St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-15

shattered to bits at st. Cloud by a cyclone.
This was about o'clock. In short time
there were a hundred stories afioat, many
of which were probably exaggerated.
Meantime reports at the railroad tele-
graph offices and the fact that the wires
were found to be out of working order, in
dicated that there had been considerable 9
damage to wires and force of six or eight
Inemen went out on the special. 1t was
very difficult to confirm any of the rumors
that were caught flying.
The Western Union Office reported but
one wire working, and owing TO the violence
OF the thunder storm, that was in a very
unsatisfactory condition.
Last evening the night operator in the
Northern Pacific train dispatcher's Office
said that all the wires were in bad shape.
His company had asked for one from the
Western Union, but that company could
not not furnish one. He said that he had
heard from some wire passing through his
Office, message that twelve men had been
taken from under tha wreck of the Mani
toOa roundhOuse at Sauk Rapids. 1t had
been rumored earlier in the evening that
Northern Pacific train had been wrecked
by the storm, but this, the train dispatcher
said, was not so.
The Manitoba company received a dis
patch that the depot and offices at East st.
Cloud had been wrecked. The roundhouse.
however, had not been in the path of the
cyclone. As to the loss of life, they had
adVlces that thirteen had perished each at
Sauk Rapids and st. Cloud. The terrible
thunder storm all the first half of the night
prevented even such wires as might be up
from working satisfactorily. And
as the night was so dark and the
storm so bad, it was not expected that much
could be done toward repairing them. The
special which left the union depot at $50
would be due at st. Cloud at $3.50.
A passenger who came down on the Man.
ltoba road, to within few miles of st.
Paul Is reported to have said that he saw in
the rear OF the train, after it had passed
st. Cloud, signs of the tornado. He had
seen huge black cloud which seemed to
sWoop down to the earth. Reports as to
the number of killed and injured varied at
every corner, 1t was at first said that 100
had been killed, but where this started no
one knows.
An official at the Union depot said the
reports he had were that thirteen had been
killed at Sauk Rapids and fifteen at st.
Cloud, while the number of wounded
could only be estimated.
a gentleman was heard to remark at the
Merchants hotel that the path of the cy-
clone had been 800 feet wide, and its
course had been some three or four miles
long. This, he said, he learned from a
man in Minneapolis, who had been on the
Manitoba train, coming this way.
G. H. Dixon of the Associated Press, at 9
o'clock, said that his latest information was
that thirty-nine had been killed at Sauk
Raplds and about the same number at st.
Cloud, and that the loss of property had
been terrible.
Il never remember of cyclone north of st.
Paul, said Mayor Rice referring to the st.
Cloud disaster, st. Cloud being directly north,
land have lived here for thirty-seyen years
remember three. The first was in 1914 at
Langdon, small station fifteen miles south
OF here. The cyclone took up all the water
IN little lake at that point, divested the
chlckens of their plumage and left them
without feather. A large timber was car
ried some seven miles and landed in Wiscon-
SIN. 1t carried a small cottage and injured
the old woman who happened to be within.
''The next was the New Ulm cyclone of1SS2,
which was very severe affair and resulted
IN the loss of many lives, as did the cyclone
of 1888 at Rochester. have an indistinct
recollection of cyclone at Mendoza, but do
not recall it sufficiently to give its date or
particulars
In the signal Office no report of the wind
storm had been received. 'tAs we have no
station at either of the wrecked cities" said
Mr.. Salisbury, the deputy observer, I'VE shall
PROBABLY get no direct report. 1t will be
sent direct to Washington. The day is one
with such atmospheric conditions as are usu-
ally noticed when cyclones appear. The tenn
perature was high and the pressure low, Mr.
Lyons and myself had been speaking of the
Iact early In the afternoon. and he had re-
marked that it would not be strange if a ey.
clone should be heard of before night"
a report was in circulation early in the
evening that the residence of Lieut.5 Gov
Gilman had been wrecked, but dispatches re-
eeIved direct deny this, though it appears
that the house had but little margin from the
track of the wind. 1t was also reported that
the Catholic cathedral had been one of the
wrecked building.
GOV. Hubbard last evening received tele-
gram from the mayor of st. Cloud asking for
help for the sufferers. No particulars as TO
the extent of the destruction was stated,
The telegram was turned over to Mayor Rice
VINO VIII probably take action in the matter
TINS morning. Gov. Hubbard will go to the
stricken cities this morning