that lit I ii t "of slqut during the day an 1 lliuM. wh did see him got Ixit ini;.rfi-rt statements from him He stated that he tit I not consider the dtigtr ver n.it, an 1 Uiounht lie saw 1 1 rea iu tliei Imnls promising a clearing awa of the fto-in Thuis not well taken I the o- le in this neighborlKxs, who Ml tlit sk was 111 k with the most threatening t-ind of clouds ami tl at it wa c Icarl cvi'ent that aver lit ivv st nu tt.j-aliout to break. IILs otlnr an if suih Ihese ma bee. tiled, is that the manager of tie excursion, uliose prollls wou 1 1 lie eut dow u 1 1 auv tie la in the dtjiaiture of tile Uset,wasso urgt nt ill his in I'tance iiisjn lm mediate tiepart ire that the titj-tflln V hided and took the Isjat out tu her destruction now it n VI I i-M.I) Rn Wim , Minn Jul 14 I- urtherdt taiU sf the terrible steam erdKaster on 'jiku ltiuare re-cclveti re-cclveti t'lisrao-nillgas fol'mrs When o ,mitu Isku lit Hie boat bewail bi feel thecifects of the storm, but the officers ! tp on tlie ir wav The ga' increv eil as the luiat contiiiuial up the Likt,an! in lifteen mi lutes was at Its height vi lieu near the central joint about two nii'es jlsive I iku (it, the steamer was at the in re tf the wavtsi, vthith ma wa lung over tie Ix'at ml all was eon'u Ion Tiieiuv was then run in and the large eait )H4. but tiie win I again sett'ie steauiiraJnft ill tile lake. A lumlier of thuse nn tin 1 trv,e jimijjed luto tl e wa'er an I swam as! lore s the barge floated again ill detj wat r, lit s on Uiard aw the samer as it was earrltil lieljlet tut in the lake, aud btmg tossed alioutou the raging w.atir- Tin were hurritiela mi'iient later to see tin steamer nii' , carrviug w ilh it its ca-go o. 1 ill (eiiple riiuse on tin targe rtmaiiHal the"e until thev were drifted near the shore and r.ll were rtscued or w tin ashore There were on! about lift tple on the barge, the remainder being ou the team r Tin events thai tntnsi i-ed on the 'lurnier after it scjtarated tf m the lf,e are uio-t clear! v related 1 those who wire rescued 'mm the wrtoetl Veiwel ssoo i as the storm Instil to aileet lie j rogroA of the boat C.aj tain W eatheni gavt iiistriietious to run I i r into the W i-eiili'ln sliore, Utt it w as t ' lo avail against aiiL TEtu nut Filter of wii tlamlwave In five minutes more the w tves began tn wash into tl boatai i lill the lower decks, while hailf touts came duwu ou the headsof the unfortunate crew hud died n the deck suddinh a huge wave struck the craft at the same in in cut that a tirrifie I Ul.1 of wind, more violent than ever swi;tdoii ujon her The t. rrlble force cajislzed the little vesc ai 1 all of theoj 'coi board lulorinon, viere thrown into tlie water, some tielug caught under neatli aud others throw u far Irum tin rraf.. The boat turned bottom side uji vanland oil aliout tweitvfive -o le wire obVerviil to Ix. floatlug ou the surfitee Thes caught Ii dd of the I mat and chinned ujion the upturned Irittuai tlio-e first sieair lu a position assisting the olliiiv Iu ten minutes more the twentv five who had o'ltained monieiitar safct t u tne lioat coul I otservono othirs of the crew or n-engcr floating on the stir'aceof the water fterwjrd howevtr, as nllisluf lightning lit up tlie surface ef tin iake,the sight of an occasional white urtssofatlrowning woman orchil 1 wasolservalli butltwa3 imjici ble fur thuse who witnessed tlie sight tu lend auv aid Those -emaming liaran calling lor helji as soon as tlie storm began to aLate and in half an bourn Iiht was ob-erved flittmgabout tin dock at Lake I it, opjiosi to which joint the ti j turned steamer ha 1 now Kin e. riven lit fore helji could reach them, how i ver the jour creatures who et remained to tell the horrors of tlie tune were again submitted to another Iattle with the dements, with no vtorl of vt ami tig, and as tin wt ri ju t I1U.1MS(, TO HOI I tlie w ouki be taken otT b citizens of lake Litv, the boat again turned over, this thne on lis si n mil all of the twtnt live nniaiuin; wire hurled in the water Of these, several were drowned liefore they conk! tie I runout tuthe iioat Tliuse w lu slit ceedetl Iu nmaiiiitig atluat again eiaired hold on the boats si le and as the men hung onto the railingthi Uir. in danger of being be-ing wa lied aw a b the waves One man observed the forms of two womeu wedded iu betwet u station ar sca.s both jale in dca ii, as the lightning gleams lit up their upturned up-turned faces. Another man saw two little girls float jost him as hi clung with desperation lo the steannr s sijt Half rm hour after the na.