Show S I DEATH Ir MINNESOTA I I 1 THE WORK OF A CYCLONE A it Terrific Storm Storn Sweeps Across Acres Southern South South- cm ern Minnesota ota with wih Dreadful Results Result 1 A storm stor of ot wind and rain which In some Bore sections developed into a veritable cyclone laid waste the te southern central portion porton of Minnesota late We Wednesday afternoon and it it will wi be several days before lefore the tho te full ful extent of the disaster will 1 be known Jackson Martin Faribault Freeborn and Blue Earth counties seem to have ha been the scene although It was vas wa storming at at the time pretty much all over the state stat The cyclone began to t form near Jackson In Jackson county and after siv sweeping across Martin and ad Faribault counties countes was scattered near Wells close to t the boundary of Freeborn Freeborn Free- Free born bor county The loss of life Is lar large e some sote estimates being as I high as a 10 I It seems probable that forty or 01 fifty lives have been destroyed by bythe bythe the fury of the storm but the exact figure cannot be given Everything in in the pa path th of or orthe the storm was swept from frol the face of the earth houses and barns being splintered and trees and telegraph poles snapped oil off 01 like pip pipe A heavy rain storm broke at o'clock and before that had passed away the clouds began to t gather In all nl their terrible terrible looking cone put in Its It appearance and as it whirled across the country It licked up houses barns trees crops and and people people everything everything that came In Its path Many houses bouses that that were but partially destroyed covered the mangled remains of the former occupants and owners o of the farms One of the tho freight trains which pulled out of Mankato after running a n few miles tIes from that city discovered a I huge obstruction across the track It I proved to be a house that had blown across the track and the engine engine enne en en- gine ne was almos it when it stopped a flash fah of lightning having revealed its Is presence presence presence pres pres- ence just in time to save another wreck The train hands found half hal a I dozen people lying among the broken timbers all al seriously and probably fatally hu hurt t. t The injured persons wese taken talen to thc the the neatest nearest house and cared for The cyclone had taken the building from Its is foundation n some some distance off of and dragging the wreck along had bad left it upon the track as found Near Sherbourne teacher and seventeen scho scholars ars were kept kep in by y the afternoon rains and when the cyclone struck the school-house school the building was as wrecked and three killed and thirteen severely injured A man tan with Lis wife and nd child chUd were killed at Linden and othis John Brown Drown and three others were killed south Bouth of Minnesota lake Mrs sout Brown a hired man and the school teacher were badly injured Th The fr tr from W Wells cl were i to the effect elect that from forty to fifty haS had been i killed near there the worst of the storm havIng having hav hay ing mug been to t the west wet and south of that vil vi- vi vil- vil lage As yet no r reports pors have been received In confirmation o of this his report Ten are arc reported killed in the thc vicinity of Mapleton and twenty Injured The cyclone passed four mie milc south of Mapleton and ad that village suffered d little Itte loss |