The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-04-24


pie Injured.
About o'clock ON the afternoon of
the I4.h dispatches were received at
Minneapolis from st. Cloud and Sauk
Rapids, Mimi, asking for a special
train with surgeons and physicians to
AID the citizens in caring for peo-
PIE injured by terrible cy-
clone which had just devastated those
places. The cyclone began about 3
O'Clock IN the basin Of the Masonic
Cemetery, at St. Cloud, forming a
whirlwind about j 900 feet in diane
ter. It took almost every tree in a
circle from the ground or twist ed it of
at the trunk. Great stones were torn
up and carried along with the wind,
which moved slowly in northeaster-
~ direction. 1t wrecked the Catholic
Chapel and several houses in its
course across the prairie adjoin-
ing the town. 1t completely de-
mollshed John Schwartz's large
brick house and scattered fifty or
more smaller frame houses like feath-
ers. 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 Road
was q total wreck. Numerous cars
loaded with freight were blown half a
mile, and the rails were wreDched from
the ties. 1t passed the limits OF the
town Just west of Lieut.. Gov Gilman's
residence, killing several horses, and
crossed the Mississippi at the Sauk
Rapids wagon bridge, which was de-
mollshed. 1t here widened to 600
feer, and leveled Stanton's grist mill.
From there it swept through the center
or the town, taking the best OF the busi-
ness portion, including thecourt-house,
hotel, public school and every i'm
portant business building in the town
except Woods store. The village is
virtually wiped out, four-ffths OF the
buildings in it being leveled The ia
tai ties IN st. Cloud, though great, are
nor equal IN number to those in Sauk
Rapids. In every house most all the
inmates were more or less hurt. The
dead IN st. Cloud, so far as known, are
as follows: Nick Junemann, Mrs.
Welsman and a little girl, a 4-year-old
son OF b. .. Werski, 7-year-old son
OF Frank Gernskoffski, Mrs. Stein, a
4 yearold son of P. Waldorf, S. A
1oung, railroad man; his brother
William had both legs smashed
and they had to be amputated;
an unknown railroad employe;
}. Van Horsen; two young children of
NJ. Ceno; baby OF August Knoll.
The dead at Sauk Rapids so far heard
from are: J. Berg, merchant, and his
two children; John Kenard, county
auditor; Geo. Lindley, county treas
urer; two children of G. G. Wood; Ed
gar Hill, president of the German
American National Bank. Abner
Styr, a child of P. Carpenter, and
Judge Beaupre, of the probate court,
were all fatally injured.
From Sauk Rapids the storm went
to Rlce's station, Benton County, de-
molishing the village and killing or in
lurlng nearly the entire population.
Nearly all the buildings in St. Cloud,
demolished by the cyclone, were small
frame houses occupied by workingmen
who were absent and only their wives
and children at home. The pecuniary
loss will reach about 100000 at st.
Cloud. More damage was done at
Sauk Rapids, where the property de-
stroyed was of a more valuable char
acter.
What is supposed to have been the
same storm struck the town of Extra,
Ia, the same afternoon, destroying a
number of houses. A brief dispatch
from Council Bluffs says the village of
Coon Rapids was laid In ruins by the
same agency.
A dispatch OF the 18th says between
forty and fifty bodies have been recov-
cred from the ruins of st. Cloud.
The work OF devastation In the dis
trlct visited by the recent cyclone is
complete. For width of about 900
feet, running from southwest to north
east, scarcely vestige of any struct-
ure remains, the ground being literally
covered with all kinds of timbers, pro-
mlscuously tangled together. 1t is es-
timated that 400 structures were
blown down in the eneighborhood of St.
Cloud. The loss will exceed $4,000.
The final muster Cf casualties at
Sauk Rapids, it is thought, will swell
the total deaths to 100 and the
wound ID to over 200. Edgar
Hull, president of the bank, was
killed IN front of the court house.
The rumor of the destruction of a we'd
ding party near Rice Station is veri-
fed. About forty persons sat down
to the supper after the ceremony. The
cyclone struck the house, scattering
the timbers in every direction. Three
persons, including the groom, were
killed, ard en- others injured The
course Of the cyclone after leaving
Sauk Rapids was northeasterly
through he towns OF Wartub, Lopgo-
la and Buchanan, the latter being in
Morrison County. Reports from this
section t ,hecountry arevery meager,
but enough Is learned to show that
death aud destruction mark the
course OF he cyclone. There are lust
enough houses left in Sauk Rapids to
form ltiuge around thevillage limits.
The.debris IS not piled in heaps, but
scattered far and wide. The damage
to public aud private property will
amount to 100000. Fourteen of the
dead were buried at Sauk Rapids on
the 16'h. The pecuniary loss at st.
Cloud IS estimated at $4,000 The
City Council of Minneapolis, on the
10th, passed a resolution appropriat-
ing $25 geo for the benefit OF the cy-
clone Sp R-rarS