The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-08-24
Telegraphic.
THE T0RNAD0'S TRACK.
Late and Authentic Reports From
the Minnesota Cyclone.
A Won an Blown Great Distance and
Dashed to the Earth shopaloSS
Mass Of Humanity-List Of the Dead
and Wounded Loss by Destruction Of
Crops Almost Incaloulable,

ST. PAUL, MINI, August %. --PaSsen-
gers on the incoming trains this afternoon
brought the first information 10 this city OF
the terrible destruction OF life and property
wrought by a cyclone Tuesday night in and
around the beautiful little town Of Roches-
ter, in this state. The day had been bright
and warm up to 4 p. m, when heavy clouds
began 10 gather, and a wind storm sudden.
iy arose that lasted for over two hours. 1t
tore up the country in the vicinity OF
Rochester and through the town itself,
striking first the Cook House on the 81.
Paul road then taking Leland's residence,
with barn and outDuildings, sweeping
through tbs lower town, leyeling trees,
houses, barns. etc, and leaving In its wake
splintered timbers and Shapeless ruins.
In all 1t is estimated that tnree hundred
houses in Rochester have been entirely
demolished and two hundred more very
badly damaged. The loss 10 property will
re- ch over $500 900. Roche ,ter is eighty.
five miles south OF st, Paul on the Chicago
and Northwestern road, and has between
eight and nine thousand inhabitants.
The scenes in the town while the storm
was raging are described as appalling, No
effort was made by the people to do more
than save their own lives by flight to places
OF seeming safety in which afterwards
some met their death. In the lower town
especially, that portion OF the place
north OF the railroad track, the destruc-
| ton was particularly great, not
house there escaping without greater or
less injury, and the ground looking as II
food had passed over it., Tuesday night
was spent at Lower Town in extricating the
dead and wounded from the debris. The
latter were carried TO Bucks hotel and the
Winona house, where they were tenderly
cared for.
The dead, 30 far as has been ascertaned,
number twenty six, OF who IN the following
have been identified: John NJ. Cole,
! business man, owning four mills, who was
! picked up by the wind and hurled TO the
! ground, every bone in his body broken;
Mr.. McGuiIlans, Mrs. Steele, Mrs, lei.
rath and August, her son; Mr.. Osborn and
aunt; Mrs. Weatherby, Mrs Fred Clough,
Mr.. HtzeIl, VIM. Higgins, Mrs. Quick
and child, and Miss Mccormick. Eight
bodies were taken in the country by friends
before their names were learned. Four are
still unclaimed.
THE WOUNDED
are fifty one in number, and those known
to be most seriously injured are: Mr, Carl
Quick and five children, cut about the head
and otherwise injured; Nj. Rhud, wife
and child; Mr.. Frank Schultz, badly
hurt, shoulder out OF joint; cut about the
head. Annie Zierath, head and face badly
cH; Oua Rhud, bruised internally; John
Hauer, John shamrock, Milo Weeney,
Dan O'Bren, Geo. Hansen, Mr.. Wether-
by, Oscar c. Hall, - Hawkins, William
Lee, injured on head, face and arms; S,
A. WEIGH, not serious; Mrs. Irwin aad
two children; Sellis Hanson, wife and
child, cut on the head and body; Ms.
Osborn aud daughter, badly bruised; Mr.
aud Mrs Gerdy, badly bruised. Three
children, whose names were not learned,
were so badly bruised, it is thought, thai
their parents could not recognize them when
found, their clothes being all gone. Louis
Pease, leg broken. Mrs. Coons, lee
broken; Frank Clements, arm broken.
The last three are with friends The Others
are in the hospital.
PROPERTY DAMAGED AND DESTROYED,
The principal losses to property are giyer
as follows, the aggregate damage reaching
beyond 1904, 900; Court house, unrootet
and dome, -, 900; high school, tower and
part OF roof, s., 900; the Methodist church,
roof and inside wrecked, 5000; Congre
gatioual church steeple, $1,000; railroad
| H.hn
and other losses, SIS 900; Van Dusen & Co.
elevator, SIC, 900; Porter's elevator, s., 600
harvester works and machinery, Sl2, 900
Coles mill, side and roof gone and mil
wrecked, engine blown into the river,
S., 900 Crescent creamery, $1,000; Cascade
mill S, 900; ten business blocks unroofed
with contents, SlS5, 900. two hundred
houses damaged to the extent Of $50, 000.I
LATE INQUIRIES
develop the fact that the cyclone started al
Owatonna, and crossed the railroad al
Rochester, varying in width from one t.
three miles, aud making clean sweep Of
houses, barns, crops aud everything in It's
path. Six persons were killed outside o
Rochester, and the loss to crops is estimated
at about 800 900.
A. Anderson g wife was fatally injured a
kasson, and her mother killed, Christian
Olsen's wife was killed and her child's lee
broken, at the same place. Their houses
aud barns were entirely destroyed. AT
Cunesto, south OF kasson, the houses snt
barns OF b, Alfaiks and Helmbrecht were
demolished and horses and cattle were
killed in all directions.
In st. Charles the cyclone struck job
Thornlnston's farm, destroying the house
} and crops, killing Thorington and injurine
his family. Salem lay in the track Of the
cyclone, southwest OF here, and is said tc
,, have been wiped out. The town Of
: Pleasant Grove near Rochester il reported
annhilate l, two persons killed and ter
wounded.
A. kassOn.