Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-24
NEARLY ZOO
WERE KILLED
Appalling Work Of the Wisconsin
Tornado at the Town Of
New Richmond.
HARDLY A HOUSE LEFT STANDING
Almost Every Person in the Town
More or Less Injured by
the Storm.
DISASTER DETAILS STILL LACKING
Everything Is I'm Confusion and No
Definite Death List or Damage
Estimate Is Obtainable
Mt Present.
HARDLY A HOUSE LEFT STANDING
DISASTER DETAILS STILL LACKING

NV nOu1dNb0 On u iNoahN VI
fearful tornado, is the estimate made
by General Manager Scott, of the
Omaha road. The storm struck the
Omaha road at Boardman and fol-
lowed the track to New Richmond,
passed through New Richmond from
the south to the north and leveled the
center of the city. People were
hemmed in and scores were buried
alive. On the street from the depot,
starting with Henry Beal a. Co.'S store,
through to the Hotel Nicolet on both
sides of the street, every building is
gone Only the most incomplete In
formation as TO killed and wounded
could be obtained.
The dead, SO far as known, are:
MISS ABBIE WILLIAMS, daughter
Of j. Williams, caught in wreck II
burned to death.
MRS. GRAINTON, mother of Ward
Gould.
GEORGE STOCK.
TWO DAUGHTERS Of S. n. Haw-
kins and Patton Cary.
DAUGHTER OF - MKlNNON.
J. u. HICKS.
WILLIAM CALLAHAN, farmer.
MRS. JOHN GILLIAN.
MRS. J. M. SHADY AND SON.
WALTER FARRELL, a boy.
UNKNOWN MAN, burned to q crisp.
UNKNOWN MAN, head severed,
supposed to be q circus man.
WILLIAM BTXBY, undertaken.
MRS. J. HORD, of Boardman.
CHARLES REID, of Boardman.
THOMAS M'CHOE.
OLE GUNDERSON, q farmer.
MICHAEL MCPHERSON, farmer.
= BROCKHARDT AND THREE
CHILDREN.
Town Practically O~bliteratcd.
St. Paul, Mimi, June IA reporter
Of the Dispatch who went to New
Richmond, Wis, last night on the first
relief train, returned this morning and
fully confirms the reports Of the
dreadful calamity which visited that
place last night.
The pretty little town was almost
totally wiped OFF the map. OF $500 In
babitants, 200 lie dead amongst the
ruins Of their homes, about 700 are
injured, many fatally, and scarcely
two score escaped without some re-
minder of the storms awful wrath.
The day had been close and muggy,
threatening rain, but rain had been so
frequent of late the Inhabitants of the
peaceful village felt no alarm until
about $3.50, when heavy, dun-colored
clouds gathered on the western ho-
riZon, and spread over the sky, grad
ually growing denser and darker and
developing into u raging tornado.
| Great alarm prevailed shortly before
the storm broke and refuge was sought
in cellars, wells, caves or other under
ground structures that promised
safety. The wind, which n moment
before was a mere whisper, began
blowing with terrible force. In less
time than il takes to tell il h storm
burst on the helpless village in all its
fury.
The shrieking elements, the awful
cries of the wounded and dying, were
drowned in the wailing of the hurri-
cane which swept all before it. Trees
were bent low to the earth and were
divested of leaves, branches and even
bark. The storm struck the town full
in the center, and within ten minutes
awful destruction had been wrought.
The largest brick blocks were seized
and crumbled like egg shells. Lighter
frame structures were whisked away
like SO much straw. Many houses
were carried for blocks and dashed to
earth. Five hundred buildings, the
finest in town, were food for the ele-
ments, and when the storm passed
about the only structures of any note
standing were the Catholic and Baptist
churches. Not n residence was left
untouched and there were few people
in the town who did not receive inju-
ries. The lumber yards went up in
the clouds, huge planks being sliced
into shingles. The large iron bridge
over Apple river was blown to frag-
ments, parts being distributed along
the banks half q mile away.
Milwaukee, June 14,-The latest adj
vices received at the offices of the Wis
consin Central railway in this city,
are to the effect that the list of the
dead from the storm at New Rich
mond, Wis, now foots up 100; that the
ruins Of the Inflated city are being
swept by fire. Every effort is being
made to stay the progress of the flames
and rescue the dead and dying from
the ruins. Relief trains were sen
from Chippewa Falls and Stevens
Point last night, doctors and nurses
being picked up along-the route.
st. Paul, Mimi, June 13.-The New
Richmond tornado horror was not gen.
orally known here until the morning
papers reached the people early this
morning, causing much excitement.
The Omaha railroad started n relief
train from here last night with physi-
o;opc np6 purSac In charua of Dr
Knoxbacon, general surgeon of the
road, and another train left early this
morning with additional physicians,
telegraph operators and correspond
ents on board. Measures for immedi-