Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-04-24
THE CYCLONE CAREER
st. Cloud and Sank Rapids, Mimi 4,
Partially Destroyed.
Houses and Trees Swept Away
and Scattered Like Chaf.
Minneapolis Appealed to For
Help.

AS0RSbS AhPoSASe w G0A
Help.
ST.. PAUL, April A.-St. Cloud and Sauk
Rapids were swept By . terribly obstructive
cyclone about 5 80 O'Clock this afternoon. The
first knowledge OF the disaster was contained
in the following telegram, sent to Mayor
Ames from st. Cload
ASKING aFLP
"To Mayor Ames, Minneapolis: A terribly
destructive cyclone pssset'over st. Cloud and
Sauk Rapids late this afternoon. There is ter
rible destruction here. Please send up all the
assistance you can Immediately by special
train. Send physicians and enrgeons."
kilograms to the following eject were re-
ceived from Sank Rapids:
"To Mayor Ames, Minneapolis: Can you
send . special train with physicians to this
city, A cyclone passed over this city this az
ternoon. A great many are believed TO have
been killed, but the number is not yet known.
(Signedl sAUs tRAr1ps."
Immediately on receipt Of this news prepare
ttons were made 10 respond to the call for
hep.
PogTY 8 KILLED.
A train for ". Cloud left at 9 O'Clock. infor-
nation is very meager and sensational reports
sre current. II is reported that 100 persons
were killed at 81. Cloud. 1t is belle we'd that ut
least forty persons have been killed and about
seventy-fve wounded. 1t is impossible to get
much Information at this hour. All is excite
ment, and the streets are filed with excited
men and frightened, weeping women and
children. The disaeter certainly is. very
appalling. ecores OF houses have been entirely
wrecked and the extent OF the loss cannosrnow
be stated. The city is full OF rumorsa nd'!t Is
very 0Ilcult to obtain reliable news.
The storm struck st. Cloud between the
round house and freight depot and swept a
path 600 yards wide through the city, leveling
between $50 aud 200 buildings. N. Fl. Clark,
the well-known lanberinan, who lives In st.
SiOuu,E h1F hlhCbJp GESOIlb WCtS hlllCu III tuhl
city and mora than one hundred Injured,
many very seriously. Supt. Wakeman, Of the
Manitoba road, Gays between thirty and
forty persons were allied ut Sank Rapidsy a
small town on the Manitoba aud Northern
Pacific road, a few miles southeast of st.
Cloud. aud nearly double that number injured.
The telegraph wires north and west OF this
CITY, avn oil down And NO N cvva dIrpcf from. ~
Cloud or \ Rapids has been received since
Z O'Clock.
n terrific thuudey storm passed over st.
Paul and Minneapolis sbout o'clock, AMI q
heavy hail storm followed, though of but
short duration. In fact one storm cloud after
another has sw ept across the state ever since
last evening" aud the rainfall has been heavy.
The storm 10 tho
WORST KNOWN
in the state since $50, when Rochester and
Eigsn were devastated by a tornado.
The latest reporbs give the number of killed
in St Cloud as afteen and the injured at about
twenty, and At Sank Rapids fifteen killed and
twenty injured. Another terrific thunder
ptOklh Az 1CAVS - ~
feres greatly with the wires.
CHICAGO, April 1A-The Inter Oceans st.
Cloud special says: The cyclone began sbou,
3 O'Clock la the Masonic cemetery, forming a
whirlwind about Loco feet in diameter. II
took almost every tree In the circle from the
ground or twisted 1t OF at the trunk. Grea'
stones were torn up and carried along with
the wind. Moving slowly along IN
q nOftheasterly direction 1t wrecked
the Catholic chapel and several houses
In Its course ACROSS the prairie to tho adioin'
ing town 1t completely demolished Johl
Sohwartz's large brick house and scattered
fifty or more smaller frame houses like s.
many feathers. In most cases n2thing wa
left to mark the site Of the dwellings bat tn
cellars. The prairie was strewn with timbers
furniture and clothing. The freight depot O
the Manitoba road WAS q total wreck. Numey
Gus cars loaded with freight were blown half
mile and the rails wrenched from the track
1t passed the limits OF the town Just west o
Lieut.. Gov. Gilman's residence, killing severe
horses. 1t crossed the Mississippi at the Saul
Rapids wagon bridge, which It demolished
1t here widened to 600 feet and leveled Stan
toms gr!st mill. From theroat swept througl
the center Of the town, taking. the best Of tn
business part Of 1t, including the courthouse
hotel, public school and every important bus
ness building In town except Woods store
The village is virtually wiped out, tour-hftt
Of the buildingr being lie yeled.
THE FATALITIES
in st. Cloud, though great, are not equa,
those In Sank Rapids. In every house mo
all the inmates were more or less hurt.
: The dead at 81. Cloud SO far As known an
! Nick Junmann.
Mrs. Weisman AM little gill.
D A son four years old OF B. -. Werski.
8 A SOL seven years old of Frank GeinsS01
ski.
. Mrs. Stein, a willow.
= A son four years old OF P. Waldorf.
IIcSH S.cc.:Sc, :Jc..S .a.u.: s1,;.E. Il
. brother William had both legs smashed a,
have since been amputared.
q An unknown railroad man.
e Two young children OF Mr.. Ems.
: A baby OF August Knott.
KILLED AT sAUK RAPIDS.
y . Berg q merchant, and two children.
q John Maynard county auditor.
Geo. Lindley, county treasurer.
d Two children OF g.. q. Wood, u merchant.
e Ahner 81. Cyr.
MoRTALLY