The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-10-02
THE CYCLONES WORK OF DEATH
SEVENTY-FIVE PERSONS KILLED
BY FRIDAY NIGHTS TORNADO.

The List of Seriously Injured Will Num-
Der Many More--The Loss of Property
Likely to Amount to a Million Dollars.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Sept. % Re
ports of the destruction wrought by
friday nights cyclone indicate that
the loss OF life will be in the neighbor
MOOD OF seventy five, while the injured
Will number several times as many,
some or those hurt are expected to die,
ana 1t Is not unlikely that fully 100
persons will be numbered in the list of
the cyclones fury. The property loss
Is very heavy, and it is almost impos-
sI0Ie at this time to obtain ANYTHING
more n a rough estimates of the dam,
age.
AS indicated in last nights dis
patches, the storm originated near EN-
mettsburg, ISwa, and passed east and
north to Northern Iowa and Southern
Minnesota, finally passing over into
wisconsin, No reports of serious dam
age have been received from this sec
ton, and the fury of the elements seems
TO nave been spent with the destruction
OF Spring Valley. Here four persons
are dead, some severely hurt, while the
property loss is estimated at $85, coo,
the residence portion of the town lying
directly in the path of the cyclone. At
Leroy, lying southwest, four are dead
and several fatally injured. The de-
structIon of property amounts to about
S15,OOO. This is a heavy blow to the
village, for it's chief business houses lie
In ruins.
Five miles north of Usage, Iowa, six
persons were killed and a large number
hurt. The destruction of farm prop
erty Is quite heavy. but no estimates
nave been made. East, at Lowther, a
town OF about 100 souls, on the Chicago
and Great Western, three persons were
fatally hurt, and the whole country
for miles around was laid in ruins. The
loss in this vicinity will probably be
not far FROM 800, OOO.
Fifteen miles north of Mason City,
Iowa, four persons were kille d outright,
and as many more probably fatally
hurt, while all the buildings struck are
total wrecks, the loss being in the
neighborhood of $50, 900. Westo of Mason
City, near Britt, two persons we're
killed outright, while north of this
town some half dozen lost their lives.
Three miles north of Wesley, Kos
suth county, j. Bingham's house was
overturned and caught fire. The in
mates had a narrow escape. The killed
in this vicinity are M Castle and wife,
J. w. Dingman, Mrs. Tweed, mother
of Thomas Tweed; two children of
Thomas Tweed, M. Schweppe and two
children, Frederick French and two
children, infant of Mr.. and Mrs. Eden,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Rockaw.
Forth of Algona seems to have been
the scene of the greatest harvest of
death, more persons being killed in
Kossuth county than in any other one
county through which the tornado
passed. Nineteen funerals we're held
at Algona county to day.
North Of Emmettsburg, which seems
to have been the point where the cyclone
first assumed dangerous proportions, |
two lives were crushed out. From here
the deadly storm went tearing across
the country, demolishing everything
its path. For the most part of it's
it travelled through a farming
Leroy and Spring Valley,
Minn., being the only two towns of any
consequence that were damaged, but
even here the deaths were compare
few. The fact that the storm
went tearing through a portion of
Valley and the greater portion
Of the residents were not aware of it's
work of destruction until the fire bells
were rung, shows what a narrow strip
country vas swept.
AS the storm travelled through the
country and avoided villages and towns,
the property loss is largely confined to
farm buildings, and these being badly
scattered render an approximation of
the loss impossible, but conservative
estimates place the damage at not less
than 81, 600, 900.