-agcof the storm the jt le went to the lock where the steaoiiraStfcf Iloic aril was anchored It wa j resumed re-sumed Hint the steamer would at once j recced to the rescue of the drown'm, but when Caj tain How ard asked if lie was going out to the rescue he re j lied that he was not going to run his boat from shore until the indications of another a,-j a,-j roacliing lorru had disappeared He ai I, al-o, th it Iil did not J ro-jkisu ro-jkisu 1 1 run the rist of losing his boat in order to look for dead ioj te on the la.c In a moment a dozen or more row Iwats wire manned and jut out from shun, and the tA.nty or more remaining jieoj !e cliiug to tbe hull were rescued aud brought to shore, most of them being mi a who rould swim DLRINOTHE IC1IT fifty five bodies were, recovered This morning, up to IU o'clock, seven more, had been jiull-d out, At 10.30 the bodies of awonim and child, to which rojies had been attached at-tached were drawn from the water The chil J was the daughter of John Winters of Ked Wing FredSelvers, a blacksmith, was taken out a few minutes later, making a total of slat five prubakl about half of tile total number of drow lied t rom earlv morning a jotrol of row boats was kej4 all over the neighborhood of the wreck, looking for bodies "everal were found that way last nlht, nn I a small bov vas found flouting aud veiling three miles tiown the lake from the scene of the disaster Ratter ofst Paul ke.t uj a cannon.adln curing thetltv tring to raise the bodltfc, w ltliout success rui,s this morning Hilled out the sham red wreck of the Aca IWn rvl"ainii three bodies, one worn in aud two youug 11111 Alii I'al mer of Trenton was one of thesi,but the two men havo iK.tUeiiidci.tl Heil up to 1 o'clock That makes a total of slxtv-elcjit liotlies now found 1-stima es var as to the total number of dead riure wereover two hundred on the steamer aud bargt when the started to return to Red Wine,, a very few remalng be hlud on account of tin storm, although man jiru-testeil jiru-testeil against the i roposal tu steam uji the JaAc in the ft -eofsuilia gale ils wa. then I lowing Of the whoIcnumWr It is kjown jsi-tiv;elv jsi-tiv;elv tha. alwut fifty were saved Mot' nm hat tcaid 1 'it onl this man are known at tills title to be saft That won 1 1 leave about Iiivittims but tvirv one hojies the number nil iutgubtond 1-0 V number ire still In the wreck md a ,reat many in tlie l ttom ol the lakt w litre the gale tirst struck tin steamer Just how man will not be known for some tlmect, po ill not for several das. THF OCIONt s WOKIs IHllM jr h ii i bT 1'Ati, Jul 14 According to the testimonv of those who wit nessed the storm it first gathered in the vv Init of Snail Like, sev tr.il miles to the northwest of lake Oervais ind something like 1 1, lit mil a from " l'nul ltjrueetlcd In its general luovcmnitaiiJ Ir-t begin its work of tIesn.ctIou alxu! two mihs from tlieihunntiir "ml (tood cottages b denu ll-hing.aloni ami several windmills Altirthi' it sctniKl to lund into the air sinking the earth again nesir the hamlet ut I itt e ( ana Ja, w here the first serious damage was done Again it nij ed tl o sjair of -l-out a mile and ouct Jguil Ijweretl to the earth an I resti nisi its work of destmt lion, its fur centering near tin shin of Ijfke Gervai , wiieri llv t deaths vire causetl t)nce again the storm set lied to rehotin 1 into tin air, tmlr to regain the earth half a mile furthc r ou where the ruins ol the Oaetzke jil tc and the I raised i jmates u i n lift to lar wine-s to its relentless juwir Here its fu"i-B seemtsl tj In. sj nt s it jinKi-cded tstwanl it a'sunietl Ihesinijle nature of a huh wind, actamijiauiesl 1 a t'uitmt rtorni Hall as large as medium sired olives was ont o' the features at White Rear Man earl IiMir this morning a sjieeial tra'n Iwre a eorresjnde it o the Associate J .'ress from -t l'nul to the set ue of TIIL TKKlUKLt CVCLO I-No I-No sign of the terrible havoc was visible until the lull ovtrlookiuir the 1 ttle vahe was rearhed, wlnie on the side of tile Mil was eeu tin house bt longing to Mr Hirri'.with the roi f blow nuf an I jurt t f ti e south si'e blown awn and oit Iml dings scs'u rest in the must tic mnrRlized couditiin o one was hurt at this joint V tjua-ter tl a mile ncr'li the w tiolc sctut of ties, miction lav sjreal liefjn tin ive ali ng the short t t juli t win re thes.onn tun esl an I cris-ed the lake st Al the houses of slmniieier an I t.ood aiti tnothir huue in wliiih eai It ha I an interest AH of Uiow were itt rl di inulisl ed All the trees lit the n IghloriiotMl were torn twi-ted strijjietl of bark ami liiu'is, and from the mangled trunks of man hung artitles o nothing iu I U-ii ling In Un lake are the Isnlies if fair Ii r-e- floating float-ing ami 1 heajis of IieHrdsanil hoase tiiulient Hire will jrubalh be found the 1-od'esof