The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-16
DEVASTATION AND DEATH.

y lI1 iHIOInaLlOn al nanu Is very mea
/ ger, and sensational reports are curren
that 100 people were killed at st. Cloud
4 1t is believed that at least forty person.
have been killed, and about seventy-fys
wounded, but it is impossible to ge
much information at this hour.
All is excitement, anG the streets are
] filled with excited men, and frightened
weeping women and children.
4 The disaster is certainly very appall-
ing. Scores of houses have been entire
" wrecked, and the extent of the loss
can not new be stated.
81 The stormistruck st. Cloud between
the roundhouse and the freight depot
and swept path 600 yards wide through
the city, teveling between 150 and 200
houses. N. I'll. Parks, a well-known
lumber man, who lives in st. Cloud, says
| so persons were killed in that city and
more than 100 injured, many very seri-
ously.
| Superintendent Wakeman, oil the
| Manitoba road, says that between thirty
and forty persons were killed at Sank
Rapids, a small town on the Manitoba
and Northern Pacific roads, few miles
southeast of St. Cloud, and nearly double
that number injured.
The telegraph wires northwest of this
city are down, and no news direct from
either st. Cloud or Sank Rapids has
been received since o'clock.
Advices received from st. Cloud say
that the cyclone began about 8 o'clock
IN the basin of the Masonic cemetery,
forming whirlwind about 1000 feet
in diameter. 1t took almost every tree
in circle from the ground or twisted
it off at the trunk. Great stones were
torn up and carried along with the
wind, which moved slowly in a north
easterly direction. It wrecked the
Catholic chapel and several houses in
Its course across the prairie adjoining
the town. 1t completely demolished
John Schwartz large brick house and
scattered fifty or more smaller frame
houses like feathers. In most cases
nothing was left to mark the site of
the dwellings but the cellars. The
pralries were strewn with timber, fur
niture and clothing. The freight de-
pot OF the Manitoba road was total
wreck. Numerous cars loaded with
freight were blown half mile, and
the rails were wreuched from the ties.
It passed the limits of the town just
west of Iieut-Gov. Gilman's residence,
killing several horses, and crossed the
Mississippi at the Sank Rapids wagon
bridge, which was demolished. There
Widened to 600 feet, and leveled Stan
tons grist mill. From there it swept
through the center of the town, taking
the best of the business portion, includ-
ing the courthouse, hotel. public school
and every important business building
in town except Woods store. The
village is virtually wiped out, four
fifths of the buildings in it being level
ed. The fatalities in st Cloud, though
great, are not equal in number to
those in Sank Rapids. In every house
most all the inmates were more or less
hurt.
A terrible thunder storm passed over
st. Paul and Minneapolis about clock, |
and heavy hailstorm followed, though
of but short duration. In fact, one
storm cloud after another has swept
across the state ever since last even |
ing, and the rainfall has been heavy |
Near Fergus Falls house was struck
by lightning and Clement Crogan and a |
hired man severely injured. Several
times lightning struck in Minneapolis, |
terrifying people, but, so far as learned,
doing no particular damage. The storm
is the worst known in the state since
1888, when Rochester and Elgin were
devastated by a tornado.
Nearly all the buildings in st. Cloud, |
demolished by the cyclone, were small |
frame houses occupied by workingmen |
who were absent, and only their wives |
end children at home.
The pecuniary loss will reach about |
100000 at st. Cloud. More damage was
done at Sank Rapids, where the proper
ty destroyed was of more valuable |
character. 1t is impossible to obtain
details from there or Rice's station to-
night.
A brief dispatch has just been received
saying that between forty and fifty
bodies have been recovered from the |
ruins at st. Cloud and the search is not
completed. The town presents scene
of the utmost desolation as seen by the
light offlickering lanterns and the groans |
of the wounded and lamentations of
those who have lost relatives are heart |
rending in the extremes Not before |
daylight will the full extent of the havoc |
be known.
Among the injured is ex-senator E. |
G. Hubert, formerlyof Binghamton, N. |
Y, but at present Northwestern agent |
of the New York Mutual Life Insurance
company. He is not expected to live.
st. Cloud is the capital of Stearns
county. 1t is partly built on high
bluff on the west bank of the Mississippi |
river and is about seventy-five miles |
northwest of st. Paul. It's population is |
about $500.
Sauk Rapids is village of about 500 |
inhabitants, and is located on the east
bank of the Mississippi river, three miles
above st. Cloud on the St. Paul & Pacific
railroad. 1t is the capital of Benton
county.
The dead at ST. Cloud as far as
known, are as follows Nick Junemann
Mrs Weismann and little girl son,
4 years old, of B. O. Werski q son,
years old, of Frank Geinskoffski Mrs.
Stein, widow son, 4 years old, of P.
Woldorf; Shortridge A. Young, rail-
road man his brother William had
both legs smashed they have since
been amputated; - Vanhoesen, an
unknown railroad man two young
children of Mr.. Gems the baby of Au-
gust Knoll.
Dead at Sank Rapids: ]. Berg, mer-
chant, and his two children John Ke-
nard, County Auditor George Lindley,
County Treasurer two children of c..
G. Wood, merchant; Abner StCyr,
fatally hurt child of P. Carpenter,
Clerk of the Court; P. Beaupre, Judge
of the Probate Court The Clerk is bad
ly hurt Edgar Hill, President Of the
German-Ameriean National Bank.
| CYCLONES IN Iowa.
| EXTRA, a., April, IA cyclone
struck Extra and the country south of
here at F. NJ, wrecking the home of