Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-16
0, IT WAS PIYIFUL !!
esterday's Report Of the Awful Loss
Of Life from the Cyclone Not
0verestimated.
Death List Increasing Everyone Killed
or Maimed--Scenes Which
Beggar Description.
Destruction of Property Reported
In Wise County.

The Funnel storm Nearer Home-TerribIe |
Destruction of Property Reported
in wise County.
PARTIAL LIST or THE RULED.
ST.. PAUL, MINI, April l5.--The st !
Cloud cyclone began about O'Clock In |
the basin of the Masonic cemetery, form.
ing whiriwind about 1000 feet In diam |
eter. 1t took almost every tree from the |
ground or twisted II on at the trunk !
Great stones were torn up or carried
along with the wind Moving slowly In
northeasterly direction, 1t wrecked the |
Catholic church and several houses In
It's cours across the prairie adjoining the
town. 1t completely demolished John |
Schwartz's large brick house and scat
tered fifty or more small frame houses. In |
most cases nothing is left TO mark !
the site of tie dwellings but the |
cellars. The prairie was strewn with |
timber, furniture and clothing. The
freight depot Of the Manitoba road was q |
total wreck. Numerous cars loaded with
| freight were blown half mile, and the
rails were wrenched from the ties. 1t
passed the limits Of the town just west OF
Lieut.-Gov. Gilmsn's dwelling. Itcrossed
the Mississippi at the Sank Rapids wagon
| bridge, which 1t demolished. IL here
widened to GOO feet and leveled grist
mill From there 1t swept through the
center Of the town, taking the best Of the
business portion, Including the court
house The village Is virtually wiped out.
The dead, at st. Cloud, so far as known,
are as follows:
Nick Junemann.
Mrs. Weisman and her little girl.
The four-year-old son OF b. o. Weiski
The seven-year-old son Of Frank Gems
koffsh,
Mrs, Stein,
The four-year-old son OF II. Waldorf.
S. A. Young. The latter was railroad
man His brother, William, had both
legs smashed and they had to bear smpu-
tation.
Two young children Of Mr.. Ceno and
the baby of August Knalls were also
killed.
The dead at Sank Rapids so far as
heard from are
j. Berg, merchant, and his two chill
dren.
John Kenard, county auditor.
. George Lindley, county treasurer.
Two children Of G. g. Wood.
Edgar Hill, president Of the German
American National bank.
Abner Stye.
: A child Of p. Carpenter, and
Judge Beaupre of the probate court.
From Sank Rapids the storm went Il
- Rice's Station, demolishing that villag
=. and killing or iniuring nearly the entir
population. The wires are all down an'
no definite information Is obtainable iron
there.
?, NO EXAGGERATIoN.
ST. PAUL, MINI, April 1.-THE re
ports Of the cyclone Mt st. Cloud, Saul
. Rapids, Rlce's Station, and other point
in the vicinity last night and early thi
morning, are not exaggerated. At
y O'Clock this morning, at the place
named, there were forty-nine dead an
e nearly two hundred injured, with man
] still missing, whose bodies Will prooabi
be recovered to-day.
THE TALE GROWS WORSE.
ST. PAUL, MINI, April l5.-Nearly o.
the buildings in st. Cloud demolished b
the cyclone were small frame house
occupied by workingmen who were at
6 sent and only their wives and childre
were in the houses. The pecuniary los
7 will reach about 100000 at st. Cloud.
% More damage was Done at Sank Rapids
v where the property destroyed was OF
more valuable character
Gov. Hubbard received the followin
message from State Senator Buchanan
SAuK RAPIDS, MINI, April 14.-Ou
- town is In ruins. Send us aid.
Signed, S. N. BUCHANAN.
GOV. Hubbard at once sent messages
, the mayors Of all the cities and lare
town in the state, asking tn,
steps be taken at once to secul
* money and things needed, and forwar
j them as speedily as possible to Senate
Buchanan for distribution. Brief di
patches have Just been received sayin
that between forty and fifty bodies hav
, been recovered from the ruins at 5
| Q Cloud and the search Is not completed
The town presents scene Of the utmo
- desolation as seen by the lights Of flicke
q inglanterns, and the groans OF the wounde
El and lamentations of those who have To-
! relatives are heartrending in the extrem
Al Among the injured is ex-senator i
III Hubert, Northwestern agent Of the Ne
y York Mutual Life Insurance company. /
III is not expected to live.
III AT sAUK RAPIDS.
H SAuK RAPIDS, MINI, April l5.--Tf
n devastation caused by the cyclone OF ye
N terday was terrible. Not single bus
~ ness house was left standing on the ma
~'~--+N
= lshed. The wind swept everything b
- fore it for width Of about four block
The courthouse is now heap of ruin
and several county officers were kille
What was the center Of the town Is no
covered with all sorts OF debris, timbe
doors, pieces of timber, etc. AT the pre-
r emit time twenty-five dead bodies ha'
1 been recovered from the ruins, and
+ large number of people are injured III
l. spectacle is sad one, the living being n
only deprived OF their friends, but OF
earthly possessions at the same time. ~
total loss Of property is not less th'
$500, coo, without 81 OF cyclone insu
ance. The town is nearly ruined.
- CARING FOR THE WOUNDED.
ST.. PAUL, MINI, April l5.-Dr. De
slow, who with others went last event.
by special train 10 st. Cloud, retnrn
this morning. Upon reaching ST. Clou
no said, the physicians from ST. Paul a.