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INSEET TOUR WANTS MONDAY'S GLOBE The Monday's issue of the Globe is read by several thousand. people who do not read Monday papers. It pays to advertise on Sunday. VOL. XII.

VERY CLIMAX OF HORROR. The Tornado on Pepin's Bosom the Crowning Calamity of All Minne- sota's Annals; At Least One Hundred and Twenty Lives Swallowed Up by the Angry Waters of the Fatal Lake. An Appalling Sacrifice to One Man's Determination to Brave the Fury of a Storm Irresistible. Fifty Miles of River Line Plunged Into the Gloom of Mourning for the Fearful Death of Loved Ones Lost. Red Wing Bowed Down With Grief and All Business Forgotten in the Presence of the Sublime Horror.

Lake City Under Martial Law, While the Brave But Ghastly Work of Recovery Proceeds. Graphic Pen Pictures of the Frightful Descent of the Storm King Upon the 111-Fated jg Sea Wing. Endless Ages of Horror Condensed Into a Brief Half Hour When Death Rode on the 'Gale. BODIES RECOVERED. ANDERSON, O.

Wilmot, Dak. ADAMS. MAMIE, of Hager. BLAKER, Mrs. W.

S. BLAKER, CENA. RKH ART, KATE. BEARSON, PIICEBE. BROWN.

CHARLES. CREEMER, LEON. CHRIST, F. J. DEUSKME, CHARLES.

DALY, KATE. MINNIE. FULTON, IRA. GERKEN, PETER. GERKEN, Mrs.

PETER. GREEN, IDA. GERKEN, MENDER. GERKEN, HENRY. GERKEN, AL VINA.

GERKEN, GEORGE. GERKEN. EMIL. GERKEN, HEINE. -W.

HOTTOMAN, FRED. HEMPFTLING, Mrs. S. HARRISON, MELISSA ANN. HEMPFTLING, Mrs.

H. HOLTON, MABEL, HUMPHERT, JOHANNA. HEMPFTLING, LIZZIE. HEMPFTLING, FRED. HERWEDEL, THEODORE.

INGLEBRITSON, JOHN. JOHNSON, CORD. LEESON, THOMAS. LARSON, Mrs. ED.

MERO, MYBLE. NELSON, GEORGE W. NELSON, NELSON, Mrs. OLE. NILS, MILLIE.

O'BEIRNE, MARY. OSKEY, IRVING. O'SHAUGHNESSY, MARTIN. ANNA. PETERSON, KNUTE.

PALMER, ALICE, Trenton, Wis. PALMER, NETTIE, Trenton, WIS. 6NYDER, ANNIE. SMITH, FLORA. BIEBRASSE, Miss.

SCHOEFFLER, JOHN. SCHOEFFLER, Mrs. JOHN. SCHOEFFLER, SCHOEFFLER, SLAIGER. ANNA.

REUDERSUN. H. SCHOERF, Mrs. FRED. SEAVER, FRED.

SLEIGER. FRANKIE. SEAVER, EDITH. SCHOERF, HATTIE. SCHULENBERG, Mrs.

SOPHIA. WAY, ADDIE. WELTHERN, PEARL. WINTER, BERTHA. STILL IN THE LAKE'S DEPTHS.

AMMOND, JOHN. AXELSON. EDWARD. ANDERSON, ARTHUR. APPENCELLER, JACOB.

boner, CAPSIZING OF THE STEAMER SEA WING AT LAKE PEPIN; DAILY ST. PAUL GLOBE. BONER. BECKMARK, G. BERLIN OSCAR.

COOK, GEORGE. DREPENBROECK, GEORGE, EKK, AXEL. FORSSELL, OSCAR. FISHER, CHARLES. GARBLAM.

F. P. HERDER, HUGO. HILL, of Diamond Bluff. Miss, of Diamond Bluff, HILL, of Diamond Bluff.

HAWKINS, GEORGE. JOHNSON, C. A. JOHNSON, THEODORE. I iy.

JOHNSON, R.F. KINNEY, WILL. KIVAL, JOHN. LUFT, HENRY. LAMPMAN, F.

