New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-07-14
Death & Damage
Caused by Cyclone
ortonville is Hit. Four are Killed
and Many Injured in Mime
sofa Town. Railroad Pro-
perry Damaged.

A cyclone which hurled itself across
Big Stone Lake and Ortonville last
Sunday afternoon has caused the.
death of four people and great damage
to property. Big Stone is town Of
700 population. Ortonville has about
2,OG0 inhabitants. They are located
IN valley which has been visited by
| cyclones two or three times before
but none of like violence and destruc-
tiveness.
Property in the Milwaukee railroad
yards was completely wrecked. The
dead are: John De Griff, an old
settler, living along the shores of Big
Stone lake, caught beneath ruins.
| Three Italians, names unknown,
buried and mangled beneath railroad
cars and debris of the st. Paul roads
r0undhouse.
The injured are: Albert Harmon.
employed at the farm of W. E. Cham
berlain, buried beneath the debris of
the farmhouse.
! Mrs. Harmon, both limbs broken
and probably fatal contusions about
the chest.
Nineteen Italian railroad laborers.
many with broken arms and legs,
some OF whom may die, buried in the
ruins OF the railroad buildings.
| Many other persons throughout the
city and country received minor in
juries.
The property loss will reach $780,
600, partly confined to damage to
railroad and commercial property,
private losses aggregating about s75,-
600.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
depot, roundhouse, the coal supply
building, the warehouses and the other
warehouses which crowd that section
OF the city caught the full brunt of the
cyclone and crashed with frightful
detonations before the blast, their
splintered lumber rising in cloud
through the gyrating atmosphere.
! Cottages along the lake were COM
pletely demolished and residences in
this city and Big Stone, S. D., were.
blown from their found atoms.
The farmhouse and large farm
buildings of William E. Chamberl ain.
near the city, are total wreck. The
city was completely isolated from the
surrounding country by the wreck of
telephone and telegraph lines. AS
soon as communication was estab-
/ lished with outer towns, a special
train was run from Montevideo and
| Appleton with medical and other sup
plies in charge of five doctors, who,
improyised out of a schoolhouse a.
hospital for the care of the injured.
There is apparently no need of adj
ditional emergency supplies.
The cyclone passed as soon. as il.
had come, but it was followed by a
deluge of rain and large-sized hail
that hindered the operations of the
rescuers who poured out of the un-
demolished residences of the city.
It was feared for time that boats.
on the lake had contributed fatalities
to the storm. but, although unturned
boats were found, no one is reported
1 missing.
For time the town was in greatest
| confusion, but upon the arrival here
of the Montevideo special order pre-
vailed.
Alton, H., July u. A tornado
struck Alton. Telephone and tele-
graph wires are down and it is difficult
to get details. The steamer Alton
was blown against the bridge. The.
boat was slightly injured It was
loaded with excursionists. A heavy
rain fell and the eastern part OF the
town is under water. Reports from
the section of Illinois swept by a
Icyclone Sunday indicate that great
| damage was done and that several
small towns were partially wrecked.
The entire residence district of
xenia, ILL.,, was wrecked, though the
/ storm lasted less than minute. The
ruins were flooded by a cloudburst
which followed the cyclone and hum
dreos of persons are homeless. Heavy
d property loss was caused at Pana,
demolished and swept on the prairie,
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