The Portland daily press., 1886-04-15
wHIRLINc WINDS.
An Awful Disaster Reported from
the Northwest.
Villages Swept from the Face of the
Earth.
Hundreds of People Said to Have
Been Killed and Wounded.

MINNEAPOLIS, EIinn April A. (e p m.)-Re-
ports have been received of terrible cyclone at
ST. Cloud, Minn this afternoon, in which 1t is re-
ported that 400 persons were killed, 75 injured
and half the town laid waste. 1t is reported that
Sauk Rapids also suffered Mayor Ames and half
dozen physicians are just leaving on a special
train for st. Cloud in answer to messages for as
sistance. Further particulars will be obtained at
the earliest possible moment.
[sEcoND DEsPATcH.l
ST. PAUL, Mimi, April 14.-St. Cloud and
sauk Rapids were swept by terribly destructive
cyclone about $50 this afternoon. The first
knowledge of the disaster was contained in the
following telegram sent to Mayor Ames from st.
Cloud
To Mayor An,es, Minneapolis:
destructive cyclone passed over ST. Cloud and
Sauk Rapids late this afternoon. There has been
terrible destruction here. Please send up all as
sistance you can by special train SEND pnysi-
clans and surgeons.
kilograms to the following effect were also read
from Sauk Rapids:
To MAJOR -4nses:
Can You send special train with physicians to
this city. Cyclone passed over this city this af-
ternoon. Great MANY are believed to have been
(SignedD SAUK RAPIDS.
Immediately upon the receipt of these messa-
ges preparations were made to respond to the
call for help. train for ST. Cloud left at six
O'Clock.
Private advices say the storm struck the rail
road between the round house and the freight
depot and swept path 600 yards wide through
the city, levelling between $50 and 200 houses.
NJ H. Clark. well known lumber man, who
lives in st. Cloud, says 81 persons were killed in
that city and more than 100 injured, many very
Superintendent wakeman, of the Manitoba
road, says between 80 and 40 persons were killed
at Sauk Rapids, few miles southeast Of st. Cloud,
and nearly double that amount in ured.
Telegraph wires northwest OF the city are al
ST. Cloud and Sauk Rapids since O'Clock.
THIRD DESPATCH
CHICAGO April 14-The Inter-Oceans st. Paul,
Mimi, special referring to the st. Cloud cyclone
saws: The cyclone began about O'Clock in the
basin of the Masonic cemetery, forming whlrl-
every tree from the ground or twisted it of at The
trunk. Great stones were torn up and carried
along with the wind moving slowly IN aaaSrIc north
chapel and several houses in its course across the
prairie and the adjoining town. 1t completely
scattered so or more smaller frame houses like
feathers. In most cases nothing was left to mark
the site of dwellings but cellars The prairies
were strewn with timber, furniture and clothing.
The freight depot OF the Manitoba railroad was
total wreck, numerous cars loaded with freight
were blown half q mile and the rails we're
the town just west of Lieut.. Groyernor Gilman's
residence, killing several horses and then crossed
the Mississippi at the Sauk Rapids wagon bridge
which it demolished and levelled Stanton's grist
mill.
From there it swept through the centre of the
best of the business portion, including the court
house, public school and every important business
building in town.
The village is virtually wiped out, four-ffths of
the buildings in it being levelled.
The fatalities in ST. Cloud though great are not
equal In number to those in Sauk Rapids In
every house the inmates were more or less
injured
The dead at st. Cloud, so far as known, are as
follows: N Kunkmann. Mrs. w. keisman and
little girl four-year-old son of b. O'Weiski, A.
McCarrold, son of F. Gunskotfy, Mrs. Stein,
four-year-old son of P. Waldorf A. Young,
railroad employe, and j. Van Harsen. Two
young children of M Ceno and baby of August
KnolPS were also killed.
The dead at Sauk Rapid so far as known are as
follows: j. Bergand and his two children, John
Kenard county auditor; Geo. Lindley, county
treasurer; two children of G. G.. Wood, Edgar
Hill, president of the German-American National
Bank; Abner Stir; a child of z. Carpenter and
Judge Beaupree of the Probate Court were all
fatally injured.
From Sauk Rapids the storm went to Rice Sta
tion Benton county, demolishing the village and
killing or injuring nearly the entire population.
The wires are all down and no definite informa-
tlon Is obtainable from there.