, 1879-07-09
THE STORM.
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aee hha ooeh doho IN Tic c1tY or its 'tnuco'ato
Vicinity.
Tho steamer Pepin, which arrived hero early
,ta.. =. ' t.,. @ ~ n.. ns"o 49,. .,t. ,,,.
t's'' NJ i'ol,'s vi l|hho fopta hpoYo '"'o 'e'!s'
Immediately after tllnucr, loraa party, was
mnt1a up here to visis the upper lake nefEhhor..
l,ood,-tlc steamer pcpir,, Capt. Murray, taking
lin nortv m, w. dr.t v,sI,s,, the viI,aon
w w.! w. ny 'os ''''.su ~. 1.,,.a.S
oi S'a'aoh hock' On LIE Hneonh!"
side, and eeven miles ahovo Lake
City. 'tto appcarancc Of the little town
ve fo,,,,1 ,o In univ ,nnrntnb1a .nfl hor,1 tn
Ioucrho fo,tht,l1x rho vill,oo !, 1ocotoi, olnntr
u''et''" ~ '"l!'""y' l'e ','r4o ~ 'u.a.eu a'usf
TIC narrow STRIP bctTec INC 'aKc a1'a the binlle,
md up large ravlnc whlct1 comes Into the
ray]ne cxtnn1, hock tnto The country Two or
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1ntee MUGS N.Y. w t','' NS'l.9 Va. ."
ming to fEum City. Along each sl'lc ol the fond'
porttun ot the town. and down this great gully
~, .,rs,,t -, H., ,,,,ch n n, nracci.
ts'. Iii, r., ,,,, o,,.,oln, th,t ,n.,,o
t'e e"'Eot"hAh orcc anu acssl"c1'ot I"as '''".o ~,
found ut,t 20 much as drup Of water, wllere
fow hourx lu,foro til. rushing wuters came down
~" "'uae u'a ~ a,. s .a.. ;.at .stin1 tron
70 6no oeptn o' etsht os tn leet' loasnn'E ito.1
It. Tie bct Of lilo ravna Is a "loose rock u
tnr,natlou, and, "a fnr UP as wo went an
!rrcgusr gully llal been wnshed out. from
ton tn thirty fcot in Width mud Six
havlnr been washed into piles liko dri1twood,
lenyln0 ragged. Bavage.tooklug wreck Of tho
wloe little valley. We snw ono rock weighing
near half n ton, which bad hccn ecooped ous Of
the bottom Of The waanout and hurled like
cork vlcar out Of the yawning hitch aud over
onto tho side Of tho ravinc. Along this raEtnc.
Oh either AIDS, burns, stat,lcs, wuodshcds, a1l
one or t,ro residences lad been torn to pieces,
mud carricd n,nss OF dobris to tho lako half u
milo below. Several cows, hogs, mud other DO.
mcsttc animals were either smashed by tho fall
in0 buildings or swept away in tue flood. A
corl.srib. cons,iu!ug BOo bushels Of corn, wns
carried Oft By The food, store front WAS hlown
blown oil, Tie strcpiu OF tlo school.houso
blown away, and tho largo bell hurled clear
into tho ad {pIntuE rre,ltscB, cutting Oft plum
trea in It's pntsagc. The wonder Is TINT Ia nil
tic Hood briow lutl the tornado and lightning
overhead. ti.cro WA not n life lost #,
thr yfIlore. That portion Of tho town lying
parallel with the lake.shorc was literally filed
With rubbish, rocks, trees mud logs, whic. either
CANE down The rayiuo or were wnsfGd from tho
Rock arc 4. II. Sands, ur. Gpld!ng, Capt. louk,
Id Edholn, and Tin TAYLOR.
Willie ut Atailc1l Rock, NC learned tt,at the
famiiy of Mr. John Davis, residing up The Rt,sl,
u milo a6ogu thu Yillngc,-had been wastled out,
md lis daughter, yo1iut. LADY,, wns lost, and
Mr. Davis mud bis wifo barely escaped with
the!r lives. There were runors, too, that great
jotnnre Ind been loslo nt!u other lives lost In
tho Upper Rusll- River country, but VIC could
gather nothing further that was reliable. Mr..
Davis, after getting bis wife out OF tho house
and to ulaec vi safety, returned fos bis t14ueh-
il,o house, and the lloou increasing every second.
Getting hotl Of lie young ladY's hand ho
started With her through tho torrent:
but upon NnlIng around near tho cor
into ,leop hole, already scoopcd out BY shc
Hood, when they Lost their ol Of each others
hand, and sio was instantly sTrpt under md
away in the hideous flood, 1nado mora hdeous
only saved Himself by m almost superhuman
effort. The young lndy's body was found IN tho
morning III tllc t,rlftwood somo ways below
wllcro thc house stood.
1trh ans, BEAUTIFUL rrn0o Of b,utfs Oh ths Min.
ucsota side, at the lower extremity Of which is
jnruted tLr beautiful Froutcnac, Or Lake Slda
Watering. place, a,1tl il known ns potnt-no-Foint
About oue mile from LIKE s.do y where tho
IL tiIe laks md won't ou It's war through Wiscon-
sin. Tllc breast Of this rauyo OF hills is heavily
roodcd. and tile path Of the great fun
nel-shaped ntl1ar of destruction is plain
II visible, The timber te literally torn
tn nincos. and trees twisted otf like
nue.stet1ls and wcro either carried Into The lake
1r e,so dashed to tho cnrth in i1,ticserbablo con.
fusion. Thu r,ath down thc blufr /. about fnrty
to sirty rods wide. and lis descent uns some
whnt ohllnurly msde.
From here we turn tho PROV Of tho boat near.
~ straight back annin towartt tic Wisconsin
s},nfa IN yfsit the Hamlet al Warrcntown. 10
cntn.l ahont thrcc miles ahoYe Maiden Hook vii.
ingc. and in tho mouth Of the ncxt tptcfsrc.nc
rnyine al nuy inheritance aboyo the mouth Of
thr Rush Wjycr VsiIr1. This portfon Of our trlp
was th, satiiest. and sai iniccd It wa, Tie
littla WILEY t|,at comes in nj Warrcptown from
the country back ID wider than tho one at
Ma1cu Rnck. and Is cultivated. but now the
rorn md rnrtlnns are almost burjpa out OF Btxht,
whjle nnrtions Of tho (}olus are was1eA aWay,
scyno OF dosolptlon, yawn!t.E c.lssu,s, mud ruin
generally. The formation here ID mostly g.
hcaYy, tough clay helow the upper soil, and
tho ifttle valley, from tstf mile hack clear to