Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-06-18
VERY HARD TO GET
Details of the Cyclone in
Southern Minnesota.
Wires Down and Railroad Traffic at
a Standstill.
At Least Fifty Known to Have
Been Killed,
WHILE THE NUMBER OF INJURED
WILL REACH HUNDREDS.

Exposure and Lack of Surgical At
tendance - Scores of Dwellings anf
Barns Demolished and Much stocl
Killed.
MINNEAPoLIs, June 1S.-News of thu
cyclone which devasted southern Min
nesota Wednesday evening is very hard
to get Telegraph wires are down fol
miles, and the railways which penetrate
the stricken section are at standstill.
All the information obtainable comes
from isolated survivors of the storm and
the facts have to be gathered from wide
ly separated points. From all the re
ports at hand so far the loss of life will
probably reach fifty, and the list of the
injured will run into the hundreds.
Property Loss Not Known Yet.
No estimate Of the property loss car
be made, and all that can be said of it is
that it will undoubtedly run into seven
figures.
The town of Wells. Faribault county
seems to have suffered the most Sc
verely from the storm. 1t is reported
that fifty persons were killed in that vii
lage alone, but these reports are greatly
exaggerated.
The storm is described by an eyewit.
ness as cloud of midnight blackness
and was boiling, seething mass, going
in an easterly direction.
At Spring Valley.
At Spring Valley damage aggregatinq
$4,000 was done. Large, heavy black
clouds came up in the west about
O'clock, gathering thick and fast, when
without warming, the heavens broke
loose with constant lightning and heavy
peals of thunder. The rain came down
in torrents, with but little wind ac-
companying it.
The Spring Valley creek was quickly
swelled to its utmost. Then the burst
ing of heavy cloud about 8 O'Clock
made the little stream raging torrent,
raising it to five or six feet above the
highest mark it ever reached, carrying
everything in the way before it. Clri-
zens turned out and set to work saving
property and people from the raging tor
rents
The first damage done was that of
lifting the house occupied by u MI Nc
Duggan and carrying it down against
the iron bridge, demolishing everything
in it, and Mrs. McDuggan herself was
not rescued until the house had anchored
itself at the bridge, and then after she
had tainted from the shock.
1t next took the millinery store of Mrs.
Taylor, landing it high ON the bank next
the Milwaukee depot.
The bridge across Main street was
taken ont.
In Faribauit County.
1t was in Faribault county that the
loss of life principally occurred. The
afternoon had been sultry and dense,
overhanging clouds seemed almost to
touch the ground, while not breath of
air stirred.
Later heavy down-pour of rain set
in, and, about $3.50 o'clock, preceded by
wind from the northwest huge, fun
nel-shaped cloud was noticed by people
living west of Wells. 1t advanced rap
idly with loud, roaring, grinding
sound, and first touched the earth near
jackson, two miles west of Sherburne
struck u school House.
The Silver Thorn school house, -four
miles north of Sherbune, was torn C
pieces by the cyclone Miss Maggie
OHarc. the teacher, and all the pupils
sixteen i'll number, We're seriously, and
and some it is thought fatally, injured
Medical aid was promptly on hand and
the wounded cared for.
Several people at work in the fields
were struck and more or lesss injured.
August Filbery was caught up and
carried about sixty yards, but was moi
seriously injured.
The little village of Easton was next
visited and three houses We're demolised
From here the twisting funnel took nm
easterly course and utterly destroyed
everything i'll its course. Dozens OF
farm houses and barns were wiped out
of existence 10y the awful power of the
wind.
At uartIand.
AT Hartlaud five people were killed
and many wounded.
Winnebngo's Escape.
When the center of the cyclone APP
preached Winnebago City ii seemed as
if though that village was fated, and the
greatest CONSERVATION prevailed there
for few minutes.
The storm Divides.
The river seemed to divide the tornado
and one-half turned southeasterly and
one half northeasterly.
At wolis.
The southern funnel swept around
south of Wells and circled into the east
Wherever building was destroyed II
was totally and utterly demolished that
not vestige of it is left. Trees and
telegraph poles were broken off or twist
cd ont of shape. Wires along the
Northwestern road We're all down dur
ing the night.
At one place where thecyclone struck
eight houses in succession We're destroyed
and Mt another the place was SO completely
washed off The face of the earth that nc
trace II IL vi AtH NNNhH'thbo NpuAN ~
found, though search was made.
scores Injured.
Scores of people received wounds, anC
as most of them were in the country
they suffered untold tortures through
exposure to cold, wind and rain and lacl
of surgical attendance. The storm vii
entail great hardship upon those VIII,
lost their all, although crops are not IN
lured.