San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-09-22
FOSTERS CYCLONE
SWEEPS MINNESOTA ON TIME YES
TERDAY.
Many People Killed and Great Loss
of Property by the Terrible
Wind.


Spring Valley, Mimi, at 10 last
night, demolishing the WInona
and Southwestern depot, wind
mill, water tank, oil tank,
cold storage house and the
Shellhas Brewing company's
structures, together with dozen
or more houses. Three persons are
dead and many are injured, some
of whom will die. The cyclone
afterwards struck Homer, a village
40 miles south, destroying the
Barnes-Newton hall, the general
store, two houses, and unroofing
another. The storm then passed
to Marshland, Wis.,, destroying
several houses and other struc-
lures, but injuring no one. In
Dodge Centre, Mimi, large ware
house was blown down and an
other partially destroyed. Eastern
Leroy was also swept, the Mil
waukee depot destroyed, together
with other houses. The killed are:
Henry Finley, a drummer boy
named Gelbertson, Mrs. Dunton
and Joe Nalson.
MINNEAPOLIs, Mimi, Sept. o.
A special from Usage, Iowa, says
five or more persons were killed in
a cyclone there. A special from
Whittmore, Ia, says there is much
destruction of business property at
Algona, Ia, and east of there.
OELwEN, Ia, Sept. 22.-News
reaches here that cyclone, last
night at Lowther, destroyed Chi
cago and Great Western depot,
grain elevators, store buildings
and dwellings.
AUSTIN, Mimi, Sept. 22.--At 80
last evening the village of Leroy
was visited by cyclone, and a
large section of the village was
totally wrecked. A party of about
thirty couples were enjoying
a dance in the opera house when
the whole building collapsed
Two dead bodies, those of young
Finley and Gilbertson, were taken
out; all the others were injured
and bruised, but probably not Sc
| riously. Fire in the wrecked Sec
ton caused an additional loss of
| $4,000.
OMAHA, Neb., Sept. pa special
| to the Bee from Emmettsburg, Ia,
says twenty people were killed
there, and a dispatch from Usage
puts the number of deaths in that
county at ten.
MASON CITY, la, Sept. 22.--A des-
tructive cyclone passed through
the northern part of this county
last night. Two persons are known
to be killed. Mr.. and Mrs. Had
don and a little child, were blown
half mile and fatally injured.
The cyclone passed on toward
the northwest, with Mably and
Plymouth in it's track.
MINNEAPOLIs,M Mimi, Sept. o.
Officials Of the Chicago and Great
Western railway have received re-
ports this morning saying cyclone
struck Riceville, Ia, doing some
damage, and then struck the small
village of Lowther, destroying
every dwelling in the place. Nc
Intyre, agent for the telegraph,
and messengers, came into Rice
Vile for physicians who were
needed at the village of New Haven,
ten miles from Riceville. The
messengers said New Haven was
badly damaged by the storm, many
houses being wrecked and several
persons injured.
SPRING VALLEY, Mimi, Sept. p.
"A disastarous cyclone visited the
northwestern part of this city last
night, killing three persons and
injuring twenty more. Twenty
dwelling houses and Southwestern
Railway depot were destroyed. The
killed are: Mr.. and Mrs. n. Dodge
and a child of Frank Massek.
The wounded are: G. G. King,
fatally; Mrs. Louis Rose, fatally;
Lena Rose, seriously; Mrs. Harper,
injured back; Mrs. Frank Massek,
injured back, critically; Charles
Dodge, critically; Sallie Williams,
seriously; John Ness child, scalp
wound, recovery doubtful; Mrs.
VIM. Bovee, seriously, and nine |
others slightly. 81
MASON CITY, Iowa, Sept. PA
8 o'clock last night terrible g
clone at North Cerro Gordo,
stroyed eight farm houses. Dead.
Ellery McKercher, John Patterson,
d. Il. Haddow; five fatally wound.
ed, Miss Maggie Baker, Harold Nc
Kercher, Alice McKercher, Miss |
Edith Bentley, James O'Neilly, Sr. |
ST. PAUL, Sept. 22.-St. Paul and