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THE SAUK RAPIDS TORNADO HAPPEN IN 1886. IT DESTROYED FIVE STATES. IT KILLED OVER 50 PEOPLE. 213 PEOPLE WERE INJURED DURING THE SAUK RAPIDS TORNADO.
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St.
Cloud & Sauk Rapids, Minnesota Tornado
April 14, 1886
THE WIND'S WRECK
AWFUL DESTRUCTION
BY A CYCLONE IN MINNESOTA.
St. Cloud and
Sauk Rapids Visited by a Whirl Wind – The Loss
of life Appalling – Great Confusion and
Excitement Render Particulars Meagre [sic] –
Help Sent From St. Paul.
ST. PAUL, Minn.,
April 15. -- St. Cloud and Sauk Rapids were
swept by a terrible destructive cyclone about
5:30 yesterday afternoon. The first knowledge of
the disaster was contained in the following
telegram sent to Mayor AMES, of
Minneapolis from St. Cloud, asking for help:
“To Mayor
AMES Minneapolis: A destructive cyclone passed
over St. Cloud and Sauk Rapids late this
afternoon. There has been terrible destruction
here. Please send up all the assistance you can
immediately by special train. Send physicians
and surgeons.”
Telegrams to the following effect were
received from Sauk Rapids:
“To Mayor AMES, Minneapolis: Can you send a
special train with physicians to this city? A
cyclone passed over the city this afternoon. A
great many are believed to have been killed, but
the number is not yet known.”
Immediately, upon the recept [sic] of these
messages, preparations were made to respond to
the call for help. A train for St. Cloud left at
6 o'clock.
The cyclone began about 3 o'clock in the
basin of the Masonic cemetery, forming a
whirlwind about 1,000 feet in diameter. It took
almost every tree in the circle from the ground
or twisted it off at the trunk. Great stones
were tore up and carried along with the wind.
Moving slowly along in a southeasterly direction
it wrecked the Catholic chapel and several
houses in its course across the prairie
adjoining the town. It completely demolished JOHN
SCHWARTZ'S large brick house and
scattered fifty or more smaller frame houses
like so many feathers. In most cases nothing was
left to mark the site of dwellings but cellars.
The prairies were strewn with timbers, furniture
and clothing. The freight depot of the Manitoba
road was a total wreck. Numerous cars loaded
with freight were blown half a mile and rails
wrenched from the track. It passed the limits of
the town just west of Lieut. Gov. GILMAN'S
residence, killing several horses. It crossed
the Mississippi at the Sauk Rapids wagon bridge
which it demolished. It here widened to six
hundred feet, and levelled [sic] STANTON'S
grist mill. From there it swept through the
center of the town, taking the best of the
business part of it, including the court house,
hotel, public school and every important
business building in the town except WOOD'S store. The
village is virtually wiped out, four-fifths of
the buildings being leveled. The fatalities in
St. Cloud, though great, are not equal in number
to those in Sauk Rapids. In every house most all
of the inmates were more or less hurt.
The dead at St. Cloud, so far as known, area
as rollows [sic]:
NICK JUNEMANN.
MRS. WEISMAN and little girl and a
son 4 years old.
FRANK GLINSKOFFSKI.
MRS. STEIN,
a widow.
A son 4 years old,
of P. WALDORFF.
SHORTRIDGE YOUNG, a railroad man.
VAN
HOLSEN.
An unknown railroad man.
Two young children of
MR. CENS.
A baby of
AUG. KNOLL.
The dead
at Sauk Rapids are:
J. BERG, a
merchant, and two children.
JOHN KENARD, county auditor.
GEORGE LINDLEY, county treasurer.
Two children of
C. G. WOOD, merchant.
Child of P. CARPENTER,
clerk of the court.
P. BEAUPRE, judge of the probate
court.
EDGAR HILL, president of the German
National bank.
A brief dispatch has just been received
saying that between 40 and 50 bodies have been
recovered from the ruins at St. Cloud and the
search is not completed. The town presented a
scene of utmost desolation as seen by the light
of flickering lanterns and the groans of the
wounded and lamentations of those who have lost
relatives are heart rending in the extreme.
Among the injured is ex-Senator E. G. HULBERT,
formerly of Binghamton, N. Y., but at
present Northwestern agent of the New York
Mutual Life Insurance company. He is not
expected to live.
