The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1892-06-24
sroRm.swEpr MINNESOTA.

/ INT A0HENI ~INTItH season IN MIMf|~ ~ =
| <niIm.natsd IA series 81 Sioisnt Tor
nsdors. which Proved Very Destructive
a. t.iis aud Property 81 the Southern
! Itaif 90 the state aud Also Ia >orthcrn
1awn-- nearly a Hundred Lives Reported
Lost. and Many iniarcd.
ST.. rArI. Mimi. June 1.-THE phe-
nomcnally wet and stormy season has
| illuminated Ia series 81 cyclones aud
| clond-hnrsts. which occnrrrI Xednss-
| day afternoon. and were spread over
| half the southern end ~ the state cx-
| tending from Spring Valley. Fillmore
I, county. on the east. "a Heron lake.
| Jackson county. on the west.
and ~ Blue Earth county on
| the north. II was the fierce
ct and most destructive storm
Minnesota ever knew. not excepting
even the terrible cyclone nj ~. Cloud
IN 1850. in which eighty-six lives were
sacrificed. AZ this time only the most
mcagsr details can h. gathered. Not
only are the telegraph wires down in
the section devastated. hut the train
service is utterly dcinoralized, and many
If the worst casualties occurred in dis
tricts remote from either rail or wire
Three distinct cyclone centcr> seemed
20 have been marked. and in each the
havoc was frghtful. II is now believed
that nearly 100 lives have been lost. as
nearly every meagrc report received
here concludes by saying that the worst
Is 70 come. and later reports will swell
the number If the killed and i'm
jured In every ease there was the
regular funnel-shapcd cloud with its
deadly suction. roar and resiSfless
sweep. followed BY cloud-burst
Nnthing was left standing in the path
% the cyclone. houses. trees and harms
having been swept away. The storm
ccnterS seem 10 have been az Wells.
Farihault county: Sherbournc. Morton
county. and spring Valley, Fillmore
county.
At Wells the storm came on without
the slightest warning. the frivhtful
roar Of the approaching whirlwind col
umn being the first intimation. The
cloud vccrcd ID the south rs it reached
The outskirts Of the village. leaving n
terrible scene of death and distinctions
Further Details.
NfSSrAroris. Mimi, June ia
N1nkato. MINI. special % the Journal
says: The very latest reports do NOT
improve the situation very much. The
dead are being brought into the nearest
towns. AZ Hartland five were killed.
-Four dead bodies have been brought
into Minnesota Lake and three into
Wells. John Brown. his daughter.
lady schcol teacher boarding with him.
and rcighhurs son. are the dead al
Minnesota Lake Browns wife can not
live. lie j. wealthy farmer living be-
tween Wells and Minnesota Lake and
not stick Of his elegant house is left.
The Schoolhouse ut Shcrburrc was
destroyed and one pupil killed. Nearly
all the others We're more or less in
jurcd. The first story Of sixteen dead
At Point was untrue. The country Is
Hooded and the prairie Is covered with
people looking for their homes or
friends. They are on horseback and in
All kinds Of conveyances. The houses
are mostly swept away entirely with
cut a vestigc to show where they stood.
When the full reports are in it Is be-
Iieved the list Of fatalities will be thirty
Dr. forty.
The cyclone split when II reached
vinnebnro City and one part went
south Of Wells while tho most de-
structivc part went north. Many peo-
pie are missing and the suffering is
even worse than was at first reported.
a Farnonnt Mimi special says the
syclone passed through Martin county.
from west ~ east at : p. M. Wednes-
lay. causing thousands Of dollars
worth Of damage.
a schoolhou~e AZ Fox lake was de-
nolished and the teachers and pupils.
seventeen in number. were all injured.
some Of them severely.
Mr.. Yonker'~ house in Rutland was
wrecked and all the family injured
One child was killed immediately. one
1as since died and another may die. II
j. impossible to give details or csti-
mates ~ loss. hut the storm left Fair
mount untouched. Indeed Il seems
not 70 have struck any towns or vii
lagos in its course.
II j. impossible az present to ret a
list 81 those killed or wounded. Prob
ably not less than a hundred were
woundred. and as they were mostly In
the country. distant from medical aid.
their suffcring> were terrible. All along
the Chicago. Milwaukee & St Paul
rnilwav from jackson 10 Minnesota
lake the scene i one Of devastation.
Not every house is taken. but 50 many
arr destroyed that the scene Is pitifrl.
This Is one ~ the richest sections ~
the state. and is prairie with now and
then a wind break Of trees planted bv
farmers. The wind had full sweep.
The Worst Ever Experienced.
PRESTON. Mimi. June 1,.-From
o'clock Wednesday night until $50
o'clock Yesterday morning. four inches
Of rain fell in this vicinity. destroying
crops, carrying away bridges and side |
walks and drowning many cattle and |
pigs. The damage ocrops will be cnor-
nous. All trains are abandoned and /,
many miles ~ track are washed away. |
Between Wells and Ia Crosse ten miles !
Of tracks nrc gone and no trains are cx-
pcctcd for AZ least week.
Reports from northern Iowa indicate