Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-04-30
More Cyclone items.

f.. II. Farnham, Esq J, and the editor
of this paper are becoming slightly
deranged on the study Of cyclones,
and last week started out again to
more closely examine the track from
Sank Rapids moth TO the Morrison
county line. The week previous q
thorough examination had been made.
of the route through Buchanan and
Pierz townships, and the result pub
lished in the Transcript of April %. II
will be remembered that the course in
Morrison county was northwest by
north, in Benton countyit was north
east by north; the turn, slight one.
was near the county line; a public
road runs east and west enc half mile
south efJohn spue's house heretofore
incorrectly called Spoon's9. Standing
in the center Of the track Oh that road
Spue's house is northwest and the
break through the timber one half
mile to the south is distinctly south
west, showing that the DETECTION was
in the valley of the Little Rock near
the county line. The route in Benton
county from Sank Rapids to the couu-#
| ty line is fortunately. through an unset
tied country, largely marshes, except
| at Sciultz's house and neighborl,ood,
there the country was we'll settled,
North Of the township Of Pierz. in
| Morrison county, where the cyclone
soon passed into an unsettled country,
it is difficult to trace the route, but
cyclone did certainly destroy Mr..
brakes house five miles southeast of
Sullivan lake. 1t is difficult to ascer-
tain whether it is the same cyclone or
not, the time given at Sullivan lake is
between 4 and s O'Clock p. M; at that
time the cyclone We are acquainted
with was over Pierz township and
south of there, but allowing for errors
III noting time, it was probably the
same TO reach the place where
Drake lived the cyclone after passing
through Pierz must have within six
miles veered nearly to the east, few
points northerly, travelling about
twelve miles in this direction it de-
m~lished brakes house and again
turned north west and passed over
Sullivan lake. Several residents of
Rich Prairie, however, insist that a
small cyclone passed east of their viii
lage an hour or more before the ad-
vent of the big one, and was then
going northeast.
This is possible, when it is remeln-
! bered that on the same day one passed
through part Of Pope county, and
there was one ir Dakota and two in
Iowa, one doing great property dam
age but only killing one person. In
Iowa there is not in the future likely
to be much loss Of life from cyclones.
They know much about them now, and
are we'll supplied with cyclone pits
bomb proofs we believe they were
called in war times--and on the first
appearance of an i'll looking cloud
everyone initiates the troubled gopher
and disappears.
We can no longer say that we are
E@north of the tornado line. In fact we
never were, the whole northern part
of the, state to the boundary has at
times felt the blows of the cyclone.
Lumbermen frequently run across the
tracks of old ones which are generally
known as windfalls. Surveyors speak
Of them, aud for one discovered there
must be many never heard Of The
country having little or no white pop
ulation, the actual passage Of the storm
is not noted, or at least not made
known to the public.