the nnssii g, as Hit cmill iKtliefouuliuthe stacks of Inanls an I furniture s illustrating the force of the wind an inn Iiumj and t Tenty five fectnf in it jiijie was turn from the well in fnuil of Mm Ootid reside lice tnisted ami U'lit almost doul It an I dijuisiteil fift yards from the well tin the edge of fit water is a lie of Uiariis, covt ml with turf lifted from aswamj ."iMt f.tt avra s,rLWliajj a) out are j leces t f furnltnrt bonks ami stove-, wtlls aad cellars filled to tht tt p with buildim, debris, and iu huriiiticr's cellar lie Tilt MVM.1 l u iuvivins o' a lior-e The gmuu 1 about these houses have the aj jtiiraiicc from a ili-tance, of having been gout over with a 1 1 w t Lake Gtrvnise the dead and mi-siutr are I ettr Melsen, George J Miller Rev Dr -hae.r, of Rrennati, Tex Mr J II imj melcr, liar es -tcliurintlir Tlie sii,li..- auuui 1 tkOervaIse art aw ful The sites ol the Gooti tnd "schunutler cottages we-e markttl till ty tin ir f undations while the ground for an ace. or more is strewn with i'il ns of all kiml ta- t cellar cf -schurmtitr s htKi t is atlrivt will w ith twent feet of c-e t iron jiijie which was lilerall toni from the ground while on the shores of the lake, full KM feet awa .is a j I mo whiih f mnerl stuoi iu the pirlor of the cottage I luce tna-J, some of them threu uutl a half feet in tli itue-ter, itue-ter, had bet n broken oil" t lose to the ground and are scattered nlout iu all dIections Chickens without feathers ou them litter thu groun I and articles of wearing itj jnrel ire to l seen st icing iu trees and bu h ot Iialf a mile awa III the 3anip near tin, la.c sh'rc art i numUr of sjllnlirsand lioards sliikiiiglltuiirij,ht,lika fie! I of corn VII along the road from Ger vals to a maisthe houses have bet n more or less damaged borne have the shingles torn off" the roofs others the chimneys blown down and others a w hole section of the bull J ing carried awa. MIAMI VII Tin not sis ami ho'els In the vieimt have been tuined Into temporar hosj ttals At Taul Melette s residence I ittlo Cat uatla, are Melaccu, his wife aud three children all of whom were seriously injured At Kohlmann s hotel are Minnie Meiss anJ Jostjh lieruard Miss Melw Is seiffenug Intense 1 from a wound in her chest, made Ii an Iran sp ke, which was driven almost ilirough Iiir body, and recover i imjos-ible A camping part was on the southeast shore of Iako Gervaise Thev ran from their tent and sought thesheltcrofan overhanging bant ju tin time to save tht Ir lives The te t and all its contents were su ej t Into the lake The number of per suns Injures! at all tlio ill ire rent poiutslslan-e, and the list is Mug made un slowly. Mr J H Sc'iurmelcr has recovered re-covered sufficiently to be able to relate re-late vvliat he knows concerning the storm They had noticed tin storra brewlng, und as It came ujon them he had risen to chw u wincow which the storm had blow n t jn The next thing he knew he was twirled about In the air at a rapIJ rate Ou coming to hU senca ho found hlmelf near the edge of tho lake 31aklughls way up from the late, he came acrcn the remains of his sou In law, f. J J.il'cr, and afterwards those of Rett, lil9 Wh man The storm struck a l-rinch settlement settle-ment half a mile north of I.lt'le Canada, comj lete! demoll-hlng live houses auJ slinhtl Iniiirimr the occujants At 1 rank Gutzke's Lice, on the southeast shore of lake Ucrvai e, besides himself anil fam 11 of four, thin, were about twent visitors u ho had sought shelter Till cv.cl.ONF STlU.cn. the house and lifted It bodll from Itsfoun latlon, but. fortunately, nut one inmate wan Injured ILb sturm reall) commenced between be-tween r5iial!aci Turtle Hkes,j:a!sed ovirautl strucl Li- nnthern part of I.lttlu Canada, thenc6 ol ) the r-churnieicr ana Good cotiajw, across like GervaL-e, to Gutzke's j lace, thence iu a nonheasterl di reetloii to farmer William lirow n's place where it lifted an I dl-apjiear-ed Its track was aliout fort live rilles lung anil from a quarter to lulfnmilelii .tilth Tile bodies of Mrs. bchumieler and her son Charles aud Rev Mr I haej ler havo not been rc-ct veretl uji to a late hour tonight Itlsal must certain that the are at the bottom of the lake, as a search of thede'THfail-d t tinlnti trace, ol them late tonight it was asCe'fcOrcu that the number of serious) Injured in the vicinit of Itke Gervaise is nine Of these, Mrs-Lincoln Clark, Miss Minnie Mtiss, I-rank Mclau con, Mm Meliucou, John Guenthtr and "simoti Ginl will die Mr t huriiicitr, Mrs. tnxtl and Mr-HulUrt Mr-HulUrt Schurmelr, whll- t-rribl iujuretl, will like' recover IV sides these about twetit others were jainful! I ruised aud cut, but not serious! injured |
