The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-09-19
Clear Lake. Somerset, Clayton an&
Other Points in Polk and st.
Croix Counties Severely
Dealt With,
At Marine, Washington County, Mimi
and Vicinity, Much Ruin Is Also
Wrought.

/ Minnesota, as far as can be judged, and tne
central cloud had what can best be described
( as three terrible tails. The saddest OF all 10
( chronicle is the loss Of three lives.
Mrs. T. Burdick, wife OF the postmaster.
Willie KAvanAugh, eighteen year old son OF
J. }. K~ayansugh, = carpenter of the place.
John Saunpers Both the latter in the en-
ploy OF W. Il Ingalls,, general storekeePer.
Mrs Burdick was killed by the crushing in
of her home KaySnaugh and saunders were
in Mr.. Ingalls, store, and were crushed by fall
ing walls and tlmbers All three bodies are
~diSigured 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-
". P. ingalls,, store building, Graves street,
loss, $1,000; stock, $4,000; utterly gone.
A Symns & Co (f Minneapolis, store and
stock destroyed; damage, $1,000 Stave mill
unroofed and Stave sheds destroyed; loss,
S2,OO1
P. Burdick, postmaster, residence and town
hall above destroyed; loss, $500; postofice
building, loss 5000
Mr. Schultz, general store building destroyed
but not stock; loss, $3.50.
Smith & Lewis Isl. Paul., general store;
store destroyed, stock injured, three barns de-
molished; total loss, exclusive of salvage, So
500.
John Glover & Co., lumbermen; loss on
lumber blown away and broken, on two saw
mills unroofed and stacks blown down, esti-
mated at 100000. ...I
Mr.. Briggs, Lrug store and stock ground to
atoms; nc salvage; loss, $500.
Drug store and stock, small, belonging to a
Sweie, loss, $500.
Mrs. Clark, widow, residence blown away;
loss, $500.
Mr.. Lance. furniture dealer, one end of build
ing blown away; loss, 81, 200. 81. Charles
hotel partially unroofed; damage about $500.
David Humbird 4 Co., smokestack of mill
Town and lumber blown away; estimated loss,
$1G,500.
AGGREGATE LOSSES.
The total of the losses given above is $780,
100: and to this, at q moderate computation,
$4,000 may be added for losses not specified
The following are among the buildings de-
molished or seriously wrecked: Methodist,
Congregational and Swedish churches, all lev
eled, taking every church in the village. The
postoffice. Schultzs store. Luntz's furniture
warerooms, DR.. Goodwin's Office, A. M. Briggs
drug store. w. X. Ingalls, dry goods store.
z. Burdick's block and residence.
Charles III C.. Nelson's drug store, blown
entirely. from its foundation and badly
wrecked.
starkweather & Deans store, front demol-
ished.
st. Charles hotel, owned by Charles Graves,
damaged very seriously. Graves loss can
not be short of $4,000.
Glover & Co.'s planning mill was also un-
rooted, and every smokestack in town leveled
and nearly every tree broken down.
The storm crossed from north of Minneapo-
lis to Marine, and thence struck a dozen places
along the Northern division of the Omaha road
north of Hudson. The most serious traces are
found in the towns of Star Prairie, Stanton and
Somerset.
The storm did most Of it's destructive work
north of New Richmond, and reports are con-
stantly coming in Of divers and sundry disas-
ters. A house in the town Of Star Prairie was
blown down, and Mrs Camp seriously injured,
jured it is feared fatally. In Jeweltown many
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
blown out, and Ed. Conners had both house
and barn demolished. r. X. Fay's hired
man was standing neara granary when it blew
from its foundation, and broke both his legs
and otherwise injured him so thatit is feared he
cannot live. 1t is stated that the wind did even
greater destruction farther north. Owing to
the cyclone the fair will hold over Friday. The
Clark family are recovering, exeef,.. the baby
whose skull was crushed in. MeFetridge had
q horse fatally injured by flying boards inJew-
elltown.
Star Prairie appears to have Jared the worst
as nearly every bnildinss IL the village was
more or less shaken, and fully a dozen in the
town completely destroyed Among the mere
serious lesses ere.
House and barn Of Nh. A r. N. Quist, valued
at 81, 500. 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
Eilpah,s store front blown in.
The course Of the tornado and cyclone. seem,
TO have been; From the center Of Hennepir
county twenty-four miles north Of east to Whit.
Bear, Mimi, thence northeast fifteen NILS
to Marine, Mimi thence fourteen miles slightly
south of east to New Richmond, north of cas-
twenty-four miles Qrom Marine, and on thu
theory of q triple separation,) to Clear Lake
and thirty miles northeast from Marine) Il
Clayton thence east until further trace is los
In the forest
AT Marine Mills, north OF saltwater, Minn.
fully two-thirds Of the houses in the villag,
were more or less injured, some being utterl,
demolished. others moved from their founda
tons, while others lost o chimney or O few
shingles from the roof. In the south part o.
the town the handsome new frame house Of m
r Root was blown down and hurled into th'
river. The family were buried under the fall
ing walls, but were taken out unhurt aside
from a few bruises. The two houses
next adjoining that OF Mr.. Root are
owned by G. "A. Iindquist and Mr.. Charles
Mestergren, and are justacross the street from
Walker, judo Il Veazie's lumber yard. Whei
the wind struck the lumber the air was full O.
boards, joists and scantline. Some Of these
pieces were carried into the street. otherg dr5v
en- l~engthwise through the twohousesIa last mon
toned, Kidding them completely, others thrown
into the river, and others still carried across X
the Wisconsin side and spread around on tho
hills.
Samuel Judd thinks $4,000 viii cover Iii,
loss OF the firm. and says that the entire losl
IN tho village viii not exceed $4,000 In th.