Death In Its Track

St. Paul, MIiul, July 14. - A cyclone or hurricanc struck Lako City. located on Lake l'epin, about sevcnty railes below here Sunday niglu.. -and a large nutnber of peoplo were lost by the sinking of a steamer. The stoamer Sea Wing was coming up the lake at about 9 o'cloek Sunday nigiit, and when opposite the city tho storm struck it and sent it to the bottom. There were on board about 350 peoplo from Diamond Bluff and about Cfty more were on a barge which was in tow. 8t. Paul, Minn., July 14. - Death and devastation visited the States oí Minne sota and Wisconsin Suudav afternoon and the death list will bo large. The summor resorts seem to have suffered severely, owing to tbe fact that at this season they are thickly populateJ, and the losses of life there are fearful to contémplate. A young man drove in from Lake Coleman with the inforruation that at least two persons had been killed and over 100 iniured at that point. Passing along thecvclone struck Lake Joanna, Lako Gervais, Lako Vadnais, Little Canuda, and pássed on about four miles to the east of White Bear lake. The passengers on the St. Paul & Dulutb. train wuich left White Bear at 4:55 wero approaching Gladstone when they saw the cyclone forniing1, and watched its whistling motion without fear or oxcitement. Not so with the engineer, however. He saw the threatening aspect of the sky, and, with astartledlook ahead to see if all was clear he took a firmer erip on the throttle, and the engineleaped forward under his touch. HÍ3 judgment and quick action undoubtedly saved the lives of the passengers, for the twisting, terrifying devastator crossed the tracks scarcely more than a minute af ter the train hadpassed. Help that had been called for from the stricken district was at once sent. The storm flrst struck the farm of James J. Ilill, the president of the Great Northern railway, twenty miles north of hore, wrecking several buildings and killing three farm laborers as well as several head of stock. The fury of the storm was fearful andevery thing in lts path was swept away. Eleven people were instantly killed at the small town of Vadnais, on the line of the SU Paul & Duluth road, six miles north of here, and the villaje wrecked. Not a building waa left standing in a sound condition, while the great majority of them were blown to pieces, the inmates suffering death without warning. At North St. Paul the wind blew down a furnituro factory and several dwellings, and two persons were killed, both of them by lightning. Midnight reports from Little Canada, a village of 500 people seven miles from St Paul, indícate that the cyclona struck that place with full force. Twelve houses wore blown down, thres people killed and eight or ten injured. Eed Wing, Minn., July 15.- Fully 110 people lost their lives by the disaster on Lake Pepin Sunday afternoon and the total may reach 125 or 130. Seyeral persons who were aboard the 111fated Sea Wing are missing and it is thought that they have found watery graves. St. Paui, Minn., July 15. - Late re ports of the cyclone that visited the summer resorts in the vicinity of St. Paul Sunday afternoon conflrm the earlier statements as to the loss of life and the damago to property. The work of the tornado on the land seems tohave been more disastrous alonfr LakeGervais' shores than elsewhere. Here thegreatest loss of life occurrod and here also the damaffc was probably the beaviest Mr. and Mrs. Schurmeier and their son Charles and flve others were killed instantly and thirty-seven persons were lnjurcd. St. PAUL, Minn., July 15. - Ahailand wind-storm yesterday in the towns of Highland, Glasgow and Bever cut crops to the ground and destroyed soverai buildings. The loss is placed at $100,000.