C. LIDBERG, CHARLES. MUNSON, ANDREW. MOLAN, PETER. NELSON, AXEL.

OLSON, AUGUST, TURDY, HASKELL, PURD WILL. PERKINS, FRANK, yiri- REEVE, GEORGE, RGCK, LUDWIG, THOMPSON, G. H. WAY, FRANK, of Trenton. WEBB, J.

SURVIVORS OF THE WRECK. AUDERBERG, JOHN. BAYRELL, L. S. BERTRAM, AGGIE.

BLAKER, WILLIAM. CASEY, MARY. DANNUM, R. DE KAY, W. W.

JR. EISENBRAND, G. EISENBRAND, W. J. EISENBRAND, R.

i gilbertson, JOHN G. JACOBY, C. D. KEMPE, T. F.

LANDRECK, GEORGE LARSON. G.rSgg&& MARTINSON, EDDIB MORRIS, E. D. OLESON, O. OLESON, AH.

NELSON, HENRY. NELSON, JOHN. PLOYS. WILLIAM. REHDER, HENRY.

SPARKS. of Trentoa. SAND ST ROM, CLAUS. SEASTRAND.H. SIMON.

OTTO. SHE LLSTROM, ROBERT SHERF, FRED. SIMMONS, N. K. SULTZER, C.

S. SMITH, G. SCHENACH, E. TRUTTMAN, CHARLES WETnEREN, CAPT. D.

WARD, SHERMAN. HORRORS OF THE TORNADO. The' Swirling Monster and Its Awful Work. Special to the Globe. Lake City.

July by beautiful bluffs and pleasant: farming lands, Lake Pepin's unruffled surface to-day gave little cvi- 5 dence of the fierce struggle with the elements and of the death-dealing fury of the storm that raged off this beautiful little city last night. scarcely a note of warning there burst upon thisregion one of the severest storms ever? known in its history, arid the loss of life 1 is probably greater than any other single calamity that has ever trie Northwest. St. Cloud's cyclone of Ja few years ago was disastrous in the extreme, but it is as nothing beside this. Tbe list of dead already numbers 05, and may exceed 103.

The 'excursion steamer Sea Wing, of Diamond Bluff, had V- a party of 200 or more excursionists from Red Wing to the camp; of the First regi- 'y. ment, Minnesota national guard, which is just below this city. When the day. was coming to a close Capt. Wetheren prepared to return his boatload to their homes.

Many among them feared an approaching storm, and asked s. that he postpone his departure until after the storm had blown over. Thinking the storm would not prove serious, he would not consent, but at about 8 o'clock started off up the lake -towards Red Wing, nearly all of the over 200 passengers being on board. The Wind Was Blowing a Gale, into the teeth of which the Sea Wing tried to make tier way, but the gale was too strong' for her. of land runs out from the Minnesota shore.

just above this place.across from what is known as Maiden Rock. To pass around this -point, it wa3 necessary for the steamer to turn slightly towards the Wisconsin shore, and immedi- ately the hurricane had seized hold of the already trembling and creaking vessel and twisted tier out of the control of her engines and crew. An attempt to beach her failed, and over she went with her great load of passengers. The barge Jim Grant, which was in tow, and on which about one-quarter of the had crowded, was also seized, awning being crushed in and the passengers thrown into the water. This happened just below the point, and as the helpless hulks drifted before the gale the steamer righted herself fora moment, but was again keeled over and so badly torn -by the storm that she could but.lie helpless and let the waves wash over The barge had broken loose from the steamer and drifted down opposite the town, and; those still on board, about twenty in number, were rescued.

The steamer drifted in back of the point and sank with most of those on board. Many were saved, however, and the Heroism of a Few cannot be too highly praised. Corporal B. Perry, St. Paul, compelled, a spectator to assist him and saved the lives of eighteen of those who were still clinging to; the" wreck.

