St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-01
Nearly All the Buildings In a
Nebraska Village De-
stroyeds ....
Business Blocks and Churches
Levelled by Furious
Cyclone.
The Steamer Golden Rule
Burned and Sunk at the
Wharf.
one Of the Passengers Jumps
Overheard and Is
Drowned.

NELSON, Neb., March 31.-A terrible
cyclone struck Nelson at 6:15 p. m. to-
day. 1t came from the southwest. and
could be seen for at least ten miles be-
fore it struck The town. 1t was pre-
coded Ivy a terrific hail storm, lasting
several minutes, Wien the worst was
thought to be over With, but this
hope was soon blasted by the appear
ance in the Southwest of the coming
storm, which proved to be the worst and
most destructive that ever visited this
section of Nebraska. A heavy wind
had prevailed from the southwest for
some time which seemed to carry
the cyclone right along with it, and
it was plain to see that a terrible
cyclone was racing in the southwest for
several minutes before it reached Mel
son. The clouds circling around and
around were plainly visible for several
minutes. The storm struck the town
with terrible force at 6:l5 p. m. Many
rushed into cellars and stores for safety.
Damages have been estimated at $780,
600.
The Buildings Wrecked.
The First National bank was I'M
rooted, and the Opera block; three
stores were unroofed and badly dam
aged; the Union block was unrooted
and southwest end tore out; the Airing
ton hotel was unr0ofed; the new school
house, which was completed at the
beginning of the year at cost
of $4,000. was almost destroyed;
the Presbyterian church was badly
wrecked. A large number of residences
were completely wrecked. among which
were those of Miss Mary Brayman. Dr..
j. p. Burlington. j. NJ. Garmil, John
Eaton, Henry Pope. S. B; Will
Jams. D. J.. McHenry, w. |. Top
Teton, G. W. Cole, |. g.. Foster,
Robert Greenwood, Thomas Nicholas.
Those buildings were completely de-
stroyed, there being nothing left to
show how they stood, excepting the
cellars and foundation, the half of one
house. that of Henry Pope, being car
ried along
I'm the Track of the Storm
nearly an eighth of mile with the con-
tents and Mrs. Pope and two children,
fortunately. however, the family ,ses-
capped uniniured. Miss Mary Brayman,
assistant principal in the Nelson high
school, is the only one known to, have
storm was approaching she took
refuge in the cellar of her house
and thinking the worst was over she
came up, and before she could get back
the storm completely demolished her
house and badly bruising her, breaking
her leg and several ribs. 1t is learned
that Mrs. John Eaton was Seri-
ously injured. Most of the
buildings were insured, Only
against fire, and the loss to owners will
be almost total. The correspondent has
yet been unable to learn anything GER
tain as to the damage done in the Sur
rounding country. The Rock Island
round house was also wrecked. 7i's
At Kansas City.
KANSAS CITY, March 31.--A severe
wind storm passed over portion of
Kansas this evening about O'clock.
Details are meager. but it is known that
considerable damage was done. The
storm seems to have first taken on the
character of a cyclone near Lyons,
Kan. 1t passed northeast Of that
town and did little damage to
buildings, but attained sufficient veloc-
ity to uproot several trees on the out
skirts of the town. The storm greatly
lnterfered with telegraphc facilities.
there not being workable wire to
Denver from any point east Of Topeka
all night after O'Clock. That city
was completely isolated from the east
otter o'clock, so far as telegraphic
communications were concerned. The
wires were SO completely Frustrated
that there was no possibility OF obtain
ing details of the destruction the cy-
clone undoubtedly wrought.