The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-08-29
Take a Tilt at a Small Minnesota
Town,
Waiting Dwelling Houses, Stores, EIe-
VOtOrs and Factories Into
Space,
Wrecking a Moving Train, and
Killing or Wounding Nearly
Every Passenger
Thereon.
DISASTROUS CYCLONE.
One-Ihird of the Town of Rochester,
Minn., swept Away and Score of Per-
s1rs EsFr.5

One-Ihird of the Town of Rochester,
Minn., swept Away and a Score of Per-
sons Killed.
ST. PAUL. Aug. 22-The cyclone which
ragged at Rochester, Mimi. last night is re-
ported to have been very severe. Twenty
four are reported killed and fifty or more in
jured. Vague rumors of train being blown
from the track are also coming in, but no
particulars.
Passengers from 0wattonna state that
twenty-five were killed in railroad accident,
and thirty-five of the I'M ared were taken to
the Hospital at Owattonna. Mayor Of
Rochester telegraphs for assistance, and
states that twenty-five killed and about
forty injured. One-third of the town is an
entire wreck. 1t is believed from all reports
that come in that the whole country sur
rounding Rochester is in ruins. The killed
may 1ech up into the hundreds. II. Cole,
proprietor Of the Zambrota Mills ct Hum
brota, was instantly killed. He was in the
mill when the storm struck the town and the
building was wrecked. Governor Hubbard
sent s., 900 to aid the sufferers. A passenger
train on the Rochester and Northern Rail-
road was blown from the track last night
during the cyclone and a number of persons
killed and wounded. Governor Hubbard
has just received word from Rochester,
MINI, stating the town was in ruins and
forty persons killed. 1t was impossible TO
learn any OF the details, as the Telegraph
wires were all down. The storm in other
directions was only severe hail storms and
NO great damage was done. Particulars are
coming in on special train.
WIKONA, Mimi, Aug. % AT Z o'clock
last evening cyclone struck the north part
of the city of Rochester, Mimi, making a
clean sweep of elevators, residences, railroad
engine houses and other property along the
railiosd was completely demolished. Mayor
Whitten telegrephs twenty four killed and
forty wounded.
The city is in need of clothing, food and
assistance.
Among the killed is John NJ. Cole, pro
pr;etor OF the planning mill. The list of
killed and wounded is hourly increasing.
The prostration of the telegraph lines make
1t difficult to get particulars. The storm
swept the towns of Utica and s.. Charles, in
Winona County. Job Thornton was killed
and several others injured. The report from
Dodge County indicates much damage, with
loss OF Lille. No particulars yet. Mayor Lud-
wig, of Winona, with a corps of surgeons,
left for Rochester this morning.
Another Account.
0wAToNNA, Mimi, Aug. 22.-Meagre tele-
graphic advices received here early this
morning state terrible accident occurred
between Rochester and ZambroIs, Mimi, on
Rochester and Northern Division OF the Chi
csgo and Northwestern Road, by which about
100 people were killed and wounded. On
account of wire interruption no information
could be obtained till the arrival of the train
from the scene of the disaster with thirty
i've people who had been wounded in the &C
cldent, of this number many being serious,
and all have been taken to the Hospital.
The train wrecked was that which leayes Ro-
chester about .. m. arriving at Zumbrota
about 6 o'clock. It was caught in a
severe wind and hlilstorm that
prevailed in that vicinity between aud g
o'clock, ard while running at high speed was
lifted from the rails. a gentleman who had
been at the scene of the disaster describes it
as ore of the most horrifyirg railroad acci-
dents he ever saw. Every car in the train was
completely W. ecked by the sudden stop
caused BY the train leaving the rails buryiDg
the unfortunate passengers beneath the
debris, killing, manning and injuring nearly
every person aboard. The gentleman stated
that nine dead bodies had been taken from
the ruins, and large number OF those who
were seriously wounded had been taken to
Rochester and OTattonna. At the time he
left the work of extricatiDg the unfortunate
victims was still progressing. The mum Der
OF the killed and wounded would reach q
score when the final summing up was made.