Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-11-24
John Randhalt John Haba Peter Ka,

John Randhalt, John Haba, Peter Kar.
dell, A. d. Perry, l.. Koffenberg, Ernst
Buddi, Chas. Jaeger, Mrs. Hauerman
G. Grelow, p. Janneman, Mrs. jacob
Kobe, John Kueker, Henry Wahlman
William Buetner, Henry Beeson, DIR.
Alley, John Barnes, NJ. Trierveiler, H.
w. Schmidt, William Voges, John Mau-
derfelt, William Michaels, b. Miller,
Charles Gubert, p. Enzenauer, William
Stinde, j. J. Just, Jacob Miller, William
Williamson, Frank Lang, George Reiss,
Alden Starr, Mrs. Sophia Rathbert,
Henry Rathbert, ID. Rathbert, John
Wetzel, William Kellerholz, Frank Lish,
+. ID. Guken, and Mrs. Dora kaufman.
Besides the above there were many
barns, warehouses, and outbuiloings de-
molished.
The storm came up without the slight
est warning and the first intimation the
inhabitants OF the ill-fated city had of it
was when they were wakened from their
slumbers by the crash of their homes
about their ears.
The horrors OF an inky darkness
lighted up momentarily by flashes Of
lightning added to the fear and madness
which oppressed all minds during the
terrible visitation. Daylight only made
more terrible that which night had hid
den. The scene cannot be described.
The streets, when lit up by the first
streaks OF dawn, presented pitiable
scene OF ruin and utter desolaton. On
every hand rose the means of the in
jured and the grief of their friends and
relatives. The streets were blocked
with the debris OF the storms wreck.
and for some time it was impossible to
get an accur ate list of the sufferers OF the
terrible visitation. The one given
above is believed to cover all the casual
ties, and the number of houses wrecked
by the storm is fairly complete.
AS soon as the more fortunate people
Of the city recovered from the first
shock OF the calamity, efforts were at
once diverted 10 caring for the injured.
They were taken to the homes of those
who had escaped the storms wrath AMI
cared for by willing hands, and the doc
tors OF the village dressed their wounds.
Track of the storm.
The storm was destructive and far
reaching. Sweeping down from the
north came tremendous storm OF snow.
rain, and sleet, which, encountering the
warm air-currents of Egypt" devel-
oped three distinct cyclonic storm CEN
ters, diverging from common center
near Red Bud. Taking a southeasterly
course one part of the storm passed on
rapidly through Western Kentucky and
Tennessee, leveling everything in its
path at Red Bud, and only when North
ern Alabama was reached had IL less
ened its force. To the westward moved
second storm center passing through
Central Missouri, thence across Northern
Kansas, finally being lost in the noun
tains of Wyoming, but the curious feat
ure OF this remarkable atmospheric dis
turbance lay in the direction taken by
the third arm "a northerly course,
through Iowa, veering to the west into
Nebraska leaving "a hopeless tangle of
wires in its wake, until IL became next
to an impossibility to reach any OF the
great cities west of st. Louis except by
circuitous routes. Not wire remained
from Milwaukee TO st. Paul and Min
and the Northwest, these points
being served with European and East
ern domestic news over the Southern
Pacific route to Denver, thence to Og-
den, Utah, Helena, Mont, and via the
Northern Pacific to Minneapolis and st.
Paul