Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-04-22
STORM STRICKEN.
The Death List at 80. CIoud and Sank
Rapids, Nearly ono Hundred.


Reports Of the cyclone at st. Cloud, Sank
Rapids, Rice Station, and other places In the
vicinity were not exaggerated. At 3 o'clock
on the morning of the iJtB there were forty
nine dead, very nearly 200 wounded aud In
jured with many still missing whose bodies
will probably be recovered. Just enough
houses are left In Sank Rapids 10 form fence
around the village limits. The debris Is not
died In heaps but scattered far and wide. The
sign "Sauk Rapids" on the Manitoba depot
and basket full Of books wers found at Rice
Station, fifteen miles distant This shows the
terrible power Of the storm. No reports have
yet been received from the outlying districts
where II Is believed great destruction Of
property and loss Of life has been wrought.
The storm extended from Jamestown, Da-
kota, through Minnesota, and into Wisconsin,
though Its most disastrous effects are to be
found In the three places first named.
The reports we're In no way exaggerated
The storm was fully rs disastrous IS reported
and may In the end prove worse. Fully twenty
five injured were brought to the hospitals
alone, and we do not know how many more
were cared for in private houses. Two OF
those broughtto the hospital will very probably
die. One IL n woman who has a broken
collar bone, both bones Of the left forearm and
both bones Of the left leg fractured, all com
minutcd, and the pelvis broken. The accident
is seldom chronlcled In surgery. Her head
and face is beyond recognition yet strange TO
say she was conscious and talked freely, say
ing her hip hurt some but otherwise she felt
no pain. The other, probably fatal case, Is
young man 20 years old, with both legs so bad
ly crushed they had to be amputatcd half way
between the knee and thigh. One man lying
in the hospital said three Of his children were
dead.
A Sank Rapids dispatch says: The dismal
work Of searching for the dead among the deb
ris Of this storm swept section continues, while
the recovered remains OF the blackcned and
mangled are being shroudcd fer the grave,
while the wounded are receiving every possible
attention. The physicians from neghboring
cities are still on duty, and tirclcss In their Of
forts. As the returns come in from the
country In the track Of the tornado new fatall-
ties are discovered, and others Of the manned
are being brought In for treatment. No pen
can depict the horrors of the scene. The final
muster of casualties will surely swell the total
of fatalities TO 100 and the wounded to over
100.
dispatch from Big Lake, Mimi, says:
Drs, Hlghee and Dolliyer, Of Minneapolis,
have just arrived. The latter told an Associa-
ted Press reporter that new bodies were being
recovered hourly from the debris and were
being brought in from the country. Twelve
injured people were brought in and several OF
these will die. Druggist Schwabert's remains
have just been found. -Four haye died from
their wounds since this morning. At a church
east of Rices Station, thirteen Of wedding
party were killed, including the officiating
minister. At Sank Rapids thirty-one are al
ready dead The list will be swelled 10 forty
Dr. Ames, of Minneapolis, who is on duty at
st. Cloud, told DIR. Dolliyer that at least thirty
deaths can but result. There was sent to Far
ley an old settler Of Sank Rapids, weighing
2SS pounds who was blown four hundred feet
In the air.