The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-04-15
TERRIBLE CYCLONES.
One at st. Cloud and One Near
Council Bluffs.
THE HAVOC CREATED BY THEM.
Death and Destruction-Life and
Property ut the Mercy OF the
Pierce Tornadoes.
Terrible Cyclone.

MANNEAfOLASt apIll lO--lAtpOIlS nave
just been received of a terrible cyclone
at st. Cloud this afternoon, in which
forty were killed and seventy five in
jured. Half the town was laid waste.
There were rumors that Sank Rapids.
near st. Cloud. also suffered. DR..
Ames, mayor OF the city, and staff of
a dozen physicians. are just leaving on
special train for st. Cloud, in answer
to messages for assistance.
ST. PAUL. Mimi. April IA. st. Cloud
and Sank Rapids were swept by terri
bly, destructive cyclone about $50
O'Clock this afternoon. The first
knowledge of the disaster was con
tanned in the following telegram. sent
to Mayor Ames from ST. Cloud, asking
for help:
ITO Mayor Ames. Minneapolis: A
terribly destructive cyclone passed over
ST. Cloud and Sank Rapids late this at
ternoOn; terrible destruction here.
Please send up all the assistance you
can Immediately, by a special train.
send physicians and surgeons"
kilograms to the following effect were
received from Sank Rapids:
"To Mayor Ames, MinneGpOlis-Can
you send 4 special train with physicians
TO this city. A cyclone passed over the
city this afternoon. A 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 ut O'Clock. The Information is
very meagre and sensation reports are
current. tits reported that 100 people
were killed at st. Cloud. It is believed
that at least forty persons have been
killed and about seyenty-hve wounded.
1t is impossible TO get much informa-
ton at this hour. All is excitement and
the streets are filled with excited men
and frightened. weeping women and
children. The disaster is certainly 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 il is very
difficult TO obtain reliable news. The
storm struck St. Cloud between the
round house and the freight depot and
swept 4 path Coz yards wide through
| the city, dwelling between $50 and 300
houses. n. II. Clark, the well-known
WIN 6 III Oh A4Ouuf say
that ninety persons were killed in that
city, and more than a hundred injured.
many very seriously. Superintendent
Wakeman, of Manitoba, says that be
tween twenty and thirty persons were
killed at Sank Rapids, a small town on
the Manitoba & Northern Pacific roads,
few miles southeast OF st. Cloud, and
nearly double that number were in
jured. The telegraph wires northwest
of this city are all down and no news
direct from either st. Cloud or Sank
Rapids has been received since o'clock.
A terrific thunderstorm has set in over
st. Paul and Minneapolis, and about 6
O'Clock q heavy hailstorm followed
though but of short duration. In fact,
one storm cloud after another has swept
across the State ever since last evening
and the rainfall has been heavy. The
storm is the worst known in the State
since 1888, when Rochester and Elgin
were devastated by tornado.
ST. PAUL, April l4.-The latest reports
give the number OF killed in st. Cloud
as fifteen, and the Injured about twenty
five, and at Sank Rapids fifteen killed
and twenty injured. Another terrific
thunderstorm is prevailing here, which
interferes greatly With the wires.
CHICAGO. April 1.-THE Inter Oceans
st. Paul special says: The cyclone began
about O'Clock in the basin of the
Masonic cemetery, forming awhirlwlnd
about 1000 feet in diameter. 1t took
almost every tree in circle from the
ground or twisted it of trunk. Great
stones were torn up and carried along
with the wind. Moving slowly along
in a northeasterly direction, il wrecked
the Catholic chapel and several houses
in its course across the prairie adjoin-
ing the town. 1t completely demolished
John Schwartz large brick house, add
scattered fifty or more smaller frame
houses like 50 many feathers. |
In most cases nothing was left to mark
the site OF the dwellings but the cellar.
The prairies were strewn with timbers,
furniture and clothing. The freight !
depot of the Manitoba was total
wreck. Numerous cars loaded with
freight were blown half mile and rails
wrenched from the track. 1t passed the
limits OF the town just west OF Lieu
tenantGovernor Gilman's residence,
killing several horses. It crossed the
Mississippi st the sauk Rapids wagon |
bridge, which IL demolished. II here
videned to 5000 feet and ieveled Stan.
tons grist mill. From there It swept
through the centre of the town,
taking the besl OF the business
part OF it, including the court house,
hotel, public school and every
important business building in the town
except the wooden store. The village Is
virtually wiped out, four-fifths OF the
buildings being leveled. The fatalities
in st. Cloud. though great, are not equal
in number TO those in Soutk Rapids. In
every house most all the inmates were
more or less hurt. The dead at
ST. Cloud, so far as known,
are as follows: Nick Junermann, Mrs.
Weismann and little girl; son, wears
old, of b. o. Werski; q son, years old,
OF Frank Meinskohski; Mrs Stein.
widow; a son. 4 years old, OF P. Wal,
man; his brother William had both
legs smashed, which have been
amputated; Van Holsen, an unknown
railroad man, two young children o.