The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-07-11
TORNADO SWEPT.
Destructive Work of the Tenn
pest at Fargo.
TIE DREADFUL FATE OF A FAMILY

Scores of buildings Badly Damaged
The Country Round About Feels the
Effect of the Wild wind-A Passenger
Train Blown Into the Ditch and Many
Persons Injured.
MINNEAPOLIS, July s.-A special from
Detroit Mimi, to The Tribune says: A re-
porter of The Record, at Detroit, Mimi,
describes the tornado which struck the
city of Fargo, n. D., at 2:30 o'clock yester-
day morning, as follows: About mid
night strong wind prevailed but no at
tention was paid to it until 2:3O o'clock,
when in a few minutes the citizens real
lied that terrific tornado had veered
down upon the city, and left a birthmark
that will be remembered In years to
| come.
The Havoc That Was Wrought.
The storm demolished the Manitoba and
Milwaukee freight houses, threw down the
electric light towers, destroyed the fronts
of the Davis block, the Opera house block,
the Continental block, the Garfield block,
the Webster block; unroofed the Northern
Pacific freight depot, also The Republican
office, and the Chaplin hardware store.
The court house tower is deposited on
the sidewalk on Tenth street. The Ply
mouth Congregational church is destroyed.
The Luger Furniture company's ware
house is damaged. Numerous bricks from
The Argus brick block lie on the ground.
The Deering warehouse is damaged to
some extent, as is also Alfstad's hardware
store and Vochen's restaurant, and the
rear battlement on the Bank of North Da-
kota lies on the ground in ruins. The
Keeney block and Exchange hotel suffered
badly. Dozens of smaller buildings and
rods of sidewalks are demolished.
A Whole Family Crushed to Death.
The saddest of all is the death of the en-
tire family, consisting of the mother and
seven children, of the late Capt McCar-
thy, which occurred at their residence at
the corner of Ninth and Fifth streets.
The family had taken refuge In the cellar,
| and in some manner were caught in the
timbers of the fallen building and crushed
| to death.
When the Cyclone Had Passed.
For thirty minutes the storm ragged, then
slowly passed off toward the northwest.
Half an hour later daylight dawned, and
| soon the entire scene of devastation was
only tall building left standing was that
devoted to the signal service, where wind
| gauge showed the velocity of the storm to
have been eighty-two miles. The scene
about the city was terrible The streets
were choked up with debris of all kinds.
Roofs, fronts of buildings, piles of glass,
| toppling and destroyed chmneys lay
massed amid telegraph poles, bound and
| tied with electric wires.
Train Blown into a Ditch.
Train No. ], the Northern Pacific pas
senger, was caught just as it was depart
ing from Fargo and was tOppled over into
ditch. No one was killed, although the
following were injured: George f. Man
ming, Post Falls. Idaho, knee hurt and
badly shaken up; j. +. Raintree, Pingree,
badly bruised and leg hurt; Mrs. McCabe,
sister of Superintendent McCabe, ankle
bruised; c. r. Helm, Ellensburg, Wash,
knee hurt and bruised; Victor Mont
gomery, of Chicago, scalp wound;
Mrs. Nordstrom, en- route from
Finland to Seattle to join her husband
badly cut in several places, tendon sew
cred and wrist cut; John Richie, baggage
master, cut in head; Albert Lee, express
messenger, badly bruised; Mrs c. r.
Mann, Milwaukee, arm bruised and shout
der sprained; Addison Augur, Palouse
City, Wash face cut; G. A. Mann, st.
Louis, temple bruised; Mrs. c. r. Griffiths,
Miles City, Mont, badly bruised; Ben
Sportsman porter of Vice President Pur.
dy's car, spine injured and head hurt Sc
riously.
Railway officials on Board.
The train consisted of three baggage
cars and nine coaches, also Superintendent
McCabe's special car, containing a party
of Chicago and Northwestern officials, &C
companying Mr.. McCabe The passengers
in the sleepers succeeded in dressing and
saving their valuables although it was
difficult in the dark.
The storm extended over northern Min
nesota and was slightly felt at Detroit,
Mimi, where it demolished the plate glass
front of the Record Office and overturned
few small buildings, and one house was
struck by lightning and burned up.
Storm Havoc Elsewhere.
The huge elevator at Mapleton was de.
stroyed and that at Dalrymple was liter
ally blown to pieces. At Butteville the
depot was blown away and two loaded
trains swept from the track. Nothing can
be learned from points on the Fargo &
Southwestern or on the Great Northern
between Fargo and Grand Forks, and as
the storm ragged furiously in both direc-
tions great apprehension is felt. Word
was received from Glyndon, via Detroit.
that the small town was badly wrec ked.
but no lives lost.
The Farms Suffered Sc vereIy.
From the surrounding country within a
radius Of fifty miles reports of damage to
growing crops come in. Many places
where the wheat was standing two or
three feet high, and heading out, reports
say it is very badly lodged, and in some
instances whipped and torn to pieces or
broken off, but in the majority of cases
will probably not suffer material injury.
Farm houses, barns, and outbuildings in
all directions are reported leveled to the
ground, and trees along the river banks
for miles in both directions from this city
are broken off entirely or shorn of their
foliage.
Bridges Washed Away.
.Cassellton reports that the bridges in all
directions are washed out or blown away.
At Durbin heavy hailstorm caused great
damage to crops of all kinds. The track
of the hailstorm was about two and a half
miles wide ana twenty miles long. AT