Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-24

| pal government, the chamber of COM
| merce and similar bodies. News from
| the scene of the disaster Is fragmen-
tary. II Is only obtainable by messen-
gers sent to adjoining towns, but an
| Associated Press correspondent is ex-
| pected to reach New Richmond soon
| and will endeavor to effect direct wire
| communication at once.
A reporter just returned from New
Richmond, Wis, places the lumber OF
| dead at 200 and the injured at about
| 1000. He says of the $500 inhabitants
only a few can be found unhurt. The
town was almost totally destroyed.
Minneapolis, Mimi, June I3.-While
it is regarded as probable that the loss
of life at New Richmond will not come
up to the original estimate, il is be-
lieved the property loss will be great
er. Fire broke out in the wreckage,
which is little more than kindling
wood, and burns easily. At s o'clock a
relief train left Minneapolis for New
Richmond, bearing telegraph operat,
ors, linemen, physicians, nurses ana
correspondents.
Dispatchers' bulletins are eagerly
watched and extras snapped up within
a block of the newspaper Offices. Some
action by the mayor, extending such
municipal aid as Minneapolis can at
ford, is expected to be taken at an
early hour
500 Cof1ns Ordered.
MINNEAPOLIS, June 1.-THE through
| Wisconsin Central train succeeded in
reaching here this morning, having
come through New Richmond at an
early hour. The tracks were all clear,
save where the contents Of a lumber
ward were scattered over them.
Conductor Gavin says he TOOK
twelve refugees to st. PauI
with him. When the train
came through the fires were burning
heavily, the air was so full OF smoke
il wa difficult to tel the extent OF the
disaster. The central part OF the town.
however, was wrecked. A fire engine
had arrived from a neighboring town
and was doing it's best to check the
flames. There was no medical assist.
ance at that time, n OF the Local
doctors having been killed and the 9TH
err having had both legs broken. The
| Wisconsin Central and the Omaha
roads had brought In large numbers OF
| country NlSlLOTS IOT lhC NilN'H, 49, "
| Gavin says there must have been from
| $500 to 5000 people in town ne
brought an order for 300 cof1ns, pnt
this, Of course, was simply an estl,
mate of the possible dead by the local
relief committee.
Earlier Reports.
Minneapolis, Mimi, June ia spe-
cial IN the Tribune from Saltwater,
Mimi, says:
Last night was a terrible night for
New Richland, Wis, the village being
almost wiped out of existence by one
Of the most severe cyclones that eyer
visited that locality. 1t carried ruin
and death in it's path, and at this hour
it is impossible to give even a partial
list Of those seriously injured. 1t is
thought many are dead.
The news of the disaster was
brought here by j. A. Carroll, a travel
ing man from Portage, Wis, who was
stopping at the Nicollet house in New
Richmond when the cyclone struck,
lie saw the funnel-shaped cloud as ii
came up the principal street and tool
refuge in the basement of the hotel,
which was completely wrecked, to-
gether with every other business
house in the city.
In terrible sheets OF rain following
the cyclone Mr.. Carroll and his com
rades succeeded in recovering the pro
prietor, Charles McKennon, wife and
child from the debris, and they also re
moved the laundry girl, who was sc
seriously injured that she will prob
ably die. They also removed two mer
named Barrett and Newall, who were
very severely injured. Mr.. Carroll
drove to Saltwater by team for relief
and the train with doctors left here a
12:l5a.m II. Mr.. Carroll further says that
fire followed the cyclone and that wha'
was left was consumed by fire. Many
people are doubtless killed, and the
damage will run into the hundreds Of
thousands of dollars.
A special to the Tribune from Burk
hardt, Wis.,, says:
A messenger has reached here from
New Richmond, and has telegrapheC
here for doctors and help, saying TIA
the storm struck that town and {
large number we're killed and wound
ed. The railroad officials have endeav
ored to get out a special train, but OIL
account of the several washouts are
unable to do so, and the doctors ant
many others are now driving across
the country as fast as horses car
safely carry them.
A special to the Tribune from Nortl
Wisconsin Junction says:
A cyclone and cloudburst strucl
just east of Hudson last evening. TIL
cyclone passed up Lake st. Croix, cas-
of Hudson, and moved northeasterly
crossing the track on the Omaha roat
n mile east of North Wisconsin June
ton, destroying wires, barns, houses
outbuildings, hay stacks, etc, all alon!
its path. Fifteen feet of track on tn
Omaha road one mile west of this plac,
is washed out, and the track east o
here is reported to be buried in SAN
and mud at several points. 1t it I'll
mored that Mrs. Dave Hefferon, Twin!
north of Burkhart's, was killed.
The east-bound Omaha train is tie
up, and will probably not be able t
proceed before morning. The rain an
wind was severe.
The places known to be damage
are a house on one farm and all build
ings, except a house on another farm
of Henry Madison, the farm belong
ing to Ed DAILY, Julius Beers barn an
Dave Hefcron's barn, all the building
belonging to Lacy, north of B%urkharts
a small -four mill at Burkharts, bar