The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-08-30

rooted and sheds and outhouses demolished
North Of tho railway not : whole building is
standing, and - yes1t 10 i'm possible 10 give
list Of al tho owners who have suffered. The
principal losers are % follows: On and near
thu track p>.& ,&i@"n, -'~5J AIG Sit
ss:: ,:s g; z:.ss .:;';s;
elevator 1000 total iossl ..... .10, 900
Mr. Horizons total loss viii reach SIG. 600.
bis farm being destroyed
Rochester aarvsster works. utterly ruined; loss,
Marvin Commack's Crescent creamery and
cooper shop. with barns. sheds. etc; g. 1000
L. Tondros Cascade mill: IS. 600.
Rouudhouse. all gone: $4,000
4: A. Il A. Writings elevators. slightly injured:
soonest places tn the city; $4,000.
John R. Cooks place levelled to tho ground,
j. W. Cole, large Zumbro,a Touring mill, $780,
600. One eud has a huge slice taken ont Of it:
engine house aud cooper shop destroyed.
Broadway bridge. $4,000.
Railway bridge, Sc, 900.
Three hundred homes were utterly de-
stroyed-
THE KILLED.
The following is . list of the killed % far -
known:
John n. Cole, miller: Mira Zierath: August
zera.h. bis sister Mr osborne and infant child;
I AIahala Mccormick: NJ Hetzel; W. Higgins: Mrs.
Steele. an old LADY, daughter of Lewis Manly; Mrs.
| place; Mrs. Schultz: Child Of George Hansen,
missing. probably dead: Mrs. McQuian, 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 - far
as known. but is necessarily very incomplete:
John Rudt. wife and child: Georfe Hansen; 3.
A. Weleh; shoulder spraned: Charles Quick and
Mrs. Mrs. Osborne and little gil: Haeee9ty. 1 head
hurt: Dr.. T. Eaton. head badly cut and bruised:
Enos Matteson: Fred Clough: Charles CIouch.
Annie ZoratM: Otto Rire: John Hone; Dan Roth:
Mrs. Roth: Mrs. Jane Bradley: Mrs. Humphrey
Marshall: Humphrey Hersou: Mrs. Chapman, old
| wife: Mrs Carter, widow; John NJ. Qnan; Dan
| Mr.. Mccormick: Frank scnults. badly hurt on
Rick: William Leach: r. K. Williams: John
scheprock, badly cut: Milo Sweeney: Oscar Hawk
NJ Irwin ; ana nd three SS badly
children names unknown; Edward Coon, leg
broken.
BEFORE THE CYCLONE.
Tue weather throughout the day had been
| unsettled but not unusually threatening.
Clouds wonld 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 bearing
stratum drove from the northwest all day.
About 3 o'clock black cloud roee in the west,
very threatening, but it passed harmessly by
with furious wind and some
| drops of rain. At 3 a low
black bank lay in the southwest 1t rose rap
| idly, but presented only the appearance of an
ordinary thunder shower. Az it neared the
city it began to assume horrible appearance
The whole sky was tinged CHASTITY green,
| and the masses of clouds swept around
| here and there in gigantic circles. Wherever
ii was possible people took to their cellars, and
| in no case where that WAS done was life lost
In the upper part of the city the darkness wac
At no time great; but at the lower part of town
| it grew dark a. night,
FILLING EVERYONE WITH TERROR
Then camo the awful roar 90 we'll known a. the
precursor of q 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 track Of the storm withstood
its fury. The whrlins sway,ng funnel LEFT,
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, we're
wholly destroyed. Thence it moved down
the valley Of the Cascade toward the
northeast, with track abont mile wide.
Tbs 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 outbuldings on tho
farm Of John r. Cook were
CRUSHED PERFECTLY FLAT.
The family Of tho tenant, Mr.. Ecker, was In the
,ellar and escaped. On Mr.: Ainslie's place,
just north Of here, all was laid fiat but the
house. which was partly unroofed. On. DR..
Eaton's fam, the family took refuge in the
stone basement Of tho barn and barely escaped
with their lives. Tho condition of tbiog. in
tho northern part OF the city defes description.
few splintered stumps and scattered boards
| remain to show where tho Third ward
was. The bindings 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 total ruin, while the immense Zumbro
planning mill, John NJ Cole, proprietor, lie
| badly wrecked, huge pieces Of the buildiDg
| 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 = safer
place, started for it, but had not gone twenty
feet before hs vas caught up bv tho wind,
| carried distance Of eight OF ten RODS and
dashed to the earth . mangled corpse The
residences sonth Of the railroad to Zumbro
street al suffered, losing roofs, windows
| and chimneys. The shaded residence streets
| arc almost impossible from broken trees,
pieces of roofs and debris Of oil Sorts
On Broadway the tin roofs are of from Zum-
bro street north. and much Of the plate glass
| is shattered The First ward suffered the
least many dwellings escaping without any
injury whatever:
o1HB1 TOWNS WHY'D QUE
Reports from outlying towns are coming in
slowly, and show that tho damage is not con-
toed to this city. Pleasant Grove is reported
annihlated, two persons being killed and ten
wounded: Tho town of Salem lay in tue track
OF tho Cyclone southwest of here, and is said
- be wiped ont The top story Of the conrtl
house 10 badly wrecked. The cupola was
carried several rods, and the building
left exposed to the weather The tower OF the
school house lies on tho ground, and tho roof
damaged Tho roof OF the Metho-
diet church was blown away, and the
walls are half crumbled down. The
steeple Of the Congregational church
Knocked several holes in the roof in ito fall
ohildren's picnic just retured from the
country had taken refuge in tho school, but all
escaped badly scared Had some Of the chill
dren been q home they must almost certainly
been killed A Ane new building