The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1886-04-23

ried some 400 feet He was badly bruised
but not seriously injured He was covered
from head to foot with yellow mud The
depot sign, ssauk Rapids was found
at Rice's, thirteen miles aNay. md
also q basket full of law books
from the came place Tho air was full Of
flying boards and timbers at Rices, carried
hy the cyclone from Sauk Rapids Andrews.
employed a. clerk on the boarding car Of
the Manitoba road, had his skull crushed in
BY . heavy timber, and he was past all aid.
10 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 Oh SERIOUSLY WOUNDED
Edgar Hull, the banker Of this place who
was killed at Sauk Rapids, took out 80 900
on hie Life in the New York Life Insurance
company about an hour before he left for
Sauk RapidR The risk was written by f. G.
Halburt of St Paul, manager for that COM
pany in Minnesota aud Dakota. Hull nn,l
get here, and were walking along the street
when the cyclone reached there, Hull was
instantly Killed Halburt 80 badly hurt that
be cannot live. He Is still alive, but has
not yet recovered consciousness Hull's wife
's absent in Grand Rapids, Mich. and was
notified F. n. Hale, who represents the
Cedar Rapids Pump company, went from
here to Sauk Rapids this afternoon. He was
At B. K Knowlton's residence, and got tho
family into the cellar He says they had not
descended to the place Of safety minute
too soon, as the house was raised off the
ground and carried away. All those in the
cellar escaped injury. Mr.. Hale had q simi-
liar narrow escape in the Rochester cyclone
Ills team, which had been left standing on
the street. was killed Henry Gilbert, another
commercial traveller employed by II. G. Bur-
bank Of st Paul. had just opened his samples
and displayed them preparatory to doing
business, and was In c. G. Woods store ut
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 80 badly as 10 neces-
state killing it
R1CE'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
lance to the east Late last night 8 O.
Greer, travelling for Donaldson 4 Ogden of
st. Paul, came from Rice's to St Cloud and
Informed PIONEER PRESS reporter that tho
cyclone had demolished house about four
miles east of that station, where wedding
party was in progress, aud nearly all the
guests were killed or badly wounded The
news was brought into Rices 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 couple Of physicians started
oug W tuc piuCS, WucIe uOIIlUle SlSuG 1ueG
their gaze. The dead we're strewn about for
distance of fully COO feet 1t was found
that sixteen were dead, and since then it is
said that six more have died. The details at
this writing are very meagcr, aud cannot be
obtained. us the telegraph wires arc all
down. DR. W. W. Day of st Paul was de-
tailed to visit house about milo from
hero to see family that had been
injured Their name was Junncmann Tho
man was dead and tho wife seriously in
jured. 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
tonishing. A house on one side of it was
carried of, and another on the opposite side
Of The hospital completely demolished, but
the home Of the sick was not in any way in
jured. There were numerous
WONDERFUL AND THRILLING ESCAPES