St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-27

| out of the ruins, and suffered
was blown from the next house, No. "a,
, owned by Louis K. Kelly, chimney was
blown down and all windows blown out.
Houses No. 36 and 3S, occupied by All
bert MendeS and Mr.. Martin, wefa
totally wrecked. A three-year-old
daughter of Mrs. Mendes was fatally
injured. Houses Nos. 40 and 1O4, owned
| by James P. Reidsen-Archibald ID.
| Macauley, Mr.. Lewis, Mrs. Whine, Mrs.
Michael Birmingham and William Par
| ker, were more or less damaged. When
House SO Springfield street was blown
down, the structure was
Lifted by the Wind.
and hurled some distance. A two-hOrse
team standing in front of the house was
struck by the building and both horses
killed. The force of the wind was so
great here that large hole was blown
in the earth. The residences of John
McAlister and John Durbin were
wrecked. Those owned by w. K. Saw
yer and John Morehouse were demOl-
ished. Nothing is left of the MorehOuse
residence except the cellar. Hugh Mer-
rigan suffered fracture of his collar
on or one Side. That Of John
Lynch was totally wrecked. House No.
SO, occupied by John Costello and Mar
garet Keating, was badly damaged; the
windows were blown out and five chill
dren were injured. The tenement
block occupied by Patrick Quinn, John
Hughes. Robert Hennessy and John
Harrigan was badly shaken up. Below
Springfield street, to Union street,
every building was badly shaken and
more or less damaged. The house of
John Ryan, on Market street, and of
were partly blown down. The ruins
took fire and were destroyed. The great
est destruction was on Springfield,
Salem and Portland streets. The cy-
CLIQUE is described as having arrived
without warning, accompanied by. a
heavy black cloud and severe rain.
The Scene of Devastation.
The passengers on the Boston 81
Maine train. due in Boston at 10:45, got
a good view of the wrecked town as
they passed through. Mr.. Quimby, q
passenger, thus describes the scene OF
devastation: "The rain had ceased and
the wind had gone down. The first
thing noticed was building blown to
the ground, and then the trees were
twisted and uprooted. This was on the
left hand side of the track coming to
Boston. Timber, farm wagons and OBJ
jects of all sorts were scattered about in
great confusion. We were Mortified to
see mans dead body lying under
bridge at the South Lawrence depot.
Everybody was running about in con-
fusion, not having chance to tell the
extent Of the damage. The track of the
typhOon swept at right angles across
the track, levelling houses and cutting
off or uprooting trees. The whole thing
took place between the time we left
Hayerhill and the time we left South
Lawrence. The train stopped but a
few minutes, and it was impossible to
find out anything definite. The cy-
clone struck the city from the west.
1t cut a swath over a mile in
length and 600 feet In width. The hos
pital is filled with injured. while homes
spread from the wreck are sheltering
the homeless ones. The devastated sec
ton is included by South Broadway and
Temple street, Market and Salem
streets. At 9:55 the awful visitation
came. The wind was east. The rain
was falling heavily. when suddenly
the heavens became aglOW with
bright white light. In moment the
wind veered to the west. Heavy
black clouds shot from behind the
western hills high into the sky and
then the thick mass parted. Down shot
black streaks from the murky mass
and in a moment the crash came.