He went out on the lake when the storm was at its height, and seemed to know no fear. i Others there were like and over sixty Were rescued from what seemed certain death. Small boats cruised around for several hours, and picked up. some three-score of struggling but still living victims of the storm. As soon as the word reached the camp volunteers were called for, and every one volunteered to assist in rescuing the living or searching; for the dead.

Mullen immediately took charge of the regiment and the work was systematically begun and carried on. 'Body 'after' body. rof men, women, chiidren some cases almost of whole was taken from the water, some of them alive, others unconscious but not dead, and yet others from which the breath of life had I forever fled. An invaluable aid in the work, both of resuscitation and of lay-" ing out of the dead, was rendered the excellent ambulance corps, which had been but recently organized. Sad experiences have been many, and remarkable escapes are not lacking.

The Globe man had just secured the names of the latest discovered victims when a stranger, whose (anxiety was apparent in ever movement, stepped up and my daughter heard from yet?" "What is the name?" "Bertha Winters," was tlie response. An inclination of the head and a motion toward the written list told the bereaved father of his affliction, and he turned away to go after the lifeless clay of his "And my boy is riot among them," was the sadly half-consblator remark of Contractor Carlson, who had worked feverishly all night and all day without finding a trace of his son. And so it went on. fast the bodies were taken from the water, they were identified by mourning friends and relatives, and placed in coffins for transportation to their homes. 3 o'clock this morning fifty i bodies had been recovered, identified and sent to Red Wing By 8 o'clock eight more had taken the ST.

PAUL; TUESDAY MORNING, same mournful journey, arid at 3 o'clock this afternoon seven ii. others were added to the gruesome number that had i been carried ii by boat Red Wing. Knute Peterson's body I was" forind about a mile up the shore this afternoon, but the others were all taken out of or close around the wreck. The watches on the different had '-a stopped 1 at from 8:15 to 8:30, showing 5 pretty the time of the wreck, but Peterson's; watch had kept going for some y. Tii roe Hoars In tlie Water yy'.

and stopped at 11:30. Maj. Fitzgerald, surgeon of the who had charge of the hospital corps and of the arrangements for handling the bodies, says that death very quick in every case and that there 7 was scarcely any evidence -of there having i been any struggle on the part of the dying. -Neither had I any lof the bodies any bruises or other marks of injury upon them. Death was quick and painless.

The fact that the militia were within easy call undoubtedly resulted in the saving of many lives, and the willingness of the citizen sol- diery to ri their excellent organization and the good management Gen. Mullen and Surgeons Fitzgerald, Clarke and Came, were notable arid commendable. When morning came the weary all-night workers were replaced by relief comrades ani the worK went on; systematically and tirelessly. The barge lay quietly on the water just above town, and the toppled over on the port side, had drifted- against her tow, and together they lay, the shattered ers of the storm's power and man's weakness. I With axes holes were chopped in the decks and ropes to the bodies' under the water arid these drawn to the surface, carried ashore an turned over to; the ambulance corps.

The bodies those who went down with the steamer were taken out of the cabin through a hole cut in the deck in front of the pilot house and through the cabin doors. Believing that still some Bodies Were to Be Found in the half-dismantled wreck, Gen. Mullen ordered the tearing away of the'; upper works of the vessel and the push; ing of the wreck farther toward the shore, where she was righted. This work was done by the Lriella; and the Ethel Howard; and as soon as the wreck could be got at in its new' Gen. i Mullen and his 7 military helpers -went all through the Sea Wing, recovering three more bodies, bringing the total up to sixty-five, and convinced -themselves that no more bodies were to be found there.

The shattered old-hulk was then left to drift at will, arid her broken and battered framework was In sad contrast with the bright skies and smooth waters. During the morning a systematic patrol of i-r. the water over which the hulls had drifted being first struck by the gale had been kept up citizens of Lake City. After the last bodies had been taken from the wreck, Gen. Mullen pressed into service all the row boats within reach, and, with four soldiers in each began late this afternoon a thorough "dragging of the lake all about the scene of 'the disaster.

No bodies were found late this after- noon, and at dark iyi Search Was Abandoned for the day. 7 Dynamite will be used in the morning. There were a good many who made use y. of "the life preservers, but probably. none had as good or as much use of them as had Robert Adams, the seveteen-year-old son of Dr.

