The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-10-03
4 WESTERN CYCLONE.
ITS PATH MARKS DESOLaTlON AND
DEATH.

one an1d'ed Lives, and 81 900, 900 Lost
-Fortunare!y it Visited sparc.Iv se+,,ad
Dlstricts-The Nsrrow swath OF the
Who.
MINNEApoLIs, Mna., Sept. 23.-R..
ports Of the destruction wrought by Fri
day nights cJclons indicate that the loss
Of Life will be in the neighborhood of
seventy FIVE, while the Injured will num-
her several times as many. Some of
those burt are expected to die and it is
not unlikely thst fully 100 persons will
be numbered in the list Of the cyclones
fury: The property loss is very heavy
and is almost impossible at this time
to obtain anything more than rough esti-
mates Of the damage.
AS Indicated in last night Is dispatches,
the storm originated near Enmetts burg,
Ia, and passed east and north to North
era Iowa and Southern Minnesota, fan.
ally passing over into Wisconsin. No
reports otserious damage have been re-
celved from his Section and the fury of
the elements seems to have psen spens
with the destruction of Spring Valley.
Here four persons are dead, some severe.
ly hurt, while tho property loss is esti-
mated at S85, 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 a heavy blow to the
village, for its chief business houses lie
IN ruins.
Five miles north Of Usage, Ia, six per-
sons were killed aud large number
hurt, the destruction Of farm property is
quite heavy, but no estimates have been
made.
| East, ct Lowther, town of about
one hundred souls, on the Chicago Great
Western, three parsons were fatally hurt
and the whole country for miles around
laid in ruins. The loss in this vicinity
will probably be not far from $l,000,000.
Fifteen miles north OF Mason City,
Ia, four were killed outright and as
many more probably fatally hurt, while
all the buildings struck arc total wrecks,
the loss being in the neighborho0d OF
| $50 600.
West of Mason City, near Britt, two
persons were killed outright, while north
Of this town, some half dozen lost their
lives.
Three miles north ofWesley, Kos.
suth county, J. ". B;nghau's hou3e
was overturned and caught fire. The
inmates had a narrow escape. The
killed in this vicinity are NJ. Castle and
wife, J. w. bingham, Mrs. Tweed,
mother of Thomas Tweed, TWO children
Of Thomas Tweed. N. Schwepps and
Two children, Fred French and two chill
dren, infant of Mr.. and Mrs. Eden and
Mr.. aaG Mrs. RockaT.
North Of Algona seems to have been
the scene of greatest harvest Of deaths,
more people being killad in Kossuth
county than in any other county through
which the tornado passed. Nineteen
funerals were held at Algona today.
North OF Emmettsburg, 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 demolishlng every
thing in l..= path. For the most part Of
its 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. The fact that the storm Weat
tearing througha portion of Spring VAL
ley and a greater portion of the residents
were not aware OF its work of destruc-
ton until the ire bells were rung, shows
what a narreW strip Of country was
swept.
AZ 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 approximation
Of the loss Impossible, but conservative
estimates place the damage at not less
than 100000.