The Dickinson press., 1884-09-20
Clear Lake, Somerset, Clayton and
Other Points in Polk and st.
Croix Counties Severely
Dealt With.
At Marine, Washington County, MINI.
and Vicinity, Much Ruin Ia Also
N

Mimi, last summer. The storm originated in
Minnesota, as far as can be judged, and the
as three terrible tails. Tho saddest of all to
chronicle is the loss of three lives.
Mrs. p. Burdick, wife of the postmaster.
Willie kavanaugh, eighteen. year old son of
j. J.. k%avanaugh, a carpenter Of the place.
John Saunpers. Both the latter in the en-
Mrs. Burdick was killed by tho crushing in
OF her home. Kavanaugh and Saunders were
in Mr.. Ingalls, store, and were crushed by fall
ing walls and timbers. All three bodies are
distignred beyond recognition and were not re-
covered from the wreck until the next day.
injured internally. but it is hoped he will re-
cover. Tn wound and bruises are almost
countless.
LIST OF LOSSES.
Tho principal losses to property are as fol-
lows:
W. ?. Ingalls,. store building, Graves street,
loss, $1,000; stock, $4,000; utterly gone.
A. Symns g. Co. (of Minneapolis, store and
stock destroyed; damage, $4,000. Stave mill
$2,OM.
I. Burdick, postmaster, residence and town
hall above destroyed; loss, $2a,50O; postofico
building, loss $500.
Mr.; Schulz, general store; building destroyed
Smith y Lewis (St. PauD, general store;
store destroyed, stock injured, three barns de-
molished; total loss, exclusive of salvage, So
500.
John Glover Co., Mmbermen; loss on
lumber blown away and broken, on two saw
mills unroofed and stacks blown down, esti-
mated at $l0u,O00
Mr.. Briggs, drug store and stock ground to
atoms; no salvage; loss, 81, 800.
Drug store and stock, small, belonging to o
Swcle, loss, $500.
Mrs. Clark, widow, residence blown awav:
loss, $500.
MI. Lance, furniture dealer, one end of build
ing blown away; loss, 81 1000. St Charles
hotel partially unroofcd; damage about $500.
David Humbird & Co., smokestack of mill
down and lumber blown away; estimated loss,
$lo,5o0.
AGGREGATE LOSSES.
The total ofthc losses given above is $780,
l0o; and to this, at a moderate computation,
$4,000 may be added for losses not specified.
The following are among tho buildings de-
molished or seriously wrecked: Methodist,
cled, taking every church in the village. The
postoitice. Schultz's store. Luntz's furniture
warerooms. Dr.. Goodwin's Office, y. M. Briggs
drug store. w. r. Ingalls, dry goods store.
7. Burdick' block and residence.
Charles e. l. G. Nelson's drug store, blown
entirely from its foundation and badly
wrecked.
Starkweather g. Deans store, front demol-
ishcd.
st. Charles hotel, owned by Charles Graves,
damaged very seriously. Graves loss can
not be short of $1,000.
Glover Il Co.'S planning mill was also un-
rooted, and every smokestack in town levelcd
and nearly every tree broken down.
The storm crossed from north of Minneapo-
lis to Marine, and thence struck q dozen places
along the Northern division of the Omaha road
north of Hudson. The most serious traces are
found in the towns of Star Prairie, Stanton and
Somerset.
Tho storm did most of its destructive work
north of New Richmond, and reports are con-
stantly coming i'll Of divers and sundry disas-
tors. A house i'll tho town of Star Prairie was
blown down, and Mrs Camp seriously injured,
iured it is feared fatally. In Joweltown many
buildings were ,unroofed aud ends taken
out of them. Andrew Arnquist had his
of them. Andrew Arnquist had his
house unroofcd and his barn blown over.
blown out, and Ed. Conncrs had both house
and barn demolished. r.. X. Fay's hired
man was standing neara granary when it blew
from its foundation, and broke both his legs
and otherwise injured him 80 that it is feared he
cannot live. 1t is stated that the wind did even
greater destruction farther north. Owing to
the cyclone the fair will hold over Friday. The
Clark family are recovering, except the baby
whose skull was crushed in. McFotridge had
a horse fatally injured by flying boards in jew
clltown.
Star Prairie appears to have Jared the worst.
as nearly every building in the village was
more or less shaken, and fully a dozen in the
town completely destroyed. Among the more
serious losses are:
House and barn of Nh. A. r. N. Quist, valued
at ,Sh Ssl'% : H., The he lha agt barn barr Of R: X. Fay, in
der's barn d. Clarke, House and barn. and
Filpah's store front blown in.
The course OF the tornado and cyclone, seems
to have been: From the center of Hennepin
county twcnty-fonr miles north of east to White
Bear, Mimi, thence northeast fifteen miles
to Marine, Mimi, thence fourteen miles slightly
south of cast to New Richmond, north of east
twenty-four miles (from Marine, and ON the
theory of n triple separation,) to Clear Lake,
and thirty mics northeast from Marine) to
Clayton, thence east until further trace is lost
in the forest.
At Marine Mills, north Of Saltwater. Mimi,
fully two thirds of the houses in the village
were more or less injured, some being utterly
demolished, others moved from their founda-
tons. while others lost a chimney or u few
shingles from the roof. In the south part Of
the town the handsome new frame house of N.
1: loot was blown down and hurled into the
river. The family were buried under the fall
ing walls, but were taken out unhurt aside
from a few bruises. The two houses
next adjoining that of MI; Root are
owned by G. A. Lindquist and Mr.. Charles
tsl vi ulll dIC JUS uCIOS5 lllc 6IICCt lIOIl
Walker, Judd & Neazie's lumber yard. When
the wind struck the lumber the air was full Of
boards, joists and scantliEg. Some of these
pieces were carried into the street, others driv-
en- lengthwise through the two houses last men,
toned, riddling them completely, others thrown
into the river, and others still carried across to
the Wisconsin side and spread around ON the
hills.
Samuel Judd thinks s2o,00O will cover the
loss of the firm, and says that the entire loss
in the village will not exceed $4,000. In the
country the results are far more disastrous, as
many of the farmers, in addition to having
their homes wiped out of existence, have lost
the whole of their crops.
In the town of Oneka, near Marine, the de-
s%truction was worse than i'll any other locality.
Among those injured, but one, Mr.. George
rutherford, will not survive. He lost one car
and was nearly crushed in the chest by falling
timbcrs. The names of others more or less
seriously injured are-Mrs. Lord, Mrs Charles
Brickctt, Annie Peters, Mr.. Emerson, Mr.. r.
J: Withrow. The names of some of the prin-
cipal losers are +. D. Briggs, John 1utz,
Michael Pelican, +. c. Judkins.
For many miles east of the North Wisconsin
road, the country is heavily timbcred and COM
paratively uninhabited, and as no record of
disaster comes from towns on the Chippewa
Falls & Northern, it is fair to suppose the
force of the cyclone was dissipated before
it reached that line. The advices received go
to show that wind first attained destructive
momentum IN Hcnnepin county, and
though Minneapolis was not affected
seriously, farm houses and barns to the east
and slightly to the north of that city were
unroofed or otherwise injured, while grain
stacks were whirled abroad, and the sheaycs
widely scattered. Lcapins over the Mississippi
the next heard of the storm is at White Bear,
where, although powerful, it was not cyclonic
in character. White Bear is northeast of
Minneapolis and Marine as exactly northeast
from White Bear.