Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-07-09
THE SIOUX clYY CYCLONE.
Particulars of the Terrible Storm and Con-
ditiOn OF the Wounded.


Particulars of tho Terrible Storm and Con-
tiiiion of the Wounded.
~, Sioux City Journ 4, 9Th.
The principal item Of news about the
cyclone received yesterday was that
George @ amberlain will likely recover
from his hurts. DIR. Guyton, one of the
surgeons who attended him, returned at
noon yesterday, and said that the chan
ces OF his recovery looked more favora.
pie than the evening before, and that the
chances were that he would recover. He
had rested well during the night. He
bore the painful operation of having his
terrible wound stitched up and the splin-
ters OF is jaw removed from his face
without being put under the influence
OF oplates. and had nerve enough to have
got along without the slight stlmulants
that were administered. The only dan
ger to be apprehended now was that the
inflammation might spread to the brain,
or that ehusion from the wound might SO
press against the brain as to result fatal
Y. While either of these might happen
Or; Guyton thought that neither is like
~ 10. MIR. Chamberlain's strong consti-
tuition are on his side, and altogether the
Another gentleman who left the Cham.
Derlaln place at 5 p. m. said that the in
9hled man was then restless, and tossing
uneasily in his bed. But this would only
be what is to be expected with the set
ting in of fever that follows wound.
Sheriff Hopkins and Z. II. Straw headed
q party OF LeMars citizens who came
down to visit the injured man. He had
besides numerous visitors in this city.
MIR. Chamberlain could tell nothing
about how it happened. He was at the
barn putting out a team when the storm
can came up, and started to go to the house.
The people in the house had gone into
the cellar, and first saw him coming
down The cellar way, supporting himself
against the wall. When part way down
ne fell. but it was not the fall that IN.
ttlcted the terrible hurt. The theory
most generally accepted is that in pass.
ing by the kitchen wing Of the house the |
end OF board from that cyclone-wreck. |
ed part struck him.
The wound was q terrible looking
affair. The whole side of the face.
almost from the corner of the left eve
down the cheek, and under the chin, was
laid open. The point of the cheek bone.
or upper jaw, was fractured and displac.
ed. and splinter from this bone had to
be taken out by the surgeons. The cheek
was open into the mouth, and the roof
OF the mouth itself was injured, and 8 or |
lo stitches were taken in the mouth to |
bring the parts back to place. A |
number OF teeth were knocked out, or SO |
loosened and broken that they had to be |
taken out. Beside this great gash,
which, as man who saw it said, looked |
as ii the side Of the hepd had been struck
with the blade of an AK, there was
another long cash Just behind the left
ear.
AT THE COLE PLACE.
From VIM. Brill the reporter ohtaine1
Cole 1anify, whose house, a mile east OF
the Chamberlain place, was also wreck
ed by the cyclone. The husband, Grin
Cole, was wor king for him the afternoon
ofthe storm. Mr.. Brill said that there
were only Mrs. Cole and her two chill
dren, onea baby girl one year old and
the other a boy two years old, at home.
When Mrs. Cole saw the storm coming
she put the two children IN the bed. The
next she knew the house was whirling in
the air. She was consc Gus of nothing
moro unit she found herself on the
ground with her babes at some little dis
tance, and I'll of them fully twenty rods
away from where the house had stood.
Excepting a short underskirt Mrs. Coles
clothing was entirely torn off. She
had evidently struck head first on the
ground. for her hair was matted with
mud. She and her children had all
alighted in corn field where the ground
was soft, and to this they probably owe
their lives. OF the house scarcely an
armfnl was left in place. II was liter
ally torn to splint rs, and scattered for
half mile along the track of the storm.
DIR. Marvin, who was summoned to at
tend the Coles, says that there is not a
place on Mrs. Coles person as large as
his hand that is not bruised. Still he
thinks that her injuries will not prove
fatal. The baby girl had been struck
across the legs, midway between the
thighs ana knees, by a timber from the
house. One leg was badly bruised and
the other broken. The little boy was
injured in the back, and vomited fire.
quently. The doctor thought that all
the family would recover. Mr.. Cole is
a poor man. and has lost all his house
hold goods by the storm. He lived in
this city last winter, and only removed
to the house that he occupied on the old
; McElhaney place last spring.
The cyclone on Wednesday afternoon
is variously described by people who saw
it at different times. One man said that
it did not look larger than pail where
it touched the ground, and about as big
as tub higher up. Above that il
broadened out abruptly, and the low
,, clouds above were all torn and mixed
up. He likeued it in appearance to al
elephants trunk hanging down. Th.
lower part of this water spout writheG
! and twisted, and sometimes bent like
; bow. Its course from west to east seem
to have been very slow, not more tina,
five miles an houl, but its velocity aroun'
its center mast have been a hundre
times that rate.