The San Francisco call., 1897-07-08
Millions of Monster Logs on a
Wild Rampage in ST. Croix
Lake.
PEOPLE RUN FROM FLOODS TO
HIGHER GROUND.
Bridges Washed Away and Trains
Piled Up In Creeks and
Ditches.

DULUTH, MINI, July IA tornado
has swept through Aiken County, cuttin g
a swath through the woods, leveIlng trees
and everything else in its path. 1t struck
the town OF Glenwood al q late hour last
night. The dead are:
LAVAN TOLIFF.
ANNA MORROW, eight years old.
MRS. SAMUEL MORROW.
SAMUEL MORROW.
OSWALD MORROW.
ROBERT MCGOWAN JR.
AN unknown MAN.
William Morris and wife are also re-
ported killed. Their year-old baby had
leg and arm broken and will die.
William Sargent and Chas. Wilson were
killed in wreck on the Great Northern
Railroad near st. Cloud. Four others are
thought 10 have been buried under the
cars. A tram ran into wasnout and was
ditched. twenty cars and the engine being
piled up.
The reports from the cyclone-stricken
distric. indicate fourteen or more killed
and the damage to property enormous.
1t is impossible 10 estimate il. The storm
was general over the Northwest, and
W
rain fell in torrents.
At Lowry Mimi, a small station on the
500 road. the cyclone tore down tele-
graph wires, uprooted trees and blew
down buildings. Several people are re-
ported killed, but nothing can be learned.
as the wires are down for twenty-five
miles.
away in ST. Croix Lake and the water has
risen twenty feet flooding the entire
country. The people are fleeing 10 higher
ground. Crops are ruined. The Straight
River at Farloault has risen fifteen feet in
ten hours ana is near the danger line.
Two wrecks are reported on The Chicago.
Milwaukee and St. Paul road and four
people killed.
Three inches of rain have fallen in Du-
luth in the last twenty-foCr hours, and
the work nf repair, which has been going
on since Fridav's storm, is being undvne.
DULUTH, MINI, July THE storm
that began on last Friday was general
throughout the Northwest, and had its
origin in the Lake Superior region. So far
as known, twenty-five lives were lost. The
damage was considerably over $1,000
Late tonight reports from towns along
the st. Paul and Duluth Railroad, are that
all streams are rising.
CIoauet, Mimi, is in danger OF being
swept away. A message at IL o clock to-
night saws the St, Louis IS rising at the
rate oil foot an hour, and people are fee
ing TO higher ground.
At Lowry, Mimi, tornado last night
tore down telegraph wires, uprooted trees
and blew down building.
Several persons were killed.
The tornado swept through Aiken Coun-
ty, struck the town OF Glenwood at late
hour last night and eight people were
killed including the whole family OF Sam
uel Morrow-his wife and two children.
William Norris and vile were killed, and
their one-year old baby had q leg and arm
broken and will die.
William SARGENT and Charles Wilson
we're killed in a wreck on the Great North
ern near st. Clou;. a train ran into a
washont and was ditched, twenty cars and
the engine heirg piled up.
ASHLAND, WIS, July 7-0cc {. 40
fiercest windstorlns this region has ever
experienced ragged last night and this
morning. Several buildings were un-
rooted. Great damage was done on The
south shore of Lake Superior between
here and Duluth.
The dam al Orienta and at the month
of Cranbe.ry River have been washed
out and II, 900, 600 feet OF logs set afioat in
Lake Superior.