Adams, of Lake City, and a neighbor, whose home is in Red Wing, They had three life preservers and were in the' water six hours before being rescued. -Young Adams could swim, but companion could not. They had the good sense to float quietly and not to fight against- the waves to trie v. shore. During the six hours they were in water, from 9 to 3, they -buffeted by the; billows, and hither and yon by the They first drifted about a mile down past town, and then a change in the wind carried them up the river to Frontenae, seven miles from here, where, they were rescued by Dr.

Cai tieand party, "still alive and well, but considerably the worse for their hard ex- perience. 7 sys. LAKE CITY IN LUCK. Only, the Tail End of the Tornado Struck It. Specials to the Lake City, July 50 far as Lake City itself is concerned, the "damage, considering the fearful i force the i is very It seems that the fury of.

the cyclone expended itself more: on the lake than on its shores. Main street, which is direct line with the course taken by the storm cloud, was wrecked: that is, most of the buildings; on the street were and theawnings of wood which covered the sidewalks for the entire length of the thoroughfare were blown into splinters and carried out of sight." All the trees on both sides of the road were blown down and some very large trunks carried several hundred yards away. Along the west shore -S of the lake between Lake City and Central Point the dense timber is piled up in inextricable confusion, some trees of great thickness being broken short off at the roots i torn bodily out of the ground; i A number of -boats owned by residents along the shore; which 'would have been: of great service' in the work of were smashed into kindling wood, not a vestige of them being discoverable iii's any Capt. John, an ex-steamboat captain, who stood on the steps of one 7 of the residences which line the lake shore from the village to the of the accident, tells i in a graphic manner the story of the cyclone as he saw it lit up by the continuous flashes of lightning. "It was so dark, V- he said, "at the time of the accident that you couldn't see your hand 1 before you, ex- cept for the light I was figuring on getting the folks down cellar, when I Heard Shrieks and Veils, but I thought at first was the Then there came a flash that lit up sky from east to west, and right out there beyond the point I saw the Sea; Wing.

She was heeled clear but; hadn't capsized yet. It was so light for a couple of seconds that I could read her name the paddle boxes. The sight paralyzed me for a few seconds, but every flash that came gave me a fresh view of the boat, and at last 1 saw her with her stern high in the air, and I could see the people falling off her decks into the lake. 1 rushed up to the point as soon as i the wind go tso that I could walk at nil, arid- there were lot of other men going up there to try and help the drowning people. I never saw worse sea on Lake Michigan than was running along the middle of Lake Pepin at that time.

It didn't seem though the best skiff that ever was built could live five seconds after leaving the shore, but there is no telling what -can done when brave men stand willing to do it. One didn't learn his tried to get fa crew man a boat or the first trip, but it looked too 4 much like throwing life arid the fellows didn't want to go. This soldier a gun from his pocket walKed up to the biggest fellow in the j'7; 'Got in That Boat or I'll blow your brains into the he said. The man looked at him, and remarking that force wasn't necessary, he got 7 in. These two men together saved sixteen i lives, and would have saved more but for the fact that the boat got stove in 7- against i the wreck, and came near drowning the themselves before they got ashore rom the; last trip.

Other rescuing parties were out, and many lives were saved at great risk." i-iT'T-'y iTiis.7.7T77 v. yi THE WORK OP RESCUE. Brave Militiamen in the Role lof Grace Darlings. Special to the Globe. iyT Lake City, July yesterday morning a line of hacks busses i- began running between the village and the scene of the wreck, and hundreds of people were congregated during the entire day.

A wire 'enclosure had been built by- the militia under Adjt. Gen. Mullen around" the scene of the; operations, arid a military guard with fixed kept the morbidly; the; work of those engaged in the search for bodies. Here and there along the shore were groups of women who wept in- cessantly, and anxiously scanned each; body recovered, fearful that it might i prove to be the corpse of some loved one. Une mother the finding of T- her daughter's body, a beautiful girl about nineteen years of age.

