Show rWORK OF THE iJ D t l Deatn and Destruction from a Cyclone J MINNESOTlrS MISHAP Southern and Central Portion of That State Laid Waste EXACT NUMBER KILLED UNKNOWN I Is Thought the list Will Number at LeasS Fifty A School Teacher and Flfteaa Scholars Killed 1 ST PAUL Juno 16A storm of wind and rain which In some sections developed Into a veritable cyclone laid waste tie southern and central portion of the state Into yesterday I yester-day afternoon and it will be some days before be-fore tho full extent of the disaster ia known That there has been loss of life ia I beyond question but time alone can tell how many lives are lost 1 Jackson Martin Faribault Freeborn and Blue Earthcountias were the center of I the storm although it was very general allover all-over the state at the time of the disaster The cyclone began to form near nckson and after sweeping across Martin and Faribault counties scattered near Wells and took a northwesterly course suddenly j swept to the south and disappeared below Wells I THE LOSS OF LIrE will be vey large some estimates running as high as a hundred although that is an extreme figure It seems more probable I that thero were forty or fifty lives destroyed r de-stroyed but the exact number cannot bo i given tonight Everything in the path of the storm was t swept from tho earth houses and barns f being splintered trees and telegraph poles I snapped off like pIpe steins The debris 13 strewn along the railroad tracks so that where traffic is not interfered with by washouts it is I blocked by c i WRECKED BUILDINGS AND TREES I A freight train which left Mankato last night Discovered a horso on the track a I flash of lightning revealing its presence I just in time to avoid a wreck An examination of the surroundingsre vealed half a dozen people lying among I the broken timbers ail seriously some I fatally hurt i Along the Milwaukee road from Jackson to Minnesota lake tho scone ts one of great devastation Wrecks of houses barns and tornup forests line the road and united families yesterday today ara mourning I not only over the I DEATH OR INJURY OF LOVED ONES but also for lost crop After leaving Snerborne the cyclone i traveled cast destroying eight houses and barns John Yonkers whose place is near Fairmount Martin county lost two chi I dren and many horses and cattle were killed The damage to property and destruction de-struction of life in Martin county is thought to bo even greater than first stated At Hartland five people includiier Haa sen were killed and many others injured One mile east of Wells three people were killed and the storm demolished a house in which were a Mrs Nagle and child The child was carried some distance in a baby carnage without injury MRS NAGLE LANDED IN A TREE also without injury The storm passed on destroying five houses en route and was next heard of from Wells When the cyclone split after striking the Nagle houso one portion went south while the other passed four miles south of MInnesota Min-nesota lake destroying everything in its path Not a building was left standing and a great many people are reported killed At Minnesota Lake John Browne daughter was also killed but his wife was only seriously injured The worst damage is in Faribault county coun-ty but tho other counties named suffered only little less The territory so badly wrecked yesterday yester-day today is covered by a SEA OF WATER AND reD Hundreds of people searched for the remnants rem-nants of homes and in some cases missing friends At one place the cyclone destroyed de-stroyed eight houses in succession and in another case a house was so completely destroyed that not a trace of either house or occupants remained Many people suffered from injuries and are suffering more intensely through exposure ex-posure to the cold wind and rain Probably the most damage in the state outside of tho actual cyclone district was at Spring Valley where the heavy rains caused bad floods the whole town being Inundated Houses bridges sidewalks and everything near the river were washed away Considerable stock was also drowned The damage is estimated upward of 50000 t50OOO NEARER THE SCENS MANKATO Minn Juno 160n of the worst disasters that ever visited southern Minnesota occurred late yesterday afternoon after-noon A funneishaped tornado swept overland over-land and laid waste scores of happy homes and sent forty or fifty souls into eternity The extent of the country devastated is GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE KNOWN in the history of the state Starting near Jackson on the Southern Minnesota road the cyclone swept eastward four miles south to Minnesota lake and then took abroad a-broad circle to the south and passed south of Wells Two miles north of Sherburno it struck the district schoolhouse in which were the teacher and eighteen scholars The building was demolished the TEACHER AND FIFTEEN 3CHOLAES SILLED The log house of a Bohemian family at Bowen Mills near Minnesota lake was literally swept from the earth The family consisting of man wife and six children spent the night in the rain and cold without shelter The air at the timo was stifling and seemed like gas everything being filled with a white haze It is impossible to gee a list of the killed and wounded Probably not less than a hundred wore injured mostly in the countrr distant from medical aid AH along the Milwaukee road from Jackson to Minnesota Lake the scene is one of DEVASTATION AND DEATH Not every house was taken but so many were destroyed that the scans ia pitiful Isis Is-is ono of the richest sections in the state The wires are all blown down Telegraph r > oles and trees ara everywhereblowa ovar 1 Trains on nf ether roads are greatly delayed de-layed At Linden In any houses wero torn from their foundations A family consistinp of a man wife eriji child was killed and many others wore tnjarcd The storm passed eastward dqjlroyinff farm houses barns and everything in its path Four miles south of Minnesota lako Jive farmhouses wero utterly demolished and four people killed TbJ body of ono John Brown was taken frori Minnesota lake this morning His wife hired man and school teacher wore injured Much damage was done south of Wells It is reported r6nTY TO Firxr WEKE KILLED south nnll Treat of that village As most of the damage is In the country the reports are slow coming in It IB expected later reports will add to the horror There is no confirmation as yet of the report re-port tbat forty or fifty were killed at Wells Ten are reported killed in the neighborhood of Mnpleton and twenty injured in-jured The village cf Mapleton itself suffered suf-fered little loss There was considerable damage to crops north of Freeborn < < county and several fatalities reported there Anarew Hansen was killed by a barn being be-ing blown in upon him near Hartland In Freoborn township Mrs Ivorson her thueo children and a child of J Steen were also reported killed while many are more or less seriously injured Two miles north of Blooming PraIrie a number of houses and barns were destroyed de-stroyed No loss of life Is reported from that neighborhood however Three addItional are reported killed at Minnesota lake |