, 1881-07-17

I Boards were found sixty rods away, driven
| five or six feet in the ground.
"rloSEE1.-pREss" CORRESPONDENT
| who visited The scene Of the disaster at Ne"
Uim gives the following description Of the
terrible ruin wrought:
The first place any effects Of the storm
were seen WAS about three miles west Qf
New Ulm, on the line. Here 1t tore down a
house aud killed Il number OF cattle and
horses. The family saved themselves
by going to the cellar before the
storm struck. From where the
storm struck the railroad track the
ground Is lined with bedding and furniture,
wagoll-wilcels. farm machinery, ETC.. The
wirul west of New Uim tore down the tcle-
graph poles. The crops are simply ruined.
The heads Of wheat were cut otf rs clean anu
smooth as though done with a headlng ma
chine. FROM tho place where the storm first
struck into New Ulu everything was swept
for width OF about one mile.
THE slGlIr Is sIcKENISG
i'll the extreme. Trees were torn up by the
roots and carried no one knows where. and
nota house or barn is left standing in the
line of the storm from where it first struck
untilit reached New Uln,. 4 gentleman who
stood on the bluff two miles north Of New
Uim
WITNESSED THE CYCLONE.
lie says it was the gralldest, yet most ter
rible sight lie ever witnessed. lie says one
cloud came from the northwest and one from
-the northeast When they met it appeared
to him to be contest as to which should
lave the right Of way. The storm struck
New Ultn ut 1: :iS, and
e-r,.,, ,r-.-r r.vr.r ssr.-rrrT-e
aud in that brief time not less than $500, 900
worth of property was destroyed, and
number of persons Killed and many wound
cd During the storm there was perfect
blaze OF fire balls. 1t would have been al
most as dark Us midnight had it not been for
the
CONTINUED FLASHES OF LIGHTNING.
It would take columns to give the full loss
OF property, but the estimate Of twenty men
places the damage ut Sj00,000. The three
were completely destroyed, and
Turner Hall was partly demolished. Glass
fronts were completely wrecked.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
To the Etstern Associated Prrss.
ST. PAUL, Minn.. July 16-The Town OF
New Um was wrecked BY a cyclone late
yesterday afternoon. The wires went down
in the common ruin, and only meagre details
can be given. 1t seems that two currents Of
air swept the valley simultaneously, coming
from different directions.
THE SCENE WAS APPALLING.
Stone and brick buildings were razed to their
and the air Was full Of debris.
The town and Its suburbs are now mass of
ruins. West Newton, in the neighboring
County Of Nicollet7 was visited and family !!
of three killed there. Names could not be |
learned. Following is all imperfect
LIST OF KILLED.
The killed i'll New Ulm are:
N1r. Eckert and 13-year-old son.
4 little SOIL of Mr.. Ecky.
Laura Wright, aged IL years, found on the |
prairie decapitated; head not yet found.
4 son Of Mr.. Warner, aged II years.
Killed III the town of Severance, near BY:
Martin Frank.
Joseph kil:ubo, wife, and three children:
me child badly wounded, the sole survivor
If the family.
Mr.. West Newton.
4 child Of Mr.. Lonmis
An old gentleman, name not known, who
vas found with his arms clasped around a
rec.
Il New Ulm:
John Palmquiest
N1r. Luesch, wife, and child, probably fatal.
II. Fiddler, seriously; probably fatal.
J. kurtz, arm and leg broken and cut
George Fogle and wife, seriously.
Carl krubel
N. Keitz.
Jacob Miller, leg broken.
Mr.. Warner and wife seriously,
Mr.. Nelson. Slightly.
William Sharpons, internally; very serious.
|. Schue1nger, badly cut by glass.
III the Town Of Milford:
G. pfeitfer, seriously.
Three persons, not yet ascertained..
Tie county is peopled almost wholly bv
ermans, forty-efgllt of whom were in Mill