Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-04-21
THE DEADLY CYCLONE.

THE DEADLY CYCLONE.
THE NORTHWEST VISITED BY CYCLONE UN-
PRECEDENTED IN THE HISTORY OF THAT
sECTIoN-MANY PEOPLE KILLED-AT A
WEDDING THE BRIDEGROOM KILLED AND
THE BRIDE WOUNDED.
ST. Paul, MINI, April 15.-At late
hour last night Gov. Hubbard received
message from State Senator Buchanan at
Sank Rapids, stating that the town was in
ruins and asking all the aid possible. The
Governor sent messages at once to the may
ors of all the cities and large towns in the
State asking that steps be taken at once
to secure money and things needed, and
forward them as speedily as possible to
Senator Buckman for the destitute. 1t is
learned that among the injured is Ex-Sen-
ator e. G.. Hubert, formerly of Bingham
ton, N. Y, but at present the northwestern
agent of the New York Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company with headquarters in st:
Paul. He is not expected to live. Revised
estimates of the killed and wounded are:
St. Cloud Is killed and 40 wounded; Sank
Rapids, 80 killed, 100 injured; Rye Station,
% kiled-number of injured yet unknown.
SuuE IlUUtUS, 1uLtH., Apiil ia
clone struck this city shortly after O'Clock
minutes the best portion of the town was
in ruins. Not single business house was
left standing on Main street, and many
residences were demolished. The wind
came from the southwest and swept every
thing before it for about the width of four
blocks. The storm cloud was as black as
night, with bright, clear sky on either
side. The courthouse is now heap of
ffuins, and several of the county officers
were killed. The Union schoohouse,
PRESBYTERIAN and Congregational churches,
postoffice, flour mill, and a large machine
shop were all converted into kindling wood
in less time than it takes to tell it. What
was the centre of the town is now covered
with all sorts of debris, timber, doors,
pieces Of furniture, etc. Only the City
Hotel remains intact. The Northern
Pacific depot was literally blown away, and
a large number of freight cars overturned
| upon the tracks. At the present time
| twenty-five dead bodies have been recover
ed from the ruins and a large number OF
people are injured. The bodies are laid
out in the nearest houses left standing, and
several half-demolished buildings are made
| to answer the purpose of a morgue. The
spectacle is sad one, the living being not
only deprived of their friends, but of all their
earthly pos sessions at the same time. The
total loss Of property is not less than three
hundred thousand dollars, without a dollar
ofcyclone insurance. The town is well-nigh
ruined The living are caring for the
wounded AZ well as possible, and physicians
from St. Paul, Minneapolis and Brainerd
are in attendance.
| ST. Paul, MIMI, April 15.-The reports
of the cycl )ne at St. Cloud, Sank Rapids,
| Rye Station and other points in the vicinity,
last night aud early this morning, were not
exaggerated At o'clock this morning in
the PLACES named there were forty-nine dead
and nearly 200 injured, with mauy still miss
| ing, whose bodies will probably be recovered
| tonight lust enough houses are left in Sank
Rapids to firm fringe around the village
| limits The debris is not piled in heaps,
but scattered far and wide. A sign
s'Sauk Rapids ON Manitoba depot and
basketful If books were found in Rye Sta
| ton, fifteen miles distant. This shows the
| terrible power Of the storm.
No reports have yet been received from
| the outlying districts, where it is believed
great destruction of property and loss Of
| life have been wrought. The storm ex-
| tended fl IN jamestown, OAK, through
NJ itEu liiJO w iSCOuS!uJ luOuSu lSo
most disas, fous effects are to be found III
| the three places first named.
st. Paul, Mirn, April 15.-At three
o'clock this morning in st. Cloud and Sank
Rapids the e were 40 dead and nearly 200
injured.
| st. Louis, April ia fearful cyclone
passed over Monroe township, Nodaway
county, las5 evening, destroying dwellings,
| bor -, b dc Of
dollars worth of stock. Three persons were
killed, and many are injured. The killed
are Jennie Hooper, Mrs. Hugh Sport and
baby.
| Omaha, Nc6, April 16-A special to the
Bee from Panama, Iowa, says a cyclone
struck the town of Coon Rapids and COM
pletely demolished most of the place. One
boy was killed aRd numerous persons we're
| injured. 7 venty-fve houses, two churches,
one schoolh )use and several business houses
were destroyed. A freight train, except the
locomotive, was blown from the track and
demolished, and the contents ruined.
OMAHA, Neb, April 16.--Dispatches
from towns in western Iowa show that the
loss of property in the section between
Griswold and Audubon by Thursdays cy-
clone will reach nearly $150000. Every
thing was laid low in the path of the storm.
The small ,ss of life is accounted for by
the fact that the cyclone occurred in the
daytime and nearly every one had time to
get to their cyclone cellars" which nearly
every farm in that part of Iowa is provided
with.
| Rice's Station, Him., April 16.-Ten
persons were killed by the cyclone and
many injured of the party of forty that
gathered Wednesday at the residence of
John Schu z near this village, as guests at
the weddns of his daughter Mamie. The
marriage ceremony had been celebrated,
and the guests were gathered about the
wedding feast when the cyclone came, and
in five minutes the house and every other
building oa the place were blown into frag
ments. Among the killed was the bride
groom; among the injured was the bride.
st. Ctond, MINI, April 16.-Funeral
services were held here to-day over the re-
mains of / I of those killed by Wednesdays
cyclone. Nine of the adults were buried
in one grave and eight children in another.
Fourteen dad were buried at Sank Rapids
to-day Oae hundred injured are in the
two towns One woman, Mrs. Junglen,
buried three of her children to-day, and her
husband and two other children are among
the injured, The loss of property in St,
| Cloud is $4,000, and in Sank Rapids,
$3.50, 600. Forty families are left homeless
and destitute.
''My observation, said Senator Riddle
berger, addressing the senate, "is that if
you would undertake to exchange intelli-
gence, the newspaper men would have the
best of the senate by large majority"
Rjddlebefger ought to know how to COM
pare newspaper men with Senators, as he