St. Paul daily globe., 1886-04-16
VIEWED FROM ST. PAUL.
Scenes and Incidents Connected
With the Tornado.

Scenes and Incidents Connected
With the Tornado.
The cyclOnic calamity at st. Cloud and
Sauk Rapids was the general topic of con-
versation in this city yesterday. At the
street corners. in the hotel lobbies and at
the private residences every one talked of
the frightful disaster and discussed the de-
tails and wondered if the death list had
been completed. General pity for the
manned and homeless sufferers was felt and
expressed on every hand, and the touching
scenes of the havoc of death and destruction
told and retold.
Men talked of sending money and other
articles to relieve the suffering of the home
less people of the Inflated towns, and re-
counted other cyclones in the past wherein
the fatalities and suffering had been most
terrible.
The latest news from the two places was
in constant demand by all classes of people
and the latest kilograms were eagerly read
as giving details, facts and figures of the
death-dealing storm.
AID FROM MANY.
On Wednesday at midnight Gov. Hub
bard sent dispatches similar to the following
to twenty-fOur cities and towns of the state:
Mayor A. A. Ames, Minneapolis: 1 have
just received the following telegram from
Sauk Rapids: ''Gov. L. f. Hubbard: Our
town is in ruins. Send us aid. Signed.
Buchanan" Please take early measures 10
raise such funds as your city or citizens will
contribute in response to this call for help.
Signed, l.. Z. Hubbard, governor.
In response, the following dispatches were
received at the governors Office yesterday:
Gov. L. F. Hubbard: Please draw on city
of Rochester through the mayor for $4,000
for cyclone sufferers. Signed, o. S. Porter,
Mayor.
Rochester, April I5.
Gov. L. +. Hubbard: have telegraphed to
have Minneapolis do her duty in this terrible
calamity. Signed, A. A. Ames.
st. Cloud, April 10.
Your telegram received. Saltwater will
respond. will call a special meeting of the
council. Signed, H. P. Murdock Mayor.
Saltwater, April 15.
Hon. l.. f. Hubbard: Draw on me for re-
lief of cyclone sufferers in amount needed,
not to exceed $500. Signed, F. B. Howe
Red Wing, April Is. Mayor.
Gov. Hubbard, st. Paul: Have received
will take immediat action. Signed ]. b. SUIT
phin, Mayor.
Duluth, April 10
Hon. L. F. Hubbard-My Dear Governor:
The common council have just appropriated
$1,000 in aid of the cyclone sufferers at Sauk
Rapids and other towns, and hand you here
with check for $1,000 and will add to this
sum whenever you may be pleased to notify
me that you would like to have it. Signed,
Edmund Rice, Mayor.
ST. Paul, April 10,
PROVISIONS IN DEMAND.
At o'clock yesterday morning the gov
ernor received the following from Sauk
Rapids:
Gov. L.;F. Hubbard: A cyclone has utterly
destroyed our village. Stores and goods of
all kinds utterly gone. We will need provis-
ions at once as we are provisionless, houseless
and the MANNED and injured are suffering for
want of medicines. Thirty lives lost: twenty
two dead bodies recovered. Don't delay.
[Signed c. b. BUCKMAN,
G. w. BENEDICT.
In response thereto a car load of pro-
visions was ordered at once. The goods
included flour, barreled pork, coffee, tea
sugar, molasses, dried meats and crackers.
The train left on the Manitoba road at
noon and reached Sauk Rapids during the
afternoon. 1t included among the passen-
gers MessrS. Seabury, Hackett and Finch
as committee of the JObber's union of
| st. Paul. The three were sent to render
any and all assistance in their power, and
to assist in the distribution of the pro-
| visions.
GOV. HUBBARD's DEPARTURE.
Gov. Hubbard departed for Sauk Rapids
yesterday afternoon at o'clock, and will
return home to-day. his visit being devoted
to the interest of the sufferers by the late
cyclone. Early in the morning he received
a telegram from State Senator Buckman of
Sauk Rapids asking for provisions of every
character for the homeless sufferers of that
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people were without the necessities of life.
The governor Immediately arranged for
a train of provisions and on its departure
wired the fact to Mr.. Buckman, and also
informed him that the relief committee of
Sauk Rapids could draw on him (Gov. Hub
bard) for IS, 900. OF this amount st. Paul
contributed So, 600 and Rochester. the scene
of the last cyclone, raised $4,000.
Referring to the subject Gov. Hubbard
said that it was the second cyclone disaster
that had occurred since he had occupied the
position of chief executive of the state.
The first was at Rochester in 1888, shortly
after the beginning of his first term of
Office. At that time over S75. 600 had been
raised. He gave it as his opinion that st.
Cloud was not severely damaged by the
tornado of Wednesday last and would not
require any outside assistance, but that
/ Oduk hdpluS Was ABOUT u6llOllSneQ. ana the
destruction of homes and buildings would
entail great suffering on the part of those
surviving the disaster.
E. W. Durant of Saltwater claimed that
he had noticed it as fact that weather
out of season in Minnesota resulted in cy-
clones and other elemental phenomena OF
more or less severity. He said that the
present warm spell was not the most sea-
! sOnable weather for April in Minnesota.
and the cyclone at st. Cloud was one of the
results. In the winter time blizzard fol-
lowed elemental disturbances, and in other
seasons of the year 1t became tornado.
He gave Senator Buckman Of Sauk Rapids
authority to draw Oh him for $50 for the
benefit of the relief fund.
HIS LAST LETTER.
The mail to the st. Paul Reserve Insur-
ance company yesterday contained letter
from Edward Hull, the banker of st. Cloud,
who lost his life in the cyclone at Sank
Rapids 1t was the last letter written by