The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-04-21

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Governor Hubbard tonight received the
following message from State Senator Buck
man:
sAUK RAPIDS MINI.
Our town is in ruins Send usaid.
lSigned) BuCKkAN.
Governor Hubbard at once sent messages
to the Mayors of all cities and large towns in
the State, asking that steps be taken at once
to secure money and things needed, and for
ward them as speedily as possible to Senator
Buckman, for the destitute.
A brief dispatch has Just been received
saying that between forty and nifty
ruins at st. Cloud, and the search is
not completed. The town presents a scene
of the utmost desolation seen by the light
Of Pickering lanterns, and the groans of the
wounded and lamentations OF those who
have lost relatives are heartrending in the
extreme. Not before daylight viii the full
extent of the havoc be known.
Among the injured is ex-senator Hulburt,
formerly of Blnghamton, N. Y. He Is not
expected to live.
ST. PAUL, April 15, Noon.-The reports of
the cyclone at st. Cloud, Sauk Rapids, Rice
Station, and other stations in the vicinity
last night and early this morning were not
exaggerated.
At 8 o'clock this morning in the places
named, there were forty-nine dead and nearly
200 injured, with many still missing, whose
bodies will probably be recovered to-day.
Just enough houses are left in Sauk
Rapids to form fringe around the village
limits.
The debris is not piled in heaps, but scat
tered far and wide. The sign ''Sauk Rap
ids in the Manitoba Depot and basket
full of books, were found in Rice Station,
fifteen miles distant. This shows the terri
bic power of the storm.
No reports have yet been received from
outlying districts, where it is believed great
destruction of property and loss of life have
been wrought.
The storm extended from jamestown, OAK,
through Minnesota and into Wisconsin,
though its most disastrous effects are to be
| found IN the three places first named.
The City Council this morning voted s., 600
| in cash to aid the cyclone sufferers and
| Governor Hubbard dispatched a carload of
| provisions to SaHk Rapids. The car was ac-
| companied by Committee of the Jobbers'
Union, who will offer all assistance in their
| power.
| evening by special train to st. Cloud, re-
| turned this morning. Upon reaching st.
Cloud he said, physicians from ST. Paul and
| Minneapolis divided, part going to Sauk
| Rapids. DR.. Denslow was on the force to the
| st. Benedictine Sisters Hospital, and they
were busy until o'clock this morning.
| Fully twenty-five injured were taken to the
| hospital alone, and he did not know how
many more were cared for in private houses.
Two of those taken to the hospital will very
| probably die. One is a woman, who has a
| broken collar bone; both bones of the left
forearm and both bones of the left leg frac-
| tured, all comminuted, and the pelvis
broken-an accident seldom chronicled in
surgery; her head and face is bruised beyond
| recognition, yet, strange to say, the woman
| is conscious and talked freely, saying her hip
hurt some, but otherwise she felt no pain.
| The other probably fatal case is that
/ of young lady twenty years = old.
both legs being so badly crushed
that they had TO be amputated midway be-
| tween the knee and thigh One man lying
| in the hospital badly injured, said three OF
| his children were dead. Another man in
the next cot to him responded, saying his
| wife and three children were killed by the
storm. Three little boys, about six years
old, were brought in at midnight, wounded
| cruelty. A woman was found with piece
| of the scalp, large as mans hand, torn from
her head and hanging by shreds.
Drs. Denslow and Richie shortly after
midnight went across to Sauk Rapids to rem
| der what assistance they could there. Twen-
ty-three dead bodies mad then been found,
and doctors from Minneapolis are caring for
4 the injured.