The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-11-23

John Randhalt, John Haba, Peter Kar-
dell, A. ID. Perry. l.. Koifenberg, Ernst
Budli, Chas. Jaeger, Mrs. Hauerman,
G. Grelow, p. Janneman, Mrs. Jacob
Kobe, John Kueker, Henry Mailman,
William Buetner, Henry Beeson, DR..
Alley, John Barnes, NJ. Trierveiler, H..
w. Schmidt, William Voges, John Maui
derfelt, William Michaels, b. Miller,
Charles Gubert, p. Enzenauer, William
Stnde, j. j. Just, Jacob Miller, William
Williamson, Frank Lang, George Reiss,
Alden Starr, Mrs. Sophia Rathbert,
Henry Rathbert, d. Rathbert, John
Wetzel, William Kellerholz, Frank Lish,
+. ID. Guken, and Mrs. Dora kaufman.
Besides the above there were many
barns, warehouses, and outbuiloings de-
molished.
The storm came up without the slight
est warning and the first intimation the
| inhabitants OF the Inflated city had Of it
was when they were wakened from their
slumbers by the crash of their homes
about their ears.
The horrors of an inky darkness
| lighted up momentarily by flashes of
| lightning added to the fear and madness
which oppressed all minds during the
terrible visitation. Daylight only made
more terrible that which night had hid
den. The scene cannot lee described.
The streets, when lit up by the first
stroaks of dawn, presented pitiable
scene Of ruin and utter desolation. On
every hand rose the means Of the in
jured and the grief of their friends and
relatives. The streets were blocked
with the debris of the storms wreck.
and for some time it was impossible to
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terrible visitation. The one given
above is believed to cover all the casual
! ties, and the number OF houses wrecked
by the storm is fairly complete.
AS soon as the more fortunate people
Of the city recovered from the first
shock of the calamity, efforts were at
once diverted 10 caring for the injured.
They were taken to the homes of those
who had escaped the storms wrath and
cared for by willing hands, and the doc
tors OF the village dressed their wounds.
Track of the storm.
The storm was destructive and far
reaching. Sweeping down from the
north came a tremendous storm OF snow,
rain, and sleet, which, encountering the
warm air-currents of Egypt" devel-
oped three distinct cyclonic storm GEN.
tiers, diverging from q common center
near Red Bud. Taking q southeasterly
course one part of tho storm passed on
rapidly through Western Kentucky and
Tennessee, leveling everything in It's
path at Red Bud, AID only when North
ern Alabama was reached had it less
ened its force. To the westward moved
q second storm center passing through
Central Missouri. thence across Northerr
Kansas, finally being lost in the noun
tains OF Wyoming, but the curious feat
ure Of this remarkable atmospheric dis
turbance lay in the direction taken by
the third arm "a northerly course
through Iowa, veering to the west into
Nebraska leaving a hopeless tangle oil
wires in its wake, until 1t became next
to an impossibility to reach any of the
great cities west Of st. Louis except by
circuitous routes. Not wire remained
from Milwaukee to st. Paul and Min
neapolis and the Northwest, these point.
be ng served with European and East
ern domestic news over the Southern
Pacific route TO Denver, thence to Og
den, Utah. Helena, Mont, and via tn,
Northern Pacific to Minneapolis and st
Paul.