Morris tribune., 1881-07-21

injuries which it is feared will prove fatal.
The following named business men met with |
the heaviest losses: M Mullen, hardware |
merchant, the rear part of whose two-story |
brick building was completely ruined. He |
also lost great deal of farm machinery. He |
estimates his loss at 5000. DR.. Weschcke's
brick-veneered store was totally ruined. Ihe
stock was saved, but in q damaged condition. |
Redman & Schramm's veneered general store
is also total wreck, but part of the stock
was saved in damaged con-
dition. Miss westfalls millinery store and
stock was blown apparently to the four cor
ners of the earth, as only few bricks remain
to mark the cite NJ. Epple's two story BRICK
meat market and residence, one of the most
substantial buildings in the city, was totally
demolished. The loss is estimated at 900.
G. Epple, u brother of the proprietor, was
badly injured by the falling of this building.
George Jacobs brick store was ruined; some
of the stock saved in a damaged condition
EVERY TIN ROOF IN THE CITY,
with two exceptions, was taken off. The post
| Office was unroofed and the front blown in. 1t
| is otherwise injured The plate glass front of
| my drug store, next door, in which the Review
| office is also located was blown i'll and the cor
| nice blown over. The second story of II. ID.
| Beussman's store was blown in, the bricks
crushing through the floor into the store below,
| space about ten feet square i'll Crones three
story brick front was blown inward, and Carl
Baltrusch's two-story veneered general store
was partially blown down and the stock badly
| damaged. 1t may be we'll to state right here
| that the rain poured down in torrents and all
| the goods exposed by the demolition of the
buildings were saturated. All the hotels es-
of the dry goods stores the wind took singu-
lar freak 1t blew IN the front on
one side of the door and made
a circuit of the store and came out the front on
the side of the door, taking with it bolts OF
muslin, calico, ETC., which it had picked up in
it's swing around the interior. Unless some
| thing can be done to relieve the poorer classes,
who arc the greatest losers, there will be great
suffering. Provisions are not needed, Dut
there is need of liberal donations of money.
Carpenters, bricklavers and other artisans will
be greatly wanted. The business Laen of the
city have lost so heavily that they will have all
they can do to take care OF themselves. One
thing 1 forgot to mention, that Mrs. Drummer,
whose husband committed suicide few weeks
ago, lost her house, which Is total wreck, and
is left in very destitute circumstances
| COL. PFENDER
of New JTlm while in St Paul last night gave
PIONEER PRESS reporter the following &C
count of the storm:
The tornado struck the town about 4:45
Friday afternoon, and came in two directions.
One part of the storm came from the north
west and the other from the south. at first II
was severe storm of wind and rain, and com
menced blowing down trees and fences, and in
creased in fury, especially as soon as both
storms united, when it became very destruc-
, tive. Timbers boards and all description OF
material began to fly around in the air-lumber,
trees and everything-tearing the houses In
pieces ripping off off the roofs lifting ism house,
Considerable COZ distance, and ther
dropping them and crushing them all in
pieces. Big pieces of lumber were whirled
through the air and carried far away
The only reason more people were not killed
is because they took to their cellars as soon a:
: they saw the terrible storm was upon them
In this way they escaped. Some of the people
living in small houses without cellars wore
crushed, and afterwards their bodies were
dragged out One poor woman who was living
alone with her husband in small house
had one arm broken twice. leg broken, anC
t her head badly bruised. Her husband wa:
= hurt very seriously in one shoulder. Th'
names of these two are Mr.. and Mrs. Wegner
They were citizens, but had not been In New
Ulm long. A family consisting of man, bl
wife and son, lived on the outskirts. MIR
4 Eckert aud the boy we're killed instantly. The
8 woman was wounded, and some one saw he
3 | afterwards but she had disappeared III som'
. way. little girl named Reitz had her heaC
!, literally torn off, probably by piece of tyln!
: : timber.
y y DURING TIE STORM
all was wild uproar. and hardly anything
could be seen. 1t was Impossible to see aero
the street, as the air was filled with grea
!, | sheets of rain, and trees and timbers wer
. whirling around. 1t is impossible to give
description of the terrible scene. Twas in m
It house when the storm first commenced. an
R was watching its progress when could see tn
e trees bending down and being broken of
# was kept busy going from on
u place in the house to anothe
trying to keep things in place and the window
down. Soon the windows began to be drive
+ in, sometimes by the storm and sometimes b
y the trees and timber striking against then
q when they would fly in and be splintered all il
= y pieces. My house is built of brick. While
= work down stairs trying to take care of tn
a doors and windows, l heard crash up stairs
f followed Immediately by another. | ran u
) was open. The south half of tn
+ roof was entirely gone and the sout
n wall of the upper story wa
y y pressed out. Then the house was completed
=. flooded from one end to the other, and itseeme
p as though the deluge had come again. Grea
= . seas of water swept in, and the wind howle
, through the wreck of the building A ma
i that works for me, who was in the stable whe
, the storm commenced, thought he would 6
= into the house. He started for the house fror
. | the stable, which was about thirty yards away
and finally managed to reach the front door o
: the porch, and grabbed hold of the door knob
q and could keep himself from bein
v swept eff the porch only by holding ont
= the knob. Finally the door was burst in an
= he was thrown headlong into the room. Al
| this time the storm was bowling with unabat
| ed fury, and the air was full of remnants c
o buildings, timbers and trees. Twas fully con
! vinced the house would come down as it shoe
a and rocked fearfully.
4 the town and not less than four-tifths of then
= are injured The stables and barns bein
lighter are nearly all gone, having been swel
away. Even the brick stables of the Unio
>. house are blown down. .rs
. The livery stable of Charles Rosskopf
DESTROYED
n There were seven or eight horses in the sta
!, bles, but only one of them was killed. Til
d others were afterwards got out alive, after th
o storm had spent its fury.
q Jacob Miller was in lumber yard when til
!, storm commenced, hut thinking it was not
, safe place, went across the street TO a salool
q While he and the saloon keeper were trying
N hold the door it was smashed in and timbt
,e that was flying through the air struck him G
a. the left leg below the knee ard broke the leg.
a Within half block of my house five fran
n buildings have wholly disappeared
"a The Methodist church, solid brick build
% ing with tower, was leveled to the ground.
9 The tower to the Catholic church is blow
in Off and part of the roof has been torn OF
i A large wing Of the same building late
Il erected is totally destroyed. . 4a&
of The brewery of John Hauenstein, lars
as brick building, is totally destroyed, and mo
V. of the business houses in the city are more
Il less damaged, and some Of them, it is believe
st cannot be repaired 1t is impossible to te
IN IN about the injuries to the buildings. Scarce
IA one is unnjured
of When we left New Ulm at 1870 +
" day Saturday there were five dead persol
- and twenty three wounded. Some of the
ri severely and others mortally. From We
ee Newton it was reported that there were eig
ar killed The destruction is so general that it
: impossible to give anything like a correct Ii
,e atpresent
,k TUE STRICKEN CITY. .s
sn On DESCRIPTION OF NEW ULM :"
ss' The thriving city of New Ulm which ha
9 been thus terribly stricken is about sixty mile
:, - southwest Of ST. Paul, on the Winona & s
~ Peter railway, and is handsomely situated (
IN - the right bank of the Minnesota river Il
u beautiful location and large number of han'
~ ~ some public aud private buildings made il OF
W of the most beautiful little cities in Minnesot
1t was first settled by colony of Germa
.. from Chicago in 1855, who laid ol
q town plat which was 70 afte