St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-12
The Awful Work Done by a
Cyclone in Less Than
Half a Minute.
SeVenty-Five Persons Obliged
to Ask Temporary Shelter
Of Their Friends.
Residences, Trees and Fences
Are Blown More Than One
Hundred Feet.
Several Thousand Dollars
Raised for Wants Of the
Homeless.

AKRON, O., May 11.-Darkness shut
in SO quickly after the tornado that tore
through the southern part OF the city
Saturday evening that not half an idea
could be gotten of the fierceneSs or eX-
tent of the terrible storm. To-day has
been SO calm and sunshiny that even
the half dozen people who stood about
their wrecked homes scarcely realized
that elements could ever work them
selves into such fury. Prof. Egbert.
of Buchtel college, who was out in the
storm, calculated that it was travelling
at the rate of four miles a minute. so
that its track of about a mile and a half
through this city was trayersed in little
more than twenty seconds. 1t moved
in almost a straight line through a we'll
settled part of the city and scarce
Iy a foot of the mile and
half but is strewn to-day with
splintered house timbers, broken fur
niture, uprooted trees, and leveled barns
and outhouses. In trip over the
storms path to-day nineteen dwellings
were counted that we're either ripped
into kindling wood or so badly wrecked
that they cannot be occupied. The fam
lies Of the following, numbering about
seyenty-fye persons in all, are out or
house and home, and are being shell
tered by friends: Wilson Kiplinger,
John Van Ault, Gebhart Herman, Dom
iAic Gfeader, Louis Shafier, Tony
Menuel, Harry Sanford, John Miller.
Frank Kenntz, Frank Miller, Allen
Coup, August Miller. A. G. Baker. Mrs.
Fred Bolten, Melvin Irish. Thomas
Thompson. Alvin Alexander. Mrs. Kate
Mcconnell and w. II. Eltholtz. Of the
eighteen persons who were Injured all
will probably recover. The most seri-
6asly hurt are: Mrs. Wilson Kipp-
niger, bruised and burned on the legs.
by the oyeFturning of a stove; daughter
of Gebbart Herman. burned on the legs
and back, by her dress taking fire from
the kitchen stove Melvin Irish. struck by
flying. timhers and pinned down by fall
ing floor; Mrs. Irish, internally injured;
Mrs. Allen Coup. hit by flying brick.
daughter of A. G. Baker, unconscious
for several hours and still in a critical
condition; John Wheeler, teamster.
blown under fence aud internally in
iured; William Poole, burned in the
debris of his barn and suffering from
ter of Wilson Kiplinger, hit by flying
timber and burned by stove. Sev-
euty-fYe buildings, including resi-
denees and barns and OuthOuSes.
were damaged by the wind and not
one escaped that was in direct line of
the tornado. Upro0ted trees are count
ed by the scores. Many that were
blown down or cut off are fully two
feet in diameter. Buildings that re-
sisted the winds are in dangerous
condition, and many will have to be
torn down. OuthOuses in some cases
were transplanted from fifty to one
hundred feet and set down in neighbOr-
ing yards. Thousands of people visited
the scene Of destruction to-day, and
force Of special police stood guard over
remnants of residences and house fur
nishings. In several churches relief
papers were started. and several thou
sand dollars will be raised for
the Immediate wants of the homeless
people. William Poole and his daughter,
who had just driven into their barn,
were caught up with the building and
carried with it to the bottom of the hill
on which it stood. The barn of Alfred
Funk, on Exchange street, was torn to
pieces and his horse blown into va
cant lot near by and killed. People
whose houses were destroyed had their
all invested in them, and a majority Of
the houses were mOrLgaged. That no
lives were lost is most wonderful. In
most instances the families took refuge
in the cellars, and thus escaped serious.
injury, a tornado at Sharon, this county,
Just one month ago having put every
body on the alert.