St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-16
SWIFT, CRUEL DEATH.
Parts Of Quebec Laid Waste
by a Wildly Disastrous
Tornado.
A School Crushed to Ruins
and the Inmates Very
Roughly Used.
Several Scholars Are Dead,
the Teacher and Others
Will Die.
Country Districts Reporting
Loss of Life and Great
Property Damage.

little village of Ste. Rose, a fashionable
sum mer resort near Montreal, was the
scene of a frightful catastrophe yester-
day afternoon. As the village is out of
tie way, and telegraphic commuDica-
ton was shut off, nothing was known
of it until today.
Shortly after o'clock the residents.of
Ste. Rose noticed the darkened clouds
gathering on the horizon. Suddenly
there was low, sullen roar, and in the
twinkling of an eye the light of day was
changed into the blackness of night.
With hardly a warning terrible
Cyclone struck the village, carrying
everything before it. Houses were
carried away, huge trees were torn from
their very roots, animals were literally
carried away by the wind and deposited
in fields acres distant.
But still more terrible scene was in
store for the frightened inhabitants.
Two miles from the village was school.
Here twenty-five children were being
taught by their young teacher, Miss La
caisse. While teacher and scholars
were intent upon the lessons, it sud-
denly became pitch dark. In moment
the pitiless cyclone had struck the
small. wooden schoolhouse,
Tearing 1t TO Pieces
like match box. The little students
were scattered like leaves and Miss La
caiSse received a blow on the head
which stunned her and she was found
in the ruins of the building. She re-
ceiyed serious injuries about the head
and spine. and her chances of recovery
are considered doubtful. The chill
dren were carried in all directions
by the wind. and in some cases set
down In adjacent fields. yards from the
school house. Out of the twenty-five
children two were dead when found,
one died shortly after, twelve are seri-
Ously wounded, and the remainder are
more or less wounded.
The killed are Wildred Ouimot. aged
seven, the son of a prominent resident
of Ste. Rose; Julia jolly, aged six, and
Stanislaus Daubion. aged eight. The
bodies of the children were terribly
disfgured. In addition TO tue killed,
the following are not expected to live:
Ernestine Ouimet, serious internal
injuries; Edouard Ouimet, severely
injured; Edouard Gascon, seriously
injured about the head aud spine; Ame-
lie CadeuX, broken arm and spine badly
injured. The force of the tornado was
something terrible. The storm travelled
over the village without doing marked
damage. 1t was in the open country
that it spent its fury.
Country People Killed.
1t completely destroyed the farm
buildings and barn Of John Thomas
and AIpheus Kimpton, and in ali proba-
bility killed Mrs. Alphens Kimpton and
her baby, aged eight months. The
former. when the wreck occurred, had
her collar bone broken, and the latter
its skull crushed. They are not eX-
pected to recover.
Houses were lifted bodily in the air.
Other farmers. French Canadians,
neighbors of the kimptons. suffered
similarly. Albert Gilbert's stone cream
cry and five barns were destroyed.
Trees came down with a crash, roads
were blocked. darkness set in and gen.
eral alarm superyened. 1t would be
impossible to eXaggerate the force of
the storm. Water was swept over the
new bridge, S27 feet long, and waves
rose twelve feet. high.
The scene at the school house after.
the wreck was full of agony. The news
had spread, and parents ran to the
scene to look for their children. The
living were found huddled together in .
mortal terror, the wounded were groan-
ing and shrieking. the dead were
stretched out forever silent, and the
of parents mingled with
the means of MANNED and helpless chill
dren.
Large Property Loss.
~, Of fa
of property was destroyed by
the storm. 1t is estimated that the loss
of property will be $4,000. The cyclone
also played havoc i'll other villages as It
swept along. At st. Therese, school
house in which there were forty children
was blown down. two of the children
killed and many injured. AT La Chute
most terrific thunderstorm. accom-
panied by heavy downfall Of hail and
rain took place. 1t was the worst storm
ever known in the vicinity. HailstoneS
were fully as large as hens eggs, many
of them actually larger.
The crops were damaged to great
extent. Many fine farms came within
the storm center, which was about one
mile wide, and crops have been badly
beaten into the ground. Fruit trees
were badly injured. In Wilson's paper
mill over 400 panes Of glass were broken
out of 500, while proportionate damage
was done to the lights in
every building in the neighbOr-
hood. The storm on the south
side of the st. Lawrence was very eX-
tenSive, aud damage resulting will be
very heavy. 1t is said that two children
we're killed and six barns and two
houses torn down near Upton. The
storm played great havoc at Charles.
where a large number of buildings of
all kinds were torn down. The storm
swept furiously along the south side Of
The st. Lawrence from Longnil to
Controseuer and Varenes,