The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-09-01
Hundreds of Buildings Shattered, rs
People Killed and 80 Other
U~nfortunateS Injured.
Five Hundred People Left HOuseleSs to
View the Melancholy Scene
of Ruin.
Eearly all Public Buildings Damaged
and a Loss Of $500, 900
inflicted.
RUINED ROCHESTER.
HORRIBLE WORK ~ rHE CYCLONE.

. hOCHESIEbs DpbClbA 4SlCb tGMs mug a.
The citizens Of Rochester are wan Of cheek and
hoilow-eyed, aud we'll they may, since they
passed last evening as evil a quarter OF an hour
Gs ever fell to the experience Of man, and to
this succeeded a night Of horror, snoh as made
men used to the terrors OF a stricken field
vince and shudder. The storm FIRST came al 7
In the evening and lasted from twelve TO fifteen
minutes. Not until after 6 o'clock were the
residents the least alarmed, which is
the strangest, When it is remembered that
. month ago cyclonic fury vented itself
but Il few miles from here. BY 7:1O the south
west quarter had assumed that sickly greenish
tint which serves as drop curtain for such
dire work. In a few moments the green
changed to copper, then to bronze, with
whitish edges aud lateral lines Of flying scud
athwart it in every direction. Next was noted
that dBesded and dreadful inverted cone, with
height seemingly immeasureable and murki-
ness appalling. With the speed Of q cannon
ball it came down the valley Of Insignificant Sill
YER creek, and when within half a mile
Of the devoted city, its roar could
be heard. Cellars were rushed to by almost
every one, but C few Of the harder ones stayed
at points of vantage near the edges and wit
messed
THE ATTACK OF THE REsIsTLEss MONSTER.
Full 800 feet in the az Srose, and in it's whirling
mass were irsas and stones, animals and debris
Of every conceivable description. The dome
of the court house melted from view, though
touched merely by the hem of the wind
Trees snapped like cAt-o'-nme tails, or stranger
still, were twisted as corkscrews in the
hands of q Titan, and lifted bodily into the
sir with tons OF earth ciinging to their roots.
and their backs and bones crushed TO powder.
The roar OF The fierce surge was like nothing
ever heard before, The atmosphere was
sucharged with electricity. ana pellets Of
rain and hail were driven vertically as il shot
from . rife. Fifteen minutes Of his terror,
and then a silence By 8 o'clocl the stars
were shining as peacefully a. if cyclones were
unknown; but the silence was soon
broken by the groans of The dead, dying and
The soreIy wounded The northern part of the
city, fortunately not the larger or thickly act
tied portion, had been changed from q habit
able place to maze Of mangled matter, a desert
with signsof voc aud terror scattered every
where Not a house STOOD where 800 had
been at z o'clock. Most OF the dwellings were
Of the poorer class bur many were pretty, care
fully tended and decorated houses The
cih2ens on the South side quickly repaired in
crowds to the scene Of direst disaster and went
to work All night long by the htful light Of
tantcrs at arst and later aided by the moon
they toiled
SCORES OF BODIES
mangled. cut, torn and bruised, some breath
ing, some breathless. were taken out By
sunrise those Of the dead or wounded who had
friends wore speedily borne to private houses.
The majority we're taken to RommeTs hall, a
large building on Broadway, whore cots we're
hastily prepared for the wounded. The dead
were taken away by friends or CIV. II sew
ards undertaking place on Broadway. Physi-
clans and nurses we're soon 10 the fore, and
everything possible done to ~aitovsate Suffering.
The wounded were in . horrible plight. and q
walk through the hall where they lie.
sven now, makes one rant IN
'uta and bruises are generally about
80 upper part Of the body, and
shild%Rh faces are seen with wounds on them
: 10 ghs4ily that even the physician shudders as
40 uses sdWPnge and needle. Into the cuts dirt
and even wdered stone were forced in many
instances. cellars seemed OF little or no pro-
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