The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-04-20
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IN TEXAS.
PARIS, Tex, April ia destructive
rain, wind and hailstorm has prevailed
here. Crook. Record & Co., Harris Dry
Goods company, Troy & Raglan,
Hutcherson & Elliott, the Lamar house
and the Peterson hotel were all badly
damaged. Many residences and one
church were wrecked. No lives known
to be lost
IN MICHIGAN.
DETROIT, Mich, April 14.-Reports
from different sections of Michigan
show that the storm of Wednesday
night prevailed over the southern por-
ton of the state, leaving destruction
and death in. its wake. It was most
severe in the southeastern portion,
where most of the damage was
done and several lives lost. The prin-
cipal towns to suffer from the storm
were Iypsilanti. whose business section
was almost entirely destroyed; Rea,
where many buildings were wrecked,
Mrs. Jacob Hiser killed and her hus-
band fatally injured; GAINESVILLE, at
which place one house was blown
down and an unknown woman killed;
and Royal Oak, where Thomas
Bryant and his wife were burned
to death in the ruins of their
home and several others injured. AS
far IS can be learned this is the total
number of causalties. Crops of all
kinds suffered considerably: hundreds
of acres of orchards were destroyed:
tarnhouses. barns and outbuildings
We're demolished or badly damaged;
fences, Geographic and electric-light
wires We're broken down and trees up
rooted. Many head of stock were
killed
YPsu.AE-I, Mich, April 1.-THE
damage to property from the cyclone
Wednesday night is now estimated at
from 100000 to 100000 Fortunately
no person was killed. and OF those
injured none will die. The strip
of buildings leveled by the storm
is ia the very heart of the city.
Two manufacturing esta blishments
are crippled. An extra large force
of men is working on the debris. and it
streets. Almost all of the principal
business blocks. stores. the opera house,
post Office. hotels and several dwellings
We're either demolished or badly dam
aged. Houses We're lifted from their
foundations, buildings We're unroofed
and walls tnmbled into the streets a
mass of ruins. In some places the
debris is piled Is feet high. All the
electric light and other wires We're
blown down and Thursday night the
city was in darkness. The heavy rain
which followed the storm added largely
to the damage of the stocks of goods
left exposed in the wrecked stores. The
principal losses are:
Clearv business college. partially destroyed,
less $4,000: opera house, owned by S Draper,
only front wall left standing, damaged $4,000;
Hawkins house, partially collapsed, $4,000;
Curtis carriage factory. complete ruin s20.U00:
Union block, slightly damaged: w. W. Worden,
paints and oils, ! ,00): r. c. Dolson. owner
four new brick blocks. s4.0a): Scharf tag and
labe! and box factory. $1,000 Label block,
$1,000; George Norman owner Occidental hotel
and Arcade block, $1,000; J. L. Hunter lost a
barn, two horses and many sheep, 5000;
Stephen A. Deniker. residence 81, 900 Some
where near $50 dwellings and barns were de-
stroyed on which the loss is estimated at $780,.
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DUNDEE. Mich, April IA terrible
cyclone passed over this town and vi:
cinitv Wednesday evening at 7:45, doing
much damage. Four miles west OF
here it struck the village of Rea, in this
(Monroej county. took the top off the
Methodist Episcopal church and un.
rooted over dozen houses. 1t struck
the house of Jacob Hiser, a farmer.
killing his wife and fatally injuring
him. The remains of the Hiser build
ing took fire and hard fight had to be
made to save the rest of the village
Mrs. H. P. Crane had a leg broken by
the falling timbers of her house and
several Others We're badly hurt. Farm.
ers suffered severe losses in cattle and
| horses killed by falling timbers. The
store of A. 3. Overmier is total wreck
and the post Office and grocery store OF
Edward L. Moore was completely
wrecked. Altogether, twenty-five houses
and thirty barns were totally destroyed
in this section.
IN MISSOURI.
81 LOUIS, Apru IL nOugQ sew
eral days have passed since the
cyclone tore its way through Mis-
souri, from southwest to northeast. the
reports of damage and loss Of life are
still coming in. The towns which sui
fered most are comparatively small and
| nearly all located in the northwestern
part of the state on strip lying to the
southeast of Kansas City. A summary
of the casualties shows the following
| result, the list of dead and injured be-
ing corrected and verified to the best
possible extent:
Hawkins Bank, Mo.-Dead, s: injured, 81
Lexington. Mo.-Dead. 5: injured, 4
| Stanbury, Mo-Dead, 8: injured, 2.
West Palms. Mo.-Injured. !.
Steelvilie, Mo.-Dead. Z.
Page City, Mo.-Dead, ?: injured, 3
Total-Dead. "a; injured. 81
IN MISSISSIPPI.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, April lit is
hardly possible to exaggerate the
havoc made by the cyclone and fire a,
Robinsonville. Miss. Parts of two
houses and a water tank still stand
but everything else was RACED and