Show ROCHESTER IN RUI RUINS NS A thrifty Minne minnesota gota town rendered Een dereda a monument of Desio desolation lation V by a horrible hurricane sweeping 91 through two Conn counties tiei LT ly western press to the 11 D ST PAUL an AU 22 the rhe cyclone op which raged at rochester wan linn last night is being very severe four are reported killed and fifty or more injured vague rumors of or a 1 train disaster by being blowing blow ing from the track are also coming coining in I 1 but no particulars have lave been learned laten laur passengers from owatonna on atonna state that twenty live were killed by a railroad accident a thirty five injured were taken to the hospital at owatonna the mayor of rochester telegraphed for assistance lie states that tw twenty only live were killed and about forty injured one third of the town is an entire wreck it is believed liero here that ane whole country surrounding rochester is in ruins the killed may number into hundreds tho die Governor Govern orlias hassent sent to aid the sufferers A passenger train on the R rochester ochester northern minnesota road was blown from the track last night during the cyclone and men killed d and wounded governor hubbard received word from rochester minn stating that abe thc town is in iii ruins and forty persons are killed itis impossible to e ita any y details as the tile telegraph wires are down minn aug 22 at 11 last evening a cyclone struck attack the northern part of oatlie the city of koch ester minnesota making a clean sweep of elevators and residences the railroad engine house and other property along the railroad was wag completely demolished major whitte n telegraphs that 24 persons w era killed and 40 wounded the city la in need of clothing food and assi assistance st ance among the killed are john 11 cole proprietor ofa of a mill superintendent sanborn of the winona A st daiil rai railroad I 1 road telegraphs that the list of killed and wounded I 1 gis ia hourly increasing the storm wept swept three towns at st charles ail winona county job thornton was killed and several injured A report from dodge county in indicates d I 1 much damage with loss of life mayor ludma of winona with a corps of surgeons left loft for rochester this I 1 ST PAUL aug 22 A cyclone struck rochester at 3 pm yesterday demolishing about 30 0 houses and and damaged more the names of tho killed as far as know n in rochester are john kim 51 bl cole dole mrs mcbuel 01 1 lan ian thomas steel tee mra august osborn and nn an infant mrs fred clough Clou sli mrs with bietzel II etzel wm higgins iggins II mrs quick and child child miss bliss mccormick these with orith four unidentified have been brought to the undertakers six others have been taken care of by friends in dodge and olmsted counties there was terrible damage done it is is I 1 I 1 ble to give an estimate of t b he C damage to the city and county rochester one third of which was destroyed last night id is situated about eighty fhe miles tulles south of st the chicago northwestern railroad it in a beautiful little city of or inhabitants abitanta abi tants most of oatlie the houses are brick and there arc are many stately business blocks indefinite dispatches reached here early this morning morning odthe terrible deflect of the cyclone cy clono 0 the first authentic report was received here this afternoon by pas sell gers on oil the mornin morning trains but even tile aliey knew nu no particulars at 10 tho governor received tile lowing fal minu minn aug r 22 2 to governor hubbard st paul rochester is in ruins twenty four people are killed and forty seriously injured injure AI and one third of the tile city ia is laid waste we need immediate help help signed SAN HILLER mayor mayo in less than three minutes was raised and sent to aid the suar sufferers telegrams have been cent sent to all M the cities in the state calling on them for aid 0 anderson and wife were fatally in injured ared and her lier mother another instantly I 1 killed t aled by the ther cyclone last night christian olsons and wife were killed and houses and barns entirely des n troyed at Cune stio south of here lacre the house and barn was ruined n also the house and barn of mr helm brich is gone and his wife cannot be found horses and cattle can van bo be found dead in all directions the force of the cyclone tuesday night was felt more corleh in all parts of the city and tb jhc thc freaks were wonderful it demolished well built structures on broadway broad way doin doing much liardi to adjacent buildings many flauy streets were rendered impassable by branches of treed trees that portion ot that city north ofal railroad called lov lower r town received lie the most damage there is not a housa t clial 14 not injured in aonie way it looks at a distance dL stame as 03 though there never nev er had been a build ing angat at that pol iota while in tile other sections tile remains of the houses show thu tribly terribly destructive force of the tile wind commencing at look house antho on the st paul road which is entirely demolished the cyclone next took lelands delands Le lands arI residence dence barn and out buildings not leaving a stick stall aland I 1 1 1 ing ng thence therace it swept through the tile 10 lower r tomij and from tile appearance of oatlie the ground it as though a A flood had been over tins this section tion the principal lessee losses in the ci city ty as as near as have been estimated agro cate the dead are john bitsi M cole a business man owning four ars i milla mills every bone in liis his body being broken mr lacs sire mrs steele mrs and august lier her son mrs osborne oborne and aunt airs mrs fred cloua sirs mrs Mr william hinkins Hij Kins sirs mrs quick and child and miss bliss mccormick eight bodies were taken into the country b by y friends before their names were learned arned four ar are estill still uncia unclaimed lined tile total killed is twenty sir six fifty are wounded more or less seriously minn blinn aug 23 tl the cyclone lonc of tuesday night started near owatonna On g atonna ina and followed a line nearly a mile tulle south of the tile railroad crossing crossin it at rochester ro chester and following north of the road past east 25 miles three miles north of the railroad it varied in width from one to three miles and hl did not shift as albut made a clean sweep in its track of houses barns and crops asfar As far as heard from six persons were killed outside the loss to crops is estimated at about I 1 one third of odthe the buildings Imil dings in rochester are ruins twenty four pc peo 0 pie pl ara dead but not yet identified ident ifie d owing to their frightful mutilation by the storm the storm wen t through dodge and olmsted Counties causing greater destruction st than was waa at first on supposed ased the damage at rochester war bif I 1 reach fully hundred thousand when tile storm struck the congregational gat ional church thirty five children bad had jut returned from a picnic hut but none were hurt theist the list of dead lead and wounded is tho tile same as has been already reported helen beck beek of ashland dodge county waa taken up by the storm while in ln tho tile field and has not since been aicard or alisen wife wire anil anti datiz liter of Canis Cani leo dodge county were killed areat damage was done in bt st charles and tile southern part of oava wit basha county IN ON A minn aug ag 23 the storm struck here at seven last night the depot d 0 t was unroofed and badly wrecks wrecked ex the engine house is a total brew A covered bridge near the town is gone twenty curs cars in the yard were completely smashed DODGE CENTER minn inta aug 23 the crops in tho tile path of the cyclone t to 0 miles south of here were all destroyed and heavy damage was done to buil buildings dinge CHICAGO ang 23 A gentleman just in in from rochester minn raj bays the entire north part vart 0 of f the place is s a pon confused fused masa mass of debris before midnight 23 corpses were recovered most of them were horribly mutilated it was thought that thit at least twenty bodies reina remained ined in the ruins the portion of the city swept away au ay by the cyclone comprised about one third of its extent the storm appeared to have formed about 18 miles north of rand was gathering violence as it pro 1 ased destroying several farmhouses fi 0 ei cs in its course A lowering cloud was seen approaching the fated town and in a few moments the blau slaughter biad been accomplished the tile scene among the devastated I 1 di district waa was indescribable mothers wildly searched for their children while little homeless aalfs waifs were found the tempest had orphaned one r child bild was the only survivor rofa of a family of seven shortly before ho the train arrived at rochester a freight argin was wrecked at the trestle at the western approach of the place the wind twisted the far from its place throwing open the switch the engineer saw the peril alien enclose wh close at hand and jump jumped ed saving liis his life the fireman was carried over the embankment ank killed |