She was cabght by the hooks and dragged ashore. Her face was white as marble, but beautiful and smiling even', in death. A soldier; of Company rushed the shallows, and; raising; the dead girl, bore her to I the beach. Her long black hair had become un.coiled and hung 7 with the lake water dripping from it over the shoulder of him who- bore; her shoreward. The streams of the as she recog- nized the features of her child were appalling.

Men's hearts sank 'within; them as they heard her, and witnessed the abandon of her grief. Such scenes were all too frequent, however, and there.was too much work to be done to aljow for demonstrations of sympathy. A father was there looking for his daughter. "Three bodies recently recovered lay upon the beach covered by tarp-mlijus, aiuL a young girl. A soldier was, about to uncover her face trio view of the "searcher? but -the latter i stopped him 'with the exclamation "Wait; for (iod's sake wait a few moments." leaned against one of the few trees left i by the storm, and closed his 7.

eyes yin prayer. Then he "7 walked deliberately the shrouded form, tore away; the tarpaulin, "arid found his daughter. help us all," he" said; "it will kill her mother." DISMANTLING THE HULK. Wreck Pulled Apart and Her yy Dead Cargo Landed. Special to the Globe.

i Lake City, July Not a life has been lost Lake City, yet the town is in mourning. Every face is sad? for the terrible events of Sunday njght have cast a gloom over- the vicinity which it will time dispel, During, the greater part of the day the bells of the village churches tolled mournfully, and business is at a stand. still. A mile and a half above the town, off the sandy beach which stretches far out Into' the lake, and which is called Central iyi Point, with upper; decks above the water, lies all is left of the wrecked steamer Sea Wing. A number of tugs from points along the lake arrived on the scene yesterday morning; and, by the combined efforts lof several of these, the wrecKed steamer, with her freight fof dead, warped into -the shallow "water, where lay beached.

Even then her decks were scarcely visible above the water, and was 'determined to tear her to pieces if there was steam i power enough in the half dozen boats to do the. work. Stout cables were made fast to her upper works and two powerful tugs 7 began hauling in directions. Both went with a full head of steam and 7 the desired result was attained. The craft was pulled to pieces i by the steam and the hull turned over in such that the bodies in; trie cabins were easily got at.

Thirteen bodies were found between decks, the last contained in the list "of the dead. A careful ''ssiyyiisiiTT 'C-i I'Jrvi -Search' of the i revealed that none were left, and the shattered remnant of what on Sunday I was considered ras staunch a boat as sailed the inland waters Minnesota was abandoned with scarcely a whole timber iii her. The attention of the rescuers was 7 then devoted Sto dragging, I and during the afternoon our more bodies were recovered by this means. Every In fact, every sort of which, the storm had left in a condition to float, was pressed into" service" military, and a fleet of a dozen or more small boats, manned by soldiers of the National guard, have been afloat arid their crews without: intermission since 7. daylight yesterday Drags I and hooks iy have yy been sent from Wabasha and other and is 'rib lack of the necessary, utensils for the trie bodies.

Half a hundred are piled along the shore awaiting occupants, and. the indications are "at present that almost that number will be needed. The steamer Ethel Howard "has carried all the bodies recovered to 4Red as" fast" as practicable, and in fact almost all the dead are natives of 'that town, with a few from Diamond fPoint, from which place the excursion' "'sorted, and a few from Trenton. Wis. -Several bodies, two of them those of were caught by trie hooks some; Jclistance out in the lake Jate iiri trie after-, noon, but the hold was insecure arid they were lost again.

The body of Knute Peterson, of Red Wing, was 'pulled- from the water, about i o'clock, and was one of the last sent to Red Wing. Prob-2 ably i never in the li history. of the state have so deeds of in-' -dividual heroism been "i performed in a "single night as occurred immediately after the wreck while over a hundred shrieking women "arid children, young men and girls, were Struggling in the Waiter, fighting desperately for a hold on the "slippery bottom of "the" capsized excursion boat. The wind still blew with such fearful force that the; surface of the lake was lashed into a white foam, and the boat upon which a few had ob tamed a precarious perch threatened to turn half over at every One boy named Johnny Swensbri," a ten-year-old son of fought desperately his sister Ernestine to put on a life preserver. She i laughed at him.

