The age-herald., 1899-06-13
COMMUNICATION CUT OFF Impossible to Get List of the
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 road Traffic is Stopped
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Milwaukee, Wis, June 12.-A message was received at the Wisconsin Central of- fees here late tonight from Stevens Point from A. R. Horn, division superintendent of the Wisconsin Central, at that place, as follows:
 Stevens Point, Wis, June 12.-It conn menced to rain on the St. Paul division about o'clock this evening and the wires down west of Jewett Mills about 7:3e D. m. At S:45 I got a message via Marshall that a cyclone struck New Richmond about 7:30 killing and injuring from 250 to 800 people. We have started a special out from Ir- vine, leaving at 10 o'clock, with surgeons and to pick up what other surgeons they can between there and New Richmond Also sent section men from Jewett Mills with what help they can carry on their cars. will leave here on a special as soon as I can get crew out and will take all assistance I can get in way of surgeons. Am trying to get to St. Paul to start special from there."
 A second message from MT. Horn reads:
 stevens Point, June 12.-Party just came to Jewett Mills and reports that pr. Wade was killed and pr. Eply has both legs
 
 of doctors. ThJs received at 10 o'clock. Think we should start a special from Mill waukee with nurses and surgeons"
 A dispatch was received here at a. m from Jewett Mills announcing the arrival there of the Wisconsin Central train A NIT. Cutter, in the employ of the Central sent a dispatch to local officers of the road saying that the town of New Richmond was gone, south of Highway bridge, and that the estimated number of killed will reach 150. Many of the houses, MT. Cutter states, were consumed by fire after the cy- clone passed. Many people were killed, he says, while attending the circus which was showing there.
 Saltwater Minn.. June 12.-The village of New Richmond, Wis., was almost wiped out of existence this afternoon by one of the most severe cyclones that ever visited that locality.
 It carried ruin and death in it's path and at this hour 1t is impossible to give even a partial list Of those who are seriously injured.
 It is thought many are dead.
 The news of the disaster was brought here by J. A. Carroll, a travelling man from Portage, Wis, who was stopping at the Nicollet house in New Richmond when the cyclone struck the town He saw the funnel-shaped cloud as it came up the principal street and took refuge in the basement of the hotel, which was com pletely wrecked, together with every other business house in the city
 In terrible sheets of rain following the cyclone, Mir. Carroll and his comrades suc- ceeded in recovering the proprietor, Chas. McKennon, wife and one child from the debris.
 They also removed the laundry girl, who was so seriously injured that she will probably die. MT. Carroll drove to Still water by team for relief and the train doctors will leave here about midnight.
 MT. Carroll says further that fire follow ed the cyclone, and that what was left was being consumed by fire. Many people are doubtless killed, and the damage will run into the hundreds of thousands cs &%lars.