Connecticut western news., 1886-04-21
DEATuIN THE STORM.
Erightiul Loss of Life md Property in Min
 nesotn-Thirty Bodies Recovered.

Wednesday, at twenty minutes past four, with hardly & moments notice, cyclone swept through the little town of St. Cloud, on the Manitoba road, seventy-five miles north of St. Paul, Minn.. and levelled to the ground half hundred houses and killed and maimed large number of people. Three miles away the storm struck the little village of Sauk Rapids, and tho terrible destruction was re- peated, only on 8 smaller scale.
 The storm came from the southwest and its path lay between the residence and the busi- ness portions. Everything in the way was swept out of existence, and the sweep is as clear cut and as we'll defined as that of a mow- ing machine in field of grain.
 A few timid families went into their cellars at the first approach of the storm, and these escaped injury; but most of the inhabitants of the pace were standing about in their door yards watching it's approach and did not realize it's deadly character until too late.
 President Hill of the Manitoba road, says that from fifty to sixty people are seriously in jured. Other reports say the loss of life in both towns will reach forty or fifty.
 The train despatcber at St. Cloud telegraph ed that thirty bodies were carried past his office and the loss of life is very large.
 The cyclone swept over Western Iowa doing considerable damage. Atlantic and Benton villages were nearly destroyed. A portion of the town of Coon Rapids was completely de- molished. One boy was killed and 8 number of persons were injured. Twenty-Five dwell- ings, two churches, one school-house and sev- eral business houses were destroyed and & freight train, with the exception of the loco mot we, was blown from the track and demol- ished.
 The great cloud was funnel-shaped and the point dragged along the ground like the tail of huge ariel beast, flashing everything that came in it's path into atoms. People had hardly time to flee to their cellars and seek other points of refuge before tue whirlwind was on them and the air was filled with flying boards, shingles, bricks and other debris, that was strewn over the country and piled Tn pro- miscuous heaps. The dwellings on the route were light built houses and became an easy prey to the monster. The houses were picked up and tossed into the air, and rent into a thousand pieces and scattered to the four winds of heaven.
 The earth was plowed up in the line of the cyclone; and the path over which 1t passed, to 8 wid h of nearly quarter of mile looks as though it had been upheayed by terrible volcanic ernp ion. It had hardly begun it's terrible work before it was finished, and the scene that greeted the eyes of those who had escaped it's fury was one that caused the stout est heart to shudder. Cries and shrieks of the wounded rent the air, and the ground was strewn with the bodies of dead. Among them were stalwart men, weak women and weaker children.
 Iron rails were torn from the ties and twisted like the smallest wires. Telegraph poles were torn up and the wires twirled into curious masses.
 The loss of life is large and will not be fully known for days. The loss of property is seri- ous, falling upon poor people in many cases and taking their all. Of course there is no in surance, except in special cases. At six o'clock Thursday evening the total number of deaths reported from the cyclone
 al St. Cloud, Sauk Rapids and Rice's Station is 51,, as follows: ST. Cloud, 19; Sauk Rapids, Al, and Rice's Statation, 10. It is feared, how ever, that tho list will be swclled to much greater proportions when all the reports are in. The storm seems to have been almost local in its origin and to have both gathered and spent its principal force within space of less than thirty miles in length and twenty
 rods in width. As far as can be ascertained
 from the conflicting accounts which have been
 It ceived. it started less than two miles south of St ClOn,l