The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-10-03
A WESTERN CYCLONE.
ITS PATH MARKS DEsoLATIoN AND
DEATH

ITS PATH MARKS DEsoLATIoN AND
DEATH.
Ono Hundred Lives, and 81 600, 900 Lost
Fortunately it Visited sparcely Settled
Districts-The Narrow swath of the
Wind.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mlnn., Sept. 23.-Re-
ports of tho destruction wrought by FRI
day nights cyclons indicate that tho loss
OF life will be in tho neiehborhood of
seventy.fve, while the injured will mum.
Der several times as many. Some of
those hurt are expected to die and it is
not unlikely that fully 100 persons will
be numbered in the list of the cyclones
fury: Tho property loss is very heavy
and it is almost impossible at this time
to obtain anything more than rough estl.
mates of the damage.
AS indicated in last nights dispatches,
the storm originated near Emmettsburg,
Ia, and passed east and north to North
ern Iowa and Southern Minnesota, fam
ally passing over into Wisconsin. No
reports OF serious damage have been re-
celved from this section and the fury of
tho elements seems to have psen spent
with tho destruction Of Spring Valley.
Hero four persons are dead, some severe.
ly hurt, while the property loss is esti-
mated at $85, 900, the residence portion
of tho town lying directly in tho path of
tho cyclone.
At Leroy, lying southwest, four are
dead and several fatally injured. Tho
obstruction of property amounts to about
$4,000. This is hsavy blow to tho
village, for it's chief business houses lie
in ruins.
Five miles north of Usage, Ia, six psr.
sons were killed and largo number
hurt, the destruction Of farm property is
quite heavy, but no estimates lave boon
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. The loss in this vicinity
will probably be not far from 81, 900, 600.
Fifteen miles north OF Mason City,
Ia, four were killed outright and as
many moro probably fatally hurt, while
all the buildings struck are total wrecKs,
the loss being in tho neighborhood OF
| $50 600. -.
West of Mason City, nesr Britt, two
persons were killed outright, while north
of this town, some half dozen lost their
lives.
Three miles north of Wesley, Kos.
suth county, J. w. Bingham's hou7e
was overturned and caught fire. Tho
inmates had a narrow escape. The
killed in this vicinity are M. Castle and
wife, J. w. bingham. Mrs. Tweed,
mother of Thomas Tweed, two children
of Thomas Tweed. M. Schwepps and
Two 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 scehe of greatest harvest of deaths,
more people being killed in Kossuth
county than in any other county through
which tho tornado passed. Nineteen
funerals were held at Algona today.
North of Emmettsburg, which seems
to have been the point where tho cy-
clone first assumed dangerous proper
tions, two lives were crushed out. From
hero tho deadly storm went tearing
across tho country demolishlng every
thing in It's path. For the most part OF
it's course. 1t travelled through farm
ing district, Leroy and Spring Valley,
Minn., being the only towns of any con-
sequence that were damaged, but even
here the deaths were comparatively
few. Tho fact that tho storm went
tearing througha portion of Spring VAL
Icy and greater portion of tho residents
were not aware of it's work of destruc-
ton until the ire bells were rung, shows
what q marrow 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 oximation
of the loss impossible, but conservative
estimates place the damage at not less
than 100000.