New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-07-09


five feet high and a board fence.
The buggy was almost wholly de-
moralized and The horses were blown
some twelve feet, and when found
the near horse was blown over the
off one and was lying six feet be-
You'd, both Of them being on top Of
the woodpile. The boy was thrown
against a post and lay doubled up at
the foot Of It. Neither seriously
hurt. The horses also escaped in
jury In the town Of
WILLOW CREEK,
Blue Earth county, the two story.
brick house Of a Mr.. Stevens was
blown down and Mrs. Stevens
killed, and the remainder Of the fam
lily were seriously injured.
We learn from John Lloyd, Of
Bntternut Valley, that the tornado
struck the house Of Henry Roberts,
in ,Judson, and lifted it bodily from
the ground and dashed it into a
thousand pieces a short distance
from the place where it had stood.
Mr.. Roberts and family were in the
house at the time but fell to the
ground through a rent in the floor
after it had been lifted into the air.
All are seriously hurt. Mr.. Roberts
granery, stables, threshing machines,
household goods and clothes Of the
family were all destroyed. One side
Of the roof Of large barn belonging
to Owen Roberts was also taken off,
and another mans kitchen was
grazed away from his house. The
track Of the tornado was about 100
feet wide and for distance Of about
three quarters ola mile it took ey-
erything in its track, when it again
raised into the air. Large oak trees
were twisted off like they were mere
reeds.
The storm seems to have been
most destructive to both life and
property III
GoODHUE COUNTY,
and at Y asa nine persons were killed
and thlrty-six wounded. The Orph-
ans home, containing twenty eli ht
inmates, was razed to the ground and
eighteen children were wounded.
one fatally and three killed out
right. Six other persons were also
killed. One old couple, named Hol-
lngs, living in a house twenty feet
from the asylum, were blown over
the site of the asylum, and their
bodies were found in field 100 feet
away. A special to the st. Paul
Globe says:
Con the road between Red Wing
and Vasa the damage cannot be es,
timated. In addition to the ire.
mendous wind the waters in the val-
ley rose above fences, caused by the
overlooking Of Spring creek, and
this morning after it had subsidized
left shingles and debries ofall kinds
over the fields, which, added to the
unroofed houses and barns, formed a
scene Of terrible devastation. Scarce.
" a barn can be seen that is not un
rooted or twisted from it's found;.
ton, and house after house appears
with shingles torn off and chimneys
blown down. The wounded mum.
Der thirty SIX In
WARRENToWN WIS,
just across the Mississippi, the water
poured through the streets to a depth
Of nine. or ten feet. The residence Of
William Rush was carried away,
and with it. the family, including
Mr.. Rush, wife and daughter, ali
being drowned. Another young
lady was drowned in attempting to
get out of the house. A house nine
miles below Menomnee, Wis, was
carried away, and the occupants, a
man and woman, swept into the
Menominee river. No trace of the
house or occupants has yet been dis
covered, and it is believed that they
have persisted beyonda doubt.