Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-09-04
BEADLe coUN1Y's BLOW.

Details of the Cyclone EXper ience About
Huron-A Freaky storm.
Huron, Dak., Aug. S0-Straggling re-
ports from Thursdays cyclone in this
vicinity continue to come in. Mrs.
Cook and daughter, who were seriously
hurt, are recovering. They had stone
cave near the house and saw the cyclone
approaching, but supposing it only an
ordinary storm they staid in the house
and tried to hold the doors shut. The
storm ruined the new house and carried
the two females 200 feet away. The
house was completely demolished, the
material being scattered over an area of
several acres. Household goods were
twisted, torn and distributed in the path
of the wind mile or more. A new
lumber wagon which stood near the
house was carried 100 feet and two of it's
wheels were wrenched off. A carriage
was carried fully 200 feet and smashed
into splinters. The spokes were nearly
all torn from the wheels. Many were
wrenched off the hubs and the felloes
and tires left bare. A couple of
spokes were cut off as smoothly as if
by an ak. Stoves were broken in pieces.
Twelve miles northeast of Huron
man named Briggs had thirty-two
head of cattle killed by being blown in.
to the James river and drowned or
thrown on the ground and smashed. He
had six horses killed the same way.
Eleven hundred bushels of threshed oats
in his granery were all swept away. His
wife is we'll known butter maker for
the Huron market. The last three
months she and servant packed all the
stored in the cellar-several hundred
pounds in all. When they saw the storm
coming they went into the cellar, and
the direction from which the cyclone
troyed the house, scooped up every
crock of butter. carried it away, and it
cannot be found. The women were un-
hurt. William Felkey had two horses
in his stable, also colt. The stable,
horses and colt are yet TO hear from.
Myron Kinney bad two harnessed horses
and stable halter waited away. About
two hours afterward they walked back
home, with all the harness off but the
collars. s. N. Davis saw seven regular
cyclones in the air at the same time, ten
miles away from Huron.
Rev. George A. Cressey lives q mile
from the business center of Huron. The
cyclone that struck near here was IN
plain sight from his house, q mile dis.
tant. He says no wind was stirring out
side of the storm belt, and there were no
other clouds in the sky. At times two
or three cyclonic clouds we're in view.
All had spiral motion and looked exao.
tIy like an ordinary tin funnel. The
cloud gradually arose and fell, going
southeasterly. While in sight there ap-
peared to be double funnel, the outer
one black and the inner one white.
When the lower end touched the ground
everything it touched was destroyed.
Latest reports say the cyclone started
five miles northwest Of Huron. Mrs. w.
Fl. Boathrayd saw it standing upright
the size of rail. It then increased in
size and moved gently away. When
first noticed here it appeared north, on
Maine street, at the fair grounds. and
moved 80 slowly that no trouble was ex.
pected in walking away from it. It
came straight toward the town. People
stood in the streets spell bound, parents
children, husbands and wives
holding one another, but not o sound
was heard and no air was stirring.
The day Of Judgment could hardly have
been more solemn. Suddenly the cloud
veered from the south to northeasterly
course where it struck George Risdon's
barn and destroyedit. The boards and
straw in the air, as seen from here. re.
sembled vast number OF letters thrown
into the air and descending. After that
the storm turned southeast and de.