Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-09-13
A WISCONSIN CYCLONE.

Terrible Destruction in the Western Part
of the State.
Clear Lake, Wis, Sept. lO.-A few
minutes before 6 p. m. Tuesday, this
town was devastated by cyclone which,
coming from almost due west. and with
a sharply defined width of half mile,
swept everything before it, utterly
demolishing every business building,
the two churches and number of the
residences, and in in less than five min.
utes converted o prosperous and pretty
place of l,2CC inhabitants into scene Of
ruin as absolute as that presented in the
afflicted portion of Rochester, Mimi, last
summer. The storm originated in Min.
nesota, as far as can be Judged, and the
central cloud had what can best be de-.
scribed as three terrible tails. The
southern tail struck Marine, on the st.
Croix; the central worked our destruc-
ton, and from the path of the northern
we hear today stories of wrecked farm
houses and stacks reaching US from sew
eral quarters. Saddest of all to chronl.
Gle is the loss of three lives.
Mrs. P. Burdick, vife of the postmas.
ter.
WAAAAo AaV6unu8u, olKutoeu'yeRE'
old son OF J. j. Kavanaugh, q carpenter
of this place.
John Saunders. Both the latter in
the employ OF w. r. Ingalls,, general
storekeeper.
Mrs. Burdick was killed by the crush.
ing in of her home, Kavanaugh and
Saunders were in Mr.. ingalls, store, and
were crushed by falling walls and tim.
horo II khNna ho1soo ia ! L.
yond recognition and were not recovered
from the wreck until to-day. Waite,
Lewis was badly cut on the head and
injured internally, but, it ls hoped, will
recover. The wounds and bruises are
almost countless, but thus far I have
not learned of any fatal injuries.
Bill Nye, the humorous writer, had q
sad misfortune. He and his brother
Frank had started in light wagon into
the country on business, and were three
miles from Clear Lake when the storm
struck them. Nye was dashed out of the
wagon and both bones of his lower leg
broken, No help could be obtained nearer
than the town, and thither his brother
started as soon as the fury of the wind
had abated. He found the road literally
choked with rubbish and tree trunks,
and was more than an hour reaching the
town. Once there, q party armed with
axes started for the wounded man, and
for mile and half cleared the road.
But this was tedious and toilsome work
and finally was given up in despair. The
suffering Nye was carried over the tree
trunks and through the debris for fully
mile and q half and it was midnight
before he got to Clear Lake, having re-
mained alone and suffering for five
hours. exposed to one OF the hardest
rains of the season. DR.. Goodwin set
the broken bones at midnight, and to.
day Mr.. Nye was taken to his home in
Hudson. The rain which followed sue
ceeded in destroying hundreds Of dol.
lars worth OF exposed stock, and added
to the sufferings OF scores who had been
rendered homeless. Account has not
been taken of losses by small house.
holders-ln many instances total
though upon them the destruction falls
the heaviest.
Hudson, Wis, Sept. lO-The details
OF the terrific cyclone which swept over
the northern part Of st. Croix county
and through the center of Polk indicate
that the devastation was great and wide.
spread. Itstepped into Wisconsin from
the Minnesota side nearly opposite Mar.
inc, carried away portions OF the Wis.
consin Centrals new iron bridge now
building across Lake st, Croix, and
blowed q furrow two or three miles wide
10 northerly direction over st. Croix.
Serious traces are found in the towns OF
Star Prairie, Station and Somerset, where
grain stacks IN large numbers are blown
away, barns and houses unroofed, and
other serious destruction wrought. In
this county Star Prairie appears to have
Jared the wont. - nearly every building
In the village WAS more or less shaken,