Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-06-25
FIFTY LOSE THEIR LIVES
A Cyclone Spreads Death and De-
struction in Minnesota.
a C~ircIing Black Cloud Wh'ci Demolished
Evcryth II : In Its Course-Ove Ono
Hundred Persons Reported
i~uJured-Trees Torn Up.

MINNEApoLIs, June 1G-A special
from Mankato. Mimi, to the Journal.
says that IA cyclone swept over that
section at 6 o'clock yesterday evsning.
laying waste the country and killing
between thirty-lve and fifty persons
Starting ncn Jackson on the southern
Minnesota division Of the Chi
cago. Milwaukee and St Paul
railroad, the cyclone swept
eastward and passed four miles
south of Minnesota lake and then took
n broad circle TO the south and passed
away south of Wells Considerable
rain had fallen during tho afternoon
and about 3 o'clock the atmosphere
became almost suffocating. Curious
shaped clouds began to form over in
the southwest and many people gazed
in wonder at the sight.
About $3.50 a. IN IA wind sprung up,
and off 20 the west a circling black
cloud was seen rapidly advancing and
demolishing everything in its course.
1t passed two miles northwest of Sher-
puiho uuu iSpOi'ON
hat it then struck a dis
trict school house in which were the
teacher and eighteen children. The
building was demolished and the
teacher and fifteen children killed.
At Easton three buildings were de-
Btroycd and several people injured.
Linden was visited and many houses
Ner c torn from their foundations One
family consisting of n man,
his wife and child were killed and
others injured. A large grove of trees
was completely uprooted. The storm
passed off eastward, destroying farm
houses, barns and in fact everything in
its path.
AT Wells sidewalks were scattered
and several men were blown down by
the force of the wind.
-Four miles south OF Minnesota lake
five farm houses and other buildings
were caught in the storm and utterly
demolished. -Four people were killed
here. The body of one of these, John
Brown, was taken to Minnesota lake
this morning. His wife, a hired man,
and q school teacher were also injured.
A section man suffered severe injuries
Much damage as done south of Wells
and it is reported hat forty to fifty
were killed south and west OF that viii
lage. As most of the damage was
done in the country reports are slow
in coming in, but what has been al
ready heard is enough to insure the be-
lief hat 1t was the worst storm ever
reported in southern Minnesota
1t is expected hat later reports will
increase rather than diminish the ex-
tent Of the damage lone as well as the
loss OF life and the personal injuries.
The house of a Bohemian family Mt
Bowen Mills, near Minnesota lake, was
blown away, not one log remaining.
The family of a man, wife and six
children spent the night miserably in
the rain without shelter from the cle-
ments. Probably not less than log
were wounded and as they were mostly
in the country, distant from medical
aid, their sufferings were terrible.
All along the Chicago, Milwaukee
and St Paul railroad from Jackson TO
| Minnesota lake tho scene is one of de-
v~astation Not every house is taken,
but so many are destroyed that tLS-
scene is pitiful. This is one cffhe
richest sections of the statG Tho
' TiabreaR.iria-ssi.h pa"SSd-than n
The Chicago. Milwaukee and 81.
Paul train TO Wells got no further
than Mapleton last night, owing to
debris on the tracks, and laid over
there.
Owing to n washout at Blakely. on
the Omaha road, last nights passcn-
ger train from the Twin cities has not
yet arrived.
This mornings train from sioux
city was held Mt Kakota TO await re.
pairs on the track. A washout at
Rochester GA the Northwestern road
delayed h morning passenger train
from the east. In this city n heavy
rain fell throughout the afternoon,
night and this forenoon, but no dam.
apo is reDorted