The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-06-21
MARKED BY Death
Wires Down and Railroad Traffic at
Standstill.
At Least Thirty Known to Have
Been Killed,
WHILE THE NUMBER OF INJURED
WILL REACH HUNDREDS.

No Estimate as to the Property Loss, but
1t WIN Undoubtedly Run Into the MIL
ifons-welIs, rnribanlt County, Seems
to Have suffered the MOST Many of
the injured sn1er Greatly owing to
Exposure and Lack OF Surgical At
tendance = scores OF Dwellings and
! Barns Demolished and Much Stock
Killed.
! MIME s si-as;- une 1e.-News of the
I cyclone which devasted southern Min
nesota Wednesday evening is very hard
to get Telegraph wires are down for
miles, and the railways which penetrate
the stricken section are at a standstill.
All the information obtainable comes
from isolated survivors OF the storm and
the facts have to be gathered from wide
ly separated points. From all the re-
ports at hand SO far the loss of life will
probably reach thirty, and the list of the
injured viii run into the hundreds.
Property Loss Not Known Yet
No estimate of the property loss can
be made. and all that can be said of it is
that 1t will undoubtedly run into seven
figures.
Tho town of Wells, Faribault county.
reems to have suffered the most Sc
yerely from the storm. 1t is reported
that thirty persons We're killed in that vii
iage alone, but these reports are greatly
exaggerated.
At Spring Valley.
At Spring Valley damage aggregating
! $50, 900 was done. Large, heavy black
clouds came up in the west about z
o'clock, gathering thick and fast when,
without warning. the heavens broke
loose with constant lightning and heavy
Peals of thunder. The rain came down
IN torrents, with but little wind ac-
companying it.
| The Spring Valley creek was quickly
swelled TO its utmost. Then the burst
ing of a heavy cloud about 8 o'clock
made the little stream raging torrent,
raising it to five OF six feet above the
highest mark it ever reached, CARRYING
everything in the way before it. Citi-
zens turned out and set to work saving
property and people from the raging tor
rents.
In Faribault County
1t was in Faribault county that the
loss of life principally occurred. The
afternoon had been sultry and dense,
overhanging clouds seemed almost to
touch the ground, while not breath of
air stirred.
Later a heavy down-pour of rain set
in, and, about $3.50 o'clock, preceded by
wind from the northwest, a hinge, fun
nel-shaped cloud was noticed by people
living west of Wells. 1t advanced rap
Idly with a loud, roaring, grinding
sound, and first touched the earth near
JACKSON, two miles west of Sherburne.
Struck school House.
The Silver Thorn school house, four
miles north of Sherburne, was torn to
pieces by the cyclone. Miss MAGGIE
O'Hare, the teacher, and all the pupils.
sixteen in number, were seriously, and
and some 1t IS thought fatally, injured.
Medical aid was promptly ON hand and
the wounded cared for
Several people at work in the fields
were struck and more or less injured.
At Easton.
The little village of Easton was next
visited and three houses were demolised.
From here the twisting funnel took an
easterly course and utterly destroyed
everything in its course Dozens of
farm houses and barns We're wiped ont
of existence by the awful power of the
wind.
AT Hartland.
At Hartland five people were killed
and many wounded.
winnebago's Escape.
When the center of the cyclone APP
preached Winnebago City it seemed as
II though tliat village was fated, and the
greatest CONSERVATION prevailed there
Tor a few minutes.
The storm Divides.
The rive seemed to divide the tornado
and one-half turned southeasterly and
one-half northeasterly-
At Wells.
The southern funnel swept around
south of Wells and circled into the east
Wherever a building was destroyed it
was totally and utterly demolished that
not yestige of it Is left. Trees and
telegraph poles We're broken of or twist
ed out of shape. Wires along the
Northwestern road were all down dur
ing the night.
AT one place where the cyclone struck,
eight houses in succession were DESTROYED
and at another the place was so completely
washed Off the face of the earth that no
trace of it or its occupants could he
found, though search was made.
scores injured.
Scores of people received wounds, and
as most of them We're in the country
exposure to cold, wind and rain and lack
of surgical attendance. The storm VIII
entail great hardship upon those who
lost their all, although crops are not in
jured.
-Four miles north of Wells the storm
ragged with unrestrained fury. The
body of the cyclone moved from west to
east and eyewitness say that their
first impression of a storm was a terrible
funnel-shaped cloud coming down upon
them Then came feeling of opprcs-
sion in the air, making it almost i'm
possible to breathe. The next moment.
in its full force and fury, came the
twister, completely demolishing every
thing in its path
The worst fury of the storm seemed
to be about ten to twenty rods wide.
and the finest buildings and groves in
the country We're IN few minutes COM
pletely RACED.
NOT GENERALLY KNOWN.
The Number Of RaiIwax En-, x,,,.a