Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-25
RUINS or rnr scnooL. HOUSE.

John Randl,alt, John Haha, Peter Kar-
doll. \. ID. Perry, l.. h"ffrnberg, Ernst
Bud Ii, Chas. Jaeger, Mrs. Haucrman,
c. Grelow. =. lanncman, Mrs. Jacob
Kobe, John Kuekcr, Henry Mahlman.
William Buctner, Henry Beeson, DIR.
ley, John Barnes. NJ. Trirrveiicr, ii.
Schmidt. William Noges, John Maui
dcrfelt, Willim Michacls, y. Miller,
Charles Gubcrt, z. Enzt nauer, William
Stinde, j !. just. Jao oh Miller, William
Williamson, Frank Lang, George Reiss,
Alden Starr, Mrs. Sophia kathbcrt,
Henry Ralhbert, n. i,athbcrt, John
Wctzcl. William Kclicrholz, Frank Lish.
I. ID. Gukeu, and Mrs. Dora kaufman.
Besides the above there were MANY
barns, warehouses, and outbuiluings de.
molished.
The storm came up without the slight
est warning and the first in'imation tho
Inhabitants of the Inflated city had of it
was when they were wallened from their
slumbcrs by the crash of their homes
ntout their ears.
Tho horrors of an imky darkness
lighted up momen. arily by flashes Of
lightning added to the fear and madness
which oppressed all minds during tho
terrible visitation. Daylight only made
more terrible that which night Ii I'd hid
.len. The scene cannot bo descri, ed.
The streets. when lit up 10y the first
strsaks OF dawn, p:csente. u pitiable
scene of ruin and utter dcsolation. On
every hand rose the moans of the in
jured and the grief of their friends and
relatives. The streets woe blocked
with the debris of the storms wreck.
and for some time it was impossible to
get an accu ate list of thu su i. rers OF the
terrible visitation. The ono given
above is believed to cover ;ill the casuu!-
ties. and the number OF houses wrecked
10y the storm is fairly complete.
AS soon as the more fortunate people
af tlls city recovered from the first
shock of tho calamity, efforts were ut
once diverted 10 caring for the injured,
They were taken To the homes of those
who Ii id escaped the storm's wrath anu
cared for by willing hqnds, and the doe
tors of the village dressed their Mounds.
Track ut the storm.
The storm was destructive and far
reaching. Sweeping down from the
north came a tremendous storm o. snow.
rain. and sleet, which, cncounteriny the
warm air-currents OF Egypt" devcl-
oped three distinct cyclone storm cen-
ters, diverging from common center
near Rod Bud. Taxi e u southeasterly
NNs.'S OtAr HsStC vi NAtC Olltl phSSCu ON
rapidly through Western Mcntucky and
Tennessee. lcveli7s everything in its
path at Red Bud. a d only when North
ern Alabama was reached had it less-
ened its force. To the westward moved
second storm ce ter passing through
Genital Missouri. thence across Northern
Kansas, finally Icing lost in the mo ~
tains OF Wyoming, but the curious fent-
nre of this remarkable atmospheric dis.
turbance lay in the direction taken by
the third arm "a northerly course,
through Iowa, vecriny to the west into
Nebraska leaving hopeless tanglo Of
wires In its wase. until it became next
to an impossibility to reach any of tho
great cities west Of st. Louis except by
circuitous routes. Not wire remained
from Milwau' ee to st. Paul and Min
neapolis and the Northwest, these points
beng served with European and Fast
ern domestic news over The Southern
Pacific route Il, Denver, thence to Og-
den, Utah. Helena. Mont, and via the
Northern Pacific TO Minneapolis and st.
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