Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-04-16
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
T.rr,I,Ie C,cIone IN vInnesota.


st. Cloud and Sank Rapids, MINI. were |.
swept by terribly destructive cyclone
Wednesday about $50 p. NJ The storm
struck the railroad between the round house |
and freight depot at 81. Cloud and swept a
path GOO yards wide through the city, level
ing between $50 and POO houses. One &C
count says that 30 persons were killed in that
city aud more than 100 injured, many very
seriously. Superintendent Wakeman OF the
Manitoba road says between 30 and 10 per-
sons we're killed at Sank Rapids few miles
above st. Cloud and nearly double that num-
Der injured The cyclone began about .
O'Clock in the basin of the Masonic cemetery,
forming whirlwind about 1000 feet in d-
ameter. 1t took almost every tree from the
ground or twisted ii of at the trunk Great
stones we're torn up and carried along with
The wind moving slowly in northeasterly
direction 1t wrecked the Catholic chapel
and several houses in its course across the
prairie adjoining the town. In most cases
nothing was left to mark the site Of the dwell
lings but the cellars. Numerous cars loaded
with freight we're blown half mile and the
rails wrenohed from the ties. The village is
virtually wiped out, four ffths Of the build
ings in it being leveed From Sank Rapids
the storm went to Rice Station, q small viii
lage i'm Benton county, demolishng the vii.
lage and killing or iujuring nearly the entire
population. The two villages which suffer
ed this terrible visitation are within three
miles Of each other on the upper Mississippi,
~ miles northwest of St Paul. 81. Cloud is
a place of 5000 people,
RIOtIng az East 80. Louis.
The disturbances growing out of the la
Dor troubles at East ST. Louis eliminated last
Friday in cruel scenes of boodshed. A
crowd of strikers who had gathered at the
Louisville and Nashville yards began ieering
and-some say-throwing stones at passing
freight train, when the eight deputy shsrTs
in charge, panic stricken, opened fire with
their Winchester rifles. Five men, none of
whom were strikers were killed and one
woman was fatally shot. The maddened
strikers then took matters into their own
hands, and il it had not been for the frantic
efforts of the leading Knights of Labor, the
| city would have witnessed even more dread
full scenes. As it was a deputy was caught
aud beaten to death by the angry men, and
they continued their work of revenge through
Friday night by setting fire promiscuously to
| freight cars and buildings in the companies
yard, causing loss Of about $50, 900. The
militia were ordered to protect the property
and quiet was at last restored. The funerals
| of three of the victims took place Sunday.
The three hearses were followed by process.
sion of about 1900 Knights of Labor and
/
marched the mayor, city clerk, chief of po-
lice and the II patrolmen who constitute the
entire protective force of the city.
THE DEFEATED STRIKERS.
Reports from Sedalia, Mo. indicate that
the strike on the Gould Southwestern system
is dying out. New men are going to work
daily, generally of the class most needed,
aud strikers are leaving to find employment
elsewhere. All the roads except the Louis
vile and Nashville and the Cairo short line
are receiving and handling all the freight and
are sending out all the trains required by the
business to be done. Manager Hoxie says
the Gould roads are now handling more tons
OF freight and running more trains than on
corresponding days last year.
WHAT SUNK THE OREGON
AT last it is believed to be settled that il
was collision which sunk the Oregon. Sun.
day, the ocean being calm, diver went down
and staid long enough to make satisfactory
examination of the hull. Ten feet below
the main deck and 20 feet forward of the
bridge he found hole in the steamers side
six feet deep and three feet wide the heavy
iron plates being crushed in. Her cargo i,
stone near the break and the ship is broker
in two. This discovery does away with the
sensational dynamite theory. Tuesday the
broadside of a saloon was found on the Ions
was seen in the water making in toward
shore. No name could be found, but it il
supposed to be wreckags from the schoone
which sunk the Oregon.
"A small row boat, containing three per
! sons, was upset Sunday afternoon on Mon
roes pond near AbaSy, N. Y, and two o
the occupants, Richard Robson and Johi
Hummel, were drowned
The troubles at Laredo, Tex, an accoun
of which is given on our first page, are end
ed. The most reliable returns show that o
3 the Huarsche, seven were killed and eigh
wounded, while of the Botas, 10 were kle,
and one wounded.
8 An obstinate fire which occurred in
: building of the Pemberton Mills at Lawrence
Mass, last Saturday, caused the death OF tw
men and the wounding of eight or ten Others
The property loss is estimated at 500 DOC
d with an insurance of $50 600 The fire orig
y mated in the picker-room and dye house an
and was once got under control but slmos
Immediately blazed up again soon after tn
flames became uncomfortable help was SUN
moned from neighboring cities and for hour
the whole mill seemed doomed to destruction
4 and tbs surrounding mills we're in imminen
. danger.