Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-06-19

the track and the train toppled On the other
side.
Across the track of the wind was the build.
ing of Prof. j. w. Chamberlain, treasurer OF
the college, which was gathered up in sec
tions and dumped in disJointed heap, por-
ton of it upside DOWN. total ruin.
DR.. r. N. Scott's house was turned almost
completely around.
C. W. Hobart's elegant residence and barn
are completely gone. Near by stood the two
story house in which Miss Abbie Agard was
killed. There is hardly sign left of it. In
the vicinity stood the house OF Henry McCon-
nell, who was going around almost demented.
The house was pile OF lath, ..splinters and
plaster.
Among the acres ofruins in the vicinity
there stood block which contained nine
houses. All but one are levesled to the
ground. In one house of this block four per.
sons were killed, Mr.. Ford, wife and hired
girl and her father. In this vicinity F. w.
Williams house was unroofed.
Prof. Herrick's and Mrs. Morris two
honses were launched together.
Not far off stood Lacy Sanders fine resi-
dence, and the part of it that is not scattered
over the adjoining country is dumped into the
cellar. There were ten people in Sanders
cellar. ALI escaped.
Mr.. Taylor's and Mrs. Days houses are
both gone. Also the home of Hon. G. F.
Reeves, and also the large new residence of
Andrew Larrabee.
The side and top of B. Clark's house were
blown off, also his barn. The home Of Mer-
rill, of Kimball & Merrill, is unroofed.
Beyond these there are rows Of houses as
fiat on the ground as the space will allow.
The hurricane took everything north OF
injured. In the northwest corner of the city
the storm leveled dozens of houses.
John Merrill's house was blown distance
apparently in the teeth of the wind. Not q
sign is left. The houses of Madison Howard
and George Hamlip, cashier of the First Ma
tional bank, are in ruins.
George Jennings new $1,000 house is in
kidding wood and broken plaster.
Two houses belonging to o. Mr. M; Bat.
Lewis and Mills are obliterated; also the
houses of James Hanlan. Phillip Clendenning,
Henry James, Henry Pitman, Marcus Wight
man, William Carlson, Deacon Ford's two
houses, W. N. Nealey's and Mr.. Hofer's.
The house of A. E. Reinford is completely
demolished, and himself and wife taken from
the ruins nearly dead.
Mrs. Stewards house was blown half block
and the fragments damned into the corner OF
the Jones house.
Frank Carroll, stealing ride from Daven-
that was carried off the track, and lies at the
Chaplin house with broken shoulder blade.
Henry Moore, Rock Island brakeman, is
dying in commissions at the Chaplin house.
SCENES AROUND THE RUINS
The people stand around their homes in a
dazed sort of way, replying unwillingly to
all questions asked and laughing in such a
pathetic manner at some ridiculous incident
while some near and dear friend is dead or
dying.
One young girl was heard to say, half in
tears and half in laughter, that she believed
she had found fragment Of her room and
was looking for some articles by which to
know it. She stopped and picked up photo
graph and burst into tears. It was the picture
of her little sister, who had been killed
Many of those who were saved in the de-
molished dwellings had fled to cellars while
the houses were carried from over their heads.
a. j. Preston was away from home and saw
the funnel fury coming. He tried to reach
his home, but the tornado caught up with
him and he kept himself from being blown
away by clinging to e'roots of tree.
F.. Craven, whose wife and thrre children
were away on a visit, saved himself and hired
girl by seeking refuge in the cellar. He says
before they went there he could see the air hlled
with flying timbers. When they began to
come through his house as easily as though
he woodwork was window glass. he sought
under ground refuge.
George Chistian, took his wife and chill
dren in the cellar and all were saved, his
house is somewhat damaged. The engine
house, where seventeen of the dead bodies are
laid out, presents sight that brings back
army days. The other dead are around in the
wrecks of their houses where enough was left
or shelter, or sent to the houses of friends.
The furniture scattered through the
stricken district indicates the class of peO-
pie whose homes have been leveled. Rich
furniture and carpetings are buried in the
debris and mud, while fine pianos are turned
upside down or scattered in fragments over
the prairie.
The surgeons report forty. one dead at Grin
nell and say five or six more cannot live
through the night The surgeons reported
that the wounded would exceed $50 and the
number of houses destroyed or ruined is be-
tween 40 and $50. The total loss of property
is now estimated at 100000. 1t is feared the
number of deaths at Grinnell will yet exceed
seventy-fve.
Ruin at Malcolm