ST. PAUL, Minn., April 15. -- From
Sauk Rapids, the storm struck Rice's Station,
Benton countg [sic], demolishing the village and
killing or injuring nearly the entire people.
The wires are down and no definite information
is obtainable from that point.
ST. PAUL,
Minn., April 15. -- The reports of the
cyclone at St. Cloud, Sauk Rapids, Rice Station
and other points in that vicinity last night
were not exaggerated. At 3 o'clock this morning
in the places named there were 49 persons dead
and very nearly 200 injured, with many still
missing, whose bodies probably will be recovered
by night. Just enough houses are left in Sauk
Rapids to form a fringe around the village
limits. The debris is not piled in heaps, but is
scattered far and wide. The sign at Sauk Rapids
on the Manitoba depot and a basketful of books
were found in Rice Station, 15 miles distant.
This shows the terrible power of the storm. No
reports have yet been received from outlying
districts, where it is believed great
destruction of property and loss of life has
been wrought. The storm extended from Jamestown,
Dakota, through Minnesota and into Wisconsin,
though its most disastrous effects are to be
found in the three places first named.
ST. PAUL, Minn., April 15. -- The city council
this morning voted $5,000 in cash to aid the
cyclone sufferers and
Gov. HUBBARD dispatched a carload of
provisions to Sauk Rapids. The car was
accompanied by a committee of the Jobbers Union
who will offer all the assistance in their
power.
DR. DENSLOW
who with others went last evening by special
train for St. Cloud returned this morning and
was at once called upon by a reporter. Upon
reaching St. Cloud, he said, the physicians from
St. Paul and Minneapolis divided, part going to
Sauk Rapids. DR. DENSLOW was on the force sent
to the St. Benedictine Sisters Hospital and they
were kept busy until 4 o'clock this morning. The
reports are in no way exaggerated. The storm was
fully as disastrous as reported and may in the
end prove worse. Fully twenty-five injured were
brought to this hospital alone and he does not
know how many more were cared for in private
houses. Two of those brought to the Hospital
will probably die.
One is a woman who has broken her collar
bone, both bones of the left forearm and both
bones of the left leg fractured, and the pelvis
broken, an accident seldom chronicled in the
annals of surgery. The head and face are bruised
beyond recognition, yet, strange to say, the
woman is conscious and talked freely saying her
hip hurt some, but otherwise she felt no pain.
The other probably fatal case is a young man 20
years old. Both legs were so badly crushed they
had to be amputated midway between the knee and
thigh. One man, lying in the hospital badly
injured, said three of his children were dead.
DRS. DENSLOW and
RITCHIE, shortly after midnight, went
across to Sauk Rapids to render what assistance
they could there. Twenty three dead bodies had
then been found and doctors from Minneapolis
were busy caring for the injured.
BIG LAKE, Minn., April 13(?), --
DRS. HIGBEE and DELLIVER
of Minneapolis have just arrived. The
latter told an Associated Press reporter that
new bodies were being recovered hourly from the
debris and being brought in from the country.
Twelve injured people were brought in. Some of
these will die. Druggist SCHAUBERT'S
remains had just been brought in. Four have died
of wounds since this morning. At a church cast
of RICE'S
thirteen of a wedding party were killed
including the officiating minister.
At Sauk Rapids 31 are already dead. The list
will be swelled to 40.
DR. AMES of Minneapolis, on duty at
St. Cloud, told DR.
DELIVER at least 30 deaths can but
result there. Capt.
FARLEY, an old settler of Sauk Rapids
weighing 280 pounds was blown 400 feet in the
air.
The Daily Northwestern Oshkosh, Wisconsin
1886-04-15
Submitted & transcribed by Stu
Beitler Thank you, Stu!
On April 14, 1886 (4PM) the deadliest tornado
in Minnesota history razed parts of St. Cloud
and Sauk Rapids, leaving 72 dead and 213
injured. 11 members of a wedding party were
killed including the bride and groom.
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In Harvest
Journal, Part II (1904-1937), we rejoin Fred, Rose, their children,
and grandchildren. Even with the advent of electricity, automobiles, and
telephones, life on a farm is difficult and an extended family is
essential to survive. In addition to area events, Fred's journals document
the turmoil leading up to World War I, the economic hardships of the
Depression, and the shock of the Lindbergh kidnapping. In his later years,
Fred struggles to deal with his own frailty and mortality.
