The record-union., 1897-06-12
A Cyclone Strikes the Vicinity Of Lyle,
Sweeping Everything Before 1t.
Lays Waste a Track Two Hundred
Yards Wide and Ten Miles Long.
One Man Killed and Nineteen People
Injured-Buildings Picked Up and
Literally Smashed to Pieces
Thousands of Dollars of Damage
Done Within Few Short
Moments.

Moments.
LYLE (Minn), June ia terribly
destructive cyclone struck this vicinity
last night, laying waste a tract of about
200 yards wide and ten miles long.
The funnel-shaped cloud made it's ap-
pearance twelve miles west of here.
The barn on the Funda farm was the
first to suffer J. c. Owens fine resi-
dence, barn ..nI granaries are destroy
ed. Mr.. OWei4-'' family escaped injury.
At Howards place all outbuildings
were demolished. Charles Howard was
going from the barn to the house when
the wind struck him and he grabbed
hold of large rock and escaped being
carried away.
The Woodbury. schoolhouse was de-
molished
Charles Severson's fine farm property
was all destroyed. Severson's skull was
badly fractured and it is feared he can
not live.
William Stipe's farm buildings were
picked up and smashed into kindling
wood The entire family got in the
cellar, but Mrs. Stipe was badly in
jured Mrs. Bergs new house was next
destroyed.
AT John Johnson's all were in the cell
lar when the house was swept from
over them, but nobody was hurt. JOS
WybOrneys barn and house are gone
One of his horses was picked up and
landed eighty rods away without a
scratch.
Henry Hanson's buildings are de-
stroyed and Hanson is a corpse.
P. J. Johnson and Hanson's wife and
two children are in critical condition.
Johnson was found hanging to a wire
fence, very badly cut and unconscious.
The Minnocka schoolhouse is totally
destroyed
August Webber's barn and windmill
are gone, and John Webber's barns and
residence are wrecked.
+ At Willis Bryan's is presented a scene
of total destruction. He gathered his
wife and three children into corner of
the cellar and stood over them. AS the
house was lifted stone weighing two
hundred pounds rolled down over his
back, inf1icting ugly wounds.
Christian Peterson's property is all
destroyed and he cannot live His sons
al Z III a u lllNSaI COuQIllOli LII lillS low II
both the Milwaukee and the Illinois
Central roads had a number of freight
cars wrecked. Crews from both roads
are now here. clearing up the wreckage.
The city water tower is stopped.
Peter Hanson and family were tenn
porarily living in a new barn. This
structure was totally crushed. Hanson
had a leg broken and is injured inter
nally. Mrs. Hanson is badly hurt, as is
also her son Robert. Mrs M. l..
Hugheson and Mr.. and Mrs. William
Brooke of Clarion, Ia, were visiting
there, and all are injured.
Charles Larsons cottage was de-
stroyed and he and his wife were badly
hurt Chris Christenson's new house
was wrecked and Dr. Frazer's barn de-
strOyed. East of here Mrs. Oleson' S
barn was blown down and some stock
killed
There were nineteen persons injur-
ed, one killed and three fatally injured,
two whose recovery is doubtful A care
full estimate puts the total property
damage at $4,000
LYLE (Minn.), June 11.-So far as
yet known Henry Hanson was the only
man killed by last nights tornado
There are nineteen injured, some of
them so badly that further deaths are
possible. They are Peter Hanson. Mrs
Peter Hanson. Robert, son of Peter
Hanson: Charles Larson, wife and
child; P. j. Johnson, Mrs. Stipe, Chris
tian Peterson, Peter Peterson, Charles
Severson, Mrs. w. A. Fraser, Mrs NJ
l.. Hugheson, William Brooke and wife.
Willis Bryan. Maud Peterson
DESTRUCTION IN COLORADO.
DENVER, June 11.-Four railway
washouts, a $4,000 fire and a host of
minor losses epitomize the evil results
of the storm which prevailed in Den
yer and the southeastern section of the
State generally from near Z O'Clock last
evening until little after midnight.
A cloudburst on the slope of Pixies
Peak shut off traffic on the Rio Grande
and Midland lines between Manitou
and Colorado Springs.
Sixteen miles out of Denver the Jules
burg tracks We're washed out in spots
for miles in length
A washout on the Burlington and
Missouri road occurred near Rarr sta
tion Men were at work all night re-
pairing the damages done by the
storm.
According to the Weather Bureau re-
port .S3 of an inch fell in Denver be-
tween 6:40 and 1910 O'Clock. From
the time the storm reached it's hight
until travel ceased upon the streets
the car lines We're either imperative
altogether or gave but poor service.
Many parts of the city were flooded
to depth of several feet, numbers of
families having to abandon their
homes.
1t is feared that ranchmen living in
the low lands to the east of this point
have lost heavily in stock and b,,iid-