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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-15

Is the same. Almost in a thought the
scene OF desolatiOn was shifted from one
town to another, and both were in ruins,
1t seemed, almost simultaneously. A man
who just crossed the river from st.
Cloud informs the correspondent that al
ready fourteen bodies have been discovered
there, and that the tale of woe is not yet
ended. Upon the streets of both towns,
even now
THE SCENE IS MOST HEART-RENDING.
Children were seeking their parents and
parents their children. Dreading the worst
but eager to learn the truth they search
each ruin in wild-eyed terror. Wives and
mothers, with lOyed ones missing, and al
most bereft of reason run sobbing from
knot TO knot of workers, hoping against
hope that there may yet be such thing as
rescue. Strong hands and brave hearts are
lending all the aid they can. The wounded
who number over 100, are being rapidly re-
moved to the houses which withstOod the
storm, and tenderly cared for. The dead
are reverently carried to temporary rest
ing place. Much
AID Is STILL NEEDED,
and that which has been telegraphed for to
St Paul and Minneapolis is anxiously
awaited. The track of the storm was about
600 yards in width and, as far as observed,
four miles in length. 1t lasted about thir-
teen minutes in all and cut clean swath
of destruction throughout its entire path.
In the neighborhoOd of 800 buildings, in
cluding the Manitoba shops came within its
evil scopein st. Cloud and Sauk Rapids
alone and it is feared that reports from the
country will add largely to this list as well
as TO the fatalities. Sorrow, mourning and
confusion reign to such degree that it is
difficult TO obtain either a detailed state
ment either of casualties or losses, but these
with further details will be forwarded with
out delay. For the present the people of
the two towns are lamenting over their
dead. The sacredness of their grief de-
mands respect.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-15

nsss of the awful disaster which be-
fell st. Cloud and Sauk Rapids to the
GLOBE representative. Hardly had we
sought shelter in our places of fancied Sc
eurity when the storm burst in all its fury,
and in an incredibly short space of time the
pretty town of Sauk Rapids was the picture
of desolation which you see. Two of the
poor fellows l warned were killed by falling
timbers, almost as soon as they were in
doors, and 1, as you see, will bear the
marks of my experience to my dying day. "
pointing to the bandaged arm which ne car
ried in sling. Fortunately, as it turned
out, / did not have time to get under cover
myself and thus escaped being crushed be-
meath a roof, a fate which happened
TO very many. ! saw, too, the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-15

ing with strength and health into the light
of bright spring day, lay cold and mo-
tiOnIess in DEATH Here, beneath the edge
OF broken roof, mother was lying. with
her left arm thrown proteetingiy around
the mangled form of a little child. Both
were dead. There a man, with the hardy
yigOr of his manhood so recently snatched
from him. was lying beside the boulder
against which his
LIFE HAD BEEN DASHED OUT.
Principally. the fatalities were occasioned
by the crashing i'm of the heavy timbers of
the houses upon the heads of the unhappy
occupants. The full list of these casual
ties has not been made out. but at this
writing twenty bodies have been recovered
and every additional search discovers an
other victim. Tho tale fIom ST. Cloud
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-15
Special from a staff Correspondent.

Speclal from stan correspondent.
ST. CLOUD, April 14.-This city was to-
day visited with calamity, the CHASTITY
details of which have never been equaled
since the harvest of death at New UIm
and Rochester few years ago, and the
city is now groaning and wailing under a
pail of grief that is intensified as each hour
brings to light fresh evidences of the
terrible work of the elements. The
sun rose on the city this
morning where happiness reigned in every
family, and their peace was not marred by
the shadows of the terrible pail of gloom
that settled down on the community before
The sun had sunk to rest. A few minutes
past o'clock the
SKIES BECAME OVERCAST
with dark clouds, and a great black mass
rose over the hills southwest of the city and
came with terrible velocity towards
the western outskirts in a direct
line for the Manitoba freight yards
The clouds hung low and rolled over and
over like smoke over a battlefield, and
were accompanied by loud roaring and
cracking that resembled a holocaust in its
fury. The cloud was funnel-shaped and
the point dragged along the ground like
the tail of a huge aereal beast, lashing
everything that came in its path into
atoms. Citizens hardly had time to flee to
their cellars and seek other points of
refuge before the
wHIRLwIND WAS ON THEM
and the air was filled with flying boards,
shingle, bricks and other debris that was
strewn over the country and piled in pro-
miscous heaps. The cloud came from the
southeast and moved in a northeasterly di-
rection until it reached the river, where its
course was diverted and it followed the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-15
CALAMITY!

