Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1858 — Terrific Tornado in Minnesota. [ARTICLE]

Terrific Tornado in Minnesota.

On the Ist inst., the village of New Ulin, ■some thirty miles west of St. Peter, on the | Minnesota river, was visited by a most fearful storm, lasting only a few minutes, but doing g(eat damage. Six buildings were entirely destroyed by the storm, and not a i single building in the place escaped without jinjury. One building was lifted from its I i foundation.and carried some twenty-five feet land turned over on its side. Another large I house, ope of the best in the place, not fin- ■ ished, was moved some six feet, and badly jracked and injured. Several others had I their walls rent and broken. A kitchen,] built up against a house, was entirely demolished, and the cook-stove hurled across an entire block—the pipe being driven so far that ijt could not be found at all! The postoffice was kept in a store, the front of which had large windows; these were broken in by the violence of the wind, and the con-.: 1 tents of the building, consisting of the mail matter, dry goods, &c., were gathered in its embrace and scattered over the prairie in .every direction! Many-of the letters were j entirely lost. A stage, owned by a citizen of Traverse,' was staflding in the street at the time, and was carried a distance of twenty-five rods, | being literally torn in pieces-—the wheels even being broken from the axels! The damage in figures has not been stated j yet, but it must be heavy. Oir'Gray, the decapitated Post-master of Cleveland and the Douglas candidate for Congress, ran behind his ticket in every] Ward in the city. p