Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-03
\ AND FLOOD

r.rr,;c cyclone Lays Waste sevefAA
Towns in Minnesota and Wisconsin,
MANY Residences and Farm houses
Wrecked-A Few Lives Lost and severa'
p..s,,s Iniured-FIoods In the Chip
pewa River.
HrpsoS Wis, Sept. 11.-Detalls are
now coming in of a destructive cyclone
which on Tuesday evening swept over the
,orthern part of ST. Croix County and
+hronyh the center of Polk, doing wide"
spread devastation. The cyclone entered
wisconsin from the Minnesota side, nearly
~opposite Marine, carried away portions OF
the Wisconsin Central's new iron bridge
now building across Lake St Croix,
and plowed a furrow two or three
miles wide in a northerly direction.
The most serious damage was
done in fine towns o. Star Prairie, Stanton
and Somerset, where grain stacks in large
numbers were blown away Barns and
houses were unroofed, and other serious de-
struction done. In this county Star Prairie
annears to lave Jared the worst, as nearly
every building. in the village was more or
less shaken, and fully a dozen in the town
completely destroyed. Among the more
serious losses are the house and barn of Mr..
Arnquist, valued at 81, 800; the large barn OF
II. X. Fay, in which a boy had both legs
broken; Ira kidder's barn, +. Clarke's house
and barn, and Filpah's store, front blown
in. About thirty-tive miles farther north
the little village of Clear Lake, on the
North Wisconsin Road, was almost wiped
from the map by the furious gale. Hardly
all unscatled house remains in the town,
and three lives were To- Those killed
were Mrs. Peleg Burdlo.s- { me post
master, and two young men in w r. In
CALLS store, by the name of William Cav.
anaugh and A. II. Sanderson. Walter
Briggs was also badly injured, and two
Scandinavian children so seriously that they
can not survive.
Bill Nye, the noted humorist, also had
his left leg broken below the knee. He was
at Clear Lake visiting his brother, District
Attorney Nye. They were out in the coun-
try fora drive i'll the midst of a dense forest,
and seeing the storm coming CD.
were driving as rapidly as possible
to escape its fury, when both gen.
tlemen were thrown out with the
result above given. The road was so thick.
ly strewn with fallen trees that it was i'm.
possible to reach him with a team, and lie
was obliged to lie OH the wet ground III the
drenching rain for two hours, until men
could be summoned from Clear Lake to
carry ullH III. lie was Drought 10 duuSOn
and is now doing we'll.
Jewett's mills, a Jew miles out, suffered
seriously, and three-fourths of their most
valuable pine were blown down, beside a
vast amount Of other timber. The entire
loss to Clear Lake can not be less than
$500, 900. Ingalls, loss is placed at $40, 600.
The death of Mrs. Burdick is especially sad.
She was almost helpless, and her husband
was assisting her from the SILVER
ing building when she was stricken
dead at his side. The people had
no knowledge of young Saunders
death until his body was found
Willie they were searching. in the
ruins for Cavanaugh's remains. A report
comes that Clayton was badly shaken up
by the same gale, and sustained heavy
losses. Humbird IL Co.'s large mills and
their lumber yard were seriously wrecked.
The loss of grain and other property in
this (St. CroiX) County can not be short of
$50, 600, but this is tritling compared with
the devastation throughout Polk County.
The storm lasted fifteen minutes.
SALTWATER, Mimi, Sept. 11.-About
six o'clock Tuesday evening a disastrous
| cyclone passed over this section. The worst
end of the storm struck Marine Mills, a viii
lage twelve miles north, where almost every
house is more or less injured. George
rutherford was working at a threshing
machine when the storm came up. He
took refuge in a barn, which was blown
down Oh him and lie was killed. This is the
only fatality thus far reported. On another
farm in the same neighborhood a Minneap-
oils man had his leg torn Off by a falling
house, and a few other people We're slightly
injured. AT one place, in an orchard of
1000 trees, only 600 are left standing.
Probably forty or fifty barns in this county
Syarn HnmJolataly yyraI1-aI Srh,, a,v;,,,o
freaks of the storm are reported. Some
buildings were twisted completely
around on their foundations. Others were
only unroofed and not otherwise injured.
AT another place flying boards from a
lumber yard struck a dwelling and
crashed entirely through the side. In this
city Walker, Judd Veazie, a saw-mill firm,
lose from $4,000 to 10000. The st.
CroiN Hotel was unroofed and had a gable
blown away. Peter Cullean's house, with
his family i'll it, was blown into the street,
the inmates miraculously escaping injury.
Hiram Burkey's house, barn, gralary and
warehouse, with 81, 900 worth of machinery,
six hundred bushels of grain and thirty
tons OF hay. were destroyed. The entire
loss at Marine is So 5000, in this city about
$50, 900.
M1NNEAPoLIs, Mimi, Sept. 11.-Reports
from the neighborhood tell of heavy blows
in all directions. Waslouts and overflow
ing streams are causing n good deal of
trouble to railroads. The St. Paul &
Omaha Road is blocked up, and trains are
obliged to go by the Milwaukee track. No
1atal accidents are reported.
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis, Sept. 1.-THE
floods in the rivers and streams of this Sec
ton continue undated. Duncan Creek,
which flows through a portion of this city,
rose fourteen feet yesterday. Every bridge
IN the city was carried away. The dam
OF the Glen Touring mills was washed out,
and caused the p%laning-mill dam Of B.
kekis d Co. to give way. The
livery stable Of Stiles, Lego &
Bailey was badly wrecked. Five horses
were drowned, and all the buggies and
carriages We're swept away. Several ma
chine shops and houses were carried down
the stream totally wrecked. The latest
adviccs from Bloomer, twelve miles from
here, on Duncan Creek, state that the
water is tElirty-three inches higher than in
the great flood of 1880, but there has been
4 decline of civ innbou e;,,, =.