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velocities of over 300 miles per hour and speeds along the ground
exceeding 60 miles per hour, TORNADOES are the most violent and chaotic
storms on earth. Every year, some 800 tornadoes touch down in the United
States alone, killing an average of 80 people (total) and causing millions
of dollars in damage.
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St.
Cloud & Sauk Rapids, Minnesota Tornado
April 14, 1886
THE WIND'S WRECK
AWFUL DESTRUCTION
BY A CYCLONE IN MINNESOTA.
St. Cloud and
Sauk Rapids Visited by a Whirl Wind – The Loss
of life Appalling – Great Confusion and
Excitement Render Particulars Meagre [sic] –
Help Sent From St. Paul.
ST. PAUL, Minn.,
April 15. -- St. Cloud and Sauk Rapids were
swept by a terrible destructive cyclone about
5:30 yesterday afternoon. The first knowledge of
the disaster was contained in the following
telegram sent to Mayor AMES, of
Minneapolis from St. Cloud, asking for help:
“To Mayor
AMES Minneapolis: A destructive cyclone passed
over St. Cloud and Sauk Rapids late this
afternoon. There has been terrible destruction
here. Please send up all the assistance you can
immediately by special train. Send physicians
and surgeons.”
Telegrams to the following effect were
received from Sauk Rapids:
“To Mayor AMES, Minneapolis: Can you send a
special train with physicians to this city? A
cyclone passed over the city this afternoon. A
great many are believed to have been killed, but
the number is not yet known.”
Immediately, upon the recept [sic] of these
messages, preparations were made to respond to
the call for help. A train for St. Cloud left at
6 o'clock.
The cyclone began about 3 o'clock in the
basin of the Masonic cemetery, forming a
whirlwind about 1,000 feet in diameter. It took
almost every tree in the circle from the ground
or twisted it off at the trunk. Great stones
were tore up and carried along with the wind.
Moving slowly along in a southeasterly direction
it wrecked the Catholic chapel and several
houses in its course across the prairie
adjoining the town. It completely demolished JOHN
SCHWARTZ'S large brick house and
scattered fifty or more smaller frame houses
like so many feathers. In most cases nothing was
left to mark the site of dwellings but cellars.
The prairies were strewn with timbers, furniture
and clothing. The freight depot of the Manitoba
road was a total wreck. Numerous cars loaded
with freight were blown half a mile and rails
wrenched from the track. It passed the limits of
the town just west of Lieut. Gov. GILMAN'S
residence, killing several horses. It crossed
the Mississippi at the Sauk Rapids wagon bridge
which it demolished. It here widened to six
hundred feet, and levelled [sic] STANTON'S
grist mill. From there it swept through the
center of the town, taking the best of the
business part of it, including the court house,
hotel, public school and every important
business building in the town except WOOD'S store. The
village is virtually wiped out, four-fifths of
the buildings being leveled. The fatalities in
St. Cloud, though great, are not equal in number
to those in Sauk Rapids. In every house most all
of the inmates were more or less hurt.
The dead at St. Cloud, so far as known, area
as rollows [sic]:
NICK JUNEMANN.
MRS. WEISMAN and little girl and a
son 4 years old.
FRANK GLINSKOFFSKI.
MRS. STEIN,
a widow.
A son 4 years old,
of P. WALDORFF.
SHORTRIDGE YOUNG, a railroad man.
VAN
HOLSEN.
An unknown railroad man.
Two young children of
MR. CENS.
A baby of
AUG. KNOLL.
The dead
at Sauk Rapids are:
J. BERG, a
merchant, and two children.
JOHN KENARD, county auditor.
GEORGE LINDLEY, county treasurer.
Two children of
C. G. WOOD, merchant.
Child of P. CARPENTER,
clerk of the court.
P. BEAUPRE, judge of the probate
court.
EDGAR HILL, president of the German
National bank.
A brief dispatch has just been received
saying that between 40 and 50 bodies have been
recovered from the ruins at St. Cloud and the
search is not completed. The town presented a
scene of utmost desolation as seen by the light
of flickering lanterns and the groans of the
wounded and lamentations of those who have lost
relatives are heart rending in the extreme.
