Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-17
"a EDITION.
DEADIN MANY HOUSES
Destruction Wrought by the Mime
sofa Cyclone.
BUNKER HILL DAY In BOSTON.
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Col. Polk.
THE TALK IN H1CA G O.
BUNKER HILL DAY IN BOSTON.
THE TALK IN CHICAGO


jured Number Hundreds.
MISNEAPoLIs, MINI, June 17.-News Of the
Icyclone which devastated southern Minnesots
Wednesday evening is very hard to get. Tele-
graph wires are down for miles and the rail
roads which penetrate the stricken section are
practically ut q standstill. All the information
obtainabie comes from the isolated survivors of
the storm, and the facts have to be gathered
from widely separated points. From all the
reports at hand far The loss Of lite will prob
ably reach fifty and the list of the injured will
run into the hundreds. No estimate Of the
property loss can be made and all that can be
said of il is that il will undoubtedly run into
seven figures.
DAMAGE AT WELLS.
The town Of Wells, in Faribault county. seems
70 have suffered most severely from the storm.
1t is reported that fifty persons we're killed in
that village alone, but these reports are prob
ably exaggerated.
OF the killed these have been identified: John
Brown and wife at Linden; Andrew Hansen,
aged twenty-five, killed near Hartland; Mrs.
Wike Iverson and three children, - Stern,
child of j. Stern; two children Of John Yonkers
four miles north of Fairmont; Peter Bremen,
- Fredericks, John Lstusick, - Tighten
berger. a child; Frank Pitrons, boy.
Following are the names Of the injured SO
far as learned at Wells:
Brown, daughter of John; Mrs. Albert
Crayther, John Della and wife. Herman Dragon.
arm broken; Gray, leg broken; Hitler, son Of
Herman, badly hurt August Hoensy, head
crushed; Khngbiel, three children of Albert
Klingbiel; Charles Melchart, badly crushed;
Mrs. Henry Melchart. Agnus Morey, school
teacher. badly crushed.
This list does not include one-fourth of all
the injured.
A WITNESS DESCRIPTION.
The storm is described bya witness as a cloud
Of midnight blackness and was a boiling, seeth-
ing mass, going in easterly direction.
At Spring Valley damage aggregating $50 600
was done. Large. heavy black clouds came up
in the west about O'Clock, gathering thick and
fast, when without warning the heavens broke
loose With constant lightning and heavy peals
of thunder. The rain came down in torrents
with but little wind accompanying it. Spring
Valley creek was quickly swelled to its utmost.
Then the bursting of a heavy cloud about 9
o'clock made the little stream a raging torrent,
raising il to five or six feet above the highest
mark it ever reached. carrying everything in
the way before it. Citizens turned out and set
to work saving property and people from the
path of the raging torrents.
LIFTED A HOUSE.
The first damage done was that Of lifting the
house occupied by Mr.. McDuggan and carry
ing it down against the IRON bridge, demolish-
self was not rescued until the house had an
chored itself at the bridge. and then after she
had tainted from the shock. 1t next took the
millinery store Of Mrs. Taylor, landing it high
on the bank next the Milwaukee depot. The
bridge across Main street was taken out.
1t in Faribault county that the loss Of
life principally occurred.
COMING OF THE STORM
The afternoon had been sultry and dense,
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ground, while not breath of air stirred. Later
a heavy downpour of rain set in, and at about
$50 O'Clock, preceded by wind from the north
west, huge Handicapped cloud was noticed
by people living west of Wells. 1t advanced
rapidly with loud. roaring. grinding sound,
and first touched the earth near Jackson, two
miles west of Sherburne. The Silver Thorn
school house, four miles north Of Sherburne.
was torn to pieces by the cyclone. Miss Maggie
O'Hare, the teacher, and all the pupils. sixteen
in number, were seriously, and six perhaps
fatally, injured. Medical aid was promptly on
hand and the wounded cared for. Several
people. at work in the fields were struck and
more or less injured. August Fiibery was
caught up and carried about sixty yards, but
was not seriously injured.
The little village of Eastou Was next visited
and three houses were demolished. From here
the twisting funnel took an essterly course and
utterly destroyed everything in its course
out Of existence by the awful power Of the
wind.
FIVE PERSONS KILLED.
At Hareland five persons were killed and
many wounded. When the center of the cyclone
approached Winnebago City it seemed as
though that village was fated, and the greatest
CONSERVATION prevailed there for few minutes
The river seemed to divide the tornado, and
one-half turned southeasterly and one-half
northessterly. The southern funnel swept
around south of Wells and circled in to the
east.
Wherever building was destroyed 1t was SO
totally and utterly demolished that not q yes
tige of it is left. Trees and telegraph poles
were broken of or twisted out of shape. Wires
along the northwestern road were all down dur
ing the night
EIGHr HOUSES IN SUCCESSION.
At one place where the cyclone struck eight
houses in succession were destroyed, and at an
other the place was go completely washed of
the face of the earth that no trace of il or it's
occupants could be found, though search was
made.
Scores of people received wounds, and as
most of them were in the country they suf-
fered untold fortunes through the exposure TO
the cold winds and rain and lack of surgical
attendance. The storm will entail great hard
ship upon those who lost their all although
Four miles north of Wells the storm ragged in
unrestrained fury. The body OF the cyclone
moved from west TO east and witnesses say that
their first impression of storm was q terrible
funnel-shaped cloud coming down upon them.
Then came a feeling of oppression in the air.
making ii almost impossible to breathe. The
next moment, IN its full .orce and fury came
| the twister, completely demolishing everything
in its path. The worst fury of the storm seemed
to be about ten TO twenty rods wide and the
finest buildings and groves in the country we're
in few minutes completely RACED. The first
place visited was Charles Malcherl's. who had
Just built a large new house. The family
nearly got in the cellar. One girl ii is thought,
viii die. The rest escaped with bad bruises
The barns and stock were completely carried
away. The granary, full of oats, was lifted
from the ground and about ten rods away most
Of the oats were dropped on the ground.
The next place. Anthony Malcherl's, the wife
and a little girl were at home and after the
storm the wife was found in the grove clinging
to tree with one hand and hanging on TO the
little girl with the other. In pasture q few
rods from the house were fifteen dead cattle.
Here the buildings and grove Of perhaps 100
large trees were literally crushed into the
ground, and how the woman and child escaped
death is a miracle. just across the road Albert
Klingbiers fine place was completely destroyed
| and several of the family injured. The school
house was totally destroyed. The pupils left
| about one hour before the storm came. Her
| man Killers buildings were all destroyed.
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