New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-04-21

nay be even higher than forty good
| days wozk beinecessary to get anything
| like correct list.of the dead and wounded
It is an impossible task tonight Every
thing is excitement and confusion, and one
can hardly tell who was his next door neigh.
! Dor. ThetGrand Central hotel at midnight
is filed with people discussing the awful
event. and rumors from the surrounding
country are coming in about disasters to
| life and property, but little of a reliable
character, however, can be CLEANED Tom
| Van Etten of Sank Rapids who weighs over
300 pounds, was picked up bodily and car
ried some 400 feet He was badly bruised,
but not seriously injured He was covered
from head to foot with yellow mud The
depot sign, eSauk Rapids" was found
at Rice's, thirteen miles away, and
also basket full of law books
from the same place. The air was.full of
flying boards and timbers at Rices. carried
by the cyclone from Sank Rapids. Andrews,
employed as clerk on the boarding car of
the Manitoba road, had his skull crushed in
by heavy timber, and he was past all aid
He was in the boarding. car, which was
standing on the track near the freight house,
with several other at the time, and the car
was completely demolished and all of the oc-
cupants either
KILLED OR SERIOUSLY WOUNDED.
Edgar Hull, the banker of this place who
was killed at Sank Rapids, took out So, 900
on his life in the New York Life Insurance
company about an hour before he left for
Sank Rapids The risk was written by E. G.
Halburt of St Paul, manager for that CON-
pany in Minnesota and Dakota Hull and
Halburt both went over to Sank Rapids to
get here, and were walking along the street
when the cyclone reached there Hull was
instantly killed Halburt so badly hurt that
he cannot live He is still alive, but has
not yet recovered consciousness. Hull's wife
Is absent In Grand Rapids, Mich, and was
notified F. NJ Hale, who represents the
Cedar Rapids Pump company, went from
here to Sank Rapids this afternoon. He was
at B. K Knowlton's residence, and got the
family into the cellar. He says they had not
descended to the place of safety minute
too soon, as the house was raised off the
ground and carried away. All those in the
cellar escaped injury. Mr.. Hale had SINH
liar narrow escape in the Rochester cyclone.
His team, which had been left standing on
the street, was killed Henry Gilbert another
commercial traveller employed by H. c. Bur
bank of St Paul. had just opened his samples
and displayed them preparatory to doing
business, and was In c. G. Woods store at
Sank Rapids when the noise Of the approach
ing terror was heard, and hasty stampede
made for the cellar. The store was badly
wrecked, but those in the cellar escaped in
jury. One of Mr.. Gilbert's horses was killed
and another injured so badly rs to neces-
state killing it
R1CE's STATION.
The report that the little settlement at
Rice's Station, sixteen miles from here had
been destroyed was incorrect, but people
there saw the cyclone pass by at a short dis
lance to the east Late last night s O.
Greer, travelling for Donaldson & Ogden of
St Paul, came from Rces to St Cloud and
informed a PIONEER PRESS reporter that the
cyclone had demolished a house about four
! miles east of that station, where a wedding
party was in progress, and nearly all the
guests were killed or badly wounded The
news was brought into Rice's Station
by badly scared boy, who was on horse
back He was badly hurt himself, and said
that the cyclone struck the house without
| the slightest warning. There were about
thirty persons in the house, and he was the
only one that was not seriously hurt The
boy said that nearly all were dead. Several
citizens and couple of physicians started
out to the place, where a horrible sight met
their gaze The dead were streWn about for
distance of fully 600 feet It was found
that sixteen were dead, and since then it is
said that six more have died The details at
this writing are very meager, and cannot be
obtained, as the telegraph wires are all
down. DR.. W. W. Day of St Paul was de-
tailed to visit house about mile from
here to see a family that had been
injured. Their name was zimmerman. The
man was dead and the wife seriously in
hurt St Boniface's hospital at St Cloud
was right in the path of the storm. and its
escape from destruction was something as
tonishing. A house on one side of it was
carried off, and another on the opposite side
of the hospital completely demolished, but
the home of the sick was not in any way in
jured. There were numerous
WONDERFUL AND THRILLING ESCAPES
SAUK RAPIDS
FRIGETFUL DEVASTATION.
ST. CLOUD, Special Telegram April IA
The one once prosperous village of Sank
Rapids, due north OF St. Cloud, is now the