River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-06-23
RUIN AND DEATH.

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The storm King Not Yet satisfied viii
His Fatal Work This Near-He Visit
several Counties in Minnesota and Add
Nearly seventy Names to His Alread,
Long List of Victim
FAtRMoNT, Mimi, June 17.-With q
roar equal To the din of twenty railway
trains running over a score of iror
bridges a great cyclone swept over the
southern Minnesota counties of Jack
son, Martin, Faribault, Freedom, Blue
Earth, Mower and Fillmore Wednes
day afternoon. The storm began about
miles west of the village of jackson,
moved eastward over the villages of
Sherburne and Wells in Martin county,
passed lightly over Faribault county.
caused great havoc in Freeborn and
spent itself in the two counties farther
east.
The loss of life has been very heavy
how heavy will not be known for
several days, as railway trains are
abandoned because of washed-out
bridges and tracks, wagon roads
are flooded and wholly impossible
and telegraph wires are in such
tangle that it will be impossible to
put them to rights in several days.
The loss of life in this county will
probably reach thirty; that in Free
born eight or ten, and that elsewhere
will bring the total up to nearly
seventy, if not more. Besides this the
loss to buildings, crops and railroad
property in the half dozen counties
will reach $500, 600. The Root, Zumbro
and other rivers of southern Minnesota
are raging torrents.
Scores of people received wounds. and
as most of them were in the country
they suffered untold tortures through
exposure To cold wind and rain and
lack of surgical attendance. The storm
will entail great hardship upon those
not injured.
WELLS, Mimi, June IA most dis
astrous hurricane swept over this conn
W Wednesday night, destroying every
thing in its path Its course was from
north to south. Houses, barns and ma
chinery in the track of the storm were
totally wrecked ana a large amount of
stock killed. The cyclone was accom-
panied by great electrical display.
ST. PAUL, MINI, June l7.-The great
storm did its most destructive work
along the Iowa border around Mime
sofa lake and south of the villages of
Wells and Sherburne. Reports brought
in by trainmen say a district school
house 4 miles east Of Sherburne was
blown into kindlng wood in a
,winkling, killing sixteen of the eight
zen pupils and the teacher In the
farming district south of Minnesota
lake many residences and barns were
blown away and four people were
Silled. John Brown, prosperous
farmer, one of the victims, was killed
by flying timbers in his yard. His
wife, John Englebrecht, a hired man
and a school-teacher were injured, two
Of them fatally.
Farmers from the southern Martin
county line report at Wells that at
least thirty people were crushed by
falling buildings, and they fear later
reports win increase rather than dimin-
sh the loss of life. Near Bowen Mills
she house of Bohemian family was
blown entirely away, leaving family
If eight to spend the night in a driving
-ainstOrm.
At Lyndon, on the Iowa border, a
family named Peterson. consisting of a
nan, his wife and child, were crushed
N their house and four other persons
injured. Several people had bones
broken at Easton and three buildings
III A..l1.
Mower county, was heavy sufferer.
more, however, from the flood than from
.he wind Houses, bridges, sidewalks
and all movable property was swept
away by the resistless waters Con-
siderable live stock persisted and much
damage was done. Horses and cattle
were drowned in large numbers near
Austin, and bridges and dams were car
lied away. All trains at that point are
boats. In Blue Earth county several
houses Were blown down, and Mrs.
Maggie was blown into "a tree top, but
she was only slightly injured.
ALRERT LEA, Mimi, June 1.-Two
ieath-dealing cyclones passed through
the northern part of Freedom county
Wednesday afternoon, the first sweep
ing through several townships at 1870
and the other little after 8. Six or
seven persons are known to have
been killed Two of the number
were children of Henry Christian.
Charles Christopherson, wife and two
children were badly injured. Christie
pherson's buildings were all wrecked.
J. II. Hekes, his wife and two children
were terribly crushed. The wife and
one child will die.
The village of iIartland and nearly
everything in Hartland township was
RACED. In Freedom township MiklIel
Iverson's wife and two children are
missing and their home obliterated.
Moland Stems buildings We're ruined
and his child killed. Carl Hendrick-
sons fine residence and barns were
demolished Chris Nigards barn
blew over and Ole Hansen, who
sought refuge in il, was killed. The
creamery at Freeborn was wrecked
and +. Il. Brakes buildings were
strewn over his farm. H. ID. Threed's
buildings were blown to pieces and his
crops ruined. Hailstones as large
as goose eggs fell for three
quarters of an hour.
PRESTON, Mimi, June l7.-Fillmore
county was visited by cloudburst dur
ing the night which destroyed crops,
carried away bridges and sidewalks and
drowned many cattle and hogs. The
loss to crops may reach $4,000.
WATERS ON q STRIKE.