Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-25
THE GREAT STORM.
Further Details OF tho DISASTROUS Cyclone II
nIissOur1-A Terrible Summing up Of
tho Di0aStefe.

Further Details OF tho DISASTROUS Cyclone in
the Disasters.
At Rochester, Minn., Thursday morn
early hour strangers began to pour in
were crowded. The expressions of sad
ing, desolation and death. Eleven bodies
the afternoon. At $40 o'clock a process
and started for the cemetery.
The victims inferred were Mrs. Wealth.
erbee, Nellie Irwin, Mahala Mccormick,
Mr.. Hetzel Mrs. McQuiilan, Mrs. Quick,
Mrs. Clough, Mrs. Zeirath, August
Zeirath and Mr.. Osborne and child. The
ceremonies were of the simplest character.
Mr.. Quick, another of the dangerously in
jured victims, died at p. m. His family
consisted of nine members. His wife and
two children were killed instantly,
while himself and five other children were
injured so that they had to be taken to the
hospital. Two of these children are ex.
pected to die, SO that three of the nine are
likely to survive.
Details from the surrounding district
show that the tornado swept over a terri
tory GO miles in length and moro than two
miles wide, leaving in its path nothing but
ruins. To form an idea of the loss, one
has only to estimate the value of all the
improvements that had been made in the
section visited by the tornado. and which
are all gone. The loss in Rochester is
now estimated at $3.50, 900. Andrew
johnson, a farmer, nine miles south of
Rochester, was severely injured in the
wreck of his homo and died yesterday.
Reports from the town of Salem indicate
that considerable damage was done in that
locality.
The streets of the city to-day arc full of
people from all over the state, some from
curiosity and some to caro- for friends,
while large number are prominent men
from all portions of the state to see the
effect of the Cyclone, that they may know
its extent and the neods of its victims.
The reports from the hospital are to the
effect that the children arc much i'm.
proved, while some of tho adults are worse
and cannot live.
The reported list of the killed has been
exaggerated through the confusion of
names. Careful inquiry shows that 16
comprises all Of those instantly killed. The
reason assigned by the city undertakers
for the error is that four were said to have
been taken into the country by their
friends, which is not true and the names
of four other victims were incorrectly
given, and thus aided to swell tho sup
positions list. One thousand men, women
and children of the class that possess
hardly anything outside of their homes
and what there is in them are to day
without anything. Of 200 houses which
were standing before the approach of tie
storm there is not sufficient material to
build an ordinary frame shelter. All the
household furniture and clothing was also
completely destroyed.
The people are poor and must be cared
for. At present they are lodged in private
houses. empty stores, warehouses and
halls, and are being fed by the city. Roch-
ester is doing all she can to aid sufferers.
A large dining hall, 20 by 60 feet is being
built on the devastated tract, food and
clothing are being brought in, and SO, 900
has been raised by the citizsns. st. Paul
has subscribed 1000, Minneapolis 81, 200,
Winona $1,000, Saltwater $1,000, Lake
City so, 500, Red Wing $500 and Hastings
500. Owattonda and Mankato have also
responded. The great need of the people
can only be appreciated by those who have
seen their condition.
A gentleman who visited the hospital
yesterday aud saw Mr.. Quick and bis five
mothsrless little one, all seriously hurt,
wrote a check for 5000 and gave it to
Judge Start, chairman of the relief com.
mittee for the benefit of the afflicted
family. Since then the father has died,
and the helplessness of these young or
phans is typical of the general distress.
The report of disaster to passenger
train at Zumbrala Falls grew out of a
freight train disaster there, in which a
fireman was killed, and the other reported
disaster did not occur.