Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-06-04
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that have ravaged various portions of the
Northwest during the past ten years af-
fords most gloomy picture of death,
suffering and sorrow. In June, 1877, a
large part of the little town of Hazel
Green, Lafayette County, Wis, was de-,
stroyed by fierce hurricane, which, in
addition to the frightful work usually
wrought by such storms in the shape of
demolishing buildings, twisting huge trees
and carrying people into the air, smote
half dozen persons with the icy hand of
death.
Mankato, Lake Crystal and the sur.
rounding country were ravagod by a
storm, cyclonic in its nature, OH Saturday.
June 3, 1880. A number of houses were un.
rooted at Mankato, and crops were con.
siderably destroyed. No lives were lost.
On the 10th and 18th of June, 1881, hur.
ricanes swept through Faribault, Blue
Earth and Nicollet Counties, Mimi, and
Folk and Audubon Counties, Ia, KILN @
and manning between twenty and thirty
people, leveling crops, destroying build
mgs, etc. This was prelude to the me-
morable cyclone of July 18th, which laid
the greater part of New Ulm. Brown
County, in ruins. Three hundred build
ings were torn to atoms, thirteen persons
killed, and score Of others injured, some
fatally.
The same terrible storm passed through
Renville and Nicollet Counties. Twelve
persons were killed and many others in
jured at West Newton and Wellington,
and several fatalities occurred at other
points in the track of the storm, while all
through tho devastated sections numerous
financial losses were inflicted, enormous
in the aggregate. a delegation of citizens
of New Ulm came to St. Paul and laid tho
distressing state of affairs before Gov
ernor PillsbuTy, who at once took meas
ures for the relief of the afflicted COM
muuity, where five hundred people had
been made homeless by the calamity. st.
Paul and other cities of the State respond
ed cheerfully and promptly TO the call for
help.
The next event in the series of cyclonic
horrors, and more calamitous than any
OF its predecessors, was the partial de-
struction OF Grinnell, H., and Malcolm,
nine miles distant, June is, 1882. At Grim
nell the list OF mortality embraced fifry-
one names, and at Malcolm nine were
killed. About one hundred men were
wounded more or less severely in the two
towns, several of the number DIVING
in few days. In both places some Of
the finest residences were completely shat
tered and the fragments blown away, and
several public edifices were likewise unin
habitcd. the principal ones being those OF
the Iowa Congregational College, valued
at 100000. The aggregate value of the
dwelling houses obliterated by this tornado
was placed at $25O,OOO. Appeals to public
charity were Immediately made on behalf
of the victims of the disaster, and gener-
Gus contributions poured in from Chicago
and many other cities from the Northwest
This closed the second of notable storms
for 1882.
In 1888 there were numerous cyclones In
the Northwest, the first big one being al
Racine, May g, in which nine lives were
lost, fifteen fatally injured and ninety
slightly hurt. The houses were mainly
small ones, belonging to the laboring class,
and the loss appropriated 100000. The
same storm passed through tho counties of
Sangamon, Dewitt and Jersey, Illinois,
killing a score of people and injuring
many others, and annihilated large mum.
Der of frame buildings. The last serious
cyclone in the Northwest previous to the
Roche tcr disaster was on July 81, which
passed through Dodge and Ohm tead coun-
ties and westward into Dakota. Tho num-
Der of lives lost was ten, and large num-
Der were seriously injured. The losses of
crops were heavy. Near Owatonna a Chi
cago & Northwestern passenger train was
blown from the track and twenty persons
were injured.
The most terrific cyclone that ever &C.
Cured in Minnesota visited Rochester
early in the evening of August %, 1888.
The entire northern part of the city was
laid in ruins, twenty six people killed out
right and eighty others badly injured.
The storm was terrific, carrying every
thing before it. After leaving Rochester
II swept onward to the West through
Dodge County, carrying death and de-
struction in its path. The loss in property
rom the effects of the storm was about
$4,000. On Tuesday afternoon, Septem-
Der Q, 1884, a severe wind-storm swept
across Washington County in northeast
erly direction, devastating the country
and partially destroying the village of
Marine Mills. But one person was killed,
and less than q dozen seriously injured.
The storm wGs cyclonic In some places,
and extended over a strip Of territory
about eight miles wide. Yellow Medicine
County suffered from severe storm on
Friday, June II, 1895. The wind was q
straight blow, not of cyclopic nature,
and. was accompanied by a heavy fall Of
hail and rain. One person was killed,
nine injured and property to the amount
Of $40, 900 destroyed.