The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-06-23
RUtN AND DEATH.

NUN ANU YEA n.
The Storm King Not Yet Satisfied with
His Fatal Work This Year-He Visits
Several Counties in Minnesota and Adds
Nearly Seventy Names to His Already
Long List of Victims.
FAIRMoNT, Mimi, June 17.-With d
roar equal to the din of twenty railway
trains running over score of iron
bridges great cyclone swept over the
southern Minnesota counties of Jack
son, Martin, Faribault, Freeborn, Blue
Earth, Mower and Fillmore Wednes
day afternoon. The storm began about
miles west of the village of Jackson,
moved eastward over the villages OF
Sherburne and Wells in Martin county,
passed lightly over Faribault county,
caused great havoc in Freeborn and
spent itself in the two counties farther
east.
The loss of life has been very heavy
how heavy will not be known for
several days, as railway trains are
| abandoned because of washed-out
bridges g, and tracks, wagon roads
are flooded and wholly impossible
and telegraph wires are in such
tangle that it will be impossible to
put them to rights in several days.
The loss of life in this county will
probably reach thirty; that in Free
born eight or ten, and that elsewhere
will bring the total up to nearly
seventy, if not more. Besides this the
loss to buildings, crops and railroad
in l,o 6olf
will reach 100000 The Root, Zumbro
and other rivers of southern Minnesota
, are raging torrents.
Scores of people received wounds, and
! rs most Of them were in the country
they suffered untold tortures through
exposure to cold wind and rain and
lack of surgical attendance. The storm
will entail great hardship upon those
who lost their all, although crops are
not injured.
WELLS, Mimi, June IA most dis
astrous hurricane swept over this coun.
ty Wednesday night, destroying every
thing in it's path. Its course was from
north to south. Houses, barns and ma.
chinery in the track of the storm were
totally wrecked and large amount OF
stock killed. The cyclone was accom-
panied by great electrical display.
ST. PAUL. Minn., June 1.-THE great
storm did its most destructive work
along the Iowa border around Mime
sofa lake and south of the villages of
Wells and Sherburne. Reports brought
in by trainmen say district school
house 4 miles east of Sherburne was
blown into kindling wood in a
;winkling, killing sixteen of the eight
cen pupils and the teacher. In the
| farming district south of Minnesota
lake many residences and barns were
blown away and four people were
killed. John Brown, a prosperous
farmer one of the victims, was killed
by flying timbers in his yard. His
wife. john EDyIcbre, lit, Il hired man
and school-teachcr were injured, two
Of them fatally.
Farmers from the southern Martin
,, county line report at Wells that at
least thirty people were crushed by
/ falling buildings, and they fear later
| reports will increase rather than dimin.
! ish the loss of life. Near Bowen Mills
, The house of a Bohemian family was
, blown entirely away, leaving family
, If eight to spend the night in driving
cainstorm.
At Lyndon, on the Iowa border, a
family named Peterson. consisting of a
man. his wife and child, were crushed
in their house and four other persons
injured. Several people had bones
| broken at Easton and three buildings
were blown down. Spring Valley,
Mower county, was a heavy sufferer,
more, however, from the food than from
, the wind. Houses, bridges, sidewalks
and all movable property was swept
away by the resistless waters. Con-
siderable live stock perished and much
damage was done. Horses and cattle
were drowned in large numbers near
Austin, and bridges and dams were car.
ried away. All trains at that point are
held and people are going about in
boats. In Blue Earth county several
houses were blown down, and a Mrs
Nagle was blown into tree top, but
she was only slightly injured.
| ALRERT LEA, Mimi, June 1.-TWO
death-dealing cyclones passed through
the northern part of Freeborn county
Wednesday afternoon, the first sweep.
ing through several townships at 4:3(
and the other a little after =. Six o,
seven persons are known to have
been killed. Two of the number
were children of Henry Christian
Charles Christopherson, wife and two
children were badly injured. Christie
pherson's buildings were all wrecked
J. II. Hekes, his wife and two children
were terribly crushed. The wife anc
one child will die.
The village of Hartland and nearly
everything in Hartland township was
razed. In Freeborn township Mike
Iverson's wife and two children are
missing and their home obliterated
Moland Stems buildings were ruined
and his child killed. Carl Hendrick
demolished. Chris Nigard's barr
blew over and Ole Hansen, who
sought refuge in it, was killed. The
creamery at Freeborn was wrecked
and f. B. brakes buildings were
strewn over his farm. H. ID. Threed'.
buildings were blown to pieces and his
crops ruined. Hailstones as large
as goose eggs fell for three
quarters of an hour.
PRESTON, Minn., June 17.-Fillmore
county was visited by cloudburst dur
ing the night which destroyed crops
carried away bridges and sidewalks ano
drowned many cattle and hogs. The
loss to crops may reach $50, 600.
WATERS ON A STRIKE.
In Chicago $50 Of Them Are Out, ant
Many Restaurants Closed.