New Ulm weekly review., 1885-06-24
Tho Usual Storm Franks Repeated, and
Wonders of Destruction are Performed.

! body for forty minutes. The roaring of the
water aroused nearly every one from their
slumbers, and all rushed to their windows
and doors to,see what had happened. Dr..
Pratt and family, living on the lower fiat,
between Main and Second streets, saw the
water rushing down Myrtle street as high as
the top OF a wagon. Those residing higher
up on Myrtle say the water, as it roared
down the steep hill leading to thelowerfat,
resembled Niagara Falls. .Boulders weigh
ing 500 pounds were washed FROM the hills
above and carried to, the fiat and into the
lake. The sand was four feet daep in the
streets.
A severe wind storm, struck Sios1x City,
Iowa, at 1915 o. clock the night of Che 18th
inst. The following cases are reported:
Wholesale dry goods store OF Tootle, Liv
.ingston. ,&t Co., unroofed and the end wall
iblownin.
Schenckborg's wholesale grocery had
portion of the side wall blown in.
McDavis large barn and residence and ].
ID. Farr q Co.'s butter; and eggs warehouse
were unroofed.
Standard Oil company warehouse, roof
and partition,wan.
St. Paul & Omaha railroad, large boilers
and new engine. blown overheard.
Ferry boat Bennett, ~smoke-stack and
pilot house.
Alexander Mair, dwelling demolished.
Htroogh & Nickesill, store unroofed.
Methodist and. Baptist churches unroofed.
A Sioux City dispatch says: At present
it is impossible to compute the total storm
losses sustained orgive the number OF build
ings damaged, but at trough guess more than
420G buildings suffered more or less injury.
A LIE Mars dispatch says the loss in that
city is estimated at 100000, with an
equal amount in the county. No lives
nere lost in town, but two men and two
children were killed in the country, while
six or eight were wounded, several danger
ously. The storm took in a great part Of
Plymouth county.
At Paoea Neb., Daris' store waas demol-
ished, flour mill unroofed. The wind was
first from the south, then from the south
west. The total damage to property, SO
far as known, is over 100000. Whiting,
a small village on the Sioux City & Pacific
railroad, twenty miles south OF Sioux City,
was struck by a cyclone from the south
west and totally destroyed it.
At Lemar Iowa, almost every residence
and business house was more or less dam
aged, some buildings being completely
wrecked. Thenew German Catholic church,
which has recently been completed at
cost OF 100000 was struck by the full
force of the wind, and the steeple, which
was 16O feet high, WAS thrown to the
ground. The damage to the church it esti-
mated at over 50, 900. The St. James Cath
olic church, which was built a short time
ago by the Irish Catholics, vas demolished,
not a post being left standing. The city gas
works, a brick building was leveled to the
ground. Gilberts elevators were very much
damaged, and the ST. Paul q Omaha freight
depot is almost a total wreck. 1t is i'm
possible to estimate the damage done in
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OF $50, 900, half OF which is insured.
At Mason City the cyclone sounded like
freight train running over q trestle bridge.
It did it's fearful work in q moment, but the
rain, hail and lightning continued for two
hours. 1t would take q column to enumer-
ate all the losses. A brick roundhouse
OF the Burlington, Cedar Rapids &
Northern railroad at Burlington was blown
down; also, an iron bridge over Lime creek.
A bridge over the Calamus river, which was
bolted into the solid rock, was hoisted by
the wind and lodged by the bank OF the
stream. All along the line OF the storm
windmills, fences, groves and cribs were
torn to atoms, crops OF all descriptions cut
by hail and beaten by rain into the soft
earth. The damage is placed by good judges
at $4,000.
In Odebolt, Sac county, little damagewas
done in the town, but is very heavy in the
surrounding country. Houses were shat
tered, barns destroyed and stock injured.
At Ida Grove seven houses were destroyed,
six persons injured, and the damage is &c.
900. At Danbury the Catholic church was
moved several feet and several houses were
destroyed. AtMapleton, the Advocate office
was moved from it's foundation, and the
windmill OF the railroad company was de-
stroyed. The town OF fShaller was damaged
$1,000. The barn OF Philip Weitzel, near
Odebolt, was demolished, and seven head
OF stock killed.
A dispatch from Iowa, says: All the
atmospheric elements OF disturbance
seemed to vie with each other in
producing fright and damage, the
whole eliminating in cyclone, which
struck this county in Mt. Vernon township
about 1880 O'Clock Sunday night the 18th
inst. Fragments OF the debris were carried
and strung along in q nolthcastcrly direction
for q mile or more, in many instances
driving timbers into the earth two feet
in depth; siding and shingles were sown to
the four winds; household furniture was
scattered in every direction; farm machin-
cry was broken and twisted into every con-
ceivable shape; wheels were yanked of. .wag-
ons and cultivators by a square break OF
the axle. Trees were unrooted, the bark
broken off and some driven deep into
the earth. Chickens and doves were
to be seen lying about dead A
1000 stallion remained in the barn
after the roof and sides and floor had
disappeared, standing unhurt across some
joists, while another horse was thrown down
and held to the ground by timbers though
apparently nothu Six other horses were
found out in the yard, with halters hanging.
A mile farther on the house and barn OF
Matthew Reddy were whisked out OF exist
ence. There are hardly boards enough left
to build q fire. No furniture nor astitch of
clothing can be found. On looking around,
Mr.. Reddy saw by a flash OF lightning his
brother stretched out as though dead some
yards away. He picked him up and carried
him into an underground milkhouse. He
then searched for and found his wife in her
mghtclothes ten rods from the house, in a
corn field. She was also carried to the milk
house. He last found his ve-year-old boy
thirty rods from where hehouse had stood,
almost battered into the mud.
A host OF similar incidents are given, the
general tenor OF which may be imagined by
those who have read the accounts OF the
great Rochester cyclone, and others.
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