Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-08-30
FURIOUS WINDS.
The City of Rochester, MINI.
4. Almost Blown Out Of
Existence.
One Hundred Persons Killed or Serious.
ly Injured, aud $50 Houses
Demolished.
a Railway Train Lifted from the Track
- and Dashed to Pieces.
Destructive storms in Central and
Northern yviscOnsin-Thc EO>s
in Dollars Incaicuinblc.

Destruclivc storms in Central and
Northern WiscOnsin-,rhc Lo>s
in Dollars Incaicuinblc.
Between 4 and p. NJ, on the 2lst,
southern Minnesota was visited by
another aud probably the most severe
storm ever known i'll that section. The
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 kind.
and the whole country in that vi
cinity was completely wrecked. 4 dis:
patch states that the City of Rochester
was over one-third leveled to the ground
aud business houses, dwellings, barns
and shade-trees completely wrecked and
converted into one mass of ruins, bury
ing the inhabitants under falling tim
befs. Help is asked from the state to
relieve the unfortunate people and in car
ing fot the homeless, injured and dying,
Gov. Hubbard immediately, Upon the
receipt of the news, telegraphed to the
mayors of the neighboring cities to OK
tend aid to the devastated community,
and special trains we're sent to the
scene. The whole country between
Rochester and Zumbrota was struck by
the cyclone. One of the most terrible
features of the storm was the blowing
Of 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
great speed was lifted from the rails and
precipitated into an unrecOgnizable
mass Of ruins. The disaster is described
as one of the most horri!ying railroad
accidents ever witnessed. Every car in
tho train was complete wreck, dnd was
almost literally shattered to pieces by
the sudden stop: The train was taken
up botily by the force of the storm and
hurled in mass from the track, bury
ing the unfortunate passengers beneath
the debris, killing many and injuring
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
a point near Sioux City, Ia, its first vio-
lerce, as far as reported, occurring ut
Owatunna. Thence it passed easterly
aloDg the Winona and st. Peter Railroad
in q narrow path to the Mississippi
River. The force of the STORM had
spent 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 across the state
in which was the severe tornado of two
years ago, by which New Uln 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, as
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,
50, 600: high school building, tower and
part of the roof gone, $1,000; Metho-
dist Church, roof goue and building
wrecked, So, 900; Congregational Church,
sleeple off, $1,000; railroad depot un-
rooted, roundhouse gone, bridge ruined
and other losses, SIS 900; Vandusen &
Co.'s elevator, $4,000; 81. Il. Parton's
elevator, $1,000; Harvester works and
machinery, $4,000; j. Nj. Coles mill,
side and roof Off, mill wrt cked and en-
gine blown into river, $1,000; Crescent
Creamery, SO, 900; Cascade Mill, SIS. 900:
Geo. Stockberg, store and stock, SO, 900;
VIM. Beardsley, building, $1,000; A.
ID. Vedder, machine depot, $4,000; ten
business blocks unroofed, $4,000: two
hundred aud fifty houses, with contents,
SlS5, 900; twenty houses damaged, S3O,-
OOU; making total of 1894, 900. So far
as heard from, about SIX persons were
killed outside of Rochester by the storm.
The loss to croE is estimated at about
$780, 900. .E5.5.-
At Kasson, Mimi, two women were
killed. Houses and outbuildings were
unroofed and wrecked, and large num-
bers Of cattle killed.
Wisconsin was not left out of the pro.
gramme. AT Neillsvilie 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 Mannville. Three miles north
of Marshtield falling trees killed six
head 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
n German woman and child, names nn-
known, cannot live. Others were more
or less injured. Honses and timber
were leveled i'll 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 Pittsfield new brick build
ing belonging to Mr. Krnning and o
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 fiat.
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