Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-04-23
A MINNESOTA CYCLONE
A Cyclone Sweeps Over st. Cloud and
Sauk Rapids, Dealing Death
and Destruction.
Thirty Persons are Reported Killed
and Fifty More Seriously
Injured.
MANY KILLED AND INJUED.

| MINNEAPOLIS. April 10. Reports have
! just been received of a terrible cyclone at
! st. Cloud, this afternoon, in which 40 per-
sons were killed and 70 more injured.
Half the town is laid waste, and there are
rumors that Sauk Rapids, near st. Cloud
| has also suffered. Dr.. Ames, the mayor
of this city, and staff of dozen physi-
| cions left on a special train for St. Cloud,
in answer to message of assistance.
ST. PAUL, April the 15.-St. Cloud and
| Sauk Rapids were swept by a terriable
and destructive cyclone about $50 o'clock
| this afternoon. The first knowledge of
| the disaster was contained in the follow
! ing telegram sent to Mayor Ames, of
Minneapolis.
terriable and destructive cyclone
passed over st. Cloud and Sauk Rapids
late this afternoon, and there was terrible
destruction here. Please send us all the
| assistance you can, Immediately by
special train. Send physicians and sur
geOns.
kilograms to the following effect were
received from Sauk Rapids:
To Mayor Ames Minneapolis:
Can you send Il special train with physi
clans to this city, as a cyclone passed
over the city this afternoon and Il
great many are believed to have been
killed. but the number is not yet known.
(Signed) SAUK RAPIDS.
Immediately on receipt of this news
preparations were made To respond to the
call for help. A train for st. Cloud left
at six o'clock. The information received
thus far is very meagre, and sensational
reports are curreut. 1t is reported that
one hundred people were killed at st.
Cloud 1t is believed that at least forty
persons have been killed and about
seventy-five wounded. 1t is impossible to
get much information at this hour. All
is excitement, and the streets are filled
with excited men, weeping women and
frightened children. The disaster is Ger
tainly very appalling.
Scores of houses have been entirely
wrecked, and the extent of the loss of
life cannot now be stated. The city is
full of rumors, and it is very difficult to
obtain reliable news. The storm struck
st. Cloud between the round house and
the freight depot, and swept a path 600
yards wide through the city, leveling be-
tween $50 and POO houses.
n. II. Clark, a well known lumberman,
who lives in st. Cloud, says 80 persons
were killed in that city and more than 100
in jured, many seriously.
Supt. Wakeman, of the Manitoba road,
says between 80 and 40 persons were kill
ed at Sauk Rapids, small town on the
Manitoba j. Northern Pacific road, a few
miles southeast of st. Cloud, and nearly
double that number injured.
REPORTS NOT EXAGGERATED.
ST. PAUL, April 16.-The reports of the
cyclone at St. Cloud, Sauk Rapids, Rice
Station and other points in that vicinity
last night are not exaggerated. At 3
clock this morning III the places named
there are 49 dead and nearly 200 injured
with many still missing whose bodies
will probably be recovered tonight. Just
enough houses are left in Sauk Rapids to
form a fringe around the village limits.
The debris is not piled up in heaps but
scattered far and wide. The "Sauk Rap
ids which was on the Manitoba depot
and basket full of books were found in
Rice Station Is miles distant. This shows
the terrible power of the storm. No re-
ports are yet received from outlying dis
tricts where it is believed great destruc-
tiOn of property and loss of life have been
wrought. The storm extended from
jamestown, Dakota, through Minnesota
and into Wisconsin, though its worst dis
astrous effects are to be found in the
the three places first named.
AID FOR THE SUFFERERS.
ST. Paul, April 16.-The city council
voted $1,000 in cash to aid the sufferers,
and Gov. Hubbard dispatched car load
of provisions to Sauk Rapids. The car
was accompanied by committee of the
jobbers union, who will offer all the as
sistance in their power.