Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1899-06-15
HARDLY A HOUSE LEFT sTANDlNv
Almost Every Person in the Town
More or Less Injured by
the Storm.
DISASTER DETAILS STILL LACKING
Everything Is in Confusion and No
Definite Death List or Damage
Estimate Is Obtainable
at Present.

New Richmond, Wis, June 14.-One
hundred and seventy-tive killed and
400 wounded, as a result of yesterday
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 We're
hemmed in and scores We're buried
alive. On the street from the depot,
starting with Henry Beal & Co.'S store,
through to the Hotel Nicolet on both
sides of the street, every building is
gone. Only the most incomplete I'M
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 and
burned to death.
MRS. GRAlNTON, mother of Ward
Gould.
GEORGE STOCK.
TWO DAUGHTERS of S. n. Haw-
lSins and Patton Cary.
DAUGHTER OF - M'AINNON.
j. ID. HICKS.
WILLIAM CALLAHAN, farmer.
MRS. JOHN GILLIAN.
MRS. j. NJ. SHADY AND son.
WALTER FARRELL, a boy.
UNKNOWN MAN. burned to a crisp
UNKNOWN MAN, head severed
supposed to be a circus man.
WILLIAM BIXBI, undertaken.
MRS. j. HOItD, of Boardman.
CHARLES REID, of Boardman.
THOMAS NICHOE.
OLE GUNDERsON, a farmer.
MICHAEL MCPHERSON, farmer.
- BROCKHARDT AND THREE
CHILDREN.
Town Practically Obliterated.
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 anc
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
habitants, 200 lie dead amongst the
ruins of their homes, about 1000 arc
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 sc
frequent of late the inhabitants of the
peaceful village felt no alarm unit
about $780, when heavy, dun-coloreG
clouds gathered on the western no
rizon, and spread over the sky, grad
ually growing denser and darker an(
developing into a 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 moment
before was a mere whisper, begar
blowing with terrible force. In less
time than it takes to tell it the storm
burst on the helpless village in all its
fury.
The shrielsing elements, the awfu
cries of the wounded and dying. wer.
drowned in the wailing of the hulli
cane which swept all before it. Trees
were bent low to the earth and were
Invested of leaves, branches and ever
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 We're whisked away
like so much straw. Many houses
were carried for blocks and dashed to
earth. Five hundred buildings, the
finest in town. We're 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 residence was left
untouched and there were few people
in the town who did not receive niu
ries. The lumber yards went up III
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 a mile away.
Milwaukee. June 14.-The latest adj
vices received at the offices of the Wis
consin Central railway i'm this city
are to the effect that the list of til,
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 sem
from Chippewa Falls and Stevens