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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-02-16
Notice of Forfeiture.

70 william, G. LnE1ue and sGeprGe l..
Ghesebrough, their heirs, administrators or as
signs:
YOU AND EACH OF YoU ARE HEREBY NuII.
fed that the undersigned, co-owner with you,
has expended one hundred dollars In labor and i'm.
provements upon each of the following named mi
ming claims. situated in the Eagle Valley Mining
District. County Of Lincoln. State of Nevada towt,
the Grant, theMar1ustte, the Colby and the Ash
land mining claims, in order to hold the said
claims under the provisions of the mining laws Of
the Unte7 states for the year 1898
That the amount due m each Of yol for your
share of ssil Work is the sum Of sl3} a3, being
1888 from eael of you rll each o. sail toiug
claims and if within ninety days from the setVle
of this notice Tor within 90 days after the service
of this notice by publicaion you, reither of you
fail to contribute your said proportions of such
expenditures as co-owners, your interests ia said
claims and each of them will become he property
Of the subscriber under eeeon 1924 of the Revised
Statutes OF the United Ktates.
Dated Phoebe, Lincoln Thos Christie
County, New Jan. 4th 1899.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-02-16
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Restaur ant.

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Furnishes the BEST BOARD to
be had in town.
A private dining room, with en-.
trance from Main St., has just been
added for the convenience of ladies
and other guests. /.
MAIN ST. DELAMAR, NEV
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of the most beautiful towns In lWiscon-
sin veritable eharnel house. The
wounded were everywhere, and the dead
were found under ruins, on the streets
and Rin every conceivable place, many
of the bodies Indicating, from the posi-
tion in which they were found, the eff
fort made to escape. Everything was
shrouded in inky darkness, and the work
of relieving the suffering and caring for
those near to death proceeded under cir
cumstances which were heart-breaking.
The New Richmond physicians did noble
work. They were, of course, the first on
the ground, and their efforts accom-
plished what would at first have seemed
impossible. Temporary quarters were
arranged in such buildings as were avail
able, and search parties secured the city
bringing in the wounded.
'The ST. Paul relief train arrived at an
opportune time, and the nurses and ply
sicians were a Godsend. At the time
arrived on the scene fire had broken out
in several quarters, and though 1t did
not at any time prove dangerous, added
to the horror. / cannot tell how 1t start
ed, probably from stoves in some of the
demolished buildings. The ruins In the
business portion of the city are on fire
at present, and many of the bodies
caught in the debris will be
CHARRED PAST RECOGNITION.
Every effort is being made to extin-
guish the flames and assistance has been
sent from Saltwater and ST. Paul The
fire cannot cause much more loss, as
the cyclone took everything in sight. OF
those caught In the ruins, the living have
been removed, and when we left, at i
o'clock this afternoon, there was reason
to believe that no one still alive was
buried in the debris. Two blocks on the
main street of the town are on fire.
1.-The most reliable accounts OF the
storm indicate 1t came from the direction
of Hudson, though at that point there
were no casualties. 1t took a northeast
erly direction, striking Boardman, where
several people were killed In approach
ing New Richmond, 1t struck the south
eastern part of the city first, wrecking
the Omaha depot, and continued in
northeasterly direction, directly through
the center of the city, across the Willow
river at the bridge and wrecking the
large -four mill on the east side of the
river. The entire business portion of the
city was swept clean. The cyclone cloud
seemed to hit the main street on the
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there were but two buildings in the busi
ness district from which persons who
had taken refuge in the basement escap-
ed. These were the Nicollet hotel and
the Alliance store.
One man who was SO badly burned that
he could not be identified, was found with
what had been a ham grasped in his
hand. A number of persons rescued from
wrecked buildings appeared to be simply
stunned and after an hour or so recover
ed sufficiently to join in the work of car
ing for the wounded and dead. Several
persons were partly insane, both from
fright and the shock of finding relatives
and frieds dead or injured.
Fefore the cyclone struck there were a
and after the worst of the storm was
The horses appeared to be stunned by
with an overturned wagon stood for six
had been cut from them and made no
fort to move.
There were no lights in the town owing
to the fact that the electric lights were
furnished from the town of Somerset,
eight miles away and the storm destroyed
the circuit.
Fred Chapman, connected with the
New Richmond bank, although suffering
from a broken toe, went to Jewett Mills
and telegraphed to Chippewa Falls the
news of the disaster. A train was made
up at Chippewa Falls and at each sta
ton between there and New Richmond
residents Joined the party and at s
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GAcNcN2AAN

