The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-04-21

Z ES19ss Terribly destructive |
But $50 O'Clock this after
Ihe first knowledge of the
1sster was contained in 4 telegram
Sent to Mayor Ames from St. Cloud,
reporting the disaster and asking that
special be sent will: physicians.
A similar dispatch was received from
Sauk Rapids. Immediately upon re-
ceipt of these messages preparations
were made to respond TO the call for
help. a train for st. Cloud left ar s
O'Clock. Information at hand is very
meagre, and sensational reports are
current that one hundred people were
killed. It is believed that at least
forty persons have been Killed and
about seventy-fve wounded, but it is
impossible to get much Information as
yet. All is excitement and the streets
are filed with men and frightened
women and children. The disaster is
certainly appalling. AS nearly as can
be learned scores of houses have been
entirely wrecked. Twelve physicians
were aboard the relief train which left
for st. Cloud.
ST.. PAUL, April 14.-Private advices
say the storm struck the railroad be-
tween the round house and depot, and
swept path 600 yards wide through
the city, levelling between $50 and 200
houses. H. NJ. Clark. well-known
lumberman who lives III st. Cloud,
savssninety persons were killed and
more than 100 injured, many very
seriously. Superintendent Wakcman
of the Manitoba Road says that be-
tween thirty and forty persons were
killed at Sauk Rapids, a few miles
southeast of St. Cloud, and nearly
double that number injured.
SGsPAUL, April l4.-Reports of the
cycaeae at St. Cloud, Sauk Rapids,
Rye Station and other points in the
vicinity, last night and early this
morning, were rot exaggerated. AT
5 o'clock this morning in the places
named there were forty nine dead and
nearl} two hundred injured, with
many sriIl missing, whose bodies will
probably be recovered. Just enough
house are left in Sank Rapids to form
fringe around The village limits. The
debris Is not piled i'll heaps, but scat
tered far and wide. The sign "Sauk
Rapids on the Manitoba depot, and
basket full of school books were found
in Rye Station, fifteen miles distant
This shows the terrible power of the
storm.
The revised estimates of the killed
and wounded are: St. Cloud, Is killed
40 injured; Sauk Rapids, so killed,
100, injured; Rye Station, % killed,
number of wounded as yet unknown
ST. CLOUD, MINI, April ia few
minutes after O'Clock yesterday after
noon the skies became overcast with a
dark cloud, and a great black mass
rose over the hills southwest Of the
city, and coming with terrible velocity
to the western outskirts in direct line
for the Manitoba freight yards. The
clouds hung low, and rolled over and
oEerlikossmoke over battle field, and
were accompanied by loud roaring
sound, that reSembled conhagration
inEits fury. The cloud was funnel
shaped, andsthe point dragged along
the ground like the tail Of 8 huge serial
beast, aashing everything that came in
it's pathinto atoms. The citizens had
hardly time to Zee to their cellars and
seek other points of refuge before
whirlwind was. ON them and the air
filed WITH flying boards, shingles,
bricks and other debris, that was
strvwn over the country and piled in
promiscuons heaps. 1t came from the
southess. and moved in northerly
direction until it reached the river,
where its course was diverted and fol-
lowed the river banks until it reached
Sank Rapids, where it diverged to the
left, passing directly throught the CEN
tre Of that town.
The utmost excitement prevailed.
Women and children fed from their
houses and rushed aimlessly about in
thr midst of the dark cloud of dust and
an ayalance of boards and brick. Men
lost their presence of mind and stood
inSsiieace and inactivity in the presence
ofshe wind demon. It was hardly
noticed before it was on the city in all
its fury, and the people were not
warned of their danger before it was
upon them, and they fell ike grain
staiks:b before the reaper's sickle.
The, portion of st. Cloud struck by
thescYclone was the southwestern Sec
ton, and was the residence portion
occupied by the laboring class of
people, the majo.ity of them beiug
foreigners employed on the railroads.
Their dwellings were light built
houses and became easy prey to the
monster that had so viciously pounced
upon them. They were like cookie
shells in the grasp Of the whirlwind,
and were picked up and tossed in the
air and rent into thousand pieces.
The earth was plowed up in the line of
the,cyclone, and the path over which
it passed, to width of nearly a quar-
ter of mile, looks as though it had
been upheaved by terrible volcanic
eruption. It had hardly begun its
terrible work before it was finished,
and the scene that greeted the eyes Of,
those who had escaped its fury was
one that caused the stoutest heart to
shudder. The cries and shrieks of the
wounded rent the air, and the ground
was strewn with the bodies of the
dead. Among them were stalwart
men, weak women, and weaker child
ren. The citizens almost to mau
rushed to the demolished districts, and
summoning physicians began their
work of rescuing those who were still
LIVING from, benea;h the niles of dirt