The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-25
A CYCLONES VICTIMS.
BURIAL OF THE DEAD AT ROCHESTER.
Sad Scenes in the Little cemetery-The
Total Number of Killed in the Storm
swept Section Will Likely
Reach Thirty.
SAD SCENES AT ROCHESTER.

ST. PAUL, Aug. %.
4 Rochester special to the Pioneer Press
says: Most of the present dead are en-
tombed. At four O'Clock Thursday after
noon hundreds of wagons and carriages
were drawn up near the Cook House for the
conveyance to lakewood Cemetery of the
bodies for which graves were dug few
hours previous. Eleven collins were taken
there, and the three heaTses of the city
made many trips. The announcement of
the funeral had been made by printed slips,
edged with black, and about three
thousand people assembled at the cemetery.
Between the hours of four and six every
store, saloon and Office IN the city was
closed and the flags hung at half-mast. The
cemetery, a beautiful spot, lies TO the north
east of the town, across the Zumbro. The
amount Of damage done to monuments and
trees by the cyclone has been very large,
thoughnot so great as at first reported.
The graves were in separate parts of the
grounds, and the service held over each
coffin was of the briefest possible character.
The names of those buried at Oakwo0d are
as follows: Mrs Weatherbee, Nellie Irwin,
Mrs. Jerath, Mr.. Osborne and child,
Mr.. Hetzel, Mrs. Fred Clough, Mrs
Quack and child, Mrs. Mahala
Mccormick. Mrs. Steele was buried
in Byron and Mr.. Cole in Winona. Thus
far, according to buTialS, the dead in the
city proper were as follows: Eleven buried
in lakewood, two in the Catholic cemetery,
and four in Hayerhill; also two in Byron,
ore in Winona and one in Dodge Center
twenty in all. Carl Quack died at two p.
m. Thursday. One child is held awaiting
the arrival of friends, and two persons have
not been found. One is a child, name UNI
known The other is a woman who lived
beyond the river and east of the Broadway
bridge. The case of the Quack family
is particularly distressing. The father died
Thursday afternoon, and the mother and
one child were taken out dead from the
ruins Six children, the eldest a boy OF
twelve years, lie ranged on cots in the hos
pital. The eighth is missing, but a Mrs.
Roberts, who lives across the river, has a
child three years old in her possession which
is probably the one. When the other chill
dren recover sufficiently they will doubtless
be able to identify the missing one. AS
brighter picture may be given the case of
the DOnahues, mother and ten children,
not one of whom was hurt though
their house was crushed to atoms
around them. 1t is more than possible that
two or three more bodies will be found in
the ruins when they are cleared away. No
person escaped unscratched who did not
take refuge in the cellar. Of those who did
so comparatively few are seriously injured.
J. II, Chapman had just completed a vault
for place of refuge in his cellar, without
which his family would certainly have been
killed. A. X. Williams, who was danger
ouSly hurt in the former cyclone, was in the
| train-wreCk at Owaonna.
On the grounds of T. A. Poole, opposite
| the courthouse, curious freak of the
storm is to be seen. A pine board about
| six feet long and four inches wide is driven
| endwiSe through. the trunk of a maple tree
| six inches thick, and remains imbedded in
| it, Numerous narrow escapes from sudden
| death are reportS1. A farmer just in from
| Salem Township says the destruction there
is terrible. John Clio, ST., and Andrew
| johnson were instantly killed.
| The fetal number of lives lost in this city
! by the cyclone is thirty-four; injured,
| eighty-twO. Nine Of the latter will die.
| With these exceptions all the wounded are
| doing well.
Additional wounded are constantly being
| brought in. In Olmsted County, west OF
Rochester, John CAVITY, William McGovern
| and Mr.. Bern were killed, and the families
of John Donvan, William and Thomas Me
| Govern injured. In Dodge County, in the
townships of Westfeld, Ashfield and CAMS
tee, there were five deaths, viz, Mrs. Helm
brock, Mrs Christian Olsen and infant, al
old lady, mother of Mrs. Ole Mulda, and
one man, name not learned. Young Mrs.
Mulda is fearfully hurt, as is Andrew Fred
erickson. Joseph Thornton, living north Of
ST. Charles, Winona County, was killed
and his wife and other inmates of the house
injured. In Pleasant Grove, ten miles
south of Rochester, at four O'Clock, three
hours earlier than the big storm, a cyclone
| struck several houses, killing two persons
and wOunding ten. The Storm so far a:
can be learned, started in WeStfield Town
ship, near the west line of Dodge County
and continued through Dodge and Olmsted
and into WinOna counties, a distance o.
about sixty miles, and varied from two anC
half to three-quarters of a mile in width
being the widest where it started. In thC
path of the storm nothing is left.
SOME CONTRADICTIONS.
MNNEAPoLIs, Mimi, Aug. %.
The TriblGnG'S special from ROcheste
says the number of persons killed in tina
city by the cyclone on Tuesday evening
was sixteen, not twenty-six, as heretOfOr
reported. The reason for the error is ex
planned by the City Undertaken i'll thi
way: Four were said to have been take
into the cemetery by friends, which is no
true; four were put down by some as no
known, while all were identified the frs
day; then Mrs. Quigg and child wer
counted, and the child still lives; Nj. Het
eel was reported as Mrs. HenZel and child
One thousand men, women and childre
OF the class that possess hardly anythin
outside of their homes and what there is il
them are to-day without anything. OF 20
houses that were destroyed, material enOug
for two such houses can not be found abou
their deserted foundations The sam
is true of their household furniture an
clothing. The people are poor and must b
cared for. At present they are lodged /
private houses, warehouses, empty store:
halls, etc, and are being fed by the city
Rochester is doing all she can. A larg
dining-hall, 4Ox60, is being built on the d.
vastated track; food and clothing are bein
brought in, and 50, 900 has been raise
among the citizens.