Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-07-21

Gov. Pillsbury and Hon. s. H. Nichols,
clerk of the supreme court, returned yes
terday noon from their visit to the strick-
en- city of New Ulm. Soon after his arri-
val the governor was met by GLOBE
envoy, to whom he gave in brief some of
the facts obtained by his visit to the
scene of the terrible destruction wrought
in that city by the storm of Friday even
ing. The governor says no description
can fully portray the scene of devasta-
ton. Scarcely building escaped without
injury, and how any person escaped
injury or death, is more than he can
can comprehend The governor has a
list of lOl houses-mostly owned by me-
chanics and laborers-which were entire
Iy demolished and swept away, and with
the buildings all the effects of the occu-
pants, the average value being, the gov
ernor estimates, at 1000. He estimates
the loss to buildings at rs to 80 per cent.
of the total value, and to stocks OF goods,
farm machinery at 10 to Is per cent, and
personal effects about the same.
The dead in New Ulm, up to
late Tuesday night, when the
governor left; numbered 6 and
5 were not expected to survive, while
the wounded numbered 53, many of them
serious. At Cairo, Renville county, IL
dead were reported; at Camp, Nicollet
county, 6; West Newton, 4; Severance,
l. and in Sibley county, 5,-a total of 35
dead or diving, while the injured in the
localities named, it is believed by those
best informed, met by the governor, will
exceed hundred.
The governor bears hearty praise to the
fortitude shownbY the people in their
great misfortune, and OF their
energetic efforts to repair
damages, rebuild the waste places, and
resume business. There are no sluggards
among them, and willie there ismourning is
for the dead and MANNED, and sorrow for
the destruction and loss Of the savings of
long years of toll and care, there is no de-
spondency, no folding of the hands or
useless repining.
Of course, when the destruction of
property has been so great and so gen.
eral, the people, however willing, must
have help from outside, or suffering
will cnsue. That this relief may
be Systematically used among those
most in need, general relief committee
has been formed of the best known citi-
zens, of whom the following is the execu-
tive committee, to whom all contribu-
tions of money or supplies should be ad-
dressed: Hon. VIM. Pfander (ex-State
treasurer) chairman; Rev. A. Berghold,
secretary c. Wagner, treasurer; II.
Vajen, Geo. Jacobs, H. Keller, Joseph
Bobletter, S. D. Peterson, E. 8. Koch and
= Mullins.
This committee have divided the city
into districts and numbers, and are making
thorough personal canvass to ascertain
the actual losses sustained by
each person IN their respective districts,
upon which to base the amount of re-
lief required. The result of this canvass
the governor expected yesterday, but it
did not reach him. The statement will
undoubtedly come to hand to-day, when
he will be able to state more fully the
amount and character of the aid now
needed. 1t can now be stated, however,
that lumber and shingles to rebuild the
houses destroyed, is one of the greatest
needs, for the benefit of the people of
St. Paul, Minneapolis, Saltwater and
other points on the line OF the
Chicago, St. Paul & Omaha road, that
the company has signified to the gov
ernor their readiness to forward all con-
tributions of lumber or other supplies to
Kasota Junction free, where the Winona
& St. Peter road will take the supplies in
charge and deliver them to their destina-
nation upon the same terms.
STRANGE FREAKS OF THE STORM
During his visit the governor was told
of many strange freaks of the storm,
some of which he related to the GLOBE
man as follows.
@Dr. Berry, of New Ulm, had a boy
patient, of about IL years, lying on a
lounge, in a frame house. The house
was picked up and carried some 200
wards over the tops of trees and demol
ished, carrying the boy with it. The
boy when found was UNCONSCIOUS of his
situation, thinking he had simply fallen
off the lounge. His arm was broken and
his elbow dislocated.
A piece of board was driven through
the wall of the Catholic school house at
New Ulm, a brick building, while school
was in session, lodging in the desk where
the teacher was sitting, injuring no one.
MIR. Finley with his boy and dog
were herding So head of cattle in Cairo.
The boy, dog and all the cattle were
killed and Mr. Finley badly injured.
A livery stable in New Ulm in which
were seven horses was entirely demol-
ished, not leaving board a foot long
where the building stood, and, strange to
say, only one horse was injured in the
least.
A barn facing two other buildings, but
a few feet spart, had a piece OF timber
about six inches square and IA feet
long, driven through the bottom of the
front door and lodged against
the rear wall. The query is how
the timber could be hurled against the
door without touching either of the
buildings Immediately in its front and
less than the length Of the timber distant.
The house of John Gieford, of West
Newton, was picked up and carried three
quarters of mile and landed in the bot
tom land of the Minnesota river, and al
though five persons were in the house
during this fight through the air, they
were only slightly injured.
As matter of fact the governor was
assured that in Cairo chickens were
stripped of their feathers, not being
otherwise injured.
The storm left New Ulm ina southeast
erly direction. Hauenstein's brewery,
which was in its immediate track, was
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