The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-04-22
CYCLONE.
A Frightful Calamity Befalls st. Cloud
Sauk Rapids and Rice's
Station.
ACyclone of Tremendous Power Sweeps
Through the Towns, Destroying
All in Its Path.
Twenty-Five or Thirty Persons Killed
and Hundred Injured at Sauk
Rapids.
ST. CLOUD DEVASTATED.

ST. CLouD. Special Telegram, Al Ill Ii
ST. Cloud cannot longer congratulate itself |
upon being north of the track of cyclones,
for it was this afternoon swept by one of
the most horrible tornadoes in the history of
Minnesota Sharp points were first seen to
dart down from the clouds. and so far as this
town is concerned the cyclone had its COM
mencement about ) O'Clock in the basin of
the Masonic cemetery, forming whirlwind
here about thousand feet in diameter 1t
took almost every tree in its circle from the
ground or twisted it off at the trunk
Great stones were torn up from the
earth and dragged along. Moving slowly
from here and contining itself TO
a space of 100 feet across, it passed north
east over Calvary hill, wrecking the Catho
lie chapel and shattering the crucitix. The
first house taken was Nick Jumemann's, ana
it entered the city at John W. Tennfords
place, taking the rear part of the house, and,
crossing ST Gerlnain street, completely de-
molished John Schwartz's large brick house
From here it swept straight across the
prairie, scattering fifty or more smaller frame
houses like so many feathers. In most cases
nothing was left to mark the site of dwell
ings but the cellars The prairies were
strewn with timbers, furniture and cloth
ing.
DAMAGE TO THE MANITOBA PROPERTY
The freight depot of the Manitoba railway
was directly in its path, and portions of il
and the cars on the track were blown half 4
mile Long lines of ears loaded with freight
were blown from the track and the rails
wrenched from place. 1t passed the limits
of the town Just west OF Lieut. Gov. Gilman
residence, taking part of his fence and kill
ing horses. 1t crossed the Mississippi at the
Sauk Rapids wagon bridge, taking the two
east spans 1t here widened to 60a feet
Stanton's grist mills took the full force, and
were leveled The cyclone swept from there
through the center of the town, taking the best
of the business part of it, including Berg's
hardware store, Beaupre Bros. grocery, the
court house and hotel near by, the public
school building, part of the brewery, and
every important business house in the city
except G. G Woods store. The village is
virtually wiped out of existence, four-tifUhs
of the buildings being leveled The course
of the storm through St Cloud was wit
messed by hundreds of citizens There had
been short sharp showers during the past
twenty-four hours and warm south wind
blowing at the time. The clouds were seen
20 form just southwest of the city-dark,
overhanging masses Then
SHARP TONGUES OF LIGHTNING
darted down, and the terrible whirlwind be-
gan its fatal course, passing along slowly
and majestcally Whenever any warning
could be given all escaped safely, but in
most instances nothing was known OF the
approaching destroyer until its awful roar
was heard too late tor flight The part of
the town struck was that of the poorer resi-
dents living in clumps of small frame houses,
often several families being in one house.
The men were nearly all laborers or railroad
men and away at their work, and only the
women and children left in the houses The
fatalities in ST Cloud though great, are not
equal in number to those in Sauk Rapids,
but q complete list there cannot now be OBJ
tanned In every house almost all the in
mates were more or less hurt, and their es-
capes from death were marvellous.
THE ST. CLOUD FATALITIES
Mrs. STEIN widow.
Mrs. STRAUSS
MINNIE STEIN, ten years old.
Mrs. TREMP MEHAN wife of railroad laborer
JACOB SHORTRIDGE.
NICK JIMNEMANN. an old farmer.
Mrs. WEISMANN, an old lady.
Son of b. o. 3ERSKE, four years old.
JOE GINSkOFFSKI, seven years old.
JOSEPH c. and MARY ZINs, little girl
VAN HOESEN, railroad laborer
AUGUST KROLLS baby.
F. ANDREWS of Owatonna, supposed to be
travelling teacher of penmanship.
Fifteen dead are known so far.
THE sAUK RAPIDS VICTIMS.
The following were killed at Sauk Rapids
Baby of AUGUST KROLL.
J. BERG merchant, and two children.
JOHN KENAIsD county auditor.
GEORGE LINDLEY. county treasurer.
Two children of c. G. WOOD, merchant.
ABNER ST. CYR fatally hurt
Child of P CARPENTER. clerk of court.
P. BEAUPRE. judge of probate, badly hurt.
WRECKED HOUSES IN ST. CLOUD
The houses wrecked in this city were
Nick Junemann's farm house and barn, total
W. Tenford, frame house, partial.
John Schwartz, large brick, total
John Plates brick house. partial.
Nike Moos. Jacob Brown. Mike Wesmann,
Chris Putz, each small house, total
John Bluntenburg, frame, unroofed.
Joseph Dueber, frame, total.
Frank Knuth frame, total.
Anton Klouskowsdi, Boniface Omerski, Frank
Doder. Martin Yangelski, each frame house,
total
J. O. shindIer large frame, unroofed. and barn
wrecked.
Frank Guiskoffski. Mrs. Stein, George Kos
kowski, Mrs. Streitz, William Bennewtz, Mat
Brautry Ed Atkins p. Waldorf, Bartel Tehr E.
c. Getchell each frame total.
Manitoba freight depot total loss: twenty or
thirty freight cars, flats and boarding cars,
badly damaged. Manitoba carpenter shops and
roll mills. unroofed.
George Doerr, Fritz Johnson Bernard Scharla,
Christian Fisher, William Meilke, e. Budler, s..
Siebold, z. Bentler, Mike Mocrt, John WINNER
J. p Martin, Andrew Press. Mrs. Gins Thomas
Knifkoffski, John Kempers, William Trattman,
Sebastian Klal, August Kroll, Aneil Kraser. Peter
Benewitz, Mrs. Gerard, Joseph Wegeler. Messrs.
Keocher and Kobel, each lost a dwelling house,
all frame.
Koechler & Kobels cooper shop. total wreck.
The total loss of property in St Cloud can
not be far from S6O,OOO
THE NUMBER OF WOUNDED
may be even higher than forty A good
days work will be necessary to get anything
like a correct list of the dead and wounded
1t Is an Impossible task tonight Every
thing is excitement and confusion, and one
can hardly tell who was his next door neigh
Dor. The Grand Central hotel at midnight
is filed with people discussing the awful
event, and rumors from the surrounding
country are coming in about disasters to
life and property, but little Of reliable
character, however, can be cleaned. Tom
Van Etten of Sauk Rapids, who weighs owe,
500 pounds, was picked up bodily and car.
ried some 400 feet He was badly bruised
but not seriously injured He was covered