"You are i like a girl," she said, "so frightened." A few "moments later the fearful squall strucK the boat, arid with one great lurch j' she went over. Johnny Swenson, with his life preserver i swam ashore, but the girl is among the missing. It was not the first overturning of the boat? which drowned her unfortunate passengers. Fully 125 of them had clung to the sides would have "'been saved but for, the fact that a second gust of wind struck the hull arid turned it half over This broke: the frail hold on life of most of those clinging to her, and they went down in groups eof two and three and half a dozen, shrieking for assistance, calling alternately on God 'arid man to aid them in the hour of death. boat engaged in the search for missing bodies is draped from fore to aft with" crepe; Many of the ers, most 'of whom 7 are members Company of Red Wing, i in charge of Capt." C.

S. Betcher, of that city, wear crape badges a band of crape about their arms. Many of these brave fellows, who have worked unremittingly since i the first streak of daylight yesterday, have relatives and friends in the depths of the lake. They work with look of stern determination on their faces, and steadiness under such fearful circumstances shows to what 77- '7y, Degree of Efficiency discipline will bring men. One splendid, soldierly-looking young fellow had worked for thirteen hours without ceasing r- and seemed determined 7to find "some particular person among the dead.

He scanned the feature? of each of those' drawn from the wreck with a look of agonized expectation. "The corporal's girl was in the boat, arid she is missing," said; a private of the company, who stood guard over the enclosure reserved for the bodies. Later in the afternoon a dispatch was received at the shore addressed to the 7 anxious He tore it open. eagerly, read the contents, and then fell on the sandy beach insensible. The dispatch informed him that the girl he lcved had the boat Aye find was safely at home with her METHODS OF, THE MILITIA.

The First Regiment Stands I'd Crucial Test. Special to the Globe. Lake City, Camp Lakeview the news of the disaster received' within a short time after its occurrence. It was the greatest test to which any regiment of the national guard in Minnesota has ever been sub; jected. Most of the men were in camp after a hard day's "work; arid many, in fact, turned in for the night.

When the roll of the drum arid the bugle call rang out, of them supposed it was to test their efficiency, and never.was a troop of nor a column of foot; got into line in shorter Adj t. Gen. Mullen took command at once, arid the march to the scene of the terrible calamity was begun" at double quick. Practically the town "was from that moment under martial the i military Had Supreme Control. Corporal Perry was near the scene of ahe accident when it occurred, did riot await orders, but proceeded amid the howling wind' and the" lightning flashes to the spot.

There were but 4 few there as yet, but trie awful shrieks from the wreck appealed to them 'to them to risk their lives for trie ot their 'i fellows. Corporal Peary tried frantically to induce some of those on the spot to go with him to the The aspect was too thereatening. It looked as though no boat could live in such a sea. last, in sheer desperation, Perry drew a revolver, and ing the most able man in the crowd, compelled him at the muzzle of the weapon to embark. The first; trip was made in; 7 arid five of the excursionists were landed.

Again and again those two men made the perilous journey, and had succeeded in savinar lives when the arrival of the regiment and the es- Continued on Four Page. OF RUIN AT THE GOOD AND SCHURMEIER COTTAGES, THE CYCLONE AT GERVAIS. Five Dead and Nearly Fifty Injured Make the Total Cost in Human Life and Limb. Daylight on the Track of the Tornado Reveals Scenes of Destruction that Baffle Description. Searching Beneath the Waters of the Lake and the Debris of the Storm for the Known Victims.

The Track of the Storm Was Like a Besom of De- struction in Which Resistance Was Death. The Face of Nature and the Work of Man Alike Torn and Mutilated Beyond All Recognition. Scenes and Incidents After the Havoc in the cinityofthe Once Beautiful Kohlman and Gervais. A TV 'J. Indescribable Devastation Wrought Upon the Small Farms in the Territory Round About Little Canada.