The Wicked Demon Of the Clouds
DeScends
Upon the Cities Of st. Cloud and
Sauk Rapids,
And Ruthlessly Crushes Out Many
Human Lives.
The Dead Mum Der at Least Three
Score.
Twenty-Five Bodies Recovered at
Sauk Rapids,
Several of Them Being Those of County
Officers.
A Bride and Groom Meet Death at the
Altar.
The President of a st. Cloud Bank
Killed
And st. Paul Man Dangerously
Wounded.
keager Reports Of Dreadful Results at
Other Places.
st. Paul and Minneapolis Physicians
Hurried to the Scene.
Thousands of Dollars Worth of Prop
erty Destroyed,
Including a Manitoba Freight House
and Many Dwellings,.
Churches, Depots and Court Houses
in Ruins.
The Story in Detail of the Whirl-
winds Devastation.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-15

JOSEPH GISKASKIE.
MRS. STRAUS.
CHARLES GOVISKIE.
MRS. STEIN.
MINNIE STEIN.
JOHNNIE wALDRON.
MRS. TRAMP.
EDGAR HULL.
CARRIE STABOLD.
NICHOLAS JUNEMANN.
AUGUST JUNGLEN.
DINA JUNGLEN.
MARY JUNGLEN.
GREGORY LINDLEY.
JOHN RENARD.
A. H. LAKE.
MAURICE STAYR.
ERNEST ALBRIGHT.
JOHN SWANSON.
CLARA BERG.
ELLA BERG.
MRS. FLETCHER.
OLLIE CARPENTER.
MRS. PETER FINK.
- FINK.
FINK.
FINK.
FINK.
MRS. PAPPENFUSS.
PAPPENFUSS.
PAPPENFUSS.
HENRY BERNHARND.
Six persons unidentified.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-15
DESOLATsON AND RUIN.

Awful Work OF the Fatal Cyclone
which Devastated NJ. Ciond
Special from staff Correspondents.
SAUK RAPIDS, April IL" My God. it's
n cyclone. Run FOR your lvesr / cried to
several men with whom 1 was talking in
front of the postOfiiee," said an eye wit
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-15
Serious Washouts at StiIIuater.

The rain, wind and hail storm last night
was the heaviest since the flood last June.
Hanson's livery stable was washed out, nu-
merous cellars flooded and tons of sa nd
washed down the grades and considera Bile
damage was done to buildings.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-15
IN MINNEAPOLIS:
Excitement over the Terrible
Cyc1one.-LOcal Hail Storm.

Cyclone--LOca1 Hail Storm.
The edge on a counter-current of the
storm fell upon Minneapolis at $50 o'clock
and brought to the southern portions the
heaviest hail storm ever seen. Twenty
eighth street was the northern limit to its
severity, above which no damage was done.
Over the territory to the south of Lake
street the hail fell heavily, some of the
stones measuring four inches in circum-
ference and weighing several ounces each.
scarcely house within that territory be-
tween Nicollet and Bloomington avenues
escaped without broken windows, while
some of them suffered severely. At 7:3O
O'Clock, what seemed to be small cyclone
swept over the city. Fortunately it was of
short duration, though so severe that signs.
ehimneys and trees were blown over in
every direction.
THE GREATEST EXCITEMENT
was created at $50 when the news was re-
ceived of the terrible disaster at st. Cloud
and Sauk Rapids. The following telegram
was received from St. Cloud:
To Mayor Ames, Mime apolis: A terrible
estructive cyclone passed over St. Cloud
and Sauk Rapids late this afternoon. Terri
bic destruction here. Please send up an the
assistance YOU can Immediately by special
train Send Physicians and surgeons.
Shortly afterward the following came
from Sauk Rapids:
To Mayor Ames, Minneapolis: Can you
send special train with physicians to this city?
a cyclone passed over this city this after
noon. n great many are believed to have
been killed, but the number is not vet
known.
1t required but short while for the news
to spread over the city and the excitement
produced was intense, thronging the news
paper and telegraph offices with crowds
anxious to learn fuller details. Shortly
afterward dispatch announced the cy-
clone as descending on Brainerd, where
further destruction was feared. A few
moments after Mayor Ames received the
dispatch special train was made up on
the Manitoba and left at 5
o'clock for the scenes of the
disaster. Large crowds assembled at
the depot but transportation was refused
all but proper persons. Among the physi-
clans who went were Drs. a. A. Ames, S.
). Kilvington, j. r. Freeman, Health
Officer Quinby. City Physician Van Cleve.
J. +. Hofflin. E. T. Gibson, James Lee and
Drs. Cody, Bunker and Allen. Several
officers of the road and as many reporters
made up the party, which expected to
reach st. Cloud in an hour and a half.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-15
RUMORS IN ST. PAUL.
A Thousand Sensational Stories
Floating in the Air.

