The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1894-10-03
A WESTERN CYCLONE.
ITS PATH MARKS DEsOLATIoN AND
DEATH.

One Hundred Lives, and 81 ,O0O, 900 Lost
Fortunately It Visited Sparcely Settled
Dlstricts-The Narrow swath of tho
Wind.
MINNEAPOLIS, M!nu., Sept. 23.-R.-
ports o. the destru ;tiou. wrought by Fri
lay nights cYclons indicate that the loss
of life will be in the neighborhood of
seventy five, while the injured will num-
Der several times as many. Some of
those burt are expected to die and it is
not unlikely tina. fully 100 persons will
be numbered in the list of the cyclones
fury: The property loss is very heavy
and it is almost Impossible at this time
to obtain anything more than rough esti.
mates Of the damage.
AS Indicated in last nights dispatches,
the storm originated near Enmetts tsburg,
Ia, and passed east and north to North
ern Iowa and Southern Minnesota, fan.
ally passing over into Wisconsin. No
reports OF serious damage have been re.
celved from this section and the fury of
the elements seems to have psen spenl
with the destruction Of Spring Valley.
Here four persons are dead. some severe.
ly hurt, while the property loss is esti-
mated al $85 900, 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
destruction of property amounts to about
$4,000. This is h.avy blow to the
village, for its chief business houses lie
in ruins.
Five miles north of Osage, L., six per.
sons were killed and large number
hurt, the destruction Of farm property is
quite heavy, but no estimates have been
made.
East, at Lowther, a town of about
one hundred souls, on the Chicago Great
Western, three persons were fatally hurt
and the whole country for miles around
laid in ruins. rhe loss in this vicinity
will probably be not far from 81, 900, 900.
Fifteen miles north Of Mason City,
Ia, four were killed 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.
West of Mason City, near Britt, two
persons were killed outright, while north
of this town, soma half doz.n lost their
lives.
Three miles north ofWesley, Kos.
suth county, J. w. Bnghan's hou'e
was overturned and caught fire. The
inmates had a narrow escape. The
killed in this vicinity are M. Cassie and
wife, J. W. bingham, Mrs. Tweed,
mother of Thomas Tweed, two children
Of Thomas Tweed. M. Schwepps and
Lwo children. Fred French and two chill.
dren, infant of Mr.. and Mrs. Eden and
Mr.. and Mrs. Rockaw.
North of Algona seems to have been
the scene of greatest harvest of deaths,
more people being killed in Kossuth
county than in any other county through
which the tornado passed. Nineteen
funerals were held at Algona today.
North OF Enmettsburg, which seems
to have been the point where the cy-
clone first assumed dangerous proper.
tions, two lives we're crushed out. From
here the deadly storm went tearing
across the country demolishing every
thing IN lts path. For the most part OF
its course. 1t travelled through farm
ing district, Leroy and Spring Valley,
Mlnn., being the only towns Of any con-
sequence that were damaged, but even
here the deaths were comparatively
few. The fact that the storm weRt
tearing througha portion of Spring Val.
ley and greater portion of the residents
were not aware OF its work of destruc-
ton until the ire bells were rung, shows
what a Narrow strip of country was
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
scrattered, lender even an appr oxlmation
of the loss impossible, but conservative
estimates place the damage at not less
than 100000.