The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-06-17
ITS KILLED.;
400 INJURED.
Death-Laden Cloud Wrought
Awful Havoc in New
Richmond, Wis.
PEOPLE BURIED ALIVE.
Parts of Wisconsin and Minnesota
Swept by CyclOne-LOss Of
Life and Property Is
Enormous.

New Richmond, Wis, June 13.-
One hundred and seventy fiverkilled
and 400 wounded in last nights tor
nado is the estimate of casualties re-
ceived at II o'clock today by Gener-
al Manager Scott of the Omaha
road.
The storm struck the Omaha at
Boardman and followed the track to
New Richmond. 1t hissed through
New Richmond from south to north
and leveled the center of the city.
People were penned in and scores
were buried alive.
On the street from the depot,
starting with Henry Beal & Co. S
through to the Hotel Nicolet, on
both sides of the street, every build
ing is gone.
GRAPHIC STORY OF THE BREAKING OF
THE STORM.
A reporter for the st. Paul Dis
patch who went to New Richmond
on the first relief train, returned to
st. Paul and fully confirms the re-
ports of the dreadful calamity which
visited the place.
The pretty little town is almost
totally wiped off the map, and of its
1900 inhabitants, 175 lie dead
among the ruins Of their homes.
The day had beef close and mug
gy and threatening rain. About $50,
in the evening heavy dun colored
clouds gathered on the western hori-
zon and soon spread over the sky,
gradually growing denser and dark
er and presaging tornado.
Great alarm prevailed shortly be-
fore the storm broke, and refuge
was sought in cellars, wells, caves
or other underground structures
that promised safety. The wind,
which moment before was mere
whisper, began blowing with ter
rible force. A moment later the
storm burst on the village. Trees
bent low to the earth and were di-
vested OF leaves, branches and even
the bark. The storm struck the
town full in the center, and in IL
minutes awful destruction had been
wrought. The largest brick blocks
crumbled like egg shells. The light.
er frame structures were whisked
away like so much straw, and many
houses were carried for blocks and
dashed to the earth.
Five hundred buildings, the finest
in the town, were demolished, ant
when the storm had passed. about
the only structures of any note left
standing were the Catholic and Bap
tist churches.
Not residence was left untouch
ed. Lumber yards went up into th'
clouds, huge planks being split int
shingles. The large iron bridge owe
the Apple river was blown into frag
ments and the parts distributed
along the banks half-mie away.
The storm ragged along the uppe
Mi 'sissippi and its tributaries il
Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Next to New Richmond the mos
dlmage done by the storm was a
Hudson, Wis, and also at Lacrosse
! Wis. In the vicinity of the first
named town tornado and cloud
burst destroyed wires, haystacks
unroofed residences, barns and out
buildings all along it's path.
| AT Lacrosse it was the wors
storm known in II years. Nearl.
five inches of rain fell. The rive
rose so rapidly that 400 people liv
ing in the lower portion of the cit.
were driven from their homes
Nearly every bridge in the LaCross
valley is gone.
FIRE ADDED TO THE HORRORS.
]. A. Carroll, who arrived at Still
J water late Monday night, was i