The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-23
Details of the Disaster.

MINNEAPOLIS Aug. 22.-On Tuesday even
ing at o'clock Rochester was one of the
| most beautiful cities in the West Ten min
utes later its beauty had disappeared, and in
parts of the city ruin and desolation reigned.
city, leaving death and destruction in
its track. Just one month ago fearful cy-
clone passed six miles north of the city; now
it passed through it. The day had been beau
tiful until toward evening, when clouds be-
gan to gather. The atmosphere was heavy
and hot. About o'clock it looked
as though it would clear up,
but soon heavy black cloud came from the
northwest and rain fell heavily. Directly
after o'clock the clouds assumed green
appearance, accompanied by rumbling
noise, and in a short time the wind increased
| in violence until the full force of the
cyclone was felt and what was once we'll
populated portion of the city, was a scene
OF ruin. The same peculiarities which
marked the cyclone of July 2l characterized
| its course through the lower town, but its
| force was felt more or less in all parts of the
city, and its freaks were simply won
derful. 1t demolished the well-built
structure on Broadway, doing no harm
to adjacent buildings beyond overturning
| chimneys and stripping tin coverings from
roofs One great beauty of this city was its
many tree-lined streets. OF these, hundreds
were torn down or broken off, and
many streets rendered impossible by
being filled with trunks or limbs; some
were stripped perfectly bare, even the bark
| being torn of. That portion of
the city north of the railroad
| the lower town--received the most damage.
There is not house in that quarter that is
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tance as though there had never been a build
ing standing on that portion.
In other sections the remains of the houses
show the terrible destructive force of the,
| winds. .
As soon as the cyclone had passed and
| people in the more favored portion of tine
| city began to learn of the damage. they
| went to the lower town to render
what assistance they could, many
working all night extricating the dead
from the debris and conveying
the wounded to the Buckshot, the Winona
destruction had been fearful, no idea of it
| could be obtained until next morning, when
| its horrors were appalling to behold.
| Commencing at the Cook House. on the ST.
Paul road, which was entirely demolished,
the cyclone next took Leland's residence his
barn and outbuldings, not leaving a stick
| standing Thence IL swept through the lower
town, and, from the appearance of the
ground, it seemed as though u flood had been
over this section. In many places there
is scarcely board or any
| thing left on the premises. The
| grass is filled with dirt and sand
Early on Wednesday movement was
made to care for the wounded, and appeals
we're issued to the large cities for aid, which
were literally responded to.
The principal losers in the city, as near as
can be estimated, are as follows:
,,k IL i d..
So, 600; high-school tower and part of roof,
50, 600; Methodist Church, roof gone and in
side wrecked. Sc, 600; Congregational Church
steeple, $1,000 railroad depot unroofed,
round-house gone, bridge and other losses,
$4,000; Vandusen & Co., elevator $4,000;
works and machinery, $4,000; Coles
mill, side and roof gone, and
mill wrecked, engine blown into the
river, SO, 600; Crescent creamery, So 000 Cas-
cade mill, $1,000; ten business blocks un-
rooted and damage to contents, $S5,000; two
hundred houses damaged to the extent of
$300,000 making total of about $4,000
THE DEAD AND WOUNDED.
The dead are; John NJ. Cole, business man,
owning four mills, picked up by the wind
and hurled to the ground; every bone in his
body broken.
Mr.. McQuillans.
Mrs. Steel
Mrs. Zerath, and August, her son.
Mr.. Osborn and aunt.
Mrs. Fred Claugh.
Mrs. Weatherby.
Mrs. Hitzel.
VIM. Higgins.
Mrs Quick and child.
Miss Mccormick.
Eight bodies were taken into the country
bv friends before their names were learned
and four are still unclaimed
Total killed, 26.
There were ffty-one wounded sufficiently
to be under the doctors care. Among the
injured are Mr.. Carl Quick and five children,
cut about the head and otherwise
injured; Mr. Rhud wife and child Mr.
Frank Schultz, badly hurt, shoulder out
of joint. and cut about the head
Annie. Zieroth, head and face badly cut
Otto Rhud, bruised internally; John Hauer
John Shamrock, Milo Weenev, Dan.
O'Brien, George Hansen, Mr.. Wetherby,
Oscar G. Hall, Hawkins; William Lee, in
jured in the head and lace and
Mrs. Irwin and two children; Nelis
Hansen, wife and child, cut in the head aud
body Mrs. Osborn and daughter,
badly bruse d; Mr.. and Mrs.
Gerdy, badly bruised; three children
whose names were not learned so badly
bruised that it is thought their parents can
not recognize them when found, their
clothes being ali gone. The above are in
hospitals.
The folowing-Louis Pesse leg broken;
Mrs Coons, leg broken: Frederick Clements,
arm broken-are with friends
The cyclone Started near Owatonna,
and followed line nearly a mile
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