later found his father in the cellar Of
Mrs. Sam johnson, married sister.
From what heard In New Richmond
today, the people had fully thirty min
utes warming of the storm, and 1t lasted
not to exceed ten mirnites. One thing
that struck me as, particularly pathetic
was the remains of the little Brockbank
girl She was laid out In her little white
dress, just as if she had gone to sleep.
There was not the slightest bruise to be
even mussed. Her fbrothers, sisters and
father were killed. 10 a,,c
1.-The row Of cottonwood trees which
Of all their leaves and every vestiYe of
bark, yet they stand I'M a upright posi-
ton. It seems pecMliarI that everything
that was blown down Jays just in the
position where it stood before the storm.
These things all appeal strongly to
me, for have visited New Richmond
frequently for quite a humber Of years
back, and remember the place as it used
to look.
''As fast as the wounded were found
by the doctors today their wounds were
temporarily dressed and they were sent
on stretchers down to the railroad and
loaded on the cars and taken away. Some
were taken to st. Paul and others to
various points on the Omaha. 1t was
almost impossible to find ones way
around the town, as nothing resembles
the city as it was. st
1.-THE wagon road between Hudson and
New Richmond was lined with vehicles
yesterday and q great crowd oe people
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EVERY one ESCAPED"
RELATIVES OF w. H. AND ELMER
e. M'DoNALD AT NEW
RICHMOND ~.
SEVERAL FAMILIES OF razM


Mrs. w. H. McDonaid,2 WHO Went
Over ON the ReIi ef Train. Re4urna
and Tells so~ls, 1rtcrcsiiuR, INCL
dents of the Gsc'lqat-O1her St.
I Paul People Who We've sesr .hing
for Their Friends. r.
Mrs w. H. Mcdonald, ef 562 st. Peter
street, was among the ST. Paul people
who went over to New Richmond yester-
day morning on the first relief train at
o'clock. Mr.. Mcdonald as well as e. e.
Mcdonald, was born and reared in New
Richmond, and has many relatives there.
E. E. Mcdonald accompanied the relief
part, but w. H. Mcdonald is in the
northern part OF the state Mrs. McDon-
aid returned on the Wisconsin Central
regular train at O'Clock yesterday after
noon.
Very happily" said Mrs. Mcdonald
last evening, none of our people were
killed or injured. Miss Maud Gould, a
stenographer, employed at the Omaha
general offices, was on our train, and we
learned afterwards that her grandmother
was killed and her father dangerously
wounded. Mrs. o. D. Brown, of Ashland
avenue, was also a member of the party,
but she found that her relatives had all
escpaed.
Moses E. Clapp also went over, and
his two sons came, over from Saltwater
later in the day. Mrs Betsey Clapp, one
of Mr.. Clapp's aunts, had her shoulder
broken, and his cousin, Miss Eta Clapp
Cameron, is supposed to be dead in the
Williams store. Mrs Cameron was out
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OF New Richmond that his institution
would put twenty beds at the disposal OF
the injured, and the Red Cross society
hastened to issue an urgent call for con-
tributions of clothing and money Finch
Van Slyke & Co. early yesterday morn
Ing made very substantial donation Of
articles of bedding and furnishings for
the sick room, which was forwarded at
once. On all sides, among the business
and professional men, city officers and
private citizens, the same open-hearted
generosity towards the Wisconsin suf-
fererS was manifest
One Of the most graceful acts of char
ity recorded was that of Mrs. c. A.
Severance, which, though done in secret,
became known yesterday afternoon. On
learning of the terrible work of the cy-
clone and the suffering among the in
jured she at once went to Mayor Kiefer
and offered the use of her handsome
home, 500 Summit avenue, as a tempo
rary hospital. Owing to the action of the
city hospitals. 1t was not necessary to
make use of the offer.
A substantial charity is credited to
Manager Theo Hays, of the Grand opera
house, who yesterday announced that he
would throw the house open to a benefit
for the relief of the New Richmond suf-
ferers at any date which might be ae-
ceptable, providing one of the business
organizations would take the matter in
charge and arrange for the production.
His offer is to turn over the entire pro-
ceeds of the benefit to the prosecution Of
the relief work. f-7'.--7.-
Private Secretary Rosing went to New
Richmond yesterday afternoon to repre-
sent Gov. Lind
]. A. Wagner, a salesman for F. L.
Parshall, of this city, it was at first
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shopping and when the storm came up
she is supposed TO have taken refuge In
the store, with many others who came in
off the street. A good many people were
in town attending the circus, according
to the story of those who survive the
storm, and while 1t is not known definite
ly how many were in the Williams store
when the tornado struck it, 1t Is quite
certain that the store was well filled with
people. ::.@-
''W. H. Dunbar, a young man who has
been in Mr.. McDonald's office for some
time, lost his father and mother and his
sister was dangerously wounded.
'It is quite remarkable that all of Mr..
McDonald's people escaped, as there
are five families living In and near the
city, and yet none of them received the
slightest injury. One of the boys lives
on the farm just a little ways out of
town. He saw the lfunnel-shaped cloud
lowering in the direction of New Rich
mond, and, knowing that his father was
in the city, hitched up9 his horses and
drove towards the town as rapidly as
possible When he came to the Willow
rived he discovered that the wagon bridge
had been swept away, and he then
brought the horses mp to the railroad
bridge and drove the team madly across
the ties of the trestte. In the meantime
the storm broke over the city, and when
he reached the other side of Willow river
the cloud had passed The severe test
which the wagon was submitted to cross
ing the bridge demolished the wheels. He
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I'm THE RESCUE PARTY.
Loren Campbell Tells How the
Work Was Done.

