The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-07-22
say that over $1,000 worth of pro

perty was destroyed, and 600 persons
rendered homeless, and up to today the
number of killed figures 80, and the
injured 10 two score more.
Relief from all quarters has been
telegraphcd TO the sufferers and the
work of re building the town begun in
earnest.
Governor Pillsbury visited the scene
of disaster last Tuesday and said COM
mittce of citizens have gone to work
Systematically TO ascertain the actual
losses. The list shows that 1Ol persons
lost everything, and need assistance.
What is needed is boards, shingles and
scantling, to rebuild small houses.
They also need stoves, bedding, etc. II
is estimated that from 25 to 33 per cent.
of the property of the town has been
destroyed, and ID per cent. Of the goods.
Gov. Pillsbury says the committee are
managing everything carefully and
economically, and they are assured that
all goods by rail will be shipped free.
The citizens are all busy repairing the
damages, and feel encouraged by the
sympathy and material assistance offered.
Gov Pillsbury met Il farmer from Cairo,
who informed him that in the town of
Cairo, Renville county, drove of fifty
two cattle, herded by a Mr.. Finley, were
all destroyed, and Mr.. Finley badly
injured.
Mr.. Willard, the railroad magnate of
the Northern Pacific railroad, gcncr-
ously contributed to the New Ulm suf.
fercrs, as the following correspondence
shows
OFFICE NORTHERN PACIFIC X. r.,
| ST. PAUL, July 10, 1851.
| Hon. Edmund Rice, Mayor IF 81. Paul:
| DEAR SIR have just received the follow
ing telegram from Mr.. Willard:
| ALTOONA, Pa, July la.-Plcasc comnuni
| cate to tina proper parties that the Oregon
| Trans-Continental Company will contribute
81 900, and myself $3.50. for the relief of thu
| New Ulm sufferers. You may draw ON mt
for the total amount in New York. Will on
| dcavOr To raise some more funds in that city
(Signcd,) III. WILLARD.
| II. HAUPT, General Manager
| NOTES AND INCIDENTS.
| Many hair-brcadth escapes are re
corded. The roof of Turner Hall, ,
large two-story frame building, wa
carried through the air distance of 81,
blocks. When the tornado struck,
horse belonging to Haucnstein's brewer,
was hitched to a post near the building
The storm picked the animal up ant
carried him through the air, lodgin,
him in the top OF q large tree some tel
rods away, where he was found SOM
hours afterwards, badly cut about tn,
head but alive and kicking vigorously
A barrel of pitch, weighing 400 pounds
was carried one hundred yards through
the air and lodged in the middle o
some thick Yndcr5rush. A buggy be
longing to the Sheriff of Brown County
was picked up bodily and carried higl
in the air over the courthouse an,
dashed to pieces on the prairie quartz
of Il mile from where it originally stood
Mrs. Golden, who lives on the cliff
was nursing her Daby when the tornad,
struck the house. She ran out of door
with the child. and the violence of tn
wind picked her right up and carrie,
her through the air, dcpositing her in
hole in front of IIauenstein's wrecked
brewery, completely stripped of al
clothing, but not seriously injured. He
babe was unhurt. Willie Golden, he
son, was carried over the top of tin
brewery and landed On the other side @
the bluff, badly shaken up and with
broken leg, but otherwise uninjurcd.
A number Of bars ofirOn, twenty-fou
feet long, three inches wide and on,
inch thick, were carried through the al
over the bluff, distance of nearly hal
a mile, and struck into the ground will
such force that many of them entered
the ground to depth of over three feet
This county did not wholly escape
the whirling winds, but received pass
ing touch in the towns of Cambria ant
Butternut Valley, doing considerable
damage, in which John Jones lost
house, stable and threshing machine.
The residence of Evan Evans wa
blown down.
A kitchen attached to the house O
w. L. Williams was detached.
County Commissioner Hughes lost ,
mare, she being struck by lightning.
BY the Blue Earth County journal
we learn the following relative to tn,
storm in the vicinity of Winnebago City
MIR. Holly Crist was victim of thu
storm king. The family consists of 81,
persons, and another gentleman anC
wife were stopping with them for the
night. Mr.. Crist seeing the storm ap
preaching stepped to the door to look
out, when he was thrown to the ground
and catching hold of tree, held on
and while lying there witnessed the
heartrending sight OF seeing his house
containing all that was dear to Inn, his
wife and children, raised from the
ground, turned upside down and carried
up into the large cottonwood trees neal
by and falling to the ground, but forum.
ately none of the family were injured
but the lady visitor was somewhat
bruised. His granary was blown in
every direction for many rods, and the
contents strewn over the ground. His
stable containing eight horses was
blown down, yet strange to say, not one
Of them was injured. The scene at this
place is beyond description. Heavy
pieces of timber from the buildings
were blown for so rods, and in the field
on the west is large number of timbers
of various sizes standing one end driven
into the ground as if done by man.
A man with very heavy team and
wagon was nearing MIR. Crisis when the
wind came and it took him team and
all into the air. The man jumped out
and the wagon box went on up, whirl-
ing, and fell against the fence. The
man and team were taken through a
rail fence yet unhurt and with but little
damage to the wagon.