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New Zealand Mail, Issue 758, 10 September 1886, Page 14

One of the most tragic features in connection with the recent devastation caused by the cyclones in the United States was the calamity which befel a wedding party at Rice Station, and in which the bridegroom and nine other persons were killed. The principal State which has suffered through the great storm was Minnesota. It appears that jußt before the byclone broke over the town of Rice Station a wedding party had assembled at the house of Mr John Schutz, a farmer, whose daughter had been married an hour or two before. In the midst of the merriment, the cyclone struck the place. There were then assembled about forty gnests, and in five minutes the whole place was destroyed, the dead and dying lying in every direction. Of the party ten were killed outright and several injured. The bridegroom was amongst the former, while the bride escaped with some injury. There was not a building left on the farm in which the survivors could place their dead friends. The Bad affair cast a gloom over the place. The corpses were afterward collected and placed in the Rice Station schoolhouse. Many other houses and buildings in the town were destroyed by the whirlwind.