Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-08-25
FAs CYCLONE.
The Dreadful Remembrances of How II
Came-Additional Details Of
the Tempest.

ROCHESTER. Mimi. Aug. "a.
At 6.45 Tuesday morning. the southwest
quartar Of the heavens assumed siekly
greenish tint, which changed TO copper-color,
then to bronze. 1t was noted that decided
and dreadful inverted cone, with height
seemingly unreasonable and murkiness APP
pafling. with the speed of cannon ball.
came down the valley at Silver Creek, and
when within half mile of the city its roar
could be heard fully 800 feet in the air. 1t
rose and in its whirling mass were trees aid
stones, animals and debris of every descrip-
ton. The dome of The court house melted
from view. trees snapped and twisted. and
were lifted bodily in the air with tons of earth
clingine to their roots. Fifteen minutes from
this and the air was still. BY O'Clock stars
crept out and there was calm and silence,
save as broken BY the grOans of the wound
ed and dying.
All night long by the fi,ful light of lanterns.
and later aided by the moon, citizens from
outside toiled to render succor TO the dis
tressed. BY sunrise those of the wounded
W no had friends were taken to private houses.
but the majority were taken to a large hall
on Broadway. TEe wounded were in hor-
rible plight generally cut and bruised about
the upper port of the body. and childish faces
are seen with wounds so CHASTITY. even the
needle.
1t is believed the cyclone started about six
miles south of Dodge Centre. a small town
adjoining, and travelled from the southwest
in northeasterly direction, passing near
Kasson and through Rochester on the st.
Charles River in Winona county.
The streets of the city are full of people
from all over the state, some from curiosity
and some to care for friends, while large
number are present from all parts OF the
State to see the effect of the cyclone, that
they may note its extent and the needs of its
victims. On every hand can be heard
counts of some new freak or horror of the
monster till the heart sickens. Reports from
the hospital are to the effect that the children
are much improv d, while some of the adults
are worse and cannot live. The reported list
of killed has been exaggerated through the
confusion of names. Careful inquiry shows
that l6 comprises all of those instantly killed.
One thousand men, women and children of
the class that possess hardly anything outside
Ut their homes and what there is in them, are
today without ANYTHING. Of 200 houses
which were standing before the approach of
the storm, there is not sufficient material to
build an ordinary frame shelter.
The people are poor and must be cared for.
Atspresent they are lodged in private houses,
empty stores, warehouses and halls. and are
being fed by the city. Rochester is doing all
she can to aid the sufferers A large dining
hall, 20 BY 60 feet is being built on the de-
vastated track. Food and clothing are being
brought in, and $4,000 nave been raised by
the citizens. St Paul has subscribed $4,000,
Minneapolis $1,000, Winona $1,000, Saltwater
$1,000, Lake City $500, Red Wing $500, and
Hastings 500. The great need Of the people
can only be appreciated by those who have
seen their condition. A gentleman who WIS.,
tied the hospital yesterday and saw Mr.. Chick
and his motherless ones, who are hurt seri
ously, wrote check for $500 and gave it to
Judge Start, chairman of the relief commit
tee, for the benefit of the afflicted family.
Since then the father has died.
The report of a disaster to passenger
train at Seumbrola Falls, grew out of a
freight train disaster here. in which fire.
man was killed. and another reported dssas-
ter did not occur. The loss of life by the
cyclone in the country adjacent to Rochester
has not yet been accurately reported.