The first that was known of the disaster
in st. Paul was rumOr which seems to
have started from some of the railroad Off
ces to the effect that $50 buildings had been
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-15
Jamestown Gently Touched.

SptCIttI 20 lHt OIOUe-
JAMESTOWN. April IA cyclone and
heavy rain storm passed over this town to-
day. Several buildings were torn up. No
one was hurt
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-15
AnIOWa Town in Ru;n

CHICAGO, April IA Council Bluffs
special says; "a cyclone struck the town
OF Coon Rapids this afternoon and laid the
town In ruins Telegraph wires are down
and no particulars are obtainabIe.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-15

EDGAR HULL, president of the German
American National bank. was born in Glas-
tonbury, Conn.,. in 1916. He came 10 81. Cloud
in 1883 and established the bank, with un-
limited capital at his command. He was
mostly beloved for his benevolent dis
posi- ton. Every person in the
city was severely shocked at his
death. His awful death struck all so severely
that il could not be believed. He was pecu-
Larry kind to honest business men. aud his
death is a severe blow TO the future prosper
ity of st. Cloud. His father is president of
the First National bank of Kalamazoo.
ard bis brother president Of the First Ma
tIonal Bank of Blair. Neb. The family were
all thorough bankers. Many business men
shed tears upon our streets at his sudden de-
parture.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-15
SAUK RAPIDS IN RUINS.
Twenty-Iygo Dead Bodies Already
Recovered.

SAUK RAPIDS, April IA cyclone
struck this city at o'clock this afternoon,
and in just six minutes the town was IN
ruins. Not single business house is left
standing on the main street, and many
residences are demolished. The wind came
from the southwest and swept everything
before it for width of about four blocks.
The storm cloud was as black as night,
with bright clear sky on either side. The
court house is now heap of ruins, and
several of the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-15
COUNTY oFFICFRs

were killed. The Union school house, the
Congregational and .Episeopalian churches
the posUoffice. flour mill and large machine
shop were all converted into kindling wood
in less time than it takes TO tell. What
was the center of the town is now covered
with all sorts of debris. timbers, doors.
pieces of furniture, etc, but 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 recovered from the ruins
and a large number of people
are injured. The bodies are laid out in the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-15
An Appalling Disaster.

PARTIAL ROSTER OF THE DEAD.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-15
LEGS BROKEN

and their scalps torn and their bodies lac
Grated. The scene at the engine house was
more horrible. Eighteen lifeless bodies
were stretched on the floor in two rows.
draped in sheets and blankets, while around
and among them moved men with lanterns,
uncOvering faces and trying to recognize in
the distorted features some familiar outline
in which they might trace rela-
tionship. The bodies presented a ter
rible spectacle. The clothes they had
worn were torn into shreds, their faces
were black with dust and gravel was
ground into the cheeks. while the scalps
were torn, and blood flowed from gaping
wounds and covered the floor. Skulls were
crushed, eyes torn from their sockets. and
tongues protruded from between lips that
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-15

