The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-06-15

to be the hand of a woman, which had been
very nearly severed from the wrist.
Shortly after 3 o'clock the bodies of Miss
Abbie Williams and Mrs. Eta Cameron
both badly burned, were taken from the
cellar of o. J. Williams hardware store.
Mrs. Cameron was formerly Miss Eta
Clapp, a niece of Moses E. Clapp, of St.
Paul, and she was close friend to Miss
Williams. When the storm arose the two
ladies sought refuge in the cellar of the
store belonging to Miss Williams father
The cellar was used as storehouse for
considerable gasoline a.sd gunpowder, which
must have done much to add to the horror
when the place caught f1re.
1t is claimed that more than 20 people
bad sought refuge in this store during the
storm, and it is thought the search will
soon unearth their bodies. Another body
recovered during the afternoon was that of
John Patten, of the drug firm of Patten &
Carey. The remains of his partner had been
taken out Monday night
OUTSIDE THE CITY.
Reports, from outside the city came in
frequently during the. afternoon indicating
that the tornado was extremely ferocious
wherever it struck. James Sheedy, who re-
ported the death of his wife and three chill
dren, stated to The Tribune that many dead
bodies would be found in the fields along
the path of the storm.
1t vas reported that the storm had struck
with great fury at Boardman, Wis, five
miles from New Richmond, killing seven.
Later reports seemed to confirm this state
ment and the death of Mrs. Granville Hurd,
and Miss Gertie Wears was authentically
established. Mrs. Hufd lived three miles
west of New Richmond and Miss Wears and
an unnamed girl friend sought shelter at
her house. 1t is said that the unknown
girl was also killed. ~
From the town Of Boardman came the re-
port of the death of Ole Niger, whose home
was at Deer Park. Some reports give this
name as John Migje.
HEART REND1NG SCENES.
The scenes in ands around the city are
frightful beyond the power OF words to ex-
press. Along the track. of the Omaha road
for several miles sottbward, the path of
the cyclone can be plainly traced Great
trees have been bodily nprooted and thrown
some distance, while saplings were broken
off short or denuded of leaves
In one instance the bark was stripped COM
pletely from the trunk of large oak, while
the tree itself had been twisted till it was
mere mass of upright splinters. Fences
and telegraph poles were scattered every
where and the fields were strewn with
carcasses of dead animals.
The path of the storm averaged hardly
more than 500 feet until it struck New
Richmond, when it broadened to about a
half mile. It's course was very sharply de-
fined, in some cases demolishing the barn
and passing by the farm house close ad-
joining, perhaps but a few feet away. One
farm house noted escaped with the excep-
tion of the peak of the gable, which was
leveled of as though done with human
hands.
In the city the ground is completely
covered with debris of all kinds.
Nothing remains of the downtown Omaha
depot save the stone foundation. In the
cellar of this building a live horse was dis
covered this morning. On the top stones
of the foundation is trunk corded. From
the depot toward where the town stood is
a mass of wreckage, the general view being
aecked with the white and shiny stunts,
which only the previous day had served for
shade trees. (
Articles of wearing apparel and house,
hold furniture, together With the carcasses
of dead horses cover the ground so COM
pletely that a person can ewalk a half mile
without stepping on the ground Whole
sides of residences have been carried away,
cutting the house in two and exposing half