Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-04-22
THE NORTHWEST
hEvELED ny A DEATH DEALING
SPRING CYCLONE.
Tinber. Clothing and Furniture Scat
tered orer the Prairies.


ST.. PAUL, Minn., April l5.-late
"Wednesday evening te'egrams were re-
ceived by Mayor Ames Of Minneapolis
from the mayors OF st. Cloud ana Sauk
Rapids, saying that both places had
been swept by cyclones and terrible
damage done. Special trains with phy-
.sicians and aid were requested 20 be
sent ut once. A train Tor 81 Cloud iefi
about 8 o'clock. Sensational reports
were current on the street that lOo peo.
pie had been killed and 70 wounded a.
st. Cloud. Il Is known positively that
scores OF houses were wrecked ana busi-
ness blocks demolished. Inc storm
struck st. Cloud between the round
house and the freight depot OF the rail-
road and swept path 6uO yards wide
through the city, leveiing everything
in its way. Supt. Wakeman, OF the
Manitoba road, said that between ~ and
40 persons had been Killed at Sauk hap-
IDS and nearly double that numner IN
1ured. Sauk Rapids Is 9 small village sc q
lew miles southeast o! St. Cioud. Inc
telegraph wires northwest OF tnis city
are All uown anu !. wss nsS.u,e -
cwns ~ O'Clock WEDNESDAY evening.
a trerIfie thunder storm passed over
th;s pjece and Minneapojis about q
o'cIock acompanied by severe hail.
Severe storms are reported from other
localities in the State and the rainfall
has been enormously heavy. lightning
strl,ck several timesin Minneapolis. but
forfunafelv injured no one. The storm
IL undorbtedlv the worst in the State
aimee 1883. when Rochester and EIgin
were devastated by a tornado. Chicago
account saws that the prairies are stewn
with furniture and clothing. Cars
loaded with freight were blown half a
mile and the rails of the road wrenched
from the ties. At Sauk Rapids the
wagon bripe over the Mjssissippi was
demolished. and the court house. no.
ri pnblic school and importapt busi-
mess blocks were ali leveled. AS far as
heard from. is dead bodies are reported
from al. CIoud. The dead at SINK
Rapids inclnde the county treasurer
county auditor. probate Judge. and
president Of the German american ma
tional hank.
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OMAHA, Neb., Aprli lo.-A special to
the Bee from Panama, Iowa, says 9
cyclone, "Wednesday AFTERNOON at 4:S0
o'clock struck the town OF Coon Rapids,
and completely demolished most OF the
place. One boy was Killed ana num-
erous persons were injured. twenty
iiye houses two churches, one school
houses ana several business houses
were destroyed. a freight Train, ex-
Cept the locomotive, was blown nom
the track and demolished, ana the con-
tents ruined. The cyclone swept over
western Iowa, during considerable
damage: 1t is supposed that It started
about three miles east OF Griswold,
Then passed north ana slightly east,
then going about nine miles northeast
q Atlantic and passed "a miles east OF
brayton. me cyclone had tne APP
pearance OF funnel-shaped cloud.
ard ~ % h;eas mouse was hoS,s, nTw ;;. away'
John Kirk,s bir stable 3o(l feef Ionr
was DESTROYED touether with bis house
In BENTON 10 homses were totally de-
atroved. and one woman fatally in;ured
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