Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-08-25

which lies bodily across the track. The tele
graphic facilities are veiy poor. Not pole il
or near the town was standing this morning
and hundreds of messages are sent in TO
transmission to absent friends. In addition
THE DAMAGES IN DODGE COUNTY
already sent are the following; The family O
A Van Frank are all seriously though no
fatally hurt The following have had barn
and houses leveled to the ground:
Henry Chapman; house of Charles Egentor
| former proprietor of the Hotel St. Louis; L. Der
by, Frank Boy, w. e. Chamberlin (the latter ha
seven head Of cattle killed and the horns blow
| from twenty one Others tough, but true; Chris
tian Oleson. whose wife is fatally hurt, mother in
law killed and little daughter shockingly cut; Gun
| der Paulson, Ole Murlda, A. Maseubruck.
| THE DAMAGES IN ROCHESTER,
Following is detailed account of the dam
ages in Rochester:
| ON ZUMBRoTA STREET.
| W. s. Booth, residence unroofed: court house
tower down, unroofed: academy, wrecked
high school house tower off, chimneys down: Con
| gregational church, spire down: Cook house par
| TALLY unroofed: Heaney's block, unroofed; j.
| Coles mill, unroofed: Chadbourn's block, un
rooted.
ON BROADWAY.
Stockings brick block, blown down: Beardsley'i
| building. down: Rommel's block, unroofed: Bed
| ders block. side and end blown out.
| Several smaller buildings were partially un
rooted and sheds and outhouses demolished
North of the railway not a whole building il
standing and as yet it is impossible to give /
| list of all the owners who have suffered. Th'
principal losers are as follows: On aud near
| the track
| loss Loss
Dspot. So. 500 vandusen & Co. 1000
Written & Judd's ooo Horizons elevator n %,
Mr. Horizons total loss will reach $50, 600
his farm being destroyed
Rochester Harvester works, utterly ruined; loss,
$4,000.
Marvin commack's Crescent creamery 6eGy and
cooper shop. with barns, sheds, etc; 81 200.
L. Tondro's Cascade mill; $4,000.
Roundhouse. all gone: $4,000.
T. A. IL A. Writings elevators, slightly injured
81 900.
Horace Leland house and barn: one of the hand
soonest places in the city; $4,000:
John R. Cooks place leVelled to the ground
j. W. Cole, large Zumbrota Touring mill, $780,
600. Ore end has 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 Zerath: August
Zierath, hotel keeper, son of the ABOVE; Miss
Zerath, his sister: Mr.. Osborne and infant child
Mahaly Mccormick: NJ. Hetzel; W. Higgins: Mrs.
Steele, an old lady, daughter of Lewis Manly; Mrs
Weatherbee; Jacob Hetzel, farmer on Chadbourn 8
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.
4. WEIGH, shoulder spraiued: Charles Quick and
four children, fatally DR.. Weatherbee. dy Ting;
Mrs Osborne and little girl: - Haggerty' head
hurt: DR.. r. Eaton, head badly cut and bruised
Enos Matteson: FREQ Clough: Charles Cough.
nephew of John Polz. leg arm and nose broken;
Annie Zierath: 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, his
wife; Mrs. Carter, widow; John NJ. Quillau; Dan
O'Brien, PROBABLY fatally; Mr.. Gerdy: Mrs Gerdy;
Mr.. Mccormick: Frank Scnuts. badly hurt on
head and limbs: Mrs. Smith: infant child Of Fred
Rick: William Leach; r. X. Williams; John
ms: Mrs. Irwin and three children, two badly;
Nelse Hansen, wife and child. latter badly: three
children names unknown: Edward Coon, leg
broken.
BEFORE THE CYCLONE.
The weather throughout the day had been
unsettled but not unusually threatening
Clouds would form and disappear, forming
again heavier than before. The wind was
mostly from the southeast, blowing scud clouds
with it, while away above tine rain bearing
stratum drove from the northwest all day.
About o'clock a black cloud rose in the west
very threatening, but it passed harmlessly by
with furious wind and some
drops of rain. At 5 low
black bank lay i'll the southwest. 1t rose rap
idly, but presented only the appearance of an
ordinary thunder shower. AS it neared the
city it began to assume horrible appearance.
The whole sky was tinged a CHASTITY green,
and tie masses of clouds swept around
here and there in gigantic circles. Wherever
it was possible people took TO their cellars, and
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 as the
precursor of a cyclone, and the storm burst
upon the doomed city. Houses were as straws
in the grasp of this terrible
power and no tree, of whatever size, in
the tract of the storm withstood
its fury The whirling, swaylng funnel left
%bo oP +bo
the farm of Mrs Fatroute, 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 a track about mile wide
The dwelling of Mathew Engel, 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 outbuildngs 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,
house, which was partly unroofed. On. DR..
Eaton's falm, the family took refuge in the
stone basement of the barn and barely escaped
with their lives. The condition of things in
the northern part of the city defies description.
few splintered stumps and scattered boards
emain 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. The mill and dwelling of L. Tondre
are total ruin, while the immense Zumbro
planning mill, John M. Cole, proprietor, is
badly wrecked, huge pieces of the building
being torn out and carried off.
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 not gone twenty
feet before he was caught up by the wind,
carried distance of eight or ten rods and
dashed to the earth a mangled corpse. The
residences south of the railroad 20 Zumbro
street all suffered, losing roofs, windows