Many of the Farmers Have Lost Their All, Even the Prospect of a Crop, and Are in Actual Want. DEAD. Mrs. J. H.

SCHURMEIER. t- GEORGE J.MILLER. CHARLES SCH URMEIER, Rev. M. PFAEFLE (Brennan, Tex.) PETER WILBUT (Schurmeier's man.) SERIOUSLY INJUREDt Mrs.

HUB C. SCHURMEIER. Mrs. PFAEFLE. C.

M. MULLANCIN. ir.ii Mrs. L' J. CLARE.

JOE BRENNART. yji INJURED. J. H. SCHURMEIER Sr.

SIMON GOOD. Mrs. SIMON GOOD. ROY GOOD. SWAN PETERSON.

CHARLEY GOOD, CARRIE WEISS, s. Mrs. GOETCKA, Msr. G. J.

MILLER, HUB C. SCHURMEIER, CLARO HAVEN, A mrs. mullancin. a. guenther.

mrs. stella hastings. gussie king. g. Mcpherson.

mrs. Fred gaetke. h. Female servant (J. 11.

Female servant (H. C. Schurmeier). rr FRED OWLER. A painful impression was created throughout the city yesterday when the full extent of the Lake Gervais cyclone became'- fully known.

The edition of the Globe containing the fullest ac- count of the disaster was quickly bought up, and by 9 o'clock there was not i a copy of the paper -to be purchased, and the Keen 1 feeling which" was manifested exhibited itself by the hundreds of people who journeyed to the lake. to view the sceue of trie tragedy. During the afternoon the lake shore was alive with people. were plenty of onlookers and only too! few workers. The work of searching for the dead bodies was most painstaking.

-The major portion of the day was spent in searching the lake. was thought that the bodies of Mrs i Charles Schurmeier and Rev. vM.S Pfaefle had been blown into Up to" 7 o'clock none of the bodies had been discovered, notwithstanding a vigorous investigation: among the debris of the cottages. READ THE WANTS IN MONDAY'S GLOBE The Monday's issue of the Globk Is read by several thousand people who do not read, Sunday papers. It pays to -read advertisements.

NO. 196. Capt. Han ft has charge of the searching party, and he to-day to have', the im mediate field thoroughly searched by a large band of men. There is a probability that the bodies may be found a -hundred' yards; west the lake, among some brushwood ror in one of the many corni "fields which abound.

Every attention being paid the injured people. With the exception of Joe Brennart, ail -the £, injured. people that.spent Sunday; night at Lake Kohlman: have been removed to their homes in St. 7 Paul, and with one exception they are all doing well. The exception in: this respect is Miss Minnie The worst is feared respecting her.

The Mullancins, who were reported missing, have been found. They had taken refuge in the cottage of a neighbor. A son of Mrs. Mullancin -was removed to the city hospital during 'the day. He was awfully cut "and bruised, and Dr.

Ancker has doubts -of his recovery. The fury of the cyclone was not, ever, spent on Lake Gervais arid its lovely shores. A farmer named Goetcka. living on the Kohlman side of the work, had his homestead destroyed. There were twenty people in the house and only one woman was injured.

The farmers of New Canada are in a serious plight. Four of them have not had a narrow escape of their lives, but they have lost everything in the world they their houses; their fur- niture and their crops. Everything has disappeared. 7' Their condition is is fl deplorable. The men are dazed i-r their loss, the women cry with grief and trie children look sad and misera- The effects of trie cyclone, momentarily, have been very severe in New, Canada, arid the condition of the Augzs aud Clark merit the attention of phi lantln'opists; SEARCH FOR THE DEAD.

A Band of Men Grapple the Lake Without Result. The sun had hardly tipped the horizoh yesterday when a small band of meu left the city for Lake Gervais to search for trie missing? bodies of Mrs. Schur- i meter, Charles Schurmeier. and Rev. M.

A beautiful day had fairly dawned when" they arrived upon the scene of cyclone's tragedy. The Continued on Eighth Page..

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