The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-07-21
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pour IN.
RELIEF mAU0UEATED'
Members OF the LsCfosso board Of trade,
who left here Friday morning, raisod col
lection of $llb Nc soon as they heard OF tho
disaster This evening . meeting was held
in the Union hail. Mayor Rudolph presid-
inp. A relief committee of ten were mp.
pointed TO devise ways snd means for cue
cessfully meeting the effects Of the dlsas-
ter.
ANOTHER DESCRIPTION.
A st. Paul dispatch says the
Pionecr-Press correspondent who visited
the scene of the disaster at New Ulm gives
the following description of the terrible ,uin
wrought:
The first place where any effects of the
s'orm we're seen was about three miles west
of New Ulm. NkIere it tore down houses and
killed a number OF cattle and horses. Mems
bers of one family saved themselves by 60.
ing into cellar before the storm reached
them. Where the storm struck the railroad
track the ground ia lired with bedding,
furuiture, wagon wheel. farm machinery, etc.
West of New Ulm it tore down telegraph
poles and completely
RUINED THE CROPS.
Heads of wheat we're cut OFF rs clean and
smooth as though done by q beading machine.
From the place where the storm fret struck
INTO New Ulm, everything was
.wept away for width of about
one !rile. Trees are torn up by the roots
and neither house nor barn is lett sta ding in
line of the storm.
A gentleman who stood on bluff two
miles north Of New Ulm and witnessed the
cyclone Gays that it was the grsndest and
MOST TERRIBLE SIGHT
of which he WAS ever witness. One cloud
came from the northwest and one from the
northeast When they met it seemed to b
a contest as 10 which should have the right
of way. The storm struck New Uim OF 4:3O
D. m :, and lasted Just u mi' es, and in that
time not less than $500 QUO worth of proper
ty was destroyed and a number of persons
killed and many wounded, During the
storm there WAS a perfect
BLAZE OF FIRE BALLS.
II would have been almost as dark as night
had it not been for the continual flss h of
lightning. 1t would tsks columns to give q
full list of the property destroyed. but an
esti mate places lie number of men killed at
20 and The damage at $500 COO. Three
churches were comrls.sly Destroyed
aud Turner Hall WIS partly
demolished Glass fronts were completely
wrecked. Not less than one hundred horses
were killed, many being lifted bodily and
carried long distance. TIE farm machine
~ at the depot of Pierson and Hsmberg was
totally wrecked, and machinery, including
fifty sef-bindipg respers we're
SMASHED IN sPLINTFRs.
Senator Piersop, Colonel Keynger and
Mr.. Babbetts arrived this evening to secure
coffi as and other necessaries and solicit the
governor to take steps for interring the dead
and to extend what cid may be necessary. a
large force of mechanics and quantity Of
lumber will be sent.
The cyclone travelled in a southeast direc-
ton. passing through the towns of Palmyra,
Wellington and Cairo.
The extent of damage cannot yet be as
certained, but gentleman from Cairo says
the storm was one of the most disastrous
ever known in Pennville county, and thst
a large plumber of people have been
killed and many injured. The large two.
story house of Nathan Findlsy was carried
from Tvs foundation and
DASHED TO PIECES.
The family were all iLiured and the Oldest
son killed, together with twenty five head of
cattle, which he W herding. all berg found
dead on the prairie. Mr. Joseph Pellorsr
and wife and their four children we're all
entire family, WITH the
exception of two,months old child, which
was carried distence of two
rods from the house, where il was found
with its arm and leg broken.
At the town of Wellington, few miles
further west, the storm did not do much dan.
age. In Cairo, the farm houses of Mr..
Mitchell, James Perkins, Martin Welch,
John and William Fabey and a number OF
others were carried away, but as yet only one
person il known TO have been killed-s
young child of John Fahey, though several
we're seriously injured.