St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-15
THE CROOKSTON STORM.
a Bogus Dispatch in- AN AIIege
Newspaper Denounced.

a Bogus Dispatch in am Alleged
Newspaper Denounced.
To the Editor of the Globe:
CRoOKsTON, Mimi, June 13.-Win you
kindly do our city the favor to publish the
following and correct the false impression
which has been created by the lying dispatch
Of the correspondent of the Minneapolis Tri-
bune from this city, with regard to the storm
Of last Friday night?
About O'Clock on that evening, after a
very sultry afternoon. thunder storm of
some violence struck this CITY. which from its
appearance caused some apprehension and
did some damage. The storm came up slowly
from the south, the clouds having the appear
ance OF being charged with electricity and
accompanied with wind, and about O clock
it began to rain very gently at first, which
soon increased to a very violent shower with
strong gusts OF wind, which soon increased
to Violent gale which lasted for probably
fifteen minutes, and did considerable damage
The rain lasted for probably half an hour
longer. There was nothing cyclonic in the
character of the storm at any time nor were
there any lives lost, or any persons seriously
injured, although many persons were badly
frightened while it lasted, including the
correspondent of the Tribune who sought the
shelter of an excavation in side hill and
took thorough drenching during the storm
1t is barely possible that so much water
taken all at once and against his will affected
his imagination, During the gale the Ger
mania house, at the corner of Main and Third
streets, was blown down, and is, with its con-
tents, q total loss. There were quite q num-
Der of persons in it at the time who escaped
with slight bruises, except Mr.. Joseph Net
ger, one of the proprietors who suffered a
fracture of one Of the bones of the forearm
None Of the others were hurt at all seriously
The new Catholic church, the frame of which
was partially enclosed, was blown down and
badly damaged, the Valley roller mill had the
tin torn Off the roof by the wind and was badly
damaged by the rain. The building is re-
ported to be wrenched so badly as to require
the shafting to be refined throughout Their
loss is covered by $4,000, tornado insurance.
The front of the Crookston house was torn
out, but the damage is not very great; the
city hose tower, frail structure, tumbled
over; lightning struck chimney on the new
brick block of Felix Fornett, damaging it SO
that the water from the roof was turned into
the new Masonic hail. and considerable dam
age was done to the carpets and furniture in
the hall; new barn, belonging to Hon. b.
Sampson in South Crookston, was blown
down, doing considerable damage; signs and
awnings were torn down, outhouses blown
over and considerable glass broken, and shade
trees in some instances broken and damaged.
and in fact all the various indications of
a severe gale We're noticed, but we had no
cyclone by q long shot. The sensational dis
patch of the correspondent of the Tribune
uOOo no SlOoo ihJ uSelSO, anu was kQCWn 10 De
untrue when sent, or might have been, had
he taken the trouble to inquire. Such re-
port is calculated to create unnecessary
anxiety among persons having friends resid-
ing here and to injure the reputation of our
town. The storm, while severe one, was
only severe thunder storm with gale of
wind nothing more than is liable to happen
at any place at this season of the year. And
while some damage has been done to prom
erty no person was killed or even seriously
injured.
A movement was started yesterday to as
s1st the Meters to rebuild, which our citizens
with their accustomed iberality, responded
to, and his building will be promptly rebuilt.
Among the incidents connected with the af-
fair is one that should be mentioned. On the
morning after the storm a party of river men
who were passing the ruins of the Netzer
building stopped and said: 1--WE don't know
who Netzer is, but he is out of luck any way
and we want to give him weeks work" and
they pulled off their coats and went to work.
thus giving our citizens another proof of the
big-heartedness and generous impulses of the
men employed in the lumber business here if
any was needed. A CRooKsToN CITIZEN.