River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-08-30

ages in Rochester:
ON ZUYBRoTA STREET.
". s. Booth. residence unroofed: court house,
tower down. unroofed; new academy wrecked;
high school house tower off, chimneys down: Con-
zregational church, spire down: Cook house par
TALLY unroofed: Hesney's block unroofed; ]. A.
Coles MILL unroofed: chadbourn's block, uH-
rooted.
ON BROADWAY
Stockings brick block, blown down; Beardsley's
building. down; Rommel's block, unroofed; Bed
der's block, side and end blown out
Several smaller buildings were partially I'M
rooted and sheds and outhouses demolished
North Of the railway not whole building is
standing, and as yet it is impossible to give a
list of all the owners who have suffered The
| principal losers are as follows: On aud near
the track
| Depot ...... SIS, 500 vandusen 4 Co. $4,000
Written & Judds Horizons elevator
elevaior........ 1,00ol total loss 10000
Mr.. Horizons total loss will reach $40, 900,
his farm being destroyed
Rochester Harvester works, utterly ruined; loss,
| $4,000
Marvin Commack's Crescent creamery and
cooper shop. with barns sheds. etc; ~, 600
l.. Tondro's Cascade mill; $4,000.
| Roundhouse all gone; $1,000
T. A. d A. Writings elevators, slightly injured;
| $1,000.
Horace Leland, house and barn: one of the hand
soonest places in the city; $4,000.
| John R. Cooks place levelled to the ground,
| j. W Cole, large Zumbrota Touring mill, $780,
| 600. One end has huge slice taken out OF It;
engine house and cooper shop destroyed
Broadway bridge $4,000
Railway bridge. $4,000
/ Three hundred homes were utterly de-
stroyed.
THE KILLED.
| The following Is list of the killed as far a.
known:
! John NJ, Cole, miller: Mrs zterstb: August
Zierath hotel keeper, of the ABOVE: Miss
zieralh his sister: Mr. Osborne and infant child;
| Mahav Mccormick: NJ Hetzel; w Higgins: Mrs.
| Steele old lady. daughter of Lewis Manly; MRS
| Weatherbee; Jacob HetZel. farmer on Chadhouras
place; Mrs Schultz: Child of George Hansen,
| missing, probably dead; Mrs. MeQuillan daughter
Of Lewis Irving, missing, probably dead MIS-.
| Charles Quick and child; and many others not
| identified.
The following is a list of the injured as far
as known. but is necessarily very Incomplete:
! John Rrdt wife and child; George Hansen S.
| A. Welch, shoulder sprained: Charles Quick and
four children one fatally: DR.. Weatherbee. dying;
| Mrs Osborne and little girl: - Haggerty. head
| hurt; DR.. R Eaton, head badly cut and bruised;
| Enos Mateson; FREQ Clongh: Charles Cough
| nephew of John PolZ leg arm and nose broken:
| Annie Zieratn: Otto Rire; John Home Dan Roth;
| Mrs. Roth: Mrs. Jane Bradley: Mrs Humphrey
| Mar hall; Humphrey Herson; Mrs. Chapman, old
| lady: Ed Chapman, her son: Mrs Chapman his
| wife; Mrs. Garter, widow; John NJ. Quillan; Dan
/ OBrien, probably fatally; Mr.. Gerdy; Mvs Gerdy;
| Mr. Mccormick: Frank Scnults. badly hurt on
| head and limbs; Mrs Smith; infant child of Fred
| Rick; William Leach: r. X. Williams; John
! Schenrock badly cut; Milo Sweeney: Oscar Hawk
| ms; Mrs. Irwin and three children, two badly;
| Nese Hansen, wife and caLd. latter badly; three
| children names unknown Edward Coon, leg
BEFORE THE CYCLONE.
rne 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 o'clock black cloud rose in the west,
very threatening, but it passed harmlessly by
with furious wind and some
| drops of rain. AT 5 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 horrible appearance
The whole sky was tinged a CHASTITY green,
and the masses Of clouds swept around
here and there in gigantic circles. Wherever
it was possible people took to their cellars, and
in no case where that done was life lost.
In the upper part of the city the darkness was
at no 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 a cyclone, and the storm burst
upon the doomed city. Houses were as straws
I'm the grasp of this terrible
power and tree. of whatever size, in
the track of the storm withstood
its fury. The whirling, swaylng 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 Themes it moved down
the valley of the Cascade toward the
northeast, with a track about mile wide.
The dwelling OF Mathew Engel, large two
story frame building, was raised in the air and
dashed back shapeles, mass OF ruins, His
barn, new, large substantial one, shared the
same fate. The house and outbuildngs on the
farm of John R Cook
CRUSHED PERFECTLY FLAT.
The family of the tenant, Mr.. Ecker, was in the
cellar and escaped On Mr. Ainslie's place,
Just north of here, all was laid fiat but the
house, which was partly unroofel On Dr.
EatOn's farm, the family took refuge in the
stone basement Of the barn and barely esc ped
with thoir lives. The coud ton OF thing in
the northern rar. OF the city dcfes deecrit.on
A few splnter.d siumps and scattered boards
remain to show where the bird ward
was. The buildings in this art
of the city we're mostly one
story frame houses. Many OF them without
cellars, and there the creates; destrue ion
of life. The mill and dwelling of L Tondre
are total ruin, while the immense Zumb.o
planning mill, John NJ. Cole. propsiet.r, is
badly wrecked, huge pieces of he building
being torn out and carried of.
MR.. COLES FATE
Mr., Cole, who was in the mill when the cy-
clone reached it. thinking his house safer
place, started for it, but had not gone twenty
feet before he caught up by the wind,
carried distance of eight or ten rods and
dashed to he earth manglsd corpse. The
residences south OF the railroad 20 Znmbro
street all suffered, losing roofs, windows
aud chiinueys Tho shaded residence stree g
are almost impossible from broken tree-,
pieces Of roofs aud debris Of all sorts.
On Broadway the tin roofs arc off from Yum
bro street north, and much of the plate glass
is shattered The First ward suffered the
least, many dwellings escaping without any
| injury whatever
OTHER TOWNS WIPED OUT
Reports from outlying towns are coming in
slowly, and show that the damage il not con
fined to this city Pleasant Grove is reported
annihllated, two persons being killed and ten
wounded. The town Of Salem lay iu the track
of the cyclone southwest of here. and is sail
70 be wiped ont The top story of the court
house is badly wrecked The cupola was
carried several rods and the building
left exposed TO the weather. The tower of the
school house lies on the ground, and the roof
Is damaged, The roof of the Metho-
dist church was blown away, and the
walls are half crumbled down The
steeple of the Congregational church
knocked several holes in the roof in its fall
A children's picnic just retured from The |
country had taken refuge in the school, but all |
escaped badly scared Had some Of the chill |
dren been at home they must almost certainly |
been killed fine bu,idin,r /