that could be found were taken from the
ruins and cared for. The dead were taken
to the Little Giant engine house and
stretched out on the floor. while the
wounded were sent TO St. Benedict hos
pital, where they were promptly cared for
by the corps of physicians and
nurses, among whom were several
ladies who had volunteered their
services. There were twenty-eight
wounded stretched out on cots i'm the vari-
GUS wards, and every facility of the hos
pital was tested to its utmost TO fill the re-
quirement The scene in the hospital was
heart-rending. Men, women and children
lay IN broken shapes. bathed in their own
blood, their faces blackened and gr imy
and their arms and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-09
WHEN
CLOTHING STORE.
EMMA KEYsEGS PROPOSED FAST.
Effect of Religious Excitement Upon Penn
sylyania Lady.

ALLENTOWN, Pa March 8-This town is
greatly excited over the of Miss Emma
Keyser. aged nineteen years, beautiful blonde
of many accomplishments. For some time past
she has been in the habit Of attending revival
meetings at one of the Methodist churches in
shis city, and on the night of Feb. 81 she became
eonverted to the faith. Tho following day
she resolved to abstain from food or drink
for forty days as a punishment for her sinful
habits prior to her conversion. Tonight Miss
Keyser ended the fourteenth day of her fast,
and is in the best of spirits.
~pation, when asked tonight concerning his
daughters case, stated that his wife and himself
had unavailingly tried to get her to partake of
iced Then the family physician had been sum-
moned to attend her, and medicine had been
prescribed, which she stoutly refused to take,
stating thas she was not sick and was only ab-
staining from eating because of her sinful ways
previous to her conversion.
A large number of people call at the young
ladys residence daily, offering prayer and en-
couFagement. Miss Keyser retires at night as
usual and sleeps the same number of hours as
before undertaking this fast. She is cheerful
in her manner and is very talkative at times
Although somewhat weak she is able to move
about the house unaided, but has no desire to go
upon the streets or to church. Unlike others
who have become unnesyed from religious ex-
citement, she does not read the Bible or con-
verse with her friends on religious subjects
Miss Keyser's case is watched with great inter
est, particularly among the Methodist denomi-
nation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-09

necessarily suffer equally with them the conse-
quences OF ill-advised acts, therefore, the neces-
sity Of their individual efforts to restore the
proper relations between the company and its
employees
1T must be well known and recognized that
the capacity of corporation to meet its pay
rolls and vouchers depends upon its capacity to
earn money, and that when its earning powers
cease, its ability to pay promptly ceases at the
same time, as its daily and monthly payments are
made from its daily and monthly receipts. The
company is legally required to do all in it's power
to perform its obligations to the public and to
the government and its management will take
every proper measure to comply with these re-
duirements; and / earnestly hope that every
independent free-thinking colaborer who has
been or is an employe of these companies will
consider these facts, and inform himself upon all
sides of the subject rememb berinq that there has
never been an act so arbitrary, useless and un-
called for as that of last Saturday, whereby a
few men, to whom you have voluntarily given
the power, are depriving many thousands OF
their colaborers Of their accustomed wages, di
vesting this company of the capacity to pay its
employees for their services, shutting up the
avenues OF traffic in four States, and preventing
some four millions of people from obtaining
their customary supplies and the necessities of
life, because 1t is claimed that one employe of
the car department of the Texas & Pacific rail-
way, at Marshall, Tex, q road over which this
company has no control. has been discharged by
the agents of the United States courts.
H NJ. HoxIE, First Vice-president."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-09
A Brawler rescued from an oflicer.

Sr. LOUIS, March 8.-About 7:3o o'clock Satur-
day evening, jim Judge, molder by trade,
vwho has lately returned to Belleville, H., after
san absence of over year, became noisy on High
Street, near the Thomas House, and proposed to
some comrades that they move up the street and
clean ont the Hnckly House, but City Marshal
Williams appeared, and ordered the men to be
quiet and move on. Judge refused, and the
Marshall arrested him and attempted to take
him to the Jail. crowd quickly gathered at
the scene, and grew until its numbers reached
fully three hundred. Among them the rumor
started that Judge was one of the striking
Kniehts of Labor, who was being arrested with
ont Just cause, and this so angered the crowd
that they rushed upon the marshal. who drew
bis revolver and threatened to shoot any man
that interfered with him in the performance of
his duty. The threat had little effect upon the
crowd of incensed workingmen and citizens.
They rushed furiously, wild with excitemen t,
upon the marshal, and rescued the prisoner,
and the marshal was obliged to make hasty
retreat for his lfe
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-09