Loren Campbell Tells How the
Work Was Done.
Lorin Campbell, of this city, employed
by the Mccormick harvester company,
was at Baldwin when the cyclone struck
New Richmond, and as soon as the news
arrived started for the fated town with
a number of others, arriving there about
II o'clock The scene, he says, was some
thing never to be forgotten. By the time
he arrived on the scene residents from
Roberts, Star Prairie and Somerset, who
had been notified, were there assisting in
the search for the dead and caring for the
injured as best they could.
Whenever any of the searching parties
which consisted of about seventy-five
persons, heard any groans the Immediate
ly proceeded to the spot and commenced
to clear away the debris. The work of
rescuing the injured in the block on the
same side of the street north of the
Bank of New Richmond was hastened
from the fact that the fire, which broke
out Immediately after the cyclone, burned
very rapidly. It rained and bucket brf-
gade attempted to put out the fire, but
the efforts were without avail.
The walls of the Nicollet hotel, four
story brick structure, came down like
cardboard. and had 1t not been for the
heavy joists on the first floor the few
persons who had taken refuge in the eel
lar of the hotel would have been num-
bered with the dead.
Mr.. Campbell is Of the opinion that
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BROUGHT TO ST. PAUL
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with the exception of an ordinary dray,
OH which was a mattress, had left AS
the bearers moved forward to place the
wounded young lady in the ambulance
another stretcher bearing an old man,
evidently dangerously hurt and suffering
greatly, was brought up. The young lady
turned slightly and saw the other suf-
ferer.
Take me to that said she, pointing
to the dray, land let him go to the hos
pital in the ambulance
The request was granted and the old
man rode away In the ambulance, while
the rough dray carried the young lady.
MORE VICTIMS.
The second train bearing the wounded
arrived at $50 last night. in charge of
DR.. Goodrich, Louis Jergens, Charles
Schlichting and Sergeant Joseph Davis. of
the central detail. A box car, the only
available accommodation, had been fitted
with cots at New Richmond and attach
ed to the Omahas North Wisconsin pas
senger, due at $40. The train was delay-
ed and the wounded left New Richmond
at $50. Eight were brought into ST. Paul.
the sufferers being almost without excep-
ton seriously injured
The same arrangements were made as
with the arrival of the first train and
the wounded were quickly transferred to
waiting ambulances and taken to ST. 10
seph's and st. Luke's, where they were
cared for. Among the wounded was s..
M Hawkins, of New Richmond, suffer-
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feared was one of the victims Mr.. Par
shall yesterday received a telegram from
Wagner saying that he left New Rich
mond just before the storm broke Mr..
Parshall communicated with Mr. Wag-
ner's mother, who lives at the Girard
flats, on College avenue, and relieved her
of great deal of mental anxiety
Mr. Wagner was seen at New Richmond
a short time before the storm, in COM
pany with two victims of the disaster,
and 1T was feared he had been killed.
By the most fortunate chance Mr. Wag-
ner took an east-bound freight about $50
o'clock Monday evening
THREE MORE INJURED.
The special train which left over the
Omaha yesterday afternoon for New
Richmond returned at 1910 this morn
ing, bringing in three additional injured
One of the sufferers was little RoSella
Early sister of Ferd Early who died
coming into the city yesterday morning
from the scene of the cyclone. Her fa-
ther was killed. and also a cousin Her
mother was away from home at the
time and escaped. The little girl does
not know of the death of her father and
brother yet, and was taken to the city
hospital for treatment.
Among those who left on the special
i'll the afternoon, returning this morning
were DR.. Hesselgrave, DR.. A. B. Ancker,
