Book/Printed Material A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado.
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Image 1 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado.
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 3 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado.
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 4 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado.
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 5 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado.
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 6 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado.
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 7 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado.
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 8 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado.
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 9 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado. A MODERN HERCULANEUM, STORY OF THE New Richmond Tornado, IVho has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home. Moore. But O for the touch of a…
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 10 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado. f5 8 LIBRARY of JONGS ESS Twu Copieo (1iX«ivea MAR 24 lyUi? CLASS Ct \Ac Noi COPY B. Copyrighted looo. Pioneer Press Co. St. Paul. Printers, Electrotypcrs and Binders.
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 11 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado. DEDICATION. To the humane and kind who deem it a pleasure to share with the unfortunate, not boasting of charity, but bestowing with brotherly love, and to the true hearted and tender…
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 12 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado.
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 13 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado. PRKKACE, This account of the grievous whirlwind which swept over the little city of New Richmond and ad- jacent country, June 12, 1899, is given as a record of the event in…
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 14 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado. 6 A MODK RN HERCULANEUM. but here we have to relate the woes of a people alto- gether disjointed from the even t^iior of their way, and thrown into a state of…
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 15 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado. PREFACE. 7 to outsiders much of that which remains to suggest those troubled, feverish and unnatural months of experience subsequent to the tornado will be invis- ible, it is nevertheless just as…
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 16 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado. 8 A MODERN HERCULANEUM. of inhabitants dwells here as the cyclone summer, at intervals of the work which we all found to do, before the vividness of these events had faded, and…
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 17 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado. PREFACE. 9 you may supply the fountain from which will flow blessings to you when overtaken by a lugubrious flash followed by a relapse of horror. In using the words iornado and…
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 18 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado. lO A MODERN HERCULANEUM. CHAPTER I. Dark Shadows Faix. A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire. The occurrence known hereabouts as the Cyclone…
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 19 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado. DARK SHADOWS FALL. 1 1 The meeting of the two or more clouds above Lake St. Croix was witnessed by a number of intel- Hgent people, whose well-authenticated statements have furnished reliable…
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 20 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado. 12 A MODERN HERCULANEUM. around. But there was nothing alarming in their appearance at that time. About half-past four o clock it commenced to rain, and rained briskly for about twenty minutes.…
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 21 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado. DARK SHADOWS FALL. 1 3 marked a person who had just joined the group, a stranger, temporarily stopping in town. I had both legs broken at Grinnell, Iowa, and I have had…
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 22 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado. 14 A MODERN HERCULANEUM. for a distance wc could not estimate, and then turning north again passed behind the bluffs east of Lake St. Croix and the city of Hudson, and we…
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 23 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado. DARK SHADOWS FALL. 1 5 skies, saw two large dark clouds coming towards each other, with terrific speed. They met and united at a point commonly known as Catfish Bar, just below…
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 24 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado. l6 A MODERN HERCULANEUM. Holding it up to the others who stood watching the cloud as it fled across the country, he exclaimed *My stars, boys! Just look at that hail stone.…
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 25 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado.
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 26 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado.
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 27 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado. DARK SHADOWS FALL. 1 7 large, dark cloud with a point. When I first noticed it it was south of us, and appeared to be going a little north of east. My…
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 28 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado. 1 8 A MODERN HERCULANEUM. Minnesota, had his barn twisted and six horses killed, and every other bnilding on the place blown to flin- ders, with the exception of his house, which…
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 29 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado. DARK SHADOWS FALL. 1 9 were carried away, water was sucked up from lakes and millponds even to the dregs of mud, and dwell- ings, barns and granaries were leveled to the…
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 30 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado. 20 A MODERN HERCULANEUM. Omaha Railroad was entirely destroyed. At the Burrowes place, although the buildings were left standing in a damaged condition, the monster reached out a clutching hand and gathered…
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 31 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado. DARK SHADOWS FALL. 21 You had better get in somewhere. But Mr. Neitge had replied: I guess we ll be all right here/ and remained seated in the buggy very near the…
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 32 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado. 22 A MODERN HERCULANEUM. ters, and hastened to the Toal place for sheher. Reaching there he drove the horse and buggy into one of the barns, and he and his daughter went…
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 33 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado. DARK SHADOWS FALL. 23 you would go to the door, and see if you think it is going to rain. She had thought that if there were a rain storm coming up…
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 34 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado. 24 A MODERN HERCULANEIUM. So completely were these covered with a mass of broken timber that it was useless to try to uncover them. It was a foregone conclusion that the horse…
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 35 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado. DARK SHADOWS FAI,L. 25 twisting about. There was a shower of something wet and sharp, and she threw her apron over her head, thinking it was hail. Then a big crash came,…
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 36 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado. 26 A MODERN HERCULANEUM. the horse had to be kiUed l)ecause so badly in- jured. Securing a cart and the old family carriage horse from Mrs. Burrows, who begged him not to…
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 37 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado. DARK SHADOWS FALL. 27 ning- toward the center of town, as if for dear life. Anxious to learn something definite, if possible, he shouted, How is it with New Richmond? again and…
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 38 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado. 28 A MODERN HERCULANEUM. CHAPTER 11. One Beautiful, Awful Summer Day, Oh beautiful, awful summer day! What hast thou given, what taken away? Life and death and love and hate, Homes made…
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 39 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado. ONE BEAUTIFUL, AWFUL SUMMER DAY. 29 was noticeably attractive. Reposing among its groves of oak, maple and elm, when the rising sun gilded its roofs and steeples and brought out irides- cent…
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900
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Image 40 of A modern Herculaneum. Story of the New Richmond tornado. 30 A MUDliRN llliRCULANEUM. generated electric current from Somerset, eight miles away, to set the water-works pump humming at the city station, and the New Richmond Roller Mills to grinding its famous…
- Contributor: Epley, Anna P.
- Date: 1900