The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-05-06

| packages OF groceries IN all parts or the
township. The tin roof of the bank was
blown clear to Rich Prarie, twenty miles
away, and several box cares standing on
! the railroad tracks were twisted from
their trucks and sent whirling through
the air for half a mile or more.
Little Louisa Carpenter, of the town,
was playing in her yard with her baby
sister when she saw the death dealing
cloud approaching. Selling the little
one she ran for the house, but just as she
entered the door, where she was met by
her mother, a splinter, flying straight as
an arrow, pierced her through and through
The mother carriedlboth children to the
cellar, and, STOPPING over little Louisa,
was just in time to hear the brave child
whisper: "I'm dying, mamma, but l
saved the baby" She lived but few
minutes.
Thomas Van Etten, of this town, was
going home when the storm broke. He
tried in vain to cling to the earth, was
picked up, whirled round and round, and
finally, after having gone whizzing
through the air for six hundred yards,
was landed in his own dooryard, sadly
dis6gured but not dangerously hurt. He
said it seemed to be raining crockery,
furniture and lumber.
Clarence Carr was putting his horses
in the stable, and had noticed nothing
peculiar about the weather. He remem-
bers tremendous crash, and then lost
consciousness. When he came to his
senses he was hanging across barb wire
fence mile away from home.
Prof. Keiser, of the st. Cloud high
school, was hanging on to tree when he
saw q child coming toward him in the air.
At the risk of his own life he let 60 OF
his anchorage, and caught the little one
on the fly. She proved to be Mary Mil
Ter.
The iron bridge at this point, which
weighed hundreds of tons, was carried
clear over the town, and dropped iu the
country some distance on the other side.
Dispatches from Brainerd, sixty miles
away, state that dead chickens to the
number of dozen or more fell in the
streets of that city soon after the bursting
of the storm here.
Twenty-Five miles Northeast of ST.
Cloud, at Little Falls, child's dress
covered with blood Aultered down into
Que of the principal business streets
several hours before the people knew
that tornado had been raging here.
Harry Gilbert, travelling salesman,
had his sample trunk open in St. Cloud
store. The rear of the building cayed in
and he grabbed the safe. When the
excitement subsidized he found himself
unipjured, but his trunk had disappeared
through the front, as had nearly all o.
the merchants stock of goods.
Dozens of the wounded have both legs
and both arms broken, while their skin
is blown full of sand. 1t is the opinion
of the surgeons that rs per cent. of the
injured will die.
All who wero out of the track Of the
storm, and who had an opportunity tic
witness it, declare that the funnel
moved very slowly, sometimes appearing
almost to stop, and then resuming its
career, with rotary motion. When il
struck building it was raised high.
The depot sign, "sauk Rapids was
carried thirteen miles away, in the di.
rection of Rice's.
Erasmus Cross, of this city, had sever.
al carloads of hams at the depot ready tc
ship up the road. The tornado destroyed
the cars and scooped up the hams as il
would SO many chips, and that is the
last he has seen of them. Information
from points twenty, thirty and forty miles
North and East of hore is to the effect
that it rained hams in that region for ar
hour after the storm had spent its force
One man, farmer named Judson, who
was driving homo six miles the Other
side of Rice's, was hit on the back with 8
ham and knocked breathless. When be
came to himself he found the meat in hi:
wagon. box, and took it home.
The telegraph lines and poles were
prostrated for miles. Some of the pole!
were cut off SO clean that they look as i
they had been sawed. Others were
ground to splinters, and the few tina
remain standing fairly bristle with sliyer
about the size of toothpicks that were
driyen into them. Some of the pole
have been driven into the ground i,
places remote from their original location
and others were blown clear through
barns and hay.stacks.
Lieut.. Governor Gilman's house was o
heavy hewn timber, built especial!
to withstand tornadoes, and it passet
through the ordeal bravely, suffering
nothing more serious than few broker
windows. His yard, however, was liter
ally covered with lumber of every descrip
ton, and he will have kindling woot
enough to last him . year.
Three or four men who were following
the track of the storm yesterday noticed
what appeared to bea bundle of clothing
in patch Of woods about mile and
half from hero, The object was partl.
; concealed by the underground, but
more careful inspection disclosed tn
presence of little girl who had beer
shockingly manned and bruised. The.
brought her to Sauk Rapids, where sh
was identified as Annie Zens, a chill
whose parents had both been killed
She has not regained consciousness, an'
it is hardly possible for her to recover
She must have been carried the eutir
distance by the wind.
Baidas, taylor, had hanging in hi
shop a new suit of clothes that he ha