Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-09-19
CYCLONES WRATH
Clear Lake, Somerset, Clayton and
Other Points in Polk and ST.
Croix Counties Severely
Dealt With. .,.


Dealt With. sa.
at Marine, Washington County, Mimi >,
and Vicinity, Much Ruin is Also
~, IL Wrought. ~, ~.
A. few minutes before 6 p. M, Tuesday, 9Th,
Clear Lake, Polk county, was devastated
by a cyclone which, coming from almost due
west, and with a 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 200 inhabitants into
scene of rum as absolute as that pre-
scented in the afflicted portion of Rochester,
Minnesota, as far as can be Judged, and the
central cloud had what can best be described
as thres terrible tails. The saddest of all to
chronicle is the loss of three lives.
Mrs. p. Burdic's, wife of the postmaster.
Willie Kayanaugh, eighteen. year old son OF
John saunpers, Both the latter in the en-
ploy Of ". r. ingalls,, general storekeeper
Mrs. Burdick was killed by the crushing in
of her home. Kavanaush and Saunders were
in Mr.. Ingalls, store, and were crushed by fall
ing walls and climbers. All three bodies are
disfigured 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 ia hoped he will re-
cover. The wounds and bruises are almost
countless
LIST OF LOSSES.
The principal losses to property are az fol-
lows: = g-r: ~.
". P. Ingalls,, store building, Graves street,
loss 81, 900; stock, $4,000; utterly gone.
q w., f,f 1ioN
stock destroyed; damage, $1,000. stave mill
unroofed and Stave sheds destroyed loss,
$4,000
r. Burdick, postmaster, residence and town
hall above destroyed: loss, s., 500; postotice
building, loss 5000
Mr.. Schultz, general store; building destroyed
but not stock; loss, 81 500
Smith & Lewis (Sy. PanD, general store;
store destroyed, stock injured, three barns de-
mo]isllrd; total loss, exclusive Of salvage, 49,
500
John Glover & Co.. lumbermen; loss on
lumber blown away and broken, on two saw
mills 1ln'oofe0 and stacks blown down, est
mated at $lOO,0OO
NJ. Briggs. drug store and stock ground to
atoms; 1o salvage; loss, 81 800.
Drug store and stock, small, belonging to q
Swe le, loss, S5UG.
MS Clark, widow, residence blown away
loss $500.
Mr. Lance, furniture dealer, one end Of build
ing blown away; loss, 81 900. ST. Charles
hotel partially unroofed: damage about $500.
David Humbird & Co., snokestack of mill
down and lumber blown away; estimated loss,
SIC. 300.
AGGREGATE LOSSES.
The total of The losses given above is S1}9, =
100; and to this, at Il moderate computation,
$50 COO may be added for Losses not specified.
The following arc among the buildings de-
,, molished or seriously wrecked: Methodist,
Congregational and Swedish churches, all lev
eled, Tah!ng every church in the village The
postoifice Schultz's store Lrlntz 3 furniture
warcroons DR.. Goodwin Office, A. N. Briggs
drug store y. R. ingalls, dry goods stuTe.
P Burditk's block aud residence.
Charles d l. c. NELSON'S drug store, blown
entirely from it's fountlation and badly
wreclicd
Starkweathey l. Deans store, front donAo,-
ishct.
St. Charles hotel, owned by Charles GRAVES
damaged very seriously Graves loss can.
nov be short Of 81 600
Glover 4 Co. g plainin. mill was also IN
rooted and every srnokestack in town leveleJ
aud nearly every tree broken down.
The storm crossed from north of Minneapo
Lis to Marine and thence struck dozen places
along the Northern division Of the Omaha ROAD
north OF Hudson. The most serious traces ar
fond in the towns Of Star Prairie, Stanton ant
Somerset.
! north Of New Richmond. ana reports are con
stantly coming III Of divers and sunGry diaas
: ters. \ house in the town OF Star Prairie wa
blown down, and Ms Camp seriously injured
jured it Is feared fatally In Jewelt'I wa man,
buildings were unrpofod and ends takc1
Of them. Andrew Arnquist had hi
! house un1cofed and his barn blown over
The end Of Fay's large livery stable wa
blown out, ard Ed Conners had both nous
and barn demolished. E. K. Fay's' hire
man was standing near granary when it hleN
and otherwise injured him so thatit is feared Ii
cannot live 1t is stated that the wind did eve
greater destruction farther north. Owing t
the cyclone the fair will hold over Friday. Til
/ Clark family arc recov orinS, except the bab
whose skull was crushed in McFetridgo ha
horse fatally injured by flying boards in Jew
clltcwll.
Str Prairie appears to have Jared the wors
as nearly every building in the village wa
more or less shaken, and fully q DOZEN in Il.
town completely destroyed. Among the nor
! serious losses are:
at $500 The large barn of R. X. Fay,
which s. hoy had both legs broken. Ira Kjt
der's barn. e. Clarke, house and barn, an
Filpah's store front blown in.
The course Of the tornado and cyclone. seen
to have been; From the center OF Hennepi
, L"SEtS -lOul u SGSG ~ " III
Beor, MIMI, thence northeast fifteen mil
TO Marine Mimi. thence fourteen miles sllghtl
south Of cast to New Richmond, north Of eas
tw euty -four miles (5rola Marine, and on til
theory of a triple saparatlon,l to Clear Lake
and thirty miles MOI t}oast (from Marine!
Clayton thence east until further trace is los
in the forest
At Marine Mills north of Saltwater. MINI
fully two thirds of the houses IN the T1liag
were more or less injured, some being utterl
demolished, Others moved from their founda
tons, while others lost chimney Or fe'
shingles from the roof In the south part {
the town the handsome new frame house OF J
f. Root was blown down ana hurled into III
river. The family were buried under the fal
ing walls, but were taken out unhurt asld
from s, few bruises. The two house
next adjoining that of Mr. Root az
owned by G. A. LindQuist and Mr.. Charlie
Westergren, and are just across the street froi
Walker, Judd 4 Veazie's lumber yard. Whe
the wind struck the lumber the air was fnll {
boards. joists and scantlicg Some Of thes
pieces were carried into the street, others drlN
en- lengthwise through the tTo houses last IneI
toned, Kidding them completely, others throw
into the river, and others still carried across
the Wisconsin side and spread around on ii
hills.
Samuel Judd thinks $4,000 will cover IL
loss Of the firm. and says that the entire 10:
in the village will not exceed SIS, 600 In Il
country tHe Tesults are lsaE more dtrdstioun,
many Of the farmers, in addition to havin
their homes wiped out of existence, have To-
the whole Of their crops.
In the town of Oneka, near Marine, the dt
gt1uction was worse tllanjn any other locaht.
Among those injured, but one, Mr.. Geore
Rutherford, will not survive He lost one ca
and was nearly crushed in the chest BY fallin
timbers. The names Of others more or LEI
seriously injured areMrs. Lord, Mrs Charlt
Brickett Annie Peters. Mr. Emerson Mr. :
j. Withrow. The NAMES of some Of the pril
cipal losers are F. D. Briggs, John Lut
Michael Politician, Il. G. Judkins 1t
For many miles east of the North Wisconsi
road, the country is heavily tin1bered and con
paratively uninhabited, and as no record I
disaster comes from towns on the ChippeN
Falls Il Northern, it is fair to suppose ii
force of the cyclone was dissipated befo,
it reached that line. The adYices received s
/ tn show that wind frat attained dest,1, city