Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-15
AWFUL CYCLUNE!
At Least Thirty Persons Believed
to Have Been Killed.
More than Forty Unfortunates
Injured, and
Over One Hundred and Fifty
Houses LsveIsd
At st. Cloud and Sank Rapids,
Minnesota.
The Utmost Panic and Horror
Prevailing.
A Special Train Of Physicians and
Surgeons
Sent From St. "Details of
the Disaster.
At st. Cloud and Sank Rapids,
Minnesota.
The Utmost Panic and Horror
Prevailing.
A Special Train of Physicians and
Surgeons
Sent From st. PauI---Details of
the Disaster.

ST. Paul. April l4.-St. Cloud and
Sank Rapids were swept BY terribly de-
structive cy clone about $50 this afternoon,
The frat knowledge Of the disaster was
contained in the following telegram sent
to Mayor Ames from St. Cloud, asking for
help:
"76 Mayor AmeS, Minneapolis:
"a destructive cyclone passed over St.
Cloud and Sank Rapids late this afternoon.
There has been destruction here. Please
sand up all the assistance you can at once
by special train. Ssnd physicians and
surgeons"
kilograms to the following effect were
read from Sank R.pids:
"T0 Mayor .AmeS, Minneapolis:
Can you send special train with phyo'
clans to this city. A cyclone passed over
this city this evening. A great many are
believed to have been killed. but the num-
Der is not yet known.
Signed SANK RAPIDS.
Immediately on receipt of these MESA
ges preparations were made to respond to
the cal for help. A train for st. Cloud
left at Elk o'clock. The information at
hand is very meagre aud sensational re-
ports are current that one hundred people
are killed. l. is believed
AT LEAST FORTY PERSONS HAVE BEEN KILLED
and about seventy.6ve wounded, but it is
impossible to get much information as yet
All is excitement and the streets are filled
with men and frightened women and chill
dren. The disaster is certainly appalling
as nearly ss can be learned. Scores OF
houses have been entirel wrecked The
city Is full Of rumors and it is very difficult
70 obtain reliable news. The storm
struck St. Cloud between the round
house aud the freight depot, and swept
path sixty yards vide through the city,
leveling between $50 and 200 houses. N
Il. Clark, q we'll known lumbermsn, who
lives in St. Cloud, says ninety persons were
killed in that city and more than 100 in.
jured, many very serious. Superintendent,
Wakemsn OF the Manitoba road, says that
between thirty and forty persons were kill
ed at Sank Rapids, small town
on the Manitoba AMI Northern Pacific
road few m les southeast Of st. Cloud,
and nearly double that number injured.
The telegraph wires northwest OF this city
are all down and 10 news direct from either
St. Cloud or Sank Rapids he's heen re
ceived since eeven o'clock. A terrible
thunder storm passed over St. Paul and
Minneapolis about six o clock and heavy
hail storm followed, though OF but short
duration. 10 fact, one storm cloud
after another has swept across the
State ever since last evening, and the rain
fall has been heavy. Near Fergus Falls
q house was shivered By lightning, and
Clement Crogan and hired man severely
injured. Several times lightning struck
in Minneapolis, terrifying people, but so
far as heard doing no particular damage
The storm is the worst knosn in the State
siuce 1854, when Rochester AID Elgin
were devastated BY tornado.
Thirty Killed, Forty.Fivo Injured.
ST.. PAUL, April l4-Latest reports
from the cyclone gives the number CT kill.
ed in ST. Cloud as ft cen, and injured
about twenty FIVE, and 81 Sank Rapids &C.
teen killed and twenty injured. Another
terrific thunder storm is now prevailing
here, which isserferes greatly with the
wireS.