The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-08-31

description is utterly unable to portray the re-
cults of . storm which, In the worst Of its
path, absolutely:
SWEPT PART OF THE EARTH Away.
leaving nothing of grass or tree, or shrub.
The relief committee is doing oil possible, and
residents are subscribing all they can,
but help is needed, and speedily. ,Rooh-
ester gave literally to relieve those
who suffered in the July cyclone, and now
feels justified in calling for aid to meet the
horrors and alleviate the suferings consequent
on the worst calamity Minnesota has eve,
known, confined in the same space. superin-
tendent sanborn, Of the Winona st.
Peter, is here, and is doing all DOS.
sible to repair damages Passengers
transferred around the ruins Of the bridgei
over the Zumbro and the horton elevatord
which lies bodily across the track. The tele.
graphic facilities are very poor No. q pole in
or near the town was standing this morning.
and hundreds Of messages are sent in for
transmission to absent friends. In addition &c
TIE DAMAGES IN DODGE COUNTY
already sent are the following; The family o,
A Van Frank are all seriously though not
fatally hurt The following have had barn,
and houses leveled to the ground:
Henry Chapman; house of Charles Eeeuton.
former proprietor Of the Hotel St, Louis: 4, Der
by, Frank Boy, W. E. Chamberlin (the latter had
seven head of cattle killed and the horns blown
from twenty-one others: tough. but true; Chris
tan Oeson. whose wife is fatally hurt mother in
Jaw KILLED aud little daughter shockineiy cut; Gun
der Paulson, Ole Murlda, A. Masenbruck.
THE DAMAGES IN ROCHESTER,,
Following is detailed account of the dam.
ages in Rochester:
ON ZU1BRoTA STREET.
W. 8. Booth, residence unroofed: court house.
tower down, 1unroofed: new academy, wrecked;
high school house tower off, chmneys down: Con-
Rregational church, spire down; Cook house par
TALLY unroofed: Heaney's block, unroofed; J. A.
Coles mill, unroofed: Chadbourn's block, un-
| rooted.
ON BROADWAY.
Stockings brick block, blown down: Beardsleys
building, down: Rommes block, uuroofed: 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 and near
the track
Loss Loss.
Written judas '''00 Horto Sss" elevator
elevator 1000 total lossJ 1885,. .1o, 900
Mr.. Horizons total loss will reach SIS,
his farm being destroyed
Rochester Harvester works. utterly ruined: loss,
$4,000.
Marvin Commack's Crescent creamery and
coppr,r, s!:or. with barns, sheds: etc: 81. 00O
L. Tondros Cascade mill: $4,000.
:RoUndhouse. nil gone; $4,000.
81 800 ''''~-O'
soonest places in the city; $4,000
So. 900.
J. w. Cole, large Zunbrota FIGURING mill, $780,
600 Que end has a 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 as
known:
John NJ. Cole, miller: Mrs zierath; August
Zierath, hotel keeper, of the above: Miss
Mahala Mccormick: NJ. Hetzel; ". Higgins: Mrs.
Steele. an old lady. daughter of Lewis Manly; Mrs.
Weatherbee; Jacob HetZel, farmer on Chadbourn's
place; Mrs. Schultz: Child of George Hansen,
missing. probably dead: Mrs. McQuillan. daughter
of Lewis Irving, missing, probably dead; Mrs.
Charles Quick and child: and many others not
identified
THE INJURED.
The following is list Of the injured as far
as known, but is necessarily very incomplete:
John Rudt. wife and child: George Hansen; S.
Welsh shoulder sane 3D. Charles Quick and
Mrs Osborne and little girls - Haggerty. head
Enos Mat,eson; Fred Clough; Charles Congh.
Annie Zicrati,: Otto Rire: John Hone; Dan Roth:
Mrs. Roth: Mrs Jane Bradley: Mrs Humphrey
Marshall: Humphrey Hersou; Mrs. Chapman, old
lady: Ed Chapman, her son: Mrs. Chapman, bis
wife: Mrs. Carter widow; John NJ. Quillan: Dan
O'Brien, probably fatally: Mr.. Gerdy: Mrs Gerdy;
Mr.. Mccormick: Frank scnults. badly hurt on
Rick: William Leach: R. X Williams; John
Scherrock. badly cut; Milo Sweeney: Oscar Hawk
ms; Mrs. Irwin aud three children, two badly;
Nelse Hansen, wife and child Inter badly; three
children names unknown: Edward Coon, leg
broken.
BEFORE THE CYCLONE
The weather throughout the day had been
unsettled but not unusually threatening.
Clcuds 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 beariug
stratum drove from the northwest all day.
About 8 o'clock black cloud rose in the west
very threatening, but it passed harmlessly by
with q furious wind and some
drops of rain. At s low,
black bank lay i'll the southwest 1t rose rap
idly, but presented only tho appearance Of an
ordinary thunder shower As it neared the
city it began to assume horrible appearance
The whole ky was tingcd CHASTITY green,
and the masses of clouds swept around
here ard there in gigantic circles. Wherever
it was possible people took 10 their cellars, and
in nv case where that was done was life lost
In the upper part of tie city the darkness was
atno time great; but at the lower part of town
it grew dark as night,
FILLING EVERYONE WITH TERROR
Then came the awful roar 80 we'll known as the:
precursor of cyclone, and the storm burst
upon the doomed city. Houses were as strawa
in the grasp Of this terrible
power and no tree, Of whatever size, in
the track of the storm withstood
it's fury. The whirliug, 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 Thence it moved down
the valley Of the Cascade toward the
northeast, with q track about mile wide,
Tbs dwelling of Mathew Enge], large two. !,
story frame building, was raised in the air and !
dashed back shapeless mass of ruins. His
barn, new. large substantial one, shared the
same fate. The house and outbuildings on the |
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