St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-15
HELP FROM ST. PAUL.
Physicians Sent TO the Stricken
Cities--In the Mayors Office.

Physicians Sent TO the Stricken
Cities--In the Mayors Office.
The first official announcement of the great
cyclone disaster at st. Cloud and Sauk Rapids
yesterday afternoon was a brief dispatch
sent by the mayor of st. Cloud to Mayor Rice
of this city, asking for physicians and sur
geons to care for the injured and wounded
residents of those two places. The dispatch
was sent from st. Cloud at 5:I6 o'clock and
reached the mayor of st. Paul some fourteen
minutes afterwards. The dispatch, asking
for help, was as fellows:
st. Cloud, Mimi, April II.
To Edmund Rice, mayOr.-Can you send
special with physicians from your city to
this place and Sauk Rapids? Cyclone passed
over these cities this afternoon, and unknown
numbers are killed and injured.
ID. I. CALHOUN, mayor.
Mayor Rice at the hour of its arrival had
left his Office and was found at his resi-
dence. He communicated with the officers
of the Manitoba road, who, being apprised
of the calamity, had anticipated the re-
quest by having a special train in
readiness to depart for the two cities.
Mayor Rice Immediately telegraphed to
Mayor Calhoun announcing the fact that
train with the desired physicians would
leave for st. Cloud as soon as possible.
Messengers were sent out, and in a short
time DR.. Ancker, city physician, DR.. Muir
ply, surgeon for the Manitoba road, Drs.
SimonS, Abbott, Day and DenslOw and
Lieut.. Sedgwich Rice, the mayors son.
The train with the six physicians left the
depot at $50 o'clock. In addition to the
medical occupants of the train were Lieut..
Gov. Charles A. Gilman and ex-State Sena-
tor Macdonald and wife, three residents of
St Cloud who had been in st. Paul spend
ing the day. They had heard of the disaster,
but were not acquainted with the details,
and were naturally very anxious to get
back to their homes and learn the
particulars. Gov. Gilman expressed great
fear that his elegant home Just out of the
city of st. Cloud and on the river bank had
suffered some of the i'll effects of the cy-
clone, although he dared not admit even to
himself that any of his family had been in
jured. Ex-senator Macdonald is the ed
itOr of the st. Cloud Times, and is one of
the federal officers of that place. Gov.
Gilman telegraphed to Anoka, asking that
all the physicians of that place, who could
be gathered, should be ready to take the
train on to st. Cloud.
On the regular evening train on the Man
itOba road, which left the ST. Paul union
depot at $50 o'clock. Health Officer Jones
of this city took his departure for
THE ILL-FATED CITIES.
Mayor Rice telegraphed the mayor OF st.
Cloud on the departure of the special train
and requested further information of the
disaster, and also desired to know if st.
Paul could serve the wounded or homeless
people OF st. Cloud or Sauk Rapids in any
other way. The hours passed and not
line or word was received from either the
officials of st. Cloud or the members of the
party. 1t was soon discovered that the
storm had demoralized the telegraph wires
between st. Cloud and the rest of the
world, and it was found next to impossible
to get messages or receive them. 1t be-
came nOised about that the cyclone had Wis
tied those places, and friends and relatives
of those living in either st. Cloud or Sauk
Rapids visited not only the Western Union
telegraph office but also the railroad offices
to learn some of the particulars of the mis-
Eap.
Mayor Rice with his private secretary,
Horace Dunno, took up his position in his
Office so as 10 be readiness to render anv as
slStance that might be asked for by the of
fcialS or the destroyed cities. He remained
until late in the night Many men called
on this paper during the evening to gain
some information of the cyclone. \ few
had some information to impart. George
Lamb announced that he had been informed
L..
placed the killed at SO. the wounded at 132
and the houses destroyed at 157. Later
IN the night Peter Badly,
the agent of the Pennsylvania
Life Insurance company, came up with Ed
die Halbert, young boy who resides on
Ashland avenue. He said that he
had received a dispatch from Will |
lam Haywood, proprietor of the Grand
Central hotel at st. Cloud, which
contained the intelligence that E. G. Hal !
bert, the father of the young boy. had been |
very seriously injured. and was uncOn-
sciOus. The dispatch failed to tell the ma
ture of Mr.. Halbert's injuries. The two |
called for the purpose of gaining additional |
information of the character of Mr.. Hal |
oerts injuries before communicating the |
sad intelligence to Mrs. Halbert, who was |
ignorant of her husbands condition.
Mr.. HOlbert is the manager of the New /
1Ork Life Insurance company for Mime |
sofa and Dakota, and resides with his fam
lily on Ashland avenue. He visited st. |
Cloud on last Monday on business con-
nected with the local Office at that point /
and remained over until to-day. He was a
guest of the Grand Central hotel.
The Run From ~. Paul to st. Cloud.
The run of the train from St. Paul was
an exciting one. The skies hung low with
clouds as black as the curtains of Kedar
and ZigZag streaks OF lightning made wild
riffs in the black pail, while peals of
thunder too deep TO be drowned by the roar
of the car wheels shook the air. The air
drove torrent of hail and rain with suffi-
cient force to almost break the car win
dows. Undaunted through battling the
elements the locomotive drove at the rate
of thirty-five miles an hour. Along the
road signs of terrible storms were apparent
on either hand, and streams, turbid and
swollen, had burst over the confines of
their banks and covered the prairies until
the country had the appearance of world
Of angry waters.