History of Rochester, Minnesota, USA

Winona, Aug. 22 - A cyclone struck Rochester about 7 o'clock last evening, and one-third of the city is in ruins. All north of the track is devastated, including the Methodist church, Horton's elevator, and many other buildings. The railroad bridge was swept completely away. A freight train ran into a building which was blown on the track at Zambrota Junction, and the fireman, HIGGINS, is missing. Mayor Whitten of Rochester, telegraphs that there are 24 killed and 40 wounded in his town. JOHN M. COLE, a well-known miller was struck by a timber and killed. St. Charles reports one man killed in the county. Lewiston reports a house blown down. In Rochester itself 25 dead bodies have been taken from the debris and 100 are missing. MR. COOK, proprietor of the Cook House, JOHN COLE, and other prominent people were killed. CHARLES M. ZIERATH'S mother and sister were killed. The roofs were blown from the asylum and the Cook House. The storm came from the west, and was cyclonic. The list of...

Yesterday morning as the result of a small boy throwing a lighted firecracker in front of a team of colts driven by Dr. E. C. Cross, occurred an accident which had a terrible and perhaps fatal termination. He was driving near the brewery owned by Sebuster Bros., when the team became frightened by the explosion of the fire-cracker near them, and started to run. The doctor would have been perfectly able to hold them had not a bit broken in the mouth of one of the animals, causing them to veer sharply to one side. As they were already going quite fast the consequence was that the carriage was overturned and Dr. Cross was thrown violently from his seat and through the picket fence on the south side of Second street.

The accident was seen by Mr. Benjamin Yates, of Pleasant Grove, and he, with Mr. Thomas Porter, of Marion, who was near, carried the injured man, as best they could, to his home. It was found that his left leg was broken, the bone projecting through the flesh and trousers...

Rochester, a city, the capital of Olmsted co., Minn., is on the south Fork of the Zumbro River, 50 miles by rail W. of Winona, 40 miles E. of Owatonna, and about 40 miles S. of Red Wing. It contains a court-house, a high school, a school-house which cost $80,000, ample water-works, an electric-light system, 3 national banks, 4 newspaper offices, 11 churches, 3 flouring-mills, 3 large grain-elevators, 2 machine-shops, a furnace, and extensive manufactures of carriages, wagons, and butter. Pop. in 1890, 5321.

Rochester, a city, the capital of Olmsted co., Minn., is on the South Fork of the Zumbro River, 40 miles S. of Red Wing, on the Chicago and Northwestern and the Chicago Great-Western Rs. It has flouring-mills, machine- shops, a brewery, etc. Pop. in 1890, 5321 ; in 1900, 6843.

Mayo Clinic Campus:

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Quarry Hill Nature Center:

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Plummer House:

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Rochester Art Center:

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