The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-04-22

from head to foot with yellow mud. The
ut Rice's, thirteen miles away, and
s!so basket full of law books
from the same place. The air was full of
flying boards and timbers at Rices, carried
by the cyclone from Sauk Rapids Andrews,
employed as clerk on the boarding car OF
the Manitoba road, had his skull crushed in
by 4 heavy timber. and he was past all aid
He was in the boarding. car, which was
standing on the track near the freight house,
with several other at the time, and the car
was completely demolished and all of the oc-
cupants either
KILLED OR SERIOUSLY WOUNDED
Edgar Hull, the banker Of this place who
was killed at Sauk Rapids took out Sc, 900
on his life in the New York Life Insurance
company about an hour before he left for
Sauk Rapids. The risk was written by E. G.
Ialburt of St Paul. manager for that COM
pany in Minnesota and Dakota Hull and
Halburt both went over to Sauk Rapids to
get here, and were walking along the street
when the cyclone reached there. Hull was
instantly killed Halburt so badly hurt that
he cannot live. He is still alive, but has
not yet recovered consciousness Hull's wife
Is absent in Grand Rapids, Mich, and was
notified F. NJ. Hale, who represents the
Cedar Rapids Pump company, went from
here to Sauk Rapids this afternoon. He was
at B. X Knowlton's residence, and got the
family into the cellar. He says they had not
descended to the place of SAFETY minute
too soon, rs the house was raised off the
ground and carried away. All those in the
cellar escaped injury. Mr.. Hale had n SINH
liar narrow escape in the Rochester cyclone.
His team, which had been left standing on
the street, was killed Henry Gilbert, another
commercial traveller employed by III. c. Bur
bank of St Paul, had just opened his samples
and displayed them preparatory to doing
business, and was in c. G. Woods store at
Sauk Rapids when the noise of the approach
ing terror was heard, and hasty stampede
made for the cellar. The store was badly
wrecked, but those in the cellar escaped in
Jury One of Mr.. Gilbert's horses was killed
and another injured SO badly as TO neces-
state killing it
RICE'S STATION.
The report that the little settlement at
Rice's Station, sixteen miles from here, had
been destroyed was Incorrect but people
there saw the cyclone pass by at short dis
tance to the east Late last night S Q.
Greer, travelling for Donaldson h Ogden of
St Paul, came from Rice's to ST Cloud and
informed PIONEER PRESS reporter that the
cyclone had demolished q house about four
miles east of that station, where q wedding
party was in progress, and nearly all the
guests were killed or badly wounded The
news was brought into Rice's Station
by badly scared boy, who was on horse
back He was badly hurt himself, and said
that the cyclone struck the house without
the slightest warning. There were about
thirty persons in the house, and he was the
only one that was not seriously hurt. The
boy said that nearly all were dead Several
citizens and q couple of physicians started
out to the place, where horrible sight met
their gaze The dead were strewn about for
a distance of fully 600 feet 1t was found
that sixteen were dead and4eince then it is
said that six more have died. ~The details at
this writing are very meager, and cannot be
obtained, as the telegraph wires are all
down. DR.. w. W. Day of st Paul was de-
tailed to visit house about mile from
here to see q family that had been
injured. Their name was Junnemann The
man was dead and the wife seriously in
iured Five out of six children were badly
hurt St Boniface's hospital at St Cloud
was right in the path of the storm, and its
escape from destruction was something as
tonshing house on one side of it was
carried off, and another on the opposite side
| of the hospital completely demolished, but
the home of the sick was not in any way in
| iured. There were numerous
WONDERFUL AND THRILLING ESCAPES.