Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-04-15
WORK OF THE WIND.

Vitality.
WORK OF THE WIND.
A.CYCL0NE II MINNESOTA DESTROYS THREE
TOWNS, KILLS A HUNDRED EoPLE AND
INJURIES TWO HUNDRED.
ST. Paul, Mimi, April 15-Reports Of
q cyclone at st. Cloud, Sank Rapids,
Rice's Station and other points in that
vicinity last night, are not exaggerated.
At three o'clock this morning. in the
places named, there were
FoRTY-N1NE DEAD
and very nearly 200 injured and many
are still missing whose bodies will prob
ably be recovered tonight. Just enough
of the houses are left in Sank Rapids to
form a fringe about the village limits.
The debris is not piled in heaps, but is
scatterd fer and wide. A sign belong.
ing in Sank Rapids on the Manitoba
depot and a basket full of books were
found in Rice's Station, fifteen miles
distant. This shows the terrible
power of the storm.
No reports are yet received from out
lying districts, where it is believed great
destruction of property and loss of life
has been wrought.
The storm extended from jamestown
Dakota, through Minnesota and int
Wisconsin, though it's most disastrouI
effects are to be found in the thre.
places just named.
A PHYSICIANS STORY.
DR.. Derslow, who, with others, lef
last evening by special train for 81
Cloud, returned this morning and wa
at once called upon by a Dispatch re
porter. Upon reaching St. Cloud b
said the physicians from st. Paul an,
Minneapolis divided, part going to Saul
Rapids. DIR. Derslow was on the fore
sent to the st. Benedictin,
sisters hospital and they were kept bus,
until three o'clock this morning. Re
ports were in no way exaggerated. Th
storm was fully as disastrous as reporte,
and may in the end prove worse. Full,
twenty-five of the injured were brough
to the hospital alone and be does no
know how many more we're cared for i,
private houses. Two of those brough
to the hospital will very probably die
ONE is A WOMAN,
who has a broken collar bone and bot
bones of her left forearm and both bone
OF the left leg fractured, all commin
ated end the pelvis is broken, an acci
dent seldom chronicled in surgery. He
head and face are bruised beyond recog.
milton, yet strange to say the womal
was conscious and talked freely, saying
her hip hurt some, but otherwise sh,
felt no pain.
The other, probably q fatal case, i
a young man twenty years old. Boil
his legs are SO badly crushed that the,
hadto be amputated midway between
the knees and thighs.
One man, lying in the hospital badl,
injured, said three of his children wer
dead.
TWENTY-THREE DEAD BODIES.
Drs. Derslow and Ritchie, shortly nf
ter mldnight,w went across to Sank Rapid
TO render what assistance they could
There twenty. three dead bodies had beef
found and surgeons from Minneapoli
were busy caring for the injured.
R N WORSE.
Big Lake, MIMI, April 15-Drs. Hig
bee aud D%olIiyer. of Minneapolis, JUS
arrived. They told the associated pres
reporter that new bodies wer,
being recovered hourly from the debri,
and being brought in from tb,
country. Twelve injured persons were
brought. Several of these will die
Druggist S%chuabert's remains have Jus
been found. -Four have died OF wounds
since morning. At a church east OF
Rice's station thirteen of a wedding
party were killed, including the oficia.
ting minister. at Sank Rapids
TH1RTY-oNE ARE ALREADY DEAD,
and the list will be swelIed to forty
Doctor Ames, OF Minneapolis
on duty at st. Cloud, told DR.. Dotho,
that at least thirty deaths can but result,
there. Captain Foley, an old settler oi
Sank Rapids, weighing $50 pounds, was
blown four hundred feet in the air.
AID FOR THE SUFFERERS.
st. Paul, April l5-The city council
this morning voted $4,000 10 cash
to aid the cyclone sufferers,
and Gov. Hubbard dispatched a car
load of provisions to Sank Rapids. The
car was accompanied by the commits.
sioners iobbers' union, who will offer all
the assistance in their power.
SAWS I'll.