St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-19
TO CLEAR THE DEBRIS.
The w ork OF Rebuilding Sauk Rap
ids TO Begin at Once.
Special to the Globe

Special to the Globe.
SAUK RAPIDS, April 1s.-To-morrOw
$50 men from the farming districts are eX-
pected in to clear up the debris and repair
sites for building. They will bring teams
with them, and offer their services free,
bringing with them food. Senator Buck
man will superintend the work, and it is ex-
pecTed that by tomorrow night the ground
will be pretty well cleared up and ready
for a corps Of carpenters that are expected
to arrive from ST. Paul Tuesday morning
for the purpose of building ten houses,
lumber for which will be furnished by the
Jobbers' union of that city. 1t has been de-
cded to rebuild the school house on the old
site, and probably during the next session
Of the legislature the state will be asked to
appropriate fund to rebuild the court
house and two spans of The bridge across
the Mississippi at this point, two spans Of
which were torn out by the cyclone.
1t is talked of in hotel
lobbies that it would be no more than a
fair act to locate the second state prison at
this point, as its building would furnish en-
plOyment for large number of laborers
here, who, even after the shock which
they have undergone is past, will find
themselves unable to live here because of
being unable to get work. In distributing
the funds appropriated for the benefit of
the sufferers great care will be taken that
those most needy shall be served first, and
the committee in doing this is
UPHELD BY LEADING CITIZENS,
whose business has been badly crippled by
the disaster, but who are still able to sup
port themselves, at least in moderate way.
The majority of them congratulate them
selves that they escaped with their lives,
and consider the loss of their property COM
paratively small matter Senator Buck
lnan, whose house and barn were COM
pletely demolished, says he will donate all
the lumber to the poor and rebuild
with new material, and make his
buildings more substantial than they were
at the time of their destruction.
and this is the spirit of all the business
men. Contributions have been liberal and
will be great benefit to the people. yet the
sum even when it is completed will fall far
short of the need, and the relief committee
is under great responsibility, which it fully
realizes There were no funerals to-day
and the duties of the burial committee seem
to have been concluded, although there is a
prospect that more of the wounded will
die The little. girl, Caroline Hertz,
whose arm was amputated is slowly
sinking and will probably die,
and it is feared that S. P. Carpenter, who
has already buried two children, will lose
another, and tonight it is reported that
Mrs. DR.. jerks is very low and is not ex-
expected to live through the day tomorrow.
Her injuries at first were not considered
dangerous, but the mental shock from
which she suffered has aggravated the con-
dition until it is precarious and hopeless.
CYCLONE FREAKS.
Reports are still coming in from the
country of the finding of relics taken from
this city and carried out on the prairies by
the wind. At Richfield, twenty-seyen
miles from here, the day book of A. E.
Scheuber. the druggist who was killed, was
found, also some of the county records.
One of the miracles Of tie storm was
the escape of A. P. Gordon,
who fell on his face when
he saw the cyclone approaching, and
grasped fence post. He was few feet
from the Central house, which was leveled
to the ground, and but few rods distant
from where Edgar Hull was killed, vet he
escaped without even scratch. DR..
Graves of Brainerd is in charge of the hos.
pital now, and is assisted by Mrs. T. B. Walk
er of Minneapolis, who is indefatigable
in her efforts to ease the condition of the
sufferers. DIR. Dunn of Minneapolis yes
terday took a swallow of carbolic acid in
mistake for another liquid, and for time
serious results were apprehended, but by
prompt application OF antidotes he camt