Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-04-22
WORK OF THE CYCLONE.
Two Minnesota Towns Laid Waste by
the Destructive Element.
The Storm the Worst Known i'm the
State for Three Years.
Terrific Storm at st. PauI.

Terrific Storm at st. Paul.
ST. PAUL, April ia thunder storm
passed over st. Paul and Minneapolis
about o'clock and heavy hail storm fol-
lowed, though of short duration. In fact,
one storm cloud after another have swept
across the state ever since last evening
and the rain fall has been very heavy. The
storm is the very worst ever known in the
state since 1888, when Rochester and Elgin
were devastated by tornado.
CHICAGO, April 15.-The Inter Oceans
st. Paul Special says: The cyclone began
about o'clock in the basid of the Mason
ic cemetery, forming whirlwind about
1000 feet in diameter. 1t took almost
every tree in the circle from the ground
or twisted it off at the trunk. Great
stones were torn up and carried along
with the wind. Moving seemingly along
in a nOrtheasterly direction it wrecked the
Catholic Chapel and several houses in its
course across the prairie adjoining the
town. 1t completely demolished John
Schwartz large brick house and scattered
fifty or more smaller frame houses like so
many feathers.
In most cases nothing was left to mark
the site of the dwellings but cellars. The
prairies were strewn with timbers, furni-
ture and clothing. The Manitoba freight
depot is a 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 Lieutenant Gov. Gilman's residence
killing several horses.
1t crossed the Mississippi at the Sank
Rapids wagon bridge which it demolished.
1t here widened to 600 feet and leveled
Stantons grist mill; from there it swept
through the center of the town taking the
best of the business part of it, including
the court house, hotel, public school, and
every important business building in
the town except Woods store. The vii
lage is
VIRTUALLY WIPED OUT.
Four fifths of the buildings being level
ed. Fatalities in ST. Cloud though great
are not equal in numbes to those in Sank
Rapids. In every house most all inmates
are more or less hurt. The dead at st.
Cloud are as follows:
Nick Junemann; Mrs. Weisman and lit
tie girl and son four years old; Frank
Gelnskoffski; Mrs. Stein, widow, and
son four years old; P. WalderOf, young
railroad man. His brother william had
both legs smashed-since amputated. An
unknown railroad man; two young chill
dren of Mr.. Cense, and baby of August
Knoll.
Dead at Sank Rapids are:
j. Berg, merchant, and two children;
Kenard, county auditor; Geo. Lindley,
county treasurer; two children of G. G.
Wood, merchant, and Abner st. Cyr.
Fatally hurt:
A child of P. Carpenter, clerk of court,
and P. Beaupre, judge of probate court.
Badly hurt;
Edgar Mill, president of German Amer
lean National bank.
From Sank Rapids the storm struck |
Rice's Station, Benton county, demolish-
ing the village and killing or injuring the
entire population. The wires are down,
and no definite information is obtainable
from there
A CALL FOR AID.
ST. PAUL, April 15.-Nearly all the
buildings in St. Cloud demolished by
the cyclone were small frame houses oc-
cupied by workingmen, who were absent, |
Ond only their wives and children in the
houses. The pecuniary loss will reach |
about 100000 at ST. Cloud.
More damage was done at Sank Rapids,
where the property destroyed was of
a more valuable character. 1t is impossi- |
BILE to obtain details from there tonight.
Gov. Hubbard tonight received the |
following message from State Senator |
Buchanan:
SAUK RAPIDS, Mimi, April Is.
Our town is in ruins; send US aid. BUCK
NER.
Gov. Hubbard at once sent message
to the mayors of all the cities and large
towns in the state, asking that a step be
taken at once to secure money and
thugs needed, and to forward them at
speedily as possible to Senator Buchanan
for distribution.
ST. CLOUD, April 1.-THE solemn re-
QUEEN mass was held within the cathedral
this morning over the remains of IL vic
Tins of the cyclone. Father Stemper Of
and similar services took place
In the church of immaculate conception |
over the remains of four others. The SER
vices were conducted by Fathers Gross
and j. Casper. Both churches we're
heavily draped. The funeral cortege
prssed on its way to the cemetery through |
the devasted districts. About 1000 per-
sons were present who came from all
over the country. The dead were buried
in two large graves nine adults in one
and eight children in another.
Mr.. Stein was buried yesterday, and
Mrs. Fehr to-day, in the North Star Pro-
testant cemetery. Annie Ziebold, three
years of age died from the effect of a
fractured skull at the hospital this morn
ing. Wilbur Dahlmrer, formerly of Buck
mantown, % miles from here, was killed,
and a working man named Clark, on Sen
ator Buckman's farm was also killed. Fiji
tV-fO wounded attended
At the hospital there are SO at present,
and are at the convent. Every house in
the vicinity has one or more wounded and
there are close onto 100 injured in the
two towns.
CONGRESSIONAL.