The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-28
THE ST. PAUL CYCLONE.
Graphic Description of h Tornado ~ .
Was Photographed.

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Was Photographed.
From the Minneapolis Tribune.
The cyclone was viewed by n company
Of gentlemen from the Hotel Clinton,
Fourth avenue south and Grant street,
much after the fashion generals have
sometimes adopted OF watching a battle
from some prominent elevation out ri
harms way. They had accessories In the
way of a field glass and n camera, and
when the twirler was ut its closest point
TO Minneapolis a photograph was taken
OF II, which will be ready To he shown this
morning. The observation was almost
by chance. The sultriness OF the weather
during the forenoon and early afternoon
suggested the possibility of a cyclone, and
when at about 4 O'Clock the heavy and
dark rain clouds began TO gather to the
north of the city and n storm seemed i'm
pending, j. +. Hogls, OF the Hartford Life
and Annuity company, who lives with his
family at the Clinton, and T.. r.. Crabbe, of
Hale, Thomas a Co., who lives at the
same place. together with several others,
went 10 a north third story window out Of
curiosity To see what would be the result.
They had not very long 10 wait. The
storm cloud back Of the heavy black rim
which cncirclcd its front wal of a sickly,
copperish hue, n in its center an unu-
suai commotion manifested itself. The
eastern edge of the cloud was OH thch ori-
zon M n point directly across the Hour
milling district from them, and the west
crn edge over the center Of the high school
building, the enter. in the customary
scmi-circular form, being well advanced
toward Minneapolis.
A mass of small black clouds gathered
on the face of the storm-cloud, and as
they gathered il could be seen there was a
great atmospheric disturbance. They
rolled and tumbled one over another and
occasionally the entire mass would sud-
denly and swiftly drop toward the earth,
but, recovering itself IN a moment, regain
its place in mid-air. Up to this time
there had been no funnel formation, and
nothing to suggest that n cyclone was AT
hand. About five minutes after 4 o'clock.
Mr.. Hogle thinks, the black mass was
suddenly elongated and came To the
ground in the neighborhood of the stock
yards. II was located from where the
gentlemen we're standing in the
hotel, Immediately over the top
of the Central High school
tower. The funnel was perfect and
the rapid, whirling motion was distinctly
visible. From the main body black clouds
were continually shooting out n then
retiring, and in addition To the rotation
there was a movement of air up and
down on the edge of the cyclone, which
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