New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-07-20
GREAT DESTRUCTION TO
PROPERTY in THE STORM
TRACK OUTSIDE OF
NEW ULM.
MEN AND BEASTS LIFTED
INTO THE AIR AND CAR.
RIED, in SOME INSTAN.
CES, MORE THAN A
MILE.
Heavy Chunks Of Iron and Timber
Embodied i'm the Earth.
Scenes, Incidents and Detailed
List Of Losses.

Our city was visited on Friday, the
18th inst. by one Of the most terrific
cyclones ever witnessed in the State
Of Minnesota. .r
The day was extremely warm, the
mercury standing at 80 degree in the
shade, at noon and the gentle souther.
ly breeze afforded but slight relief
from the oppressive heat. At half
past three o'clock in the afternoon,
the low roll of thunder called the at
tention Of our citizens to a heavy,
black cloud in the north western hori-
zon, and fifteen minutes later another
was seen rising from the South. west.
These two advancing columns seemed
to intersect each other, thirty degrees
west of the zenith, and the united col
umn moved onward toward the east
in rapid spiral curves, while the deep
haZen color Of the cloud within the
western angle Of these two columns,
tho terrific peals Of thunder and inces-
SAINT flashes of Tightening gave omi.
nous forebodings of the power of the
demon of destruction who was threat
ening to hurl his tempests upon us.
Windows were hastily closed and:awn-
ings furled, and at Is minutes past
four, the storm came in all its fury,
and no pen can describe the scene that
followed.
The first gust demolished nearly
every chimney in the city. Next tin
roofs were stripped off and blown in
every direction, and crumbled into
every conceivable shape; doors, win.
dows, boards, shingles, rafters, bricks
and branches Of trees were seen flying
through the air in every direction;
whole roofs were torn off and came
crashing into the sides Of buildings on
the opposite side of the street as II
hurled by the power of Milton's dem.
ons; buildings were lifted from their
foundations aud scattered and twisted
into shapeless masses Of ruins; massive
brick buildings trembled and crum.
bled before the blast as if shaken by
All earthquake.
During all this destruction the fear.
ful shrek of the tempest the perpetual
roar Of the thunder, tho crash Of fall
Ing walls, mingled with the screams OF
terrified men, women, and children
rendered the scene one that beggars
all description and battles all language.
The city, after the tempest had
passed, presented scene of sadness
never to be forgotten by those who
witnessed it. Thedebris of the fallen
buildings, wagons, farm.machinery
furniture and clothing were mingled
In one promiscuous mass from one
end Of the city to the other; trees
we're stripped Of their branches, snd
twisted and knotted as If by the hand
Of giant; horses. some dead and 9th.
/ ers still struggling, were buried %.
meath the timbers Of fallen stables;
mothers we're searching and sanxiously
inQuifing for missing children; and
the. apewildered and terror-stricken
/, I'd kwere standing and gazing in
q nAs upon all that remained Of
their ;ruiaed homes. The storm only
/ lasted shout Is minntes, but in that
brief time the destruction Of propexN
and life was CREST.
The people. however, were not long
\ in recovering their equilibrl um, and l
the good work OF relief TO the MANNED
md wounded was at once beg IN. Ne,
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