The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1884-09-19


The principal losses to property are - fol-
W. P. Ingalls,, store building, Graves street,
A Symns 4 Co. .(of Minneapolis, store and
stock destroyed; damage, e5,0W. Stave mill
nnroofcd and Slave sheds destroyed; loss,
2; Burlick, postmaster, residence and town
building, loss s6O6!
Mr.. Schultz, general store; building destroyed
but not stock; loss, 81 ,5M!
store destroyed, stock injured, three barns de.
mOlished; total loss, exclusive Of salvage, 3d.
800
John Glover 4 Co.. lumbermen; loss on
lumber blown away and broken, on two saw
mills unroofed and stacks blown down, est
Mr.. Briggs, drug store and stock ground to
ATOMS; no salvage; loss, d 800
Drug store and stock, small, belonging to .
Sweie, loss, $500
Mrs. Clark, widow, residence blown away;
loss, e:UO
Nj. Lance, furniture dealer, one end Of build.
ing blown sway; loss, $1,000. 81 Charles
hotel partially unroofed; damage about $500
David Humbird 4 Co, smokestack of mill
down and lumber blown away; estimated loss,
&C., 500.
AGGREGATE LOSSES
The total fthe losses given above 10 e139,
100; and to this, at moderate computation,
80 200 may be added for losses not specified
The following are among the buildings de-
molishod or seriously wrecked: Methodist,
Congregational and Swedish churches, all lev
postoface. Schultz's store Luntz's furniture
warerooms Dr.. Goodwin's Office, A n. Briggs
drug store W. r. Ingalls, dry goods store.
r. Burdick's block and residence.
Charles Z G: Nelson's drug store, blown
In - md ~ n N
starkweather 4 Deans store, front demol-
ished.
st. Charles hotel, owned by Charles Graves,
damaged very seriously. Graves loss can
not be short Of $1,000
Glover 4 Co.'s planning mill was also un-
rooted, and every smokestack in town leveled
and nearly every tree broken down.
| The storm crossed from north Of Ninneapo-
lis to Marine. and thence struck 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
The storm did mostof its destructive work
north OF New Richmond, and reports are con-
stsntly coming in Of divers and sundry disas-
blown down, and Mrs Camp seriously injured.
jured II is feared fatally. In Jeweltown many
buildings were unroofed and ends taken
out Of them. Andrew Arnquist had his
OF them. Andrew Arnquist had his
house unroofed and his barn blown over
blown ont, and Ed Corners had both house
and barn demolished r. K. Fay's hired
man was standing near granary when II blew
from it's Foundation, and broke both his legs
and otherwise injured him so that it is feared he
cannot live. It 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 Woodbridge had
horse fatally injured by flying boards In Jew
Star Prairie appears to have Jared the worst
as nearly every building in the village was
more or less shaken, and fully . dozen in the
town completely destroyed Among the more
serious losses are:
House and barn Of Mr.. A R N. ouist, valued
der's barn. E. Clarke, house and barn, and
Filpah's store front blown in.
Inc course OF the tornado and cyclone, seema
to have been: From the center Of Hennepin
county twenty -four miles north Of east to White
70 Marine, MINI: thence fourteen miles slightly
south Of east to New Richmond, north Of east
twenty -four miles from Marine, and on the
theory OF triple separation,) to Clear Lake,
and thirty miles northeast from Marine) to
Clayton, thence east until further trace 10 lost
In the forest
At Marine Mills, north Of Saltwater, Mimi,
fully two+thirds Of the houses in rs village
were more or less injured, some being utterly
demoitshed, others moved from their founda-
ions, while others lost chimney OF few
shingles from the roof. In the south part Of
Z Root was blown down and hurled into the
RIVER. The family were buried under the fall
Ing walls, but were taken out unhurt aside
from T. few bruises Tho two houses
next adjoining that Of Mr.: Root are
Westergren, and are just across the street from
Walker, Judd 4 Yeazie's lumber yard When
the wind struck the lumber the air was full of
boards, joists and scantling Some Of these
pieces were carried into the street, others driv-
en- lengthwise through the two houses last men,
into the river, and others stii carried across TO
hills. ---- - '--~
Samuel Judd thinks $4,000 will cover the
loss Of the firm. and says that the entire loss
IN the village will not exceed s75,0Oa In the
country the results are far more disastrous, -
many Of the farmers, in addition TO having
their homes wiped ont of existence, have lost
the whole Of their crops.
In the town Of Oneka, near Marine, the de-
struction was worse than in any other locality.
rutherford, will not survive. He lost one ear
timbers The names Of others more or less
seriously injured are-Mrs. Lord, Mrs Charles
Brickett, Annie Peters, Mr. Emerson, Mr.. T.
J: Withrow. The names of some Of the prin-
cipal losers are T. D. Briggs, John tutz,
Michael Pelican, e. c. Judkins.
For many miles east Of the North Wisconsin
road, the country is heavily timbered and COM
paratively uninhabited, aud - no record Of
disaster comes from towns on the Chippewa
Falls 4 Northern, 1t Il fair to suppose the
force Of the cyclone was dissipated before
it reached that line. The advices received 10
to show that wind first attained destructive
Fnecme1en1 lMS Hennepin cotnN, and
though 11nneaN6lis WAS not affected
'stfi01sly, farm henses and barns to the east
and sskSht6 to tie north Of that city were
unfoofed Ss otisewise injured, willis grain
steeks weiew hira "a abroad, and the Isheaves
widely scsktered5 1esping over the Mississippi
thenetthsrAok1he storm il q WIS Bed,
where, although powerful, II was not cyclonic
In character. White Bear IL northeast Of
Minneapolis and Marine - exactly northeast
from White Bear
a Polite Esntuclian.
According to the Indianapolis Sen.
tinel, in Kentucky some years ago when