The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-18
THEFOOTS1EPS OF RUIN
Death and Destruction Where
Minnesota Cyclone Trod.
THIRTY SLAIN, MANY INJURED.
Everything Had to Stand From I'm
der or Be Flattened to the Earth.
A Little Baby Carried Away and Laid
Down Softly-Two $4,000 Race
Horses Killed by the Wind in Illi-
nois-Five Children Drowned.

Horses Killed by the Wind in Illi-
nois--Five Children Drowned.
ST. PAUL, June 17-Reports from the
cyclone which devastated the southern
portion of this state Wednesday are still
coming in. The first report of loss of life
proved somewhat overestimated, vet the
death roll is not less than thirty, and may
grow TO fifty The dead and injured in
the Polish settlement, eight miles north
east of Wells, cannot be estimated. The
dead list includes:
HENRY BREWER.
MRS CANToUCHEK.
ALFRED FREDERICK, his s.epfather and two
daughters.
CHRISTIAN MELCHoRr.
JOHN BROWN aud vile.
HERMAN BRENSEa.
MRS JOHN LATZUICK
A son OF Marland Stein.
Mrs JOHN DELLA
A son of John Pietros.
MICHAEL IvERsoN, wife and three children.
A child named Lichtenberger.
ANDREW HANSON.
wo children named Hcbes
Thomas Yokiel and several others are
missing. At the Silverton school Miss
oHare and sixteen pupils were injured.
several fatally. More than thirty persons
are reported injured. half dozen of whom
cannot live. Two people were killed north
OF RichlaHd. An 1S-moEths-old babe was
found IN a swamp. where it had been car
RED by the wind, uninjured. The de-
struction OF property IS very great, as the
path OF the cyclone is through the richest
farming section of the state. Fairmont re-
ports two killed and many injured. Seven
persons were killed between Winnebago
and Sherbourne.
BLooMINGToN, ILL.,, June lin a light
ming storm this afternoon the horses
Carrie Walter (record 2:24L.) valued at
$4,000, owned by Mayor Foster, and
Pogue Hague, valued at $4,000, were
killed by lightning. Ed Hunter, trainer,
was stunned and is still unconscious.
DELAvAN, Mimi, June 1.-THE cyclone
which passed near here Wednesday after
noon crushed a barn belonging to Mr. II.
Duffy, and then passed to the farm of c.
Leitenberger. The family ran for
cellar and part Of them reached
the shelter uninjured. The storm struck
the house and reduced it to splinters.
One OF the children, a girl of Z, was killed,
dren were seriously injured. A mile east
the house of L. Pitcher was unroofed and
the outhouses carried away. The house
of man named Armstrong was moved
from its foundation and his barns and
other outhouses destroyed. Passing on,
the cyclone swept everything in its path.
killing three persons two miles further
east. late report makes the number
Iii loI ,y,f y, ia1, -,
jured.
ALBERT LEA, Minn., June 17.-Every re-
port adds to the list OF injured and loss of
property. Three children were killed in
Martin county. The list of casualties in
Faribault county is a long one and hard
to ascertain. Thus far six deaths have
been reported rom that county. with
many injured. The destruction of prop
erty can not be estimated, as the path of
the cyclone was through the richest farm
ing country IN the state. In F-eeborn
county the deaths now reported are:
A child of ]. Steen; the families of
N. Shequin and f. McCotley. Andrew
Eauldon and wife, a child of {. Christie.
pherson and two others, whose names are
unknown. are seriously injured. 1t is re-
ported that an unknown man was drowned
near Hart!and.
MAYKATo, Mimi. June 1.-THE latest
developments substantiate the gravest
fears Of yesterday as to the cyclone The
death loss amounts to at least thirty, and
seventeen bodies have been recovered thus
far. with large territory to hear from.
The cyclone was the worst that has ever
visited the northwest.
MOUNT CARMEL, Pa, June IA dam
near this city broke this evening, washing
out the tracks of the Lehigh Valley rail-
way and piling huge logs and trees across
them. 1t is reported that q number of
houses in Robinson, a small mining viii
lage, directly in the pat of the Hood,
were carried away. 1t was feared some
miners working underground were lost, but
the latest information is to the effect that
all were hoisted 10 the top. 1t is not be-
lievcd that any lives were lost, but two
people are missing. The lower portion of
the town is flooded, and number of busi-
ness houses had portion of their stock
ruined,
SCRANTON. June II. - Another storm
swept over Scranton tonight. accompanied
by q high wind, which blew the roofs from
houses, demolished out-buildings and
wrecked the inclosure of the Scranton
baseball park. The Adowbrook silk
works were struck by lightning. and all
the material III the works ruined.