DR.. Finneli, DR.. A. w. Miller, DR.. John
Fulton, DR.. C. L. Greene, DIR. Charles
Van Slyke and DR.. Ohage. Chief Goss
and the detail from the city police force
which spent the day in the work at New
Richmond. also returned. Late reports
state that a company of militia arrived
in New Richmond from Eau Claire at
o'clock last night, and will police the
town until reorganization of the scat
tered forces can be effected. Yesterday
afternoons work in the ruins brought to
light fifteen more bodies, and the labor
Of searching the ruins goes on uaceas-
ingly. The fire is completely under con-
troll. but the st. Paul companies will re-
main until today
Ropes have been stretched along the
main street for the protection of the
workers and pedestrians, and a SEM
blance of order is maintained, though
the citizens are yet too dazed at their
misfortune and too busy caring for the
dead and wounded to devote much time
to other matters. Farmers from the sur
rounding country are coming In to help
with the work on the ruins and in caring
for the destitute, and it is expected that
In a short time things will have been
reorganized and started anew.
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ing from severe internal injuries and
broken leg. A newspaper man leaned
over his cot as it reached the ambulance
and asked his name. The man was suf-
fering greatly, but replied with cheerful
ness, evidently forced.
LOST HIS ALL.
Hawkins, sir. am badly hurt, but
1t don't much matter now. My wife, my
two daughters and my son were all kill
ed in the same place. They are all gone,
all of them"
In the next stretcher brought to the
ambulance lay a cousin of the wounded
man, Maria Hawkins, suffering from Sc
we're injuries about the head and inter-
nal injuries.
A noticeable feature of the wounds borne
by the patients brought to the st. Paul
hospitals yesterday is that in almost
every instance the faces of the wounded
bear
INNUMERABLE SMALL CUTS --
and decorations, as if they had been sub
jected to a fiaying, caused by flying
splinters during the cyclone. A large
number of the patients are suffering from
broken arms and limbs, and still larger
number from severe cuts and bruises
about the head, occasioned by falling
debris. Reports brought in on last night S
relief train state that just before 1t left,
a Wisconsin special from Eau Claire ar
rived in New Richmond, bearing physi-
clans, nurses and large supply Of pro-
visions and necessities for the use Of
those who have lost their homes. Ar
rangements are being made in St. Paul
to send a second supply of clothing and
provisions to the sufferers as soon as it
can be collected.
CHIEF GOSS ON HAND.
Chief Goss, of the police department, is
engaged in the relief work, and has with
him a squad of eleven policemen from
the city force. DR.. Ohage, commissioner
of health, has, taken charge of the work.
and yesterday had a large force at work
distributing supplies and working among
the destitute At II o'clock yesterday
afternoon a large force of men arrived
in New Richmond from outside points
and went to work on the ruins, as a relief
to the squad then working Considerable
headway was made and many bodies re-
covered. The washouts on the Omaha
between st. Paul and Hudson and beyond
Hudson have been repaired, and trains
were moving without difficulty yester-
day afternoon, though somewhat late.
The fire in the ruins of the wrecked
buildings still burns, and in response to
a request Engine Company was sent
out yesterday morning to aid the New
Richmond people in controlling it. En-
gine Copany 2 left on the special sent out
over the Omaha yesterday afternon, and
will assist the first company. A large
number of the wounded have been cared
for in saltwater and Hudson, and 1t was
stated last night that no more wounded
would be sent to the st. Paul hospitals.
OFFERS OF AID.
DIR. S. B. Ancker, of the city and county
hospital, with the consent fthe board
of control, at once teiegraphed the mayor
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listed the scene of tha disasfer' M

