The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-04-16
ST. CLOUD CYCLONE.
FIRST REPORTS OF THE DISAS
TER NOT EXAGGERATED.
Probably 100 Lives Lost Mt st. Cloud
and Sank Rapids -TOrnadOes In
Iowa aud Missouri.

ST. PAUL, MINI, April l5.- The re-
ports Of the eye one at st. Cloud,
Sank Rapids, Rice Station and other
points in the vicinity lat night and
early this morning were not eXagger-
aed. At3o'clock this morning in the
places named there were forty-nine
dead and nearly 200 injured, with
many still missing. whose bodies will
probably be recovered to day. Just
enough houses are left in Sank Rapids
TO form fringe around the city lin
its. The debris is not piled in heaps,
but sea tered lar and wide, The sign
"Sauk Rapids" in the Manitoba depot
and basketful. of books were found
in Rice's Station, fifteen miles away
This shows the terrible power of the
storm. No reports have yet been re-
ceived from outlying districts where it
is believed great dest uction of prop.
erty and loss of life has been wrought.
The storm extended from jamestown,
OAK, through Miunesota and Wis
consin, though its most disastrous eff
fects are to be found in the three
places first named.
AID FOR CYCLONE sUFFERIRs.
The City Council this morning voted
$4,000 in cash to aid the cyclone suffer
ers, and Gov. Hubbard dispatched a
carload of provisions to Sank Rapids.
The car was accompanied by COM
mittee of the Jobbers' Union, who
will offer all assistance in their power.
DIR. DENsLow,
who, with others, went last evening
by special train to st. Cloud, returned
this morning. Upon reaching st.
Cloud, he said, the physicians from
st. Paul and Minneapolis divided, part
going to Sank Rapids. DR.. Denslow
was on the force sent to the st. Bene-
dictine Sisters Hospital, and they
were kept busy until O'Clock this
morning. Fully TWENTY-FIVE injured
were taken to the hospital alone, and
he does not know how many more
were cared for in private houses. Two
of those taken to the holI ital will
very probably die. One is a woman
who has a broken collar bone, both
bones of the left forearm and both
bonss of the left leg fractured, all
commin uted, and the pe'vis broken,
an accident seldom chronicled in sur
gerry. Her head and face are bruised
beyond recognition, yet, strange to
say, the woman is consc Gus, and
talked freely, saying her hip hurt
some, but otherwise she felt no pain.
! The other probably fatal case is that
of young lady twenty years old,
both legs being so badly crushed
that they had to be amputated mid
way between the knee and the thigh.
One man, lying in the hospital badly
injured, said three of his children
were dead. Another man in the next
cot TO him responded, saying his wife
and three children were killed by the
storm. Three little boys about six
years old were brought in at midnight
wounded cruelty. A woman was found
with a piece Of the scalp large as a
mans hand torn from her head and
hanging by sEreds. Drs. Denslow and
Richie shortly after midnight went
across to Sank Rapids to render what
assistance they could there. Twenty
three dead bodies had been found,
and doctors from Minneapolis were
busy caring for the injured.
The following is revised list of the
killed at Sank Rapids John Renard,
County Auditor; Gregg Lindley, Reg
lister of Deeds; Edgar Hull, president
of the German American Bank; s.
Swenson, foreman on Lieut. Gov.
Gilman's farm; A. H. Lake, carpen-
ter; J. M Stanton, Herman Berg,
child of Samuel Carpenter, Ella Berg,
seven years; Clara Berg, fourteen
years; M S. Fletcher, Joseph Simmer,
druggis Mrs. Davies, Ollie Carpen-
ter, six years; Lulu Carpenter, ten
years; an unknown infant, Mrs. Pop
perfuss and her two grandchildren;
Henry Bernhardt, aged foty-three
years; John Swanson, an unknown
Swedish woman and an unknown
Polish young woman; Ernest Al
brecht, Maurice st. Cyr, ten years;
Mrs Fink and her four children.
The list of wounded contains over
hundred persons, most of whom will
die.
At st Cloud the killed are ]. June
man, Mrs. j. Stein, Aug. Junglen,
Mary Junglen, fourteen years; Jennie
Junglen, xteen years; Jacob Short
ridge Joseph Gerkowski, eight years;
j. Waldorf, seven years; Annie Sci
bold, four years; Mrs. Maggie DER,
two children of Semms, Ed Mehan,
q. F. Andrews, Miss Streitz, an I'M
known man about thirty years of age.
THE CYCLONE DEATH LIST.
A st. Cloud special to the Pioneer
Press saws: The cyclone death list in
cludes Abner st. Cyr, who had large
silver driven through his head, but
fingered in great agony until tonight,
when he died He was commander OF
the Grand Army post and promi-
nent Mason. He was an old Missis-
sippi pilot. There are tonight twelve
cofiined bodies at Rice's Station and
fifteen MANNED, a number of whom
cannot recover. A child's bloody
dress was found this afternoon in
Buchanan township, twenty-five
miles northwest of Sank Rapids. Mrs.
Maggie der died at the hospital this
afternoon, and Senator Buchanan has
Just learned that his farm buildings
were wrecked and his foreman killed.
Mrs. Shea was sick in the house but