The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-30
THE MINNESOTA STORM.
A Young Lady Ill Field Carried Up
and Not Since Heard or.
AT ROCHESTER,.

ter are in ruins. Twenty-four people
are dead, but number Of these are
not yet identified, owing to their
frightful mutilation by the storm.
The storm swept through Dodge and
| OlmStead counties, causing greater
destruction than the cyclone of a
month ago. The damage in Roches-
ter will reach fully $3OO,OOO
When the storm struck the congre-
gational church thirty-fve children
had just returned from a picnic, but
none were hust. The list of the dead
and wounded is the same as already
reported.
Helen Beck, of Ashland, Dodge
county, was taken up by the storm
while in Il field, and has not since been
heard of.
Mr.. Oliver, wife and daughter, of
Canister, Dodge county, were killed.
Great damage was done in st.
| Charles, Utica and Southern Wabasha
counties.
AT WINONA.
WINONA, Mimi, August 23.-The
cyclone struck here at Z o'clock last
night. 1T unroofed and badly
wrecked the depot, and the engine
house is a total wreck. A covered
bridge near town is gone, and a num-
Der of cars in the yard were COM
pletely smashed.
Holton'S elevator is total wreck,
and half of it obstructs the main rail-
road track, The streets are filled
with trees and fragments of buildings.
A train of cars and an engine were
derailed at Zum6rata junction. Fire
man Higgins jumped from the cars
and was buried under the wreck.
AT DODGE CENTRE.
DODGE CENTRE, Mimi, August 49,
Crops in the path of the cyclone
two miles south of here, were all de-
stroyed, and heavy damage was done
to buildings.
A man named II. Elbright and his
wife were working in field when
they saw the storm and chung to each
other. When it struck them he was
knocked senseless, and she was blow
to considerable distance. She was
found this morning il horribly mu-
| tilated condition, with one arm
twisted off and the other nearly so. A
number Of other persons were more
or less badly injured.
FURTHER OF THE TERRIBLE DIS
ASTER.
CHICAGO, August pa gentleman
just in from Rochester, Mimi, says
the entire north part of the place from
the Chicago and Northwestern rail-
road track is a confused mass of de-
bris. Scarcely a house is left stand
ing, and few that are moved from
their foundations as if shaken by an
earthquake. The affrighted survivors
were at work all night rescuing the
injured and recovering the bodies of
the dead. Before midnight twenty
three corpses had been recovered,
most of them horribly mutilated. 1t
is thought at least twenty bodies re-
manned in the ruins. The portion of
the city swept by the cyclone COM
prised about a third of it's
extent. The storm formed
about eighteen miles of
Rochester, gathering violence as it
progressed, destroying several farm
houses in its course. A lowering
dun-colored cloud was seen approach
ing the fated town, and in a few mo-
ments the slaughter had been accom-
plished, No time was given for any
preparation. The scene in the de-
vastated district, where the dead lay,
was indeScribable. Mothers wildly
searched for their children, while lit
tie homeless waits were found whom
the tempest had orphaned. One child
was the only survivor Of family of
seven.
The passengers on this train were
not aware that the frightful cyclone
had passed near them until their at
tention was directed to feather beds
and articles of wearing apparel
against barbed wire fences. Wheat
and other straw, which was blown
from their stacks, was twisted about
the rails in large quantities, present
ing singular appearance. The death
dealing funnel crossed the track
shortly before the train arrived at
Rochester. a freight train was
wrecked at the treStle at the western
approach of the place. The wind
twisted a switch car from its
place. throwing open the switch.
The engineer saw the peril, when
close at hand, and jumped, saving his
life. The fireman was carried over the
embankment and killed, and his body
was not recovered until this morning
The path of the storm through Roch-
ester is strewn with the wreck, but
mostly in the poorer portions, the
suburbs on the north side. A large
elevator was broken in two portions
and the upper half, an immense mass
was carried across the railroad and
over two trains of cars standing on
the track. The fatal cloud swept
toward st. Charles, five miles south
east, cutting a wide Swath through
the timber and farms touching the
skirts of the little hamlet, with
fatal effect, leaving two corpses and
fatally manning many.
Americas Lawyers.
SARATOGA, August "a The
American Bar Association held its
closing session this morning.
Mr.. Allen Butler offered resolu.
rion rendering the most cordial wei.
come to Lord Chief Justice Coleridge
The following officers were elected
for the ensuing year: President
CORTLAND Parker, of New Jersey
Among the vice-presidents are r. G.
Street, of Texas.
: A communication to consider the
subject of in the United States su.
preme court and various plans for the
| relief of same, was referred to tht
committee on judicial administration
: and remedial procedure.
Resolutions in respect to the mem
, DRY OF the late Judge jeremiah
/ Black. of Pennsylvania, were passed
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