The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-04-15
DETAILS OF THE DISASTER.

ST. PAUL, MINI, April l4.-St. Cloud
and Sauk Rapids were swept by ter
ribly destructive cyclone about s 80
o'clock this afternoon. The first
knowledge of the disaster was con-
tanned in the following telegram sent
to Mayor Ames from st. Cloud, asking
for help:
ITO Mayor Ames, Minneapolis:
"a destructive cyclone passed over
st. Cloud and Sauk Rapids late this
afternoon. There has been terrible
destruction here. Please send up all
the assistance you can Immediately,
by special train. Send physicians
and surgeons"
kilograms to the following effect
were received from Sauk Rapids:
ITO Mayor Amos, Minneapolis;
Can you send special train with
physicians to this city? A cyclone
passed over this city this afternoon.
A great many are believed to have
been killed, but the number is not yet
known. sAUK RAPIDS
SENSATIONAL REPORTS
Immedi tely upon the receipt Of
these messages, preparations were
made to respond to the call for help,
A train for st. Cloud left at 6 O'Clock.
The information at hand is very
meagre and sensational reports are
current that 100 people were killed.
It is believed ut least forty persons
have been xii ed and about seventy
i've wounded, but it is impossible to
get much information as yet All is
excitement, and the streets are filed
With excited men and frightened
women and children.
THE DISASTER
s certainly appalling. As nearly as
;an be learned, scores OF houses have
)een entirely wrecked The following
physicians were aboard the relief train
which left for st. Cloud: Drs. Ames,
Kilvington, Freeman, Quinby, Lee,
| Cody, Bunker, Gibson, Hosslin, Allen
and Van Cleve. The city is full of
rlmors, and it is very difficult to OBJ
tain reliable news. The storm struck
st. Cloud between the rOuDd-hOuse
and the fright depot, and swept
path 900 yards wide through the city,
leveling between $50 and POO houses,
n. H Clark a well-known lumberman,
who lives in st. Cloud, says ninety
persons " killed in that city and
/ more than hundred injured, many
very seriously. Superintendent Wake
man of the Manitoba road says be.
tween thirty and forty persons were
killed at Sauk Rapids, small town
on the Manitoba and Northern Pacific
road, few miles southeast OF st.
Cloud, and nearly double that number
injured. The telegraph wires north
west of this city are all down, and no
news direct from either st. Cloud or
Sauk Rapids has been received since
o'clock.
A TERRIFIC THUNDBR.sToRM
passed over st. Paul and Minneapolis
about 6 o'clock, and. a heavy hail
storm followed, though of short dura.
ton. In fact, one 5orm-cloud after
another has swept across the State
since last evening, and the rainfall
has been heavy Near Fergus Falls a
house was struck by lightning, and
Clement Crogan and a hired man
were severely injured Several times
lightning struck in Minneapolis, terri
flying people, but, SC far as learned,
doing no particular damage. The
storm is the worst known in the State
since 1883, when Rochester and Elgin
were devastated by tornado,
LATEST REPoRTs.
Latest reports from the cyclone give
number OF killed in st. Cloud as
fifteen, and injured about twenty-five,
and at Sauk Rapids fifteen killed and
twenty injured. Another terrific
thunder storm is now prevailing here,
which interferes great y with the
wires.