The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-22
hips and spine. Many Of the survivors
will be disabled for life.

hips and spine. Many Of the survivors
will be disabled for life.
The delegation of doctors from St.
Paul and Minneapolis worked all night
under the disadvantage OF having no
splints or drugs. as the drug stores
we're completely demolished. Splints
were made. from the shingles with which
the ground was strewn In the track OF
tie storm for miles. One fortunate
thing was the fact that the school had
been dismissed, as the fatality among
the children would have been appalling.
The school house was rased to the very
foundation.
SAUK RAPIDS, MIMI, april l5.-
The cyclone struck this city shortly alter
4 O'Clock yesterday afternoon. and in
Just six minutes the best portion of the
town was IN ruins. Not single busi-
ness house was left standing on Main
street. Many residences were demol-
ished. The wind came from the South
west and swept everything before 1t for
a width o. about four blocks. The storm
cloud was as black as night, with a
bright, clear sky on either side The
Court House is now heap OF ruins,
and several county officers are killed.
The Union school house, the Presby-
terrain and Congregational Churches,
the postoffice, q flour mill and large
machine shop were all converted into
kindling wood IN less time than it takes
to tell it. What was once the centre Of
the town is now covered with debris
timber, doors, pieces Of furniture, etc.
Only the City Hotel remains intact.
The Northern Pacific depot is literally
blown away and large number of
freight cars overturned upon the tracks.
At the present time twenty-five dead
bodies have been recovered from the
ruins, and large number Of people are
injured. The bodies are laid out in the
neatest houses left standing and several
half demolished buildings are made TO
answer the purpose of a morguc. The
spectacle is a sad one-the living being
not only deprived of their friends, but
of all their earthly possessions at the
same time. The total loss Of property
is not less than 100000, without a
dollar of cyclone insurance. The town
is we'll nigh ruined. The living are car
inc for the wounded as well as possible,
and the physicians from St. Paul, Min
nepolis and Brainerd are IN attendance.
ST.. PAUL, April 15.-Dr. Denslow,
who with others went last evening by
special train to st. Cloud, returned this
morning. Upon arriving OF St. Cloud,
he said the physicians from st. Paul and
Minneapolis divided, some going to
Sauk Rapids. DR.. Denslhw was on the
force sent to the St. Benedictine Sisters
Hospital, and they were kept busy until
O'Clock this morning. One probably
fatal case is that of a woman. who has a
broken collar. bone, both bones of the
left forearm and beth bones of the left
leg fractured, al comminuted and the
petus broken, an accident seldom chroni-
cled in surgery. Her head and face are
bruised beyond recognition. Strange to
say the woman is conscious and talks
freely, saying her hip hurts, but other
wise she telt no pain. Another proba-
bly, fatal case is that ola young man,
twenty years DID,. Both legs are so
badly crushed that they had to be am
putated midway between the knee and
thigh. One man, lying in the hospital
badly injured, said three of his children
were dead. Another man in the next
cot to him responded, saying his wife and
three children were killed. Three little
boys. about six years of age, were
brought in at midnight, wounded cruel
". A woman was found with piece
Of scalp as large as man hand torn
from her head and hanging by shrcds.
Drs. Denslow. and Richie shortly
after midnight went across to Sauk
Rapids 10 render what assistance they
could there. Twenty-three dead bodies
had been found and the doctors from
Minneapolis were busy caring for the
injured. Drs. Higbce and Dolliver of
Minneapolis, just from st. Cloud, told
an Associated Press reporter that new
bodies were being recovered hourly from
the debris and being brought in from
the country IN the track of the tornado.
Nclfo luJuiCu peVPie hCtC UlouSuo IL,
several of whom will die. Druggist
Schubert's remains had just been found.
He had only been in the city two weeks.
Four have died of their wounds since
morning.
At a church East of Rye Station, thir-
teen members of a wedding party were
killed, including the officiating minister.
At Sauk Rapids thlrty-one are already
dead. The list Will be swelled to forty.
DR.. Ames OF Minneapolis, who is on
duty at St. Cloud, informed DIR. Dolliver
that at least thirty deaths can but
result from the visitation there. At
Sauk Rapids a man named Van Elton,
who weighs $50 pounds, was carried
400 tcet through the air and fatally
injured. A dead baby was found IN the
street. No owner for it can be found.
At St. Cloud in the track of the storm
stood the Manitoba freight house and
cars filled with freight. The heavy
20 re 1yore lifted from tho trorEs md rost