Morris tribune., 1881-06-23
A SUMNER CYCLONE.
The Fearful Work CT Saturdays Cyclone in
its Path Through Minnesota and Iowa.

The Fearful Work CT Saturdays Cyclone in
its Path Through Minnesota and Iowa.
Latest reports of the storm of Saturday show
that it was of a very violent character and i'll
some localities a great deal of damage was
done, and some lives lost 1t seems to have
been the most general storm which has swept
over the country for some time.
The house of Peter Nelson, at St Peter, was
struck by lightning. Mra. Nelson was killed,
the children were knocked down and the prem
ises were set on fire by the fiery fluid. The
force of the wind, which prevailed during the
storm was such that the west wall of five rooms
of the hospital for the insane in process of re-
construction was blown down.
AT Lura, in the northern part of Faribauit
county, the dwelling of a man named Chafee
was blown dcwp, killing him and his wife. The
barn of T. j. Propert was lifted from the foun
d4tion and carried fifty feet, then dashed in
pieces The dwellings of George Herring and
a man named Grady, of Wells, were destroyed,
but with no loss of life. The bridge near
: -Grady's across the Maple river, was lifted from
its foundations and destroyed. The storm then
passed into Blue Earth county, in the town of
Danville. The house Of one Robert Jones was
rolled over several times, he and his wife be-
ing in it The woman was severely cut on the
neck, face and breast. large barn on the
farm OF Mr.. Curtiss was entirely destroyed.
The damage in Faribauit county is estimated
at go, 600. The storms were very severe In
Hennepin county, many buildings were moved
from their foundations, and some entirely de-
stroyed, but no loss of life is reported. In the
vicinity of Des Moines, Iowa, the storms moved
from the southwest to the northeast, funnel
shaped, with fearful velocity and terrific noise,
following the Des Moines river through Iowa
and swinging to the southwest in Missouri
Along its whole track there is great destruction
of property from wind and hail. Farm houses
were destroyed, grain broken down, and fruit
trees destroyed. In Anderson county two men
HI 1s<.1.4 n.1
amount to hundreds of thousands. At
Colfax, Iowa, eight honses in the east part of
the town and two houses out of the city, occu-
pied by farmers named Sheldon. were blown
down. The house Of Chas. Upham, IN the
east part of the village, lifted from foun-
dation and riddled, but TIE family escaped in
jury by taking refuge in the cellar. The house
of J. r. Stuble was badly damaged. The house
of Mrs. Kinsell was unroofed and the barn ad-
joining hoisted from its foundation and torn to
atoms. E. A. Robins house was lifted from its
foundation and turned upon its side. Jos.
house of H. W. Robinson was completely de-
molished. s. Numberless barns and outhouses
were destroyed and numerous trees torn up in
thetrack of the storm.
In Missouri, ON Sunday, no less than three
twisters dealtdeath and destruction in as many
different paths. The first was from King City
and vinciniiy. This started near Savannah in
Andrews county. Its course was northwest
through Flag Springs and King City. Many
houses were destroyed and not less than twelve
lives lost in Andrews county. At Flag Springs
and King City there was great loss of life.
Probably fifty men, women and children were
killed. A public school building at King
county, a large brick building was razed to ita
foundation. Hundreds of horses, cattle and
sheep were killed, one man loosing eighty
cattle. Another cyclone started eight miles
| northwest OF Perkins, its course for twelve
y,1iIo holm II mil
wide. Nothing escaped it. Many lives have
been lost in all these cyclones, and the de-
| struction of property cannot now be estimated.
LATER FROM MISSOURI AND KANSAS.
| Dispatches from King City, Missouri, gives
some of the details of theterrible cyclone which
struck that vincinity on Sunday night:
The cyclone had its beginning about two
little 80 nth of west of here. It gathered force
| as it came on, its mad fury assuming aserpen-
| tine shape, covering a track varying from 200
| feet to a quarter of q mile in width, sweeping
| everything clean in it's path. It was seen fully
! an hour before it reached here, and within q
| mile and. half Of here lt SHE'D north trifie
| striking the northeast boundary of the town
and spending it's fury three miles north of here.
| Houses, stock, trees, shrubbery and even grass
| were demolished in its path, everything being
laid in waste and the whole territory strewT
| with fragments of timber, houses and domestic
aflcieS. Wme bne cyclone las 9eu tne ali wax
| filled with various objects. Men were picked
| up bodily, thrown seventy five feet in the all
and landed a quarter OF q mile away. A far.
mer named Maynard, living four miles wes
of here, attempting to escape the cyclone, tool
the wrong corlrse and ran into IL. He was
driven against fence post and
| pierced through and through by a four-incl
| piece of timber, death ensuing shortly after.
| His grown daughter, Grace, was carried q
| quarter Of q mile from the honse, and found ir
| a cornfeld, devoid Of all clothing except he,
stockings. he, too, died. The rest Of the fam
| lily were saved by fleeing to- the cellar. The
house was blown to fragments and scattered
for miles about r. T. Melon, o farmer living
rlh niue nel.a q .own was ; slsllng On me pacS
by escaped severely injured The rest OF tbs