Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-04-21
A Death Dealing Whirl Wind.

4 sucking, death dealing whirl
Wind, in Minnesota, on Wednesday,
April Ii, swept over st. Cloud, and
Sauk Rapids. doing great damage to
property, killing many people and
wounding many Others. The cyclone
at st. Cloud began about 3 O'Clock,
in the basin OF the Masonic Cemetery,
forming a whirlwind about one thou
sand feet in diameter. It took almost
every tree in circle from the ground
or twisted it off at the trunk Great
stones were torn up and carried
along &ith the wind, moving slowly
in a northeasterly direction. 1t
wrecked the Catholic chapel and sew
eral houses in its course across the
prairie adjoining the town. 1t com
pletely demolished John Schwartzs
large brick house and scattered fifty
or more smaller frame houses like
feathers. In most cases nothing was
left to mark the site of the dwellings
but the cellars The prairies were
strewn with timber, furniture and
clothing. The freight depot of the
Manitoba was total wreck. Nu-
merous cars loaded with freight were
blown half mile and the rails were
wrenched from the ties. 1t passed
the limits of the town Just west of
Lieutenant Governor Gilman's resi-
dence, killing several horses, and
crossed the Mississippi at the Sauk
Rapids wagon bridge, which it de
molished. It here widened to 600
feet and leveied Stanton's grist mill.
From there it swept through the
centre of town, taking the best of
the business portion, including the
Court House, hotel, public school
and every important business build
ing in town, except Woods store.
The village is virtually wiped out,
four fifths of the buildings in it be-
ing leveied. The fatalities in st.
Cloud though great are not equal in
number to those in Sauk Rapids.
In every house most all the inmates
were more or less hurt. The dead
at st. Cloud so far as known are as
follows.
Nick Juneman, Mrs. Weisman and
little girl, four year old son OF
B. o. Werski, a seven-year-old son
of Frank Geinskoffski, Mrs. Stein, q
four year-old son Of p Waldorf, S.
A. Young, the latter a railroad man.
His brother William had both legs
smashed and they had 10 be ampu
tated. An unknown railroad employe
J. Van Horsen, two young children
of NJ Ceno and baby of August
Knolls were also killed.
The dead at Sauk Rapids, so far
as heard from, are: j. Berg, mer-
chant, and his two children; john
Kenpard, County Auditor; George
Lindley, County Treasurer; two chill
dren of G. u. Wood, Edgar Hill,
president of the German American
National Bank; Abner Styr, child
of P. Carpenter, and Judge Beaupre,
of the Probate court were all fatally
injured.
From Sank Rapids the storm went
to Rice's Station, Benton county, de.
molishing the village and killing OF
injuring nearly the entire population
The wires are all down and no def
mite information is obtainable from
there.
THE SHAPE OF THE STORM.
The cloud was funnel-shaped and
the point dragged along the ground
like the tail of a huge aerial beast,
lashing everything that came in its
path into atoms. Citizens had hard
ly time to flee to their cellars and
other points of refuge before the
whirlwind was ON them and the all
was filed with flying boards, shing