he, what you are driving at A strike is a bad
thing; but a boycott is worse in its results.
strike stops production merely a boycott killsit
A strike for week is only the loss of weeks
business, trade and wages. A boycott for a
week can be the utter ruin of the business ITSELF
We have never failed in boycott which has
been ordered by the general committee It's
effectiveness is undoubted, but it is an extreme
power which we use with caution
rs there not danger" said the reporter, shat
your organization may become engaged in
political movements and thus lose it's powerp
Il have no fear of that The matters involved
in the existence and work of the Knights OF Labor
are nearer to its members than matters of par
tisan politics. We have here, you see, on this
committee members of the two old parties, a
Greenbacker, and with SMILEY other cranks
like myself We are not politicians here We
have method of dealing with those who las
some have) entered our ranks to serve political
ends-we turn them out. We have had no part
in politics 1t is bread and butter, the rights of
the employed, the material and common things
of every day life, that constitute the elements
which do now and always will hold us together,
and those are stronger than partisan political
ties. That is why do not fear the intrusion of
politics. When people talk. as sometimes they
do, about using the Knights of Labor as polit-
ical engine, they utter the most arrant nonsense.
1t is not worth while to discuss the matter with
such man. He is is either liar or an empty
headed fool.n
In conclusion, Mr. Powderly said that the
Knights of Labor, as an organization, had moth
ing to do with the strike in the bituminous coal
region, as the miners we're under separate or
ganzation. but he was satisfied that the day was
very near when all the labor organizations of the
country would be united under general su-
pervision and control He will remain in Phila-
delphia with the general committee several days,
unless called away, as he thinks possible, to the
West to arrange the difficulties there
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-09
PROMINENT MEN AsSAssINATED.
COWardlv Murders Growing Out of the Re-
cent 0utrages on the Chinese.

PORTLAND Ore, March Sd. NJ. Coleman
aud Wilbur Patton, prominent citizens Of
Seattle, disappeared about month ago, and
were believed to have been murdered. The fact
that Coleman was foreman of the grand jury
that indicted those who were arrested on charge
of having participated in the recent riot at
Seattle, and who also, had shot and killed sew
eral Cinnamon at the New Castle mines, lent ad-
ditional interest to the affair. Search was made
for the men for days without success Yester-
dag the bodies of both were found in Lake
Washington, near Seattle There is every indi-
cation that Coleman and Patton were first shot
dead, and the bodies then cast into the water.
The identity of the assassins remains profound
mystery, despite the efforts of the detectives.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-09

LAWRENCE Kan, March 8-A day or two
since farmer living in the southern part Of this
county came into the city with the report that
ne had discovered cave on his farm that was in
habited by prairie wolves, and from what he
could find out they amounted to about 800. He
had killed few, but they would not come out,
aud he was afraid to enter the cave. Prepara-
tions were at once made to raid the den. A
large party arrived at the place yesterday morn
ing and turning the dogs loose. one or two of
them rushed into the cave, and were at once
torn to pieces. force of men then commenced
operations, and in q short time had hole into
the cave back of the wolves. Two men entered
and all the dogs that could be found, and then
, advanced on the rear of the mass of animals.
who had by this time assembled in the front
part of ne cave The dogs became frightened
and beat retreat, and the men, after firing a
q few shots, also got out. After an al!-day skir-
mish, the hunters decided to make dash and
drive out their prey and kill as many as possible
All drew back out of sight from the front, and
the two men again entered in the rear. This
time they succeeded in causing a stampede and
in short time the cave was empty. The shoot
ers did some good work, and by the time they
we're through about 100 dead wolves strewed the
ground. The others escaped, and the party re-
turned minus four dogs. but covered with glory.
A grand hunt is proposed. It is supposed that
Eho animals wintered in the cave.