Among the injured is ex-Senator E. G. HULBERT,
formerly of Binghamton, N. Y., but at
present Northwestern agent of the New York
Mutual Life Insurance company. He is not
expected to live.
ST. PAUL, Minn., April 15. -- From
Sauk Rapids, the storm struck Rice's Station,
Benton countg [sic], demolishing the village and
killing or injuring nearly the entire people.
The wires are down and no definite information
is obtainable from that point.
ST. PAUL,
Minn., April 15. -- The reports of the
cyclone at St. Cloud, Sauk Rapids, Rice Station
and other points in that vicinity last night
were not exaggerated. At 3 o'clock this morning
in the places named there were 49 persons dead
and very nearly 200 injured, with many still
missing, whose bodies probably will be recovered
by night. Just enough houses are left in Sauk
Rapids to form a fringe around the village
limits. The debris is not piled in heaps, but is
scattered far and wide. The sign at Sauk Rapids
on the Manitoba depot and a basketful of books
were found in Rice Station, 15 miles distant.
This shows the terrible power of the storm. No
reports have yet been received from outlying
districts, where it is believed great
destruction of property and loss of life has
been wrought. The storm extended from Jamestown,
Dakota, through Minnesota and into Wisconsin,
though its most disastrous effects are to be
found in the three places first named.
ST. PAUL, Minn., April 15. -- The city council
this morning voted $5,000 in cash to aid the
cyclone sufferers and
Gov. HUBBARD dispatched a carload of
provisions to Sauk Rapids. The car was
accompanied by a committee of the Jobbers Union
who will offer all the assistance in their
power.
DR. DENSLOW
who with others went last evening by special
train for St. Cloud returned this morning and
was at once called upon by a reporter. Upon
reaching St. Cloud, he said, the physicians from
St. Paul and Minneapolis divided, part going to
Sauk Rapids. DR. DENSLOW was on the force sent
to the St. Benedictine Sisters Hospital and they
were kept busy until 4 o'clock this morning. The
reports are in no way exaggerated. The storm was
fully as disastrous as reported and may in the
end prove worse. Fully twenty-five injured were
brought to this hospital alone and he does not
know how many more were cared for in private
houses. Two of those brought to the Hospital
will probably die.
One is a woman who has broken her collar
bone, both bones of the left forearm and both
bones of the left leg fractured, and the pelvis
broken, an accident seldom chronicled in the
annals of surgery. The head and face are bruised
beyond recognition, yet, strange to say, the
woman is conscious and talked freely saying her
hip hurt some, but otherwise she felt no pain.
The other probably fatal case is a young man 20
years old. Both legs were so badly crushed they
had to be amputated midway between the knee and
thigh. One man, lying in the hospital badly
injured, said three of his children were dead.
DRS. DENSLOW and
RITCHIE, shortly after midnight, went
across to Sauk Rapids to render what assistance
they could there. Twenty three dead bodies had
then been found and doctors from Minneapolis
were busy caring for the injured.
BIG LAKE, Minn., April 13(?), --
DRS. HIGBEE and DELLIVER
of Minneapolis have just arrived. The
latter told an Associated Press reporter that
new bodies were being recovered hourly from the
debris and being brought in from the country.
Twelve injured people were brought in. Some of
these will die. Druggist SCHAUBERT'S
remains had just been brought in. Four have died
of wounds since this morning. At a church cast
of RICE'S
thirteen of a wedding party were killed
including the officiating minister.
At Sauk Rapids 31 are already dead. The list
will be swelled to 40.
DR. AMES of Minneapolis, on duty at
St. Cloud, told DR.
DELIVER at least 30 deaths can but
result there. Capt.
FARLEY, an old settler of Sauk Rapids
weighing 280 pounds was blown 400 feet in the
air.
The Daily Northwestern Oshkosh, Wisconsin
1886-04-15
Submitted & transcribed by Stu
Beitler Thank you, Stu!
On April 14, 1886 (4PM) the deadliest tornado
in Minnesota history razed parts of St. Cloud
and Sauk Rapids, leaving 72 dead and 213
injured. 11 members of a wedding party were
killed including the bride and groom.
Minnesota Tornado History and
Statistics
View
photos of the tornado at Sauk Rapids
from the Minnesota Historical Society
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