Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-04-17
THE TRACK OF the TORNADO.
1t is Strewn with Death, Misery, De.
struction, Ruin and All the
Havoc Of War.
The Death List, it is believed, VIII Be
Swelled at Least One
Hundred.
Physicians, Nurses, Supplies, and Every
thing Humanity Could Suggest
Moving to the Rescue.

ST. PAUL, April 15.-Reports of the cy
clone at st. Cloud, Sauk Rapids, Rice's Sta
ton and other points in that vicinity last
night are not exaggerated. At 8 O'Clock
this morning there are fifty dead and very
nearly 200 injured with many still missing
whose bodies will probably be recovered to.
night. just enough houses are left in Sauk
Rapids to form a ring laround the village
| limits. The debris is not piled in heaps but
scattered sar and wide. The sign "Sauk
Rapids" from the Manitoba derot and q
basket full Of books were found in Rice's
Station, several miles distant. This shows
the terrible power of the stor.r. No re-
ports have been received from outlaying
districts, where it is believed great destruc-
tion OF property and loss OF life has been
wrought. The storm extended from James
town, Dakota, through Minnesota AMI
into Wisconsin, though it's most disastrous
effects are to be found in the places first
named.
FURTHER DETAILS OF THE STORM.
ST. LOUIS, April 15.-New bodies are being
recovered hourly from the debris and are
being brought in from the country in the
track Of the tornado. Twelve injured peo-
pie were brought in. Several of these will
die. Four have died of wounds since morn
ing.
WEDDING PARTY BROKEN UP.
At the church east OF Rice's thirteen of a |
wedding party were killed, including the
officiating minister. At Sioux Rapids
three are already dead. The list will be /
swelled to forty. At St. Cloud at least |
thirty deaths will be the result from the |
there.
AID FOR THE DISTRESSED.
ST. PAUL, April 15.-The City Council
this morning voted IS, 900 in cash to aid
the cyclone sufferers, and Governor Hub.
bard dispatched ctr-load of provisions.
to Sauk Rapids. The car was accompanied
BY u committee of the Jobbers' Union, who
will offer all the assistance in their power.
DR.. Dersloa, who. with others, went last
evening by special train to St. Cloud, re-
;urned this morning Upon reaching St.
Cloud he said the physicians from St. Paul
IND Minneapolis divided, q part going to
sauk Rapids. DR.. Dersloa was on the force I
ent to the St. Benedictine Sisters Hospi- i
al and they were kept busy until O'Clock {
his morning. There are twenty five in
ured in this hospital alone and he does not 6
now how many more are cared for in /
rivate houses. f
THE DEATH ROLL REACHES 100.
SACK RAPIDS. April 15.-The dismal work II
{ searching for the dead among the debris
I this storm-swept section still continues.
While the recovered remains, blackened =
nd mangled, are being shrouded for the .
rave, and while the wounded are receiving G
very possible attention, physicians from
ne neighboring cities are still on duty,
reless in their efforts. As the returns y
,me in from the country in the =
'ack Of the tornado, new fatalities aredis- a a
overed and otner cases of maimedare being
rought in for treatment. No pen can de- u y
let the horrors of the scene. The final
ulster of casualties will surely swell the q
,tal of fatalities to 100 and the wounded d
over 100.