The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-04-22
TERRIBLE STORM.

ST. PAUL, MINI, April 14.-St Cloud and Sank
Rapids were swept by a terribly destructive cy
clone about $50 O'Clock this afternoon The frs
knowledge of the disaster was contained in the
following telegram sent to Mayor Ames, from st
Cloud, asking for help:
"To Mayor Ames, Minneapolis
"A destructive cyclone passed over st Clout
and Sauke Rapids late this afternoon. There has
been terrible destruction here. Please send ND al
the assistance you can Immediately by spccia
train. Send physicians and surgeons
kilograms to the following effect were received
| from Sauke Rapids
"To Mayor Ames, Minneapolis:
"Can you send a special train with
physicians to this city. cyclone is passing over
this city. A great many are believed to have been
killed, but the number is not known
Immediately upon receipt of the messages pre-
parations made to respond to the call for help
and train for st. Cloud left at O'Clock
information at hand is very meagre and sensa-
tlona reports are current that hundred people are
killed. 1t is believed that at least forty persons
have been killed and about seventy-tive wounded.
but 1t is impossible to get much information AS
vet all is excitement and the streets are filled with
excited men and frightened women and children
The disaster s certainly appalling. As nearly as
can be learned, scores of houses have been entirely
wrecked. The city is full of rumurs and it is yery
difficult to obtain reliable news
The storm struck st. Cloud between the round
house and freight depot and swept path GOO feet
wide through the city, leveling between $50 and
200 houses n. Clarkwe the well known Inn.
herman, who lives in St Cloud, says that 30 per.
sons were killed in that city and more than 100 in
cured, many very seriously. Superintendent
Wakeman, says between 30 and 40 persons were
killed at Sauke Rapids, small town on the Mani
toba ~ Northern Pacific, five miles southeast of
st. Cloud, and nearly double that number were in
jured. w III
The telegraph wires northwest of the ctv are
down and no news direct from either St Cloud or
Sauke Rapids has been received since o'clock
terrific thunderstorm passed over St Paul and
Minneapolis about O'Clock, and heavy hail
storm followed, though of short duration In fact,
one storm cloud after another has swpnt across
the state since last evening" and the rain fall has
been heavy.
Near Fergus Falls house was struck by LIGHT
ming and Clement CrCgan and hired man Sc
yerely injured Several times lghtning struck in
Minneapolis, terrifying the people, but so far ms
learned doing no particular damage. The storm is
the worst known since 1888, when Rochester and
Elgin were devastated by tornado.
VERY LATEST.
ST. PAUL. April --latest reports from the cy-
clone give the number of killed in st. cloud rs
nfteen, ana injured about Twenty-Five and at Sauke
RAPIDS, fifteen killed and twenty injured. Another
terrific thunder storm is now prevailing here
which interferes greatly with the wires
BULLETIN.
MTNNEAPoLIs. April 14.-Reports are inst re
ceiVed of terrific cyclone at st Cloud this after
noon, in which forty were killed and seventv-fye
were injured, and half of the town laid waste
There, are rumors that Sauke Rapids, near St
Cloud. also Suffered. DR.. Aimes, MAYOR of This
city, and staff of lzen physicians are Just leay
inc on special train for st. Cloud, in answer to
for assistance.