View looking southwest towards the Mississippi River of uprooted and snapped trees amongst the debris following the cyclone of 1886. Surviving residences and buildings are also shown.
Damaged and overturned flat cars are seen in foreground with surviving and damaged grain mill and freight storage buildings in background. This scene was captured after the cyclone of 1886.
The Tyler, Minnesota, tornado left two cars are flattened under the collapsed roof of a garage. A telephone pole is leaning in the background with other buildings standing.
Piles of rubble are every where after the Tyler, Minnesota, tornado. A trunk sits undamaged in the debris. Several people are looking at the destruction.
Two women are walking among the debris, another woman is sitting down. The trees have lost their leaves in the storm. Very little is recognizable among the piles of rubble except a chair and a wagon wheel. The tornado struck Rochester in the early evening of Aug. 21, 1883.