The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-09-01

it was possible people took to their cellars anu
in no case where that was 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 IS the
precursor Of a cyclone, and The storm burst
upon the doomed city. Houses we're as s'raWs
IN the grasp Of this terrible
power and no tree, Of whatever size, In
the track Of the storm withstood
its fury. The whirliug, swaylng funnel lefi
the broken country west Of the city and struck
the farm of Mrs. Fatroute, lying two miles
south, whore the timber, buildings and grain,
both standing, shocked and stacked, were
wholly destroyed Thence 1t moved down
the valley of the Cascade toward the
northeast, with q track about Q mile wide.
The dwelling of Mathew Engel, a large two
story frame building, was raised in the air and
dashed back a shapeless mass of ruins. His
barn, a new, large substantial one, shared the
same fate. The house and outbuiIdings on the
farm Of John R Cook were
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 fat but the
house, which was partly unroofed. On. DR..
Eaton's fam, the family took refuge in the
stone basemen of the barn and barely escaped
with their lives. The condition of thing in
the northern part of the city defies description.
A few splintered stumps and scattered boards
remain to show where the Third ward
was. The buildings in this part
of the city were mostly one
story frame houses. Many of them without
cellars, and there was the greatest destruction
of life. Tho mill and dwelling of L Tondre
are a total ruin, while the immense Zumb:o
planning mill, John NJ. Cole, proprietor, is
badly wrecked, huge pieces of the 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 a safer
place, started for it, but had DOT gone twenty
feet before he was caught up by the wind,
carried a distance of eight or ten rods and
dashed to the earth a mangled corpse. The
residences south Of the railroad 10 Zumbro
street all suffered, losing roofs, windows
and chimneys. The shaded residence streets
are almost impossible from broken trees,
pieces of roofs and debris Of all sorts.
On Broadway the tin roofs are of from Zum-
bro street north, aud much of the plate glass
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least many dwellings, escaping without any
injury whatever.
OTHER W WIPED oUT
Reports from outlying towns are coming 10
slowly, and show that the damage is not con-
fined to this city. Pleasant Grove is reported
annihilated. two persons being killed and ten
wounded. The town of Salem lay in the track
Of the cyclone southwest of here, and is said
- be wiped out 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 Metno-
dist church was blown away, and the
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steeple of the Congregational church
knocked several holes in the roof in it's fall.
A children's picnic inst retured from the
country had taken refuge in the school, but all
escaped badly scar ed. Had some of the chill
dren been at home they must almost certainly
been killed A fine new building
belonging 10 George Stocking and
occupied by him as a grocery lies
a total wreck. A. ID. Vedder's farm machinery
warehouse is completely demolished and the
machinery scattered The railway depot is
unroofed and badly riddled. The roof of G
w. Van Dusen & Co.'S elevator was carried
away, and the warehouse adjoining crushed.
Fl. 7. Horizons
ELEVATOR LIES ACROSS THE RAILWAY TACK,
and the warehouse ard Offices or Written &
Judd are q mass of ruins. The Rochester
harvester works are completely pulverized, not
two feet OF tho wall remaining standing. ALI
Of the machinery is a total loss. The railway
bridge is gone. superintendent Sanborn is here
with a force Of men, and railway esssmaniea-
ton will soon be secured. A thousand people
are homeless and dependent upon the charity
Of others for shelter and tue necessaries OF
life. The resources and sympathiea OF the
citizens are taxed to the utmost, and help is
badly needed from abroad. An improp1ptu hos
pital has been MAIDEN Rommol's hail., and about
forty sufferers are being cared for by q yoIun-
teer corps OF nurses The damage in the city
cannot be less than half . million and Ia the
surrounding country an estimate IL impos-
eibie. Fences are all gone, cattle injured and
at large, stacks Of grain and hay have totally
disappeared and crops Of corn and potatoes
are beaten fiat.
IN ID COUNTY.
In the townships Of Westdeld, Ashland aud
Canistee there we're FIVE deaths-Mrs. Heinz
brech, Mrs. Christian Olsen and infant. An ola
lady, mosher OF Mrs. Ole Mulda. ana one man
name not learned. xoung Mrs. MuJda "a "a
tally hurt. - is Andrus Frederickson Joseph
Thornyton, north of St Charles. WInona