Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-06-23
HESTORM'SPA
(rible Scenes of Desolation
Along the Path of the
Recent Cyclone.
ms Stripped of Their Build
ings, and Owners Left
Almost Destitute.


PTS Of Minnesota Lake and Weiles are
with lamentations Of the surrounding
hers, who have lost all except their bare
and growing crops. Three of the
ms victims were buried to-day at the
Der place aud one atthe latter.
be storm was undoubtedly the most Sc
that ever visited the state aud its path
nds for eighty-ive miles, from sher-
DC to New Richmond. yet Its width is
over fifty yards. Hundreds saw the
e funnel-shaped monster as it sped
Ring over the prairie, now in the air and
crushing some building to splintcrs,
Some few sought safety in cellars. Sew
Eowe their lives to this thoughtfulness.
the black, rolling cloud of
pr, dust aud fragments of buildings was
roaring sound.
e path of the storm car. be distin-
bed for miles in either direction by the
fuction which it wrought in farmers
~ brakes, the trees lett standing being
SAess and broken. Under their shelter
re now stand no happy homes that two
Ns ago held prosperous families, nothing
etfoundaiion walls now remain and not
kough timber is in sight to light fire. 1t
Almystery where fragments OF houses
mt to. Pieces OF broken furniture from
were traced Tor two and half
lies. Dead cattle and hogs strew the
l4arie. The storm
$$S PLAYED QUEER FRANKS.
ne house was cut sQuarely in two, one
IA lie Standing and the other half splint-
!3q. Another house was carried away,
ling lady standing on the floor unin-
ID. A barn with several horses was
ked some distance and safely set down.
Uses tied to manger were found at one
&e, no trace being .ound O.; the remain
&of the barn.
The dead at Minnesota Lake are Mrs.
n Latusic, John Brown. Miss Mary
wn. two daughters OF Christian Mel
II, Mrs. John Dellat, John Pietrus. Mrs
IN Brown was fatally injured. Mrs.
|Uy suffered dislocated shoulder and
ken hand. Mrs. Craychee was severely
hred. Miss Agnes hurry, school teuc"er
badly injured. Browns hired man
ered dislocased jaw and other injuries.
Imam Dryer had his shoulder dlslocated.
e. Frank Torkiel was injured. Miss
5Fy Brown died this morning.
those buried at Minnesota Lake to-day
Re: John Brown. John Pietrls and Mrs.
kusic. Pietrus was but fourteen years
and the body was :onnd lying in his
her's yard. Mrs. Latusic was killed
le saving the lives Of her children. She
IN them into the cellar and be ore she
I'D get down herself was
MI CAUGHT IN THE RUINS.
She fallen house. South OF Minnesota
Re Mr.. Gray's house, barns and granary
41ke swept away. John Latusic's house
III barns were destroyed and those of
INK Iorkiel. Nothing was left Of Joseph
|kzba's property. Frank Pietrus' house
IL blown away and lightning struck the
ms of his. barn and burned them. Frank
Sncil's house and barn were destroyed,
"A barn being found among the tree tops.
,The Brown school house and the Pease
{Mool house, two miles apart, were both
mi Inflated. The school had been dis
8ssed, SO no one was injured there. C. l..
jAse's barn was destroyed and his trees,
"a feet in diameter were uprooted. AL
III Craychee John Brown, Herman
|Alley. Herman Dryer and Christian Mill
Bert each lost his house and barn. John
lHlah's house was ruined. Of the Brown
shool house
esFs NOTHING CAN BE FOUND.
81 pieces Of broken desks i'll adjoining
Neat fields. A great deal OF destruction
81 wrought near Wells an the town had
Marrow escape, as q portion OF the cyclone
used only bali mile away. Herman
eamer was killed, his body being found
1der his wrecked house. The remains
ere inferred to-day. Two sons of Albert
.ingbert were badly injured, one receiving
Sterrible scalp wound ana the other q
roken leg. Besides the death of Charles
Lelcbert's two daughters, his son suffered a
soken leg. Melchert also was bruised.
10. Henry Melchert was upstairs with her
tile sister when the storm struck the
Duse. They landed in the yard. and the
sxt thing she remembers she was pinned
nder tree. She got loose, chung to stump
It'll one hand and to her little girl with the
her until the cyclone passed. Mrs.
ightenourger and six children were badly
iured aud one child was killed. Near
aston, child Of M. Stein. northeast Of
Tells, is reported killed, and it is believed
latseveral other deaths occurred in that
Erection, though no definite information
sobtainable.
Upon Cobb river several houses and barns
ere blown down. Five miles ncrth of
Tells, Messrs. Klingbill and Melchert lost
rye number of cattle and some were
He'd nearly everywhere the fatal cloud
ruck. Passing seven miles to the north
Ut OF Wells the cyclone struck Frank Tel
Ia home and
DESTROYED HIS GROVES.
ia sheds. Passing to Ned Tellet's place, a
HE further northeast, part of his house
as torn away and his barn destroyed. He
la Just left the barn and had time only to
lie hold of an anchor post of his wind
I'LL. when the storm was upon him. The
indmill went over, but he was uninjured.
IL Tellett's farm was in the track or the
Drm, and his arms went down. A: Low
70 tarm his ten-year-old son was in the
owe and hung Tor life to willows and was
injured.
Officials Elected.
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