The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-01
FURIOUS WINDS.
The City of Rochester, Mimi,
Almost Blown Out Of
Existence.
One Hundred Persons Killed or SeriOuS.
ly Injured, and $50 Houses
Destroyed.
A Railway Train Lifted from the Track
and Dashed to Pieces.
destructive storms i'm Central and
Northern WiscOnsin-The Loss
in Dollars RncaIcuIabIe.

Between and 6 P. NJ, on the 2lst,
southern Minnesota was visited by
another and probably the most severe
storm ever known IN that section. The
first signs of 1t were observed at Souix
City, where high wind continued until
late in the evening. The fury of the
storm eliminated at Rochester, where
the greatest loss of life is reported.
The details of the storm show it
to have been a cyclone of the worst
kind, and the whole country in that
vicinity was completely wrecked. A
dispatch states that the city of Roch-
ester was over one-third leveled to the
ground and business houses, dwellings,.
barns and shade-trees completely wreck
ed and converted into one mass of ruins,
burying the inhabitants under the
falling timbers. Help is asked
from the state to relieve the un-
fortunate people and in caring for
the homeless, injured and dying.
Gov. Hubbard, Immediately upon the
receipt Of the news, telegraphed to the
mayors of the neighboring cities to
extend aid to the devastated communi-
ty, and special trains were sent to the
scene. The whole country between
Rochester and Zumbrota was stuck by
the cyclone. One of the most terrible
features of the storm was the blowing
of train from the track between Roches-
ter and Zumbrota, on the Rochester ard
Northern Division of the Chicago and
Northwestern Road, by which about 100
l,1
train was caught in the severe wind and
hail storm, and while running at great
speed was lifted from the rails, and pre-
cipitated into an unrecognizable mass
of ruins. The disaster is described as
one Of the most horrhying railroad ac-
cidents ever witnessed. Every car in
the train was complete wreck, and
was almost literally shattered to pieces
by the sudden stop. The train was
taken up bodily by the force of the
storm and hurled in a mass from the
track, burying the unfortunate passen-
gers beneath the debris, killing many
and ipiuling nearly every person aboard
the train.
demolished, and the proprietor, j ohm NJ.
OOIO, Was lLSbdAIg hAlI6u- ne course
of the storm appears to have been from
a point near Sioux City, Ia, its first vio-
lence, so far as reported, occurring at
Owatonna. Thence It passed easterly
along the Winona and st. Peter Railroad
IN 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 Ulm was
destroyed. In Winona County Job
Thorington was killed and many others
wounded. Seven persons were killed
five miles south of Kasson in a Nor
wegian settlement
The principal losses in Rochester, as
nearly as have been estimated, are as
follows: Courthouse, unroofed and
dome demolished, $4,000; high school
building, tower and part of the roof
gone, $4,000; Methodist Church, roof
gone and building wrecked, 5000;
Congregational Church, steeple off,
81, 900; railroad depot unroofed, round
house gone, bridge ruined and other
losses, $4,000; Vandusen & Co.. s ele-
vator, $4,000; a. T. Parton's elevator,
81, 600; Harvester Works and machin-
cry, SO, 900; J. NJ. Coles mill, eide and
roof off, mill wrecked and engine blown
into river, So, 900; Crescent Creamery,
SO, 900; Cascade Mill, $1,000; George
Stock berg, store and stock, 50, 900; VIM.
Beardsley, building, 81, 900; A. d. We'd.
der, machine depot, $4,000; ten bust
ness blocks unroofed, $1,000; two hun
dred and fifty houses, with contents,
Sl85, 900; twenty houses damaged, $780,
600; making total of 1894 900.
So far as heard from, about six per-
sons were killed outside of Rochester
by the storm. The loss to crops is es-
timated at about $500, 900.
AT Kasson, Mimi, two women were
killed. Houses and outbuildlngs were
unroofed and wrecked, and large mum.
bers of cattle killed.
Wisconsin was not left ont OF the pro-
gramme. At Neilsville 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 Marshfield falling trees killed six
bead of cattle belonging to John Gill.
Timber was badly blown down. At
Milladore, Wood County, on the Central
Railroad, tornado struck the town at
midnight. Twenty buildings were blown
down. Mrs. John Grier was killed, and
a German woman snd child, names uu-
known, canpot live. Others were more
or less injured. Houses and timber
were leveled IN the path of the tornado.
There was great damage done to crops
Many 'attle were killed.
In the vicinity Of Green Bay, The
damage to property is serious. At the
Town of Pittsfield, new brick build
ing belonging to Mr.. KIenipg and a
house and barn owned by Fred Schultz
were blown down. large numNer of
barns were nearly demolished and many
others unroofed. Fences we've torn down
and trees uprooted. Standing corn was
laid fiat.