Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-27
WISCONSIN STORM.
a "GLOBE" REPORTER T1SITS THE
SCENE OF DESOLATION.

Previous Reports Not Exaggerated---Pain-
full Incidents----Farms Laid waste----
Homes Destroyed and Overwhelmingly
Killed in One County.
Special Telegram to the Globe1
MADISON, Wis, May 26.-In company
with other press representatives, your cor
visited part of the desolate
scenes of the late terrible tornado to-day.
Starting on near Oregon followed up the
track of the storm two or three miles west of
Mount Vernon, some twenty miles in all,
and can personally testify that reports here
tofore sent have in no wise been exaggerated.
In fact, to be fully appreciated 1t must be
seen. Farms that were the abode of thrift
and plenty are left desolate, as if no stately
farm houses and buildings had ever reared
their civilizing influences in vale and on hill
side, everything that old men had worked
thirty years to rear being swept completely
away in less than one minute. In some in
stances leaving scarcely shingle to tell the
story.
ONE OLD GENTLEMAN
bowed down with the weight of years, with
tears streaming down his furrowed checks
recited the story of his tolls, strivings and
heart-aches to build up q beautiful home
for dearly beloved son, erecting costly
brick structure to celebrate the marriage of
that idol only few menths ago, telling
how the terrible demon had first struck that
temple of a fathers love shattering it to
pieces, then denolishing q well filed barn
and scattering it for twenty miles.
FRAn MOTHER
stood at the side of the carriage and told how
two of her precious babes on their way home
from school, crawled under fence to escape
the dire vengeance of the storm; how she
saw them from window and wildly flew to
their relief but was cast back by the mighty
wave of wind which caught up the house in
its herculean grasp crushing it in fragments,
carrying another daughter barely years
old in the top of small
ty stood, but by some miracle of the wrap
-
tree so effectually that it held her there till
relief came; but, alas! to find her spine SO
injured that her future, should she live, will
be that of cripple, the two smaller chill
dren being miraculously preserved from
harm. A fair haired Norskman told in
broken English how their little home had
been
PICKED UP AS FEATHER
by the fell destroyer, with father, mother and
brother, and crushed as with the hands of a
giant, carried hundred feet in the air and
four times as many away, and dashed to the
ground, where the father and brother lay a
mangled mass, and the aged and revered
mother with bones broken and nigh unto
death. Everywhere I heard the desolate
story of loss of home and friends.
The tornado has been terriblein its effects
Fully twenty people have been killed in this
county, and nearly hundred seriously in
jured, besides those at Mineral Point and
Fl. Atkinson. The loss of property is al
most incalculable. In places its track il
only five or six rods wide, while at others il
reached out its mighty arms from a quarter
to half mile, demolishing everything in it,
track.
The Spring Rise in the Missouri Omahs
Smelling Works Again in Danger.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.]
OMAHA, Neb., May 26.-The annual Jun
rise of the Missouri river is now comin
down from the mountains. The river ros
five feet during the last two days at For
Randall, and three feet at this point. TIL
river is again cutting into the levee and ma
reach the smelling works. The Union Pa
cifc shops are protected by stone rip "a
: three quarters of mile long.
Washburn and Stewart Belong to the Mo
Pioneer Press May 26th.]
Those who know all about Washburn an
Stewart, and their precise measure an
stature, will be disposed to smile at tt
suggestion that either of them lays claim I
any striking intellectual superiority x = Bot
of them will draw their pay with gre,
= ability + * Neither of them possesses tt
= order of civil abilities necessary to di
= tinguished career in Congress So fl
. as the national public are concerned bot
: would sink out of sight in the general me
;, of mediocre Congressman.
4 The Dead of the Blue and the Grey.
: ST.. Louis, Mo-, May 26.-The decorate
\ of the graves of the Union and Confedera
e soldiers of the national cemetery at Jeffersc
s barracks, - miles below the city, took pla
to-day instead of on the Both of the mont
) it having been decided that Sunday was Il
most proper day for the ceremony. Anoth
purpose was to place the services in Il
! hands of the clergy instead of politician
This was very successfully carried out, al
I the number of people present great
= exceeded that in attendance
: any previous occasion. The
State militia, and what arc known as the D
lice reserves, were present, numbering fro
1000 to 900 men. The Peoria 1l.) Blue
.. who are here as guests of the national qua
" battalion, also participated, and presented
- very fine appearance. The services cons1l
- ed of two addresses, each in English al
. German, and an opening prayer, the Cath
: lie, Episcopal, Unitarian, Lutheran and q
y brew churches being brought in requisite
= for clergymen as orators. Everything pass
z off in the best of order, and, although the
~ were fully $4,000 people and soldiers pr,
10 ent, nothing occurred to mar the pleasure
d purpose of the occasion.
The Baltic Fleets Commander summon
in Haste.
r HALIFAX, N. s., May 2e.-Admiral
IS Ashley Cooper Key left on the train l
Or evening to take the English mail steamer
: Rimouski, having been summoned with
haste to take command of the Baltic feet
A Solid Opinion of q Republican Organ
Pioneer Press, May 26th.]