Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-04-15
Destructive CYCLONE,
81. Cloud, Sauk Rapids, and Rice
station, Minn., Visited.
over q Hundred Persons Killed and
Twice that Number Injured.
Nearly all the Houses Leyelled to the
1rcund-Assistance Sent from
Minneapolis.
ST. PyUL. MINI April IL

4.
St. Cloud and Sank Rapids was swent nv
terribly destructive cyclone about 80 p
NJ The first knowledge of the disaster was
contained IN the following telegram to Mayor
Ames from St. Cloud:
Mayor Ames, Minnea polis.-A destruc.
i've u cyclone passed over St. Cloud and Sauk
haplos late this afternoon. There has been
terrible destruction here. Please send up
si' Tue assistance you can by special train
oend physicians and surgeons"
Ielesrams to the following effect have
oeen received from Sauk Rapids:
10 Mayor Ames-"Can you send special
tram with physicians to this city? A cvclene
passed over this city this afternoon. great
many are believed to have been killed. but
the number is not yet known.
Immediately upon the receipt of these mes
sages preparations were made to respond to
the call for help. A train for St Cloud left
at 6 O'clock
Private advices say the storm struck the
railroad between the round house and freight
depot and swept path 900 yards wide through
the city, levelling between $50 and 2OC
houses. NJ. II. Clark, well known lumber
man, who lives in st. Cloud, says 80 persons
were Killed in that city and more than 100
injured, many very seriously.
ouPt. .NdhVI vi lHe mdDlODd TOa1
says between 80 and 40 persons were killed
at Sank Rapids. few miles southeast of St.
Cloud, and nearly double that amount in
jured.
The telegraph wires northwest of this citv
are all down and no news has been received
from either St. Cloud and Sauk Rapids or
are obtanable since Z o'clock
CHICAGO, April IA.
The Inter Oceans St. Paul, Mimi, spec
ial, referring to the ST. Cloud cyclone. says
The cyclone began about 3 o'clock in the
basin of the Masonic cemetery, forming a
whrlwind about 1000 feet in diameter. 1t
took almost every tree from the ground OF
twisted it of at the trunk. Great stones were
torn up and carried along with the wind
moving slowly in a northeasterly direction
1t wrecked the Catholic chapel and
houses in its course across the
prairie to the adjoining town. 1t completely
demolished J. Schwartz large brick house
and scattered so or more smaller frame
houses like chaff In NEST cases nothing was
LETT to mark the site of the dwellings but the
cellars. The prairies are strewn with lum-
Der, furniture and clothing. The freight
depot of the Manitoba was a total wreck
Numerous cars loaded with freight were
blown half mile and rails were wrenched
mum thS tiSo' IL poSoCu tuS iihiils VI tht
town just west of Lieut.. Gov. Gilman's res
idence, killing several horses, aud crossed
the Mississippi. At Sauk Rapids a wagon
bridge was demolished and Stanton's girls,
mill leveled. From there it swept through
the centre of the town taking the best bust
ness portion, including the court house, pub
lie school and every important business build
ing in town The village is virtually wiped
out. four ffths of the buildings in it being
levelled.
The fatalities in ST. Cloud though great are
not equal in number to those in Sauk Rapids
In every house the inmates are more or less
injured The dead at st. Cloud, so far as
known are as follows: N. Kunkman, Mrs
Wieseman and little girl, four-year-old son
of B. o. Weiski, seven-year-old son of f
Gunskotfski. Mrs. Stein, four-year old son OF
7. Waldorf, S. A. Young, J. Vsn Horsen
two young children of NJ. Ceno and baby
of August Knolls.
The dead at Sauk river, as far as heard
from are J. Bergand and his two children
Jno Kernard, Geo. Lindsey, two children OF
C. S. Wood, Edgar Holt, Abner Stir, child
of F. Carpenter and Judge Beaupree. From
Sauk Rapids the storm went to Rice Station
Berton county, demolishing the village anc
killing or injurng nearly the entire popula
ton. The wires are all down and no definite
information is obtainable from there.