The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-09-18
CYCLONES 3! E ! WRATH i II . :. !,
Clear Lake, Somerset, Clayton and
= Other Points in Polk and st.
! { croix Counties Severely
i Dealt With.

Clear Lake, Somerset, Clayton and
Other Points in Polk and st.
II { eroix Counties Severely
Y q Dealt With.
At Marine; Washington County; 4iun.,
and Vicinity, Much Ruin is Also
/ , Wrought.
|. A few minutes before p. M, Tuesday, 9th,
Clear Lake, Polk county, was devastated
BY cyclone which, coming from almost due
west, and with sharply defined width of half
mile, swept everything before it, utterly de-
molishing every business building, the two
churches and number of the residences, and
in less than five minutes converted prosper
GUS and pretty place of l. 200 inhabitants into
scene OF rum as absolute as that pre-
Mimi. last summer: The storm originated in
Minnesota, as far as can be judged, and the
| central cloud had what can best be described
~ three terrible tails The 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. Kavanaugh, a carpenter of the place.
John Saunpers:. Both the latter in the en-
ploy of ". R: Ingalls,, general storekeeper.
Mrs. Burdick was killed by the crushing in
in Mr.: Ingalls, store, and were crushed by fall
ing walls and timbers. All three bodies are
disfgured beyond recognition and were not re-
covered from the wreck until the next day.
Walter Lewis was badly cut ON the head and
injured internally, but it is hoped he will re-
cover. The wounds and bruises are almost
countless
LIST OF LOSSES.
The principal losses to property are as fol-
w. p Ingalls,, store building; Graves street,
loss 81, 900; stock, $4,000; utterly gone
A. Symns & Co. (of Minneapolis, store and
stock destroyed; damage, $4,000 Stave mill
s ss$St and S'@7' sheds destroyed; '0'''
P. Burdick, postmaster, residence and town
ball above destroyed; loss, $4,000; postoftice
building, loss 5000.
Mr.. Schultz general store; building DESTROYED
bttnot stock; loss, l,5OO.
Smith Lewis (St PauD, general store;
store destroyed stock injured, three barns de-
molshed; total loss, exclusive of salvage, 49,
500
John Glover Co., lumbermen; loss on
mills unroofed and stacks blown down, esti-
mated at 100000
Mr.. Briggs, drug store and stock ground to
atoms; no salvage; loss, 81 800.
Drug store and and stock, small, belonging to
Mrs. Clark, widow, residence blown away;
loss, $500
Mr. Lance, furniture dealer, one end of build
ing blown away; loss, $1,000 St. Charles
hotel partially untoofed xdamase about 5000
down no and lumber blown way;;estimatcd loss,
AGGREGATE LOSSES.
80 The total of the losses given above is $780,
$20,O0O may be added for losses not specified.
Tho following are among the buildings de-
molished or seriously wrecked: Methodist,
congregational and Swedish churches, all lov-
eled, taking every church in the village. The
postoffice Schultz's store. Luntzs furniture
warerooms. DR.: Goodwin's office, A. NJ Briggs
drug store. W. H. Ingalls, dry goods store
P. Burdicks block and residence
Charles 4 l. c. Nelson's drug stQre,. blown
entirely from it's foundation. and . badly
i st:srkweatther& Deans stere, front demol.
81 Charles hoteil Owned g. chaiilss sIasxes
damaged very seriously Graves loss can
not be short Of $4,000. r -! ;Ht;,-':
Glover 4 Co.'S planning mill was also I'M
and nearly every tree broken down.
The storm crossed from north of Minneapo- I
lis tQ, Marine, and thence struck dozen places
along the Northern division of the Omaha road
north of Hudson The most serious traces are
'faAad IN the towns Of Star Prairie, Stanton and
Somerset
HE storm did most of it's destructive { mork !
north of New Richmond, and reports are con.
stantly coming in of divers and sundry disas-f
ters. house in the town of Star Prairie was
blown down, and Mrs Camp seriously injured,
jured it 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
The end of Fay's large livery stable was
InVuv 01yf md ~ A.
and barn demolished R. K. Fay'st hired
man was standing near a granary when it blew
from it's foundation, and broke both his legs
and otherwise injured him so tlatit is feared he
cannot live. 1t is stated that the winddidpeven
greater destruction farther north: Owing to-
the cyclone the fair,wil hold over.F Friday The
Clark family are recovering, except the baby
whose skull was crushed in. McFetridge had
a horse fatally injured by flying boards in jew
elltown.
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 Quist, valued
at q, SOU: The large barn of r. X. Fay, in.
which a boy had both legs broken Ira Kid
der's barn. E. Clarke, house and barn, and
Filpahs store front blown in.
The course of the tornado and cyclone, seems.
to have been: From the center Of Hennepin
county twenty-four miles north of east to White
Bear, Mimi, thence northeast fifteen milee
to Marine, Mimi, 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 lfrom. Marine) to
Clayton, thence east until further trace is lost
At Marine Mills, north OF Saltwater, MINI,
fully two thirds of the houses in the village
were more or less injured, some being utterly
demolished, others moved from their founda-
tions while others lost a chimney or few
shingles from the roof In the south part Of
the town the handsome new frame house Of N.
P. Root was blown down and hurled into the
river: The family were buried under the fall
ing walls, but were taken out unhurt aside
next adjoining that of Mr.. Root are
owned. by G. A. Lndquist and MIR. Charles
Westergren, and are just across the street from
Walker, Judd l. Veazie's lumber yard. When
the wind struck the lumber the air was full of
boards, joists and scantling. Some of these
pieces we're 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 $4,000 will cover the
loss of the firm, and says that the entire loss
in the village will not exceed SIS, 600! 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-
struction was worse than in any other locality.
Among those injured, but one, MIR: George
Rutherford, will not survive. He lost one ear
and was nearly crushed in the chest by falling
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 F: D. Briggs, John Iutz,
Michael Pelican, E. C. Judkins.
For many miles east of the North Wisconsin
road, the country is heavily timbered and COM
paratively uninhabitod, and as no record of
Falls & Northern, it is fair to suppose the
force Of the cyclone was dissipated before
it reached that line. The advices received 20
to show that wind first attained destructive
momentum IN Hennepin 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 sheaves
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.
A Polite Kentuckian.
According to the Indianapolis SEN
tinel, in Kentucky some years ago when
a passenger train drew up at a. little
station, chap in copper-dved breaches.