visited the scene of the disaster
"A Miss Walsh, who was school teacher
ut Pinville. q small town on the wis
contin Central railroad. between New
Hichmend and Clear Lake, reported that
the town. had been entirely wiped aout
where she was stopping blew away and
she escaped In the cellar. She walked to
Clear Lake after the storm to assure her
mother that she was all right, and later
the two came to New Richmond on a
freight train
But little help seems to be needed in the
city. There is not enough in the place
to feed outsiders, and the survivors, ply
sicians and nurses will doubtless be suffi-
cient to meet the occasion. I volunteered
my services, but there seemed to be many
willing hands to care for the wounded"
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ONE OF THE SURVIVORS.
C. III. McMurray's Life Saved In the
NicOIIet House Basement.


c. H. McMurray, a travelling man for
the wholesale tea house of William Nc
Murray & Co., of East Third street, St.
Paul, went through the cyclone at New
Richmond, and was seen by a reporter
for the G l O b e, to whom he gave some
account of the horror. He said:
L was stopping at the Nicollet house,
a SiX-story building kept as a hotel by g.
Il. McKinnon. l never saw so many peo-
PIE in the town before. There was a
circus in the village, and there was to
beaa7 dance after the performance, and
the streets were crowded with young peo-
pie intent on the circus and the dance.
The rain began at o'clock, and was ac-
companied by binding lightning and
heavy thunder that sounded just over
head, and came Immediately upon the
lightning flash
SAT 6 o'clock l went to dinner at the
hotel. Mrs. McKinhon, the wife of the
proprietor, came rushing in from the
kitchen, crying out cyclone and we ran
for the cellar without stopping to ask
questions.
I'VE were scarcely there when the cy-
clone struck the hotel
''One man, named Caray, / think, was
too late, and was blown back into the
dining room and killed.
1.-The girl that served us at the table
was killed. l do not know her name,
dllO one OI IIlc girls, VINO got INTO
the cellar, was struck by a falling beam
and think she is dead, but am not sure
The McKinnon faTIily did not get to
the cellar. Mrs. Mckinnon ran for her
children, and the family was in a small
room in front. They sheltered themselves
as we'll as they could from falling rub
bish, using g. handicapped table for
protection, but one of the children was
killed.
After the storm had passed, Mr. Nc
Kinnon found another child standing on
the top of the ruins of the hotel
THE cyclone and the ruin were all over
by 6.07, for the Wisconsin Central depot
clock marked that hour as we found after
the storm.
After the cyclone had passed the wind
> blew with terrific violence and the rain
fell in torrents, interrupting the work Of
rescue
II stayed and worked with several other
travelling men until we thought we could
do no more, and then dug my samples
from the ruins and came to st. Paul on
the train.
'I believe there were five people killed
at the hotel Two men, one child, the
table girl, the'laundry girl
''Caray, who was killed there, was a
druggist, and lived in the village
1.-The fire started at the south end of
the town, the farthest from the hotel 1t
blazed up Immediately after the cyclone,
and, 1 think, caught in the ruins of a
hardware store.
There were about seven people in the
cellar of the hotel. When the cyclone
was on us it sounded exactly like a rail-
road train crossing bridge
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SOUGHT THE CELLAR.
Louis HOgbum Saved HIS Life and
One Other.

Louis HOgbum Saved HIS Life and
One Other.
Louis Hogbom, an expert employed by
the Mccormick Harvester company, es-
capped by having presence of mind enough
to ahsten to the cellar of the Nicollet
house. He was on the street and saw
the cyclone coming. There was fun
nel-shaped cloud and a mass of debris
apparently floating In the air higher than
any of the houses. He ran for the hotel
as fast as he could and shouting that
there was cyclone coming, started for
the basement. He met one Of the dining
room girls and, grabbing her by the arm,
took her along with him. BY the time
he reached the foot of the stairs in the
basement the building fell. AS soon as
he was able to work his way out Of the
ruins Hogbom went to work assisting
In the rescue Of the injured
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SEVERAL WILL DIE.
APPALLING SIGHT.

City Clerk Jensen, who went to New
Richmond on the special at 8 o'clock yes
terday morning, returned to st. Paul
yesterday afternoon.
The scene az New Richmond and for a
distance of four miles this side of the
town along the Omaha road, he says,
cannot be described. Cattle and horses
by the score are lying in the fields dead
and barns and farmhouses are wrecked
or badly damaged.
In the town of New Richmond looking
south from the mill for four blocks there
is nothing to show that there was town.
except small piles of brick and heaps of
splintered lumber