Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-08-31

Siescription is utterly unable % portray tbs rs
cults Of q storm Hhsoh, IN the worst Of tt
path, absolutely
SWEPT PART Or THE EARTH AWAY,
leaving nothing Of grass Of tree. Of shrub
The relief committee Is doing ~ possible, and
residents are subscribing I'll they can
| but help is needed, and speedily. Roch-
ester gave literally to H relieve those
| who suffered ID the July Cyclone, and nov
feels justified il calling. for aid TO meet the
| horrors and al eviate the suferings CONSEQUENT
on the worst calamity Minnesota has eyel
known, confined ID the same space superin-
tendent sanborn, of L the Winona 4 ST.
Peter, is here. and is doing all pos
J3sible to repair & damages. Passengers
| transferred around the ruins OF the bridge
| over the zumbro and the Horton elevator,
which lies bodily across the track The tele-
graphic facilities are ve,y poor Not pole in
or near the town was standing this morning,
and hundreds of messages are sent in for
transmission TO absent friends. In addition &c
+ Y TEE DAMAGES IN DODGE COUNTY
already sent are the following; The family OF
A Van Frank are all seriously though not
fatally hurt The following have had barns
and houses leyeled to the ground:
Henry Chapman: house of Charles Egenton.
former proprietor of the Hotel St. Louis; L. Der.
BY, Frank Boy, W. E. Chamberlin the latter had
seven head of cattle killed and the horns blown
from twenty one others: tough bat true: Chris
tan Oleson Whose wife is fatally hurt, mother-in.
law killed and little daughter shockinely cut: un.
der Paulson. Ole Murlda, A. Masenbruck.
x THE DAMAGES IN ROCHESTER,
Following is detailed account of the dam.
ages in Rochester:
ON zUMBROTA STREET.
". s. Booth, residence uuroofed: court house.
tower down, unroofed: new academy. wrecked;
high school house, tower off, chimneys down: Con-
gregational church, spire down; Cook house par
TALLY unroofed: Heaney's block, unroofed; j. a.
Coles mill, unroofed: Chadbourn's block, un-
rooted.
ON BROADWAY
Stockings brick block, blown down: Beardsley's
building. down: Rommels block. unroofed Bed
der's block. side and end blown out.
Several smaller buildings were partially un-
rooted and sheds and outhouses demolished.
North Of the railway not a whole building is
standing, and as yet it is impossible to give q
list Of all the owners who have suffered. The
principal losers are as follows: On aud near
the track
LOSS Loss
D d., $500 vandusen & Co. $4,000
elevator. 1000 total 1Oss) 10, 900
Mr. Horizons total loss will reach $15, 900,
his farm being DESTROYED
Rochester Harvester works, utterly ruined: loss,
$4,000.
cooper shop. with barns, sheds, etc: ST 600
l.. Ton0ro's Cascade mill; SIS. 900.
Roundhonse all gone; SO, 900.
$1,000
Horace Leland, house and barn; one of the hand
soonest places in the city; Sc, 600.
John r. Cooks place levelled to the ground,
j. W. Cole, large Zumbrota Touring mill, $780,
oOo: One end has huge slice taken out OF it:
engine house and cooper shop destroyed
Broadway bridge, $4,000.
Railway bridge, sc, 600.
Three hundred homes were utterly de-
sroyed
The following is a list of the killed as far as
known:
John NJ. Cole, miller: Mrs. zierath: August
Zierath, hotel keeper, son OF the above: Miss
I:erath. his sister, Mr.. Osborne and infant child;
Mahn aS mic Heze Hggns Mrs.
Weatherbee; Jacob Hetzel, farmer on Chadboprns
place; Mrs. Schultz: Child Of George Hansen,
Of Lewis Irving, missing, probably dead; Mrs.
Charles Quick and child: and many others not
identified.
THE INJURED
The following is list of the injured as far
as known, but is necessarily very incomplete:
john Ruclt wife and child: George Hansen; S.
a. WEIGH. shoulder spraned: Charles Quick and
four children, fatally: Dr.. Weatherbee dying;
Mrs, Osborne and little girl: - Haggerty. head
hurt: D.. +. Eaton. head badly cut and h:uised:
uephew of John polZ, leg arm aud nose broken:
Annie Zicrati,: Otto Fire; John Hone; Dan Roth
Mrs. Roth: Mrs. Jane Bradley: AIRS: Humphrey
lady: Ed chapman, her son: Mrs. Chapman, bis
wife; Mrs. Carter, widow; John NJ. Qulllan: Dan
o'Brien, probably fatally: Mr.: Gerdy: Mrs. Gerdy;
head and limbs: Mrs Smith: infant child of Fred
Rick: William Leach: R. z. Williams: John
Scheprock, badly cut; Milo Sweeney: Oscar Hawk
ms; Mrs. Irwin aud three CHILDREN, two badly:
Noise Hansen, wife and child. latter badly; three
children names unknown. Edward Coon, leg
broken
BEFORE THE CYCLONE.
The weather throughout the day had been
unsettled but not unusually threatening
Clouds would form and disappear, forming
again heavier than before. The wind was
mostly from the southeast, blowing scud clouds
with it, while away above the rain bearing
stratum drove from the northwest all day
About 8 O'Clock black cloud rose in the west,
very threatening, but it passed harmlessly by
with d furious wind and some
drops Of rain. At S a low
black bank lay in the southwest 1t rose rap
idly, but presented only the appearance Of an
ordinary thunder shower. AS it neared the
city it began to assume g. horrible appearance
The whole shy was tinged s. CHASTITY green
and tie masses of clouds swept around
here and there in gigantic circles. Wherever
it was possible people took 10 their cellars, and
in no case where that was done was life lost
IN the upper part of the city the darkness was
at 10 time great; but at the lower part of town
it grew dark as night,
FILLING EVERYONE WITH TERROR
Then came the awful roar so we'll known as the
precursor Of cyclone, and the storm burst
upon the doomed city. Houses were as straws
in the grasp of this terrible
power and no tree. Of whatever size, in
the track Of the storm withstood
its fury. The whirling, sway1ng funnel left
the broken country west of the city and struck
the farm of Mrs Fatr>ute, lying two miles
south, where the timber, buildings and grain,
both standing, shocked and stacked, were
wholly destroyed Thence it moved down
the valley Of the Cascade toward the
northeast, with track about mile wide.
The dwelling Of Mathew Engel, large two
story frame building, was raised in the air and
dashed back a shapeless mass of ruins. HE