New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1892-03-16
THE WORST IN MANY YEARS.
Such was the Blizzard that Struck us In
e1pectedly last Wednesday.
The Damage in New Ulm will Amount
to Several Thousand Dollars

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| Oldtimers who were permitted to ex-
| perience the terrors of the March biz
zard of 1865 are all of one opinion now
and that is, that, if the bowling, screech.
/ ing Storm that famed us with cold air
last We dnesday was not the worst IN
their recollection, it was certainly enti-
tied to second honors.
i. The storm started in on Tuesday
night, or about the time that Joe Whee-
lock from the thirteenth story of the
Pioneer Press building was opening an
editorial on the 'sbalmy air, the mild
nights when nothing freezes and unmis-
taxable signs of an early spring.; and
throughout the whole of the following
day, the wind blew at a terrific rate. A
light snow fell all the while and the
fierce gale seemed to give a singing
force to every flake. So thick too was
the air at times that one could hardly
see across the street, while the indiscreet
individual who ventured out of doors
was blinded by the elfsh frenzy of the
driving snow and wind
Had the ground been covered with
loose snow to any considerable depth
the storm would have been far more
| terrible in it's effects, out as it was the
warm sun of the day before had dried
the ground and left nothing but dust
and the fakes that were falling for the
whlrling wind to play with. But even
this was bad enough. Signs creaked
and were dashed to pieces before the
mad swirl which enveloped the city,
awnings were torn to tatters, window
panes crashed, chimneys and windmills
toppled over ana loose barrels and lum-
Der were scattered as if in cyclone.
Blowing as it was at the rate of sixty
miles an hour, anything that the wind
could catch hold of was torn from its
resting place and smashed to pieces.
The lumber in PeterScherer' yard was
rudely disturbed and piled up in heap.
The roof on Mrs. SimmOn's house near the
Catholic church was torn Oft; one corn
er of Baptiste Karl's brick building on
South Minnesota Street was blown
away; the smoke stacks on the electric
light station and the Van Dusen Elevat-
or were likewise brought to the ground
and so also was the barn Of John Sieb-
ert and the windmill at the college. A
car, standing on the trestle work near
the Eagle Mill was picked up and
dashed to pieces on the ground twenty
feet below. The iron roof on the Eagle
Mill elevator was ripped up together
with the iron fence on the mill, while
at the new Catholic church some of the
new and expensive windows were blown
in and broken, the damage at each
place amounting to nearly $1,000. At
Horn burg's store, at the hotels and at
hany other places window panes were
also made the play things of the wind s
fury. Buildings in all parts of the city
shook and rocked before the fearful
gale. ...
The Vine gar Works however suffered
most. There the large brick stack was
blown over and sent crashing through
the roof and all three floors, breaking
joists, vinegar pits and everything in it's
way. The steam pipes were all twisted
so that no steam could be supplied for
the protection of vinegar in any part. of
the building, and the loss to the owners
will foot up at least $s3 900. The deb
ris caused by the fall presented an in
teresting scene. Considerable time will
necessarily be required to make COM
plete repairs, but luckily the loss is
we'll covered with insurance.
In Lafayette the windmills of Jos.
Diepolder, 2. Simmet, Mrs. Lohmann
and M Jensen were blown down by the
storm and in Cottonwood those of Mar
tin Mohr, John Gaetke, M. Gabriel, j os.
Schaefer, VIM, Schrap, Henry Fort
wengler and J. H.Mohr.
WHO WILL THE CANDIDATE BE?
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