The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-30

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Stockings brick block, blown down: Beardsley's .
building. down: Rommel's block, unroofed: Bed
derS block, side and end blown out. ::
Several smaller buildings were partially un-
rooted and sheds and outhopses demolished.
North of the railway not whole building is
standing, and as yet it 10 impossible to give a
list Of all the owners who have suffered The
principal losers are 40 follows: On and near
the track
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elevator 1000 total loss) 49,. 900
Mr. Horizons total loss will reach $15, 200,
his farm being destroyed.
Rochester Harvester works. utterly ruined: loss,
Marvin Commack's Crescent creamery and
cooper shop. with barns. sheds. etc: 81 900.
L. Tondros Cascade mill: 81. 1000
Roundhouse. all gone; $4,000
T. a; & A. Writings elevators slightly injured !:
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,
O0o One 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, millert Mrs Zierath: August
Zierath, hotel keeper, son of the above: Miss
Zierath. his sister: Mr.. Osborne and infant child
Mahale Mccormick: NJ. Hetzel; w. Higgins: Mrs.
Steele, an old lady, daughter of Lewis Manly; Mrs.
Weatherbee; Jacob Hetzel, farmer on Chadbourn's
place; Mrs. Schultz: Child Of George Hansen,
missing, probably dead: Mrs McQuillap. daughter
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 Rrdt. wife and child: George Hansen; 8.
a. Welch; shoulder sprained: Charles Quick and
Mrs Osborne and little girl: - Haggerty. head
Enos Enc Mat'sson; Fred blongh: Charles Cioqeh:
Annie zicrath: Otto Rire: John Hone; Dan Roth;
Mrs. Roth Mrs. Jane Bradley: Mrs Humphrey
Marshall: Humphrey Hersou: Mrs. Chapman, old
wife, wfe: Mrs. Garter, widow; John III Qailian: Dan
O'Bren. probably fatally: Mr.. Gerdy: Mrs. Gerdy;
Mr.. Mccormick: Frank Schults. badly hurt on
head and limbs: Mrs Smith: infant child of Fred
Rick: William Leach: R. K Williams; John
Scherrock. badly cut; Milo Sweeney: Oscar Hawk
ins: Mrs Irwin and three children, two badly;
Nelse Hansen, wife and child latter badly: three
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 3 o'clock black cloud rose in the west,
very threatening, but it passed harmless|y by
with furious wind and some
drops. Of rain. At s low
black bank lay in the southwest It rose rap.
idly, but presented only the appearance of al
ordinary thunder shower. AS it neared The
city it began to assume horrible appearance
The whole sky was tinged ghastly green
and tho masses of clouds swept around
here and there in gigantic circles. Wherever
it was possible people took to their cellars, ant
in no case where that was done was life lost
In the upper part of the city the darkness wal
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 tn
precursor of cyclone, and the storm burs
| upon the doomed city. Houses were as straw
In the grasp Of this terribl
power aud no tree, of whatever size. ii
the track of the storm withstoot
it's fury. The whirling, swaylng funnel lef
the broken country west Of the city and struc]
the farm of Mrs. Fatruute, lying two mile.
south, where the TIMBER, buildings and grain
both standing, shocked and stacked, wer
wno,iy uustroyed Tnencs tt muvo, vtovr1
the valley of the Cascade toward tn
northeast, with track about mile wide
The dwelling of Mathew Enge, large two
story frame building, was raised in the air an,
dashed back shapeess mass of ruins. Hi
barn, new, large substantial one, shared th
same fate. The house and outbuildings on tn.
farm Of John R. Cook were
CRUSHED PERFECTLY FLAT.
The family of the tenant, Mr.. Ecker, was in tht
cellar and escaped. On Mr.. Ainslies place
Just north Of here, all was laid fiat but th.
house, which was partly unroofed. On. DR.
Eaton's fam, the family took refuge in the
stone basement of the barn and barely csc pe(
with their lives. The condition OF things il
the northern part OF the city dcfies dezcri t'cn
few splintered s,umps and scattered boards
remain to show where the Third ware
was. The buildings in this par
of the city were mostly one
story frame houses. Many Of them withou
cellars, and there was the greatest destruction
of life. Tho mill and dwelling of L. Tondrt
are q total ruin, while the immense Zumbrt
planning mill, John M. Cole. proprietor, il
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 safel
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 ant
dashed to the earth q mangled corpse The
residences south of the railroad 10 Zumbrt
street all suffered, losing roofs, windows
and chmneys. The shaded residence stree
are almost impossible from broken trees
pieces of roofs and debris OF all sorts
On Broadway the tin roofs are off 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.
OTHER TOWNS WIPED OUT.
Reports from outlying towns are coming in
slowly, and show that the damage is not con-
fined to this city. Pleasant Grove is reported
annihlatod, two persons being killed and ten
wounded. The town of Salem lay in tho track
of the cyclone southwest of here, and is 81 ii
t. be wiped out The top story of the cou:
house is badly wrecked. The cupo!a was
carried several rods, and the building
left exposed to the weather. Tie tower of tic
| school house lies on the ground, ard the ROOT
IS damaged. The roof of the Metho
dist church was blown away, and the
walls are half crumbled down. The
steeple Of the Congregational churcl
Knocked several holes in the roof in its fall.
children's picnic just retured from the
country had taken refuge in the school, but all
escaped badly Scar ed. Had some OF the chill
dren been at home they must almost certainly
been killed A fine new building
belonging to George Stocking aud
occupied by him rs grocery lies
total wreck. A. D. Vedder's farm machinery
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