Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-04-22
TORNADO In MINNESOTA.
ST. Cloud, Seuk Rapids and Other
Places Devastated.
Terrible Loss of Life and Many Persons In.
jured - Buildings Wrecked - Wires
DOwn-Help Badly Needed
Physicians Dispatched
to the Scene.

Ihyslc!aRs Dispatched
to the Scene.
ST. PAUL, MIMI, April 15.-St. Cloud
and Sank Rapids were swept by terrible,
destructive cyclone at 5 80 yesterday after.
noon. The first knowledge of the disaster
was contained in the following telegram
sent to Mayor Ames, from st. Cloud ask
ing for aid: ITO Mayor Ames, Minneapo-
lis. a destructive cyclone passed over St
Cloud and Sank Rapids late this afternoon.
There has been terrible destruction here.
Please send up all the assistance you can
Immediately by special train. Send physi-
clans and surgeons"
kilograms to the following effect were
received from Sank Rapids: "To Mayor
Ames, Minneapolis: Can you send special
train with physicians to this city? A cy-
clone passed over the city this afternoon.
a great many are believed to have been
killed, but the number is not yet known"
Immediately on the receipt of these
messages, preparations were made to re-
spOnd to the call for help. A train for St
Cloud left at six o'clock. All was excite
ment and the streets were filled with ex-
cited men and frightened women and chill
dren until late last night. The following
physicians were aboard the relief train
which left for st. Cloud: Drs. Ames, Kins-
ington, Freeman, Quinby, Lee, Cody,
Bunker, Gibson, IIos!in, Elin and Van
Cleve. The storm struck ST Cloud be-
tween the round house and the freight
nd nat1, hundred 10 rfQ
wide through the city, Ieveling between one
hundred and fifty and two hundred houses.
\. III. Clark, well known lunIberman, who
lives in st. Cloud, says ninety persons were
killed in thai: city and more than hundred
Injured, many very seriously. Supern-
endent Wakeman, of the Manitoba road,
says that between thirty and forty persons
were killed at Sank Rapids, a small town
on the Manitoba and Northern Pacific
roads, a few miles southeast of ST. Cloud,
and nearly double that number injured.
The telegraph Lines northwest of this city
are all down and no news direct from
either ST Cloud or Saul, Rapids has been
received since seven O'clock
The cyclone began about three o'clock In
the basin of the Masonic cemetery, forming
whirlwjnd LOCO feet in diameter. 1t took
almost every tree in the circle from the
ground or twisted them Off at the trunk.
Great trees were torn up and carried along
with the wind, moving slowly in Il north
eastern direction. /: wrecked the Catholic
Church and several houses in its course
across the prairie adjoining the town. 1t
completely demolished John SchwartZ'S
large brick house and scattered fifty or more
smaller frame houses like feathers In
some cases nothing was left TO mark tho
site of the dwellings but the cellars. The
prairies were strrwn with timber, furniture
and clothing. The freight depot of the
Manitoba was 4 total wreck. Numerous
cars loaded with freight were blown
half miie, and the rails were wrenched
from the ties. 1t passed the limits
of the town just west of Governor
Gilmaa's residence, killing several
horses and crossed the Mississippi river at
the Sank Rapids wagon bridge, which it de-
molShed, 1t here widened to eighteen
hundred feet, and levc!cd StantOn'S grist
mill. From there il swept through the CEN
ter of the town, taking the best of tho
bus ness portion, including the court house,
hotel public school and every important
bus ness building in town, except Woods
stores. The village is virtually wiped
out, four-Gfths Of the buildings
~
ties in St. Cloud. though great,
are not equal in number to those in Sank
Rapids. In every house most all the in.
mates were more or less hurt.
Tie dead at 81. Cloud 50 far as known
are as follows: Nick Juneman; Mrs. Weis
man and her little girl; a four-year,old son
of b. O. Werskie; a seven-year-old son of
Frank Genskofski: Mrs. Stein; a four.
ycar-old son of p. Waldorf; A.
Young, railroad man; William
Yourg, both legs smashed, died
soon after; an unknown man; j. Van
IIorsman: two young children of NJ. c.
Emo; baby of August KnoIics. The dead
at Sank Rapids so far as heard from are:
J. Berg. merchant, and his two children;
John Kenard, county auditor; George
Longley, county treasurer; two children OF
{. G. Wood; Edgar Hill, president of the
German American National Bank; Abncr
Styr: child of p. Carpenter; Judge Beau
pre-, of the Probate Court.
From Sank Rapids the storm went to
Rich Station. Benton County, demOlishing
the village and killing or injuring nearly
the entire population. The wires are all
down and no definite information is OBJ
from there. Nearly all the bald
ings in 81. Cond demolished by the cyclone
were small frame houses, occupied by
wOrkingmen, who were absent. and only
thei wives and children We're in the houses.
The pecuniary loss will reach about 500, 900 |
at ST. Cloud. More damage was done at |
Sank Rapids, where the property destroyed |
was of better class The scene was enc |
Of the utmost desOiatiOn, as seen by the |
light of Pickering lanterns, and the grOans |
of the wounded and lamentations of those |
who have lost relatives were heartrending |
in the extreme. Not before daylight could |
the full exte.t of the havoc BE- known.
Among the injured is ex-senator f. G. Hull
bert formerly Of Binghampton, n. v, but
at present northwestern agent of the New
Y ork NJ ltual Life Insurance Company. lie
IS not eA pected to live.
AID WANTED.
Governor Hubbard last night received the
message from State Senator Buck
man:
sAUK RArIps. MINI, April H.-our town is
IN ruins: send us aid. RUCKNAN.
Governor Hubbard at once sent messages
20 all mayors of large towns, asking that
steps De taken to forward money and neces-
sites as soon as possible to Senator Buck
nan for the destitute. A brief dispatch has
ust been received saying that between forty
md fifty bodieS have been recovered from
he ruins at ST. Cloud, and the search is not
completed.
Our horse cars furnish fruitful mat
Ter for the observing mind. A lady
rot into one of the vehicles mentioned
With little girl about four years old,
nd said TO The child after they vera