Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-04-21
NOTES.

Edgar Hall, president of the German Ameri-
can National bank was one Of the wealthiest men
In St. Cloud He came to st. Cloud three years ago
from Nebraska. His father lives at Kalamazoo,
| Mich, and his wife was visiting at that place
| when her husband was killed. He took out Z
1000 on bis life in the New York Life In
suaance company about IN hour before he left
| St. Cloud for Sauk Rapids. The risk VA
| written by E.. @. Hslbert Of st. Paul, man
! ager for that company in Minnesota
! and Dakota. Hull and Halbert both
went over to Sank Rapids together,
and were walking along the street when the
cyclone reached there. Hull was instantly
killed, Hslbert 20 badly hurt that he cannot live.
The number Of buildings destroyed In Sank
| Rapids is Is, and their value $500, 900,
The killed outright number 81. Nineteen At
St. Cload, thirty-two at Sank Rapids and ten At
Rice's. The wounded, many Of whom will die,
number 81. Twenty-Five 1t St. Cloud, twenty
one 1t sauk Rapids and nineteen At Rics's.
Contributions are being made all over the
! state to aid the sufferers. The st. Paul city
! council appropriated 49, 900 and placed at the
disposal Of the Governor and the Jobbers Union
! 500 by private subscription. Rochester, which
suffered . similar experience three years ago
sent $500. Duluth sent $1,000 and 20 on.
Brainerd rendered the Northern Pacific sani-
tarium for ass Of The wounded.
At Minneapolis public meeting was held in
| conjunction with the city council, and resolu-
| ton passed asking the council to appropriate
$4,000 for relief.
A branch Of the cyclone did consider
able damage about eight miles from Alex
andria in Douglas county.
A special train was run on the Northern
Pacific on Sunday, the 18th, from st. Paul
to Sank Rapids, the proceeds going to the
relief Of the cyclone sufferers.
w. L. Nieman has been appointed by the
county commissioners Of Benton county,
auditor, vice John Renar.1, killed, end s.
p. Carpenter register of deeds, vice Gregg
Lindley, killed.
e. g. Halbert, agent of the N. Y. Life
Insurance company, who was so severely
injured at Sank Rapids, died at his resi-.
dence In st. Paul on the morning of the
18th, without having regained conscious
ness. He leaves wife and four children.
Additional deaths Of those injured oc-
CURED on the 18th and 18th, bringing the
death roll up to 70 and tho prosF ects are
that 1t least ten moro win be added. Tho
list of injured now reaches 213 and the
property loss Is over $4,000, Of which
$225,0 900 was in Sank Rapids.
During Friday, April Is, ok Of the injured
died - follows: Lulu Carpenter, sauk Rapids;
Andrus Walstrom, Sank Rapids: Baby Of n.
shelgreen, ssuk Rapids; William shortbridge,
aged 20; Joseph Junglen, Annie siebold, aged s.
This makes the dead number sixty-eight A
number more are almost certain to die.
The funeral scenes 1t all Of the aniieted points
were narrowing. Three public funerals were
held at st. Cloud, Sank Rapids and Rice Station,
1t which forty-four bodies were buried. Other
funerals were held separately, and some bodies
were sent East, that Of banker Hull going to
Kalamazoo. Mich. and Rev. Mr.. and N1s. Gus
tsvus Smith, killed At Rice'e Station, going to
rainesville. The scenes Ut the fanezah Wers
touching and hsax.-rsndertng. the gzisf Of sur
wing friends IN many CASES bsinS beyond con-
trol b.: 49,
The NO Carpeotsr children wers buried
together at Sank Rapids osmstsry on the