The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-12
NOT so SERIOUS AS WAS
FEARED.
ONE DEAD, BUT FOUR MAYpIE
ALBERT LEA, ALDEN AND OTHER
PLACES FEEL THE g
STORM.
DULUTH ROUNDUP of CYCLISTS.
Test in Zenith City--Pipe- 4
stone Murderer Suicides.

LYLE, Mimi, June 11.-No further
reports of deaths from yesterdays
storm have been received. There is
total of nineteen persons injured, one
killed, three fatally injured, and two
so seriously that their recovery is
doubtful. A careful estimate puts the
total property damage at $4,000.
The track of the storm is fully ten
miles long and about 200 yards wide.
The barn on the Funda farm was the
first TO suffer J. c. Owens fine farm
improvements, residence, barn, granar-
les, etc, are entirely destroyed. He
and his family all went to the cellar
and were not injured. At A. Howard's
all Outbui1dings were completely whip
ped away. Charles Howard, a son, was
going from the barn to the house when
the wind struck him, and he grabbed
hold of a large rock and escaped be-
ing carried away.
The Woodbury. school house was de-
mclished. Charles Seversin's fine farm
property was all destroyed. His skull
was badly fractured and it is feared
he cannot live. William Stipe's farm
buildings were picked up and smash
ed into kindling- wood The entire fam
lily got into the cellar before the storm
struck. Mrs. Stipe, however, was very
badly injured. Mrs. Berg's new house
was next destroyed. At John JOhnson's
all were in the cellar when the house
was swept from over them; nobody
was hurt. Joseph Wyborney's barn and
house are gone, scattered to the four
VIII Of hic YIin al
up and landed eighty rods distant and
not scratched.
Henry Hanson's buildings are all de-
stroyed. Hanson is a corpse and P.
Johnson and Hanson's wife and two
chrildren are in a critical condition.
Johnson was found hanging to wire
fence, very badly cut and unconscious.
The Minnereka school house is total
ly destroyed. August Weber's barn
and windmill are gone.
John Webbers barn and residence
are wrecked. AT Willis Bryan's is
scene of total destruction. He gath
cred his family, consisting Of wife
and three children, into a corner Of the
cellar and stood over them. AS the
house was lifted from above them a
stone weighing over two hundred
pounds rolled down over his back in
f1icting ugly wounds and pinning his
leg to the cellar floor.
Christian Peterson's property is all
destroyed and he cannot live. His son
was also in critical condition Peter,
another son, is badly hurt
The cyclone struck this town about
twenty rods north of the business por-
ton. Both on the Chicago. Milwau-
kee & st. Paul and the Illinois Central
roads a number of freight cars are
wrecked Wrecking crews from both
roads are now here clearing UP the
wreckage. The city water tower is
stopped. a
Peter Hanson and family were tenn
porarily living in new barn This
structure was totally crushed Hanson
had a leg broken and is badly hurt, as
is also his son. Robert
Mrs. M. L. Hughson and Mr.. and
Mrs William Brooks, of Clarion, To-,
were visiting there and all are injured.
Charles Larson's cottage was de-
stroyed and he and his wife were badly
hurt. For several hours their little r.
months-old baby was lost, but it was
finally found penned in between some
timbers.
Chris Christensen's new house was
wrecked and DIR. Frazer's barn de-
stroyed.
East Of here Mrs Ole Nelson's barn
was blown down and some stock kill
ed. Chris Meyers big barn is no more
and Rev. Eggins suffers some property
damage