Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-06-23
STORMS SWEPT MINNESOTA.

The Recent stormy Season I'm Minnesota
Contaminated in Series of Violent Tor
nadoes, which Proved Very Destructive
to Life and Property I'm the Southern
Half of the State and Also i'm Northern
Iowa-NearIy a Hundred Lives Reported
Lost. and Many Injured
ST.. PAUL. Mimi. June 11.-The phe-
f1orrenaIly wet and stormy season has
illuminated in a series of cyclones and
-cioud-bursts- which occurred Wednes-
day afternoon. and were spread over
half the southern end of the state eX-
tending from Spring Valley, Fillmore
county, on the east. to Heron lake,
jackson county. on the west,
and to Blue Earth county on
the north. 1t was the fierc-
- est and most destructive storm
Minnesota ever knew. not excepting
even the terrible cyclone at st. Cloud.
in 1886. in which eighty-six lives were
sacrificed. At this time only the most
7neager details can be gathered. Not
only are the telegraph wires down in
the section devastated. but the train
service Is utterly demOralized. and many
% of the worst casualties occurred in dis
.tricts remote from either rail or wire
Three distinct cyclone centers seemed
TO have been marked. and in each the
havoc was frightful. 1t Is now believed
that nearly 100 lives have been lost. as
nearly every meagre report received
here concludes by saying that the worst
Is TO come, and later reports win swell
the number OF the killed and in
jured- In every case there was the
regular funnel-shaped cloud with its
deadly suction. roar and resist less
sweep. followed by a cloud-burst
Nothing was left standing in the path
OF the cyclone, houses. trees and barns
having been swept away. The storm
ccnters seem to have been at Wells.
Faribault county: SherbOurne. Norton
county, and Spring Valley, Fillmore
cCInty-
At Wells the storm came on without
the slightest warning. the frighcful
roar of the approaching vvhirlwind coll
umn being the first intimatiOn The
cloud yeered to the south as It reached
the outskirts of the village. leaving a
terrible scene of death and destruction.
Further Details.
MINNEAPOLIS. Mimi. June IA
Mankato. Mimi, special to the Journal
says: The very latest reports do not
Improve the situation very much. The
dead are being brought into the nearest
towns. At IIartland five We're killed.
Four dead bodies have been brought
into Minnesota Lake and three into
Wells John Brown. his daughter. a
lady school teacher boarding with him.
and 4 neighbours son. are the dead at
Minnesota Lake. Browns wife can not
live lie is wealthy farmer living be- |
tween Wells and Minnesota Lake. and |
not stick Of his elegant house is left. |
The schoolhouse at Sherburne was |
destroyed and one pupil killed. Nearly |
all the others were more or less in |
jured- The first story of sixteen dead |
at Point was untrue. The country is |
flooded and the prairie is covered with |
people looking for their homes or
friends. They are on horseback and in |
all kinds of c0nveyances. The houses |
are mostly swept away entirely with
ont n veStiCe to show where they stood.
When the full reports are in it is be-
Iiesed The list of fatalities will be thirty
n forty.
UVae cyclone split when it reached
City and one part went
south of Wells while the most de-
struetiFe part went north. Many peo-
pie are missing and the suffering is
even worse than was at first reported.
4 Paramount Mimi special says the
cyclone passed through Martin county.
rom west to east at p. m, Wednes-
lay causing thousands of dollars
worth of damage.
A schoolhouse at .'ox lake was de-
noIished and the teachers and pupils.
seEc.ntes>n in mum Der. were all injured.
some of them severely.
Mr. Yonker's house in Rutland was
and all the family injured.
One child was killed Immediately, one
1as since died and another may die. 1t
5 Impossible to give details or esti-
mates of loss, but the storm left Fair
untouched. Indeed it seems
ages in its course.
1t is impossible at present to get a
list of those killed or wounded. Prob
sbly not less than hundred Were
svoundred, and rs they were mostly in
5tae country. distant from medical aid,
heir suTferings were terrible. All along
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul |
railway from jackson to Minnesota
AXE the scene is one of devastation.
Not every house is taken, but so MANY
Are ueStrtEett UIldI the scene Is pltlIul-
This Is one of the richest sections of
Inc state, and is prairie with now and
hen a wind break of trees planted by
The wind had full sweep.
The Worst Ever Experienced.
PRgsToN, Mimi, June 11.-From
o'clock Wednesday night until $50
o'clock yesterday morning. four inches
IF rain fell in this vicinity, destroying
.rops. carrying away bridges and side
walks, and drowning many cattle and
pigs The damage to crops will be enor
nous All trains are abandoned and
many miles of track are washed away.
Between Wells and La Crosse ten miles
IF tracks are gone and no trains are ex-
1ected for at least a week.
Reports from northern Iowa indicate ,
the storm was very severe there, and
the Volga, Waukon and Preston :
branches of the Chicago. Milwaukee K
St Paul railroad are badly washed out,
nearly six miles of the latter line being |
born up. The storm was the worst ever
in this region.
American Institute of Homeopathy.
WASHINGTON, June 17.-At yester-
Jays session of the American Institute
Of Homeopathy the appointment of a
special committee of five to revise the
laws of the institute, and the recon-
to extend the time of an