Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-08-30
FURIOUS WINDS.
The City of Rochest Ter. MINI.
Almost Blown Out OF
Existence.
,)na Hundred Persons Killed or Serious
ly Injured, and $50 Houses
- - Demolished.
A Railway Train Lifted from the Iraos ','
r. and Dashed to Pieces.
DestruclIye storms In Centrai H"o
Northern Wisconsin-'The Lo>s
i'm Dollars Incalculablc.

southern Minnesota was visited py
another aud probably the most severe v,
storm ever known i'll that section. me
first signs Of it were observed at SIOUX
City, where a high wind continued until
evening. The fury of the storm cul.
minated at Rochester, where the greatest
loss Of life is reported. The storm
was "a cyclone, OF the worst klnd''
and the whole country IN that W.
cinity was completely wrecked. a DIS
patch states that the City OF Rochester
was over one-tbird levelea to the ground
and business houses, dwellings, barns
and ehade.treee completely wrecked and
converted into one mass of ruins, bury
ing the inhabitants under falling TIM
bers. Help is asked from the state to
relieve the unfortunate people and IN car
ing fol- the homeless, injured ana dying.
Gov. Hubbard immediately; upon the
receipt of the news, telegraphed to the
mayors of the neighboring cities to ex-
tend aid to the devastated community,
and special trains we're sent to the
scene. The whole county between
Rochester and Zumbrota was struck by
the cyclone. One OF the most terrible
features of the storm was the blowing
Of a train from the track between Roches-
ver and Zumbrota, on the Rochester
and Northern Division of the Chicago
and North Western Road, by which about
100 persons were killed and wounded.
The train was caught in the severe wind
and hail storm, and while running at q
great speed was lifted from the rails and
precipitated into an unrecogplzable
mass of ruins. The disaster is described
as one of the most horriiying railroad
accidents ever witnessed. Every car in
the train was complete wreck; and was
almost literally shattered to pieces by
the sudden 81 top: The train was taken
up bodily by the force of the storm and
hurled in mass from the track, bury
ing the unfortunate passengers beneath
the debris, killing many and iDjuring
nearly every person aboard the train.
The Zumbro mill, in Rochester, was
demolished, and the proprietor, John M.
Cole, was instantly killed. The course
of the storm appears to have been from
point near Sioux City, Ia., its first vio-
leneo, as far as reported, occurring at
Owatonna. Thence it passed easterly
along the Winona and st. Peter Railroad
in narrow path to the Mississippi
River. The force of the STORM had
spert itself before reaching Winona.
The course of the storm is nearly iden-
tical with that Of last month, in which
the village of Elgin was demolished, and
it is also in the same belt atross the state
years ago, by which New UlRn was de-
stroyed. In Winona County Job Thor
ington was killed and many others
wounded. Seven persons were killed
five miles south of Kasson in Nor
wegian settlement.
Reports from Dodge County indicate
great damage there. The long railroad
bridge at Rochester was demolished, ns
well as the engine house, residences,
elevators, etc.
The principal losses, as nearly as have
been estimated, are as follows: Court
house, unroofed and dome demolished,
$4,000; high school building, tower md
part of the roof gone, $4,000; Metho-
dist Church, roof goue and building
wrecked, Sc, 900; Congregational Church,
steeple off, $1,000; railroad depot un-
rooted, roundhouse gone, bridge ruined
and other losses, SIS 900; vandusen &
Co.'s elevator, $4,000; 81. L. Parton's
elevator, $1,000; Harvester works and
machinery, $4,000; J. Nj. Coles mill,
side and roof off, mill wr, cked and en-
gine blown into river, $1,000; Crescent
Creamery, 50, 600; Cascade Mill, Sc, 600;
Geo. Stockberg, store and stock, SO, 1000;
VIM. Beardsley, building, $1,000; A.
D. Vedder, machine depot, $4,000; ten
business blocks unroofed, $4,000: two
hundred aud fifty houses, with contents,
SlS5, 900; twenty houses damaged, S3O,.
OO0; making total of 1894, 900. So far
as heard from, about six persons were
killed outside of Rochester by the storm.
The loss to croEs is estimated ut about
100000. :,
At Kasson, Mimi, two women were
killed. Houses and outbuildings were
unroofed and wrecked, and large num-
bers Of cattle killed. a
Wisconsin was not left out of the pro-
gramme. At Neillsville the roof was
blown off an engine-house and many
buildings damaged. No lives were lost,
-Four freight cars were blown from the
track at Meanwhile. Three miles north
of Malshtield falling trees killed six
mead OF cattle belonging to John Gill.
Timber was badly blown down. At
Milladore, Wood County, on the Central
Railroad, tornado struck the town ut
midnight. Twenty buildings were blown
down. Mrs. John Grier was killed, and
a German woman and child, names un
known, cannot live. Others were more
or less injured. Houses and timber
were leveled in the path of the tornado
There was great damage done to crops.
Many cattle were killed.
In the vicinity of Green Bay, the
damage to property is serious. At the
town iof Pittsiield new brick build
ing belonging to Mr.. Krening and q
house and barn owned by Fred Schultz
were blown down. A large number of
barns were nearly demolished and many
others unroofed. Fences were torn down
and trees uprooted. Standing corn was
laid flat.
Disease by TeteQraph.