Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-07-09
DEATH BY WIND.
"A Tornado Carries Destruction to Fargo,
North Dakota.

DOObA ~
North Dakota.
FARGO, n. D., July IA tornado of
appalling violence swept this city at 2
O'Clock this morning. Several people
were killed and a large number injured,
and some of the best buildings in the
city were wrecked.
A Northern Pacific passenger train,
consisting of twelve cars, was blown
from the track half a mile west of Far
90, and a number of passengers were
injured, some of them seriously.
Considerable damage was done in the
railroad yards. The Chicago, Milwau.
kee & st. Paul freight warehouse was
destroyed and its contents partially
ruined, and many cars were blown
from the rails and damaged.
Telegrap wires were all blown down,
and the city was cut off from commune
cation with the outside world for several
hours.
It is impossible, at this early hour to
cur information regarding the num-
Der of lives lost, and the number in
jured.
The full extent of the loss in Fargo is
not now known.
The storm descended on the city
without the slightest warning and the
~slumbering inhabitants had no time for
preparation.
So far as can be ~ascertained, nine
persons were killed and thirteen in
jured.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, July Fargo, n.
D., was completely swept away by a
cyclone this morning, and Moorhead,
which lies in Minnesota, east of
Fargo was also slightly damaged. There
was loss Of life at Fargo.
A railroad man who arrived from that
vicinity this morning says a terrific
wind storm prevailed there this morn
ing, and that several trains were blown
from the tracks.
All wires to Fargo are down, and the
Western Union officials report that
about two miles of telegraph wires near
Fargo, and between there and here
have been blown down. West of Fargo
they say worse conditions exist, and
that miles and miles of wires and poles
are down.
The last reports received by the sig
nal service from Fargo were at Z P. l..
Sunday, and they showed a low barom-
eter, temperature of 80 degrees, wind
velocity of six miles an hour, with the
conditions good for a storm.
The Northern Pacific furnish this
later information: There were several
people injured on train No. /
none fatally, and most of them only
slightly. Col. Thompson, of Mr..
Purdy's party, also d lady of their
party were quite severely shaken up
and the porter of the car quite seriously
injured. These parties are at the hotel
and as comfortable as possible. Mr..
Prudy is secretary and treasurer of the
Rock Island road, and his special car
was attached to the train which was
blown from the track.
One of the reports received says that
seven children were killed by being
caught under a roof, which had been
blown off by the wind, but no other
equally definite reports have been heard.
Nearly all the rumors of a heavy loss
of life are based on the fact
that nothing has been heard
from Fargo and Moorhead since 2
ofal@.1~ @I,1 -oo-N~ I'D @Lo fklo,
fact that there was undoubtedly a
storm of uncertain severity in thatlocal-
ity which blew down the wires for
some miles in every direction. If this
storm was severe in the two cities it I'M
doubtedly caused much injury to prop
erty and very probably some loss of
life. However, it is still pretty much a
matter of probability rather than of
certainty.