The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-05-04
WORK OF THE WIND.
Ten Persons Knisd and Over score In
iurcd Near Pnttcr~on--Loss OF Prop
erty and Live stoek Il
Enormous

Il SO much wreck and ruin crowded into
such brief space of time as was the
result of cyclone in the farming
district 20 miles east Of this city
Wednesday afternoon. About AGO p M
a twisting. hurting cloud was seen 10
approach Patterson. small station on
the frisco road. about miles south
west OF Burton. The air was dry and
filled with electricity. Those who
saw IL. say Il resemblcd a great mass OF
flying smoke and dust from prairie
fire The air was as If il came from
heated furnace, hot and sitting The
storm struck about mile of Pat
terson and for 10 miles in north
westerly direction left death and ruin
in a path 100 yards to quarter Of a
mile wide.
Ten persons were killed, as follows:
Mrs. Joseph Wear Grace Wear. i2 years old:
Herman Wear. 10 years old; a babe. William
Armstrong. Grandma Chaplin, John schmidt
Miss Schmidt, Dora Schmidt and Prank
schmidt
More than twenty persons were in
jured, among them being the widow
Frye. internally, cannot recover;
Joseph Wear, will die; Mrs. j. ID. Fritz
zell, fatally injured; Jacob 5.
Stinchey, injured OIL the head; Cyrus
Henson, seriously injured; Mrs. William
Armstrong.
The first house demolished was that
of Widow Fry, small structure. Mrs
Frye was SO seriously injured IL is
feared she cannot recover. The
houses of Jake Saimislxi. snd
John Sultzbach were wrecked, but
no one was killed. Joe Wears fine res
idcncc WAS reduced 10 kindiing wood.
He was fatally injured and his wife
and three children killed. Two
children escaped by going into
the cellar. 4. G. Caldwell's house
on the west was destroyed. The
family escaped in the cellar. ID. T.. Friz-
zells house, recently completed at
cost OF over $1,000, was wiped out,
leaving only the cellar, in which were
his wife and children, uninjnred.
Across the road was the fine house OF
j. r. Frizzell, which met the fate Of
all in the tornado's pathway. Miss
Frizzcll was fatally hurt. William Arm
strong's house was torn TO pieces. He
was killed and his wife seriously i'm
iured. William Morris was severely
injured and Grandma Chaplin killed
when his house was torn by the wind
The homes of William White and Cyrus
Henson were also destroyed and
the latter was injured. fatally it
Is feared. The house of A. H. Parnell,
Spencer Ray, j. A. Cummings and NJ.
c. Hege were all demolished, but the
only person dangerously injured is
Mrs. Cummings.
The pupils of district school In the
path of the storm were hurried out OF
danger by the young lady teacher. and
she is the heroine OF the hour. The sky
was overspread with black clouds and
the storm cloud as 1T approached the
town wound about like the swaying
trunk of giant elephant. The scene
when the cyclone burst upon the town
beggars description. People were APP
palled by the terrible calamity and
overcome by a strange stupor. After
the cyclone swept by leaving devasta-
tion and death in its wake the citizens
fell to work caring for the wounded
and removing dead bodies from be-
meath the heaps of debris.
Near the Frizzell home dead cattle,
horses. hogs and chickens are scattered
all over the wheat fields. As far rs
heard from, covering distance of rs
miles across the country from south
west 10 northeast, twenty residences,
nearly all of them large ones, were
completely destroyed. The loss will
not be less than S200.o00 Physicians
from Wichita went to the scene and
local assistance Is given 20 the suffering
families. Every body in the track OF
the storm lost everything, and outside
aid will probably have to be called for
The storm crossed the Santa Fe rail-
road about miles west of Halstcd
The engineer OF a west-bound through
Pacific express saw the twisting tor
nado coming from the south and
stopped and backed his train. This
prompt action prevented wreck, for
the train would certainly have encoun-
tered the storm II 1t had proceeded.
The pathway Of sbe storm Is strewn
with the wreckage OF houses, barns
and outbuildings, among which are the
dead carcasses Of hundreds of horses
cattle and swine.
EAU CLAIRE. Wis, May 2.--During a
heavy gale late Wednesday afternoon,
as way freight on the Chicago, St
Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha was APP
preaching Fan Claire. eleven loaded
cars and the tender were blown from
the track and tipped over. All OF the
train left on the track was the loco
motive aud caboosc.
JACKSON. Mimi. May ?. - Charles
Ridgcway, the mail carrier between
here and Nninsos. was struck by light
ming and instantly killed in the thun-
derstorm Wednesday.
WHITEHALL. Wis, May ?. "A terrific
thunderstorm visited this section ac-
companicd by fall OF much-needed
rain Sever r. tanning was instantly
killed by lightning while standing Ia
the barn Of B. T.. Wing, about miles
west OF here