Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-05-24
BALEFUL BREATH.
Racine Visited BY Whirling Monster Of III o
Air that Lsases Wide Track Of Dead
And Dying.


lone. The meteorological conditions
If the lake-shore belt of country were
believed to be such that a disastrous
'yclone was an impossibility, but the
lebris of wrecked houses, and the
scores of dead and dying, which make
his a city OF mourning tonight. attest
he falsity of the theory This day had
been notably chilly for the season. Men
wore their overeoats all day long. Inc
was bright and fair, with the
Wind blowing freshly from the south
EAST. As the day advanced clouds OBJ
'cured the sky, and the air grew more
,hilly. AT o'clock a sharp electric
storm prevailed, although but little rain
ell. The sun again came out for about
IN hour, During the afternoon
he temperature was about sixty
degrees, and about 6 o'clock, whe q
leavy masses of clouds, which again
gathered in the west, portended storm
he air was oppressiYely warm. The
cyclone was announced by breaking
If the clouds, which took on
A WHEELING MOTION
ind struck the earth with noise which
night be compared with the roar and
of thousand railroad trains
over a bridge.
The cyclone first struck the city at
VOLTS gardens, in the extreme north
western portion, where it leveled a
and crippled six of the in
mates. Here it
SEEMED TO RISE
from the earth, which was again struck
about half mile to the northeast and
1t the corner Of st. Clair and High
streets, where Lutz' gardens were Sit
lated. From here it proceeded due
EAST almost to the lake shore, covering
! path nearly 8 quarter of a mile in
width. In the path of the storm scarce
y a building remains intact. The To-
,ality devasted consisted for the most
part of class Of poor houses, but
lere and there was a brick house of
structure.
The whirlifg masses fell to the earth
With noise that can only be compared
10 the
BUYING AND RUMBLING
If million railroad trains. The fright
ul sound continued for not more than
,wo minutes The frightened people
,rept from eheir cellars and hiding
places to behold the magnificent spec
.acle of the cyclone as it passed from
he land upon the waters OF Lake Michi-
gan, where 1t twirled and created in
Hater-spouts, some of which
.ormed spettacles beautiful in the ex-
rene.
ALL THE HOUSES
IN the wos side of North Main north
If English street, are demolished.
Many houses on North Wisconsin street
we're more or less damaged One
house on High street, facing east, was
picked up and appeared to float in the
air twenty feet above the earth, and
when it aighted it was in tolerable
state of observation, and faced south.
A barn on Milwaukee street was lifted
nto the ali and it came down under
side up, presenting a strange appear
ance. Sidewalks in the track of the
cyclone wee
eBaN-N INTO THE AIR,
yrees torn up by the roots, and out
houses, etc, were no more than feath-
ers waited by breeze. The path of
he meteorological monster was a lit
9ral scene of ruin such as the eve in
Racine never before dwelt upon. The
OF houses appear to have
been ground into splinters, some of
which had theiimensions of mere slivers
Fourteen perons were in Petura's sa-
loon, on Douglas avenue, and, though
the two-story brick building in which
it was located was reduced to a mere
pile of bricks and mortar, no one was
Injured. Beach's barn was
taken up. inc the air, and after whirl-
ing like too
ALIGHrED IN GOOD ORDER
on its side, like ship on her beams.
The flax-mils, the vinegar mandatory
and the bricg-yards of William Baum
ans shared tie common fate of destruc-
ton. The roof of Bettroy's bakery
was lifted OF, and on the same street,
St. Clair, thGcupola of Father Mathew
hall was damaged. The smoke-stack of
the old silveLplate works fell and the
cornice of S. Joseph's cathedral was
TWISTED OFF.
The roof If Policeman Griebiels
house fioatd away and an old
tnement-house of George
Butcher is numbered among the
things that were. Telegraph poles
were not respected, and as the wires are
down communication with outside
points is diilbult. The 710 train from
Chicago was delayed a mile north of the
city by a houe which had been
PICKED Up BY THE CYCLONE,
and depositd squarely on the rails.
The scene anDng the dead, wounded,
and dying at he northern part of the
city was one PAINFUL, beyond descrip-
ton. In may instances surviving rel
alives had lot all resemblance of rea-
son. Physicins were not numerous
enough to gle prompt assistance and
numerous bleding victims were rolled
up in blankets while anxious relatives
ran in every direction to secure medi-
cal aid. hephysicians in the city,
responded molly to
THE ALL FOR HELP.
As fast as thej were extricated from the
debris the wounded were examined, and
when their 0ndition permitted were
conveyed to s., Luke's and St. Mary
hospitals. Thtdead are lying in var
ious parts of the city with guards
mounted over tenn. Tho inquest will
be held to-morbw, and the dead will
receive a comrDn funeral Sunday.
AFEATURE
of the results il the storm is that the
houses in genital appear to have ex-
ploded. Thoswithin the storm center
were in vacuum, and the pressure of
the air from tb inside acted as on an
explosive, hene the debris lies in and
around the folldations nearer the cir
conference. pme few houses were
lifted and cared bodily for n short
distance, and bre the occupants Jared
better than thse in the storm center.
The extent of puntry traversed by the
storm can not eeven guessed at here.
but it is beliewi to have struck this
country first ATTEST Union Junction.
AT dHER PLACES,
HARVARD, T., May Harvard,
town of aboq two thousand inhabi-
tants, has presnted an unusual scene
to-day. The devastating cyclone OF
yesterday left untouched, but wrecked
and ruined tn major portion of the
little hamlets aiacent to it, and to-day
succinet stattent Of the progress of
the whirlwind IS been gathered. The
first signs of itn this vicinity were at
Russellsville. Chr-y Valley, and Bones
Prairie, about Eighteen miles south Of