The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1900-10-12
SWEPT By CYCL ONE.
PART OF THD TOWN oE' BIwABIK,
| 1LINN., IN RUINS.
Nine Lives Are Knoyvn to Have Bees
Lost ana Many Received Injuries
scores Of surprisins and Hair 3 ! !. 4;
Breadth Escapes ~. -- Substantial q
BuildinEs Sucked into the Cy-a
A clones Mighty Vortex ias SO duchs u
straw MininE Property Denaolr
s3 ished-lrasses OF Debris scattered
f8s Everyvvhere.

Biwabik, Mimi, Oct. 3 The north-i
western part the town is in ruins uirs
and path S reckage $50 feet In
width and more than a quarter of e
mile long tells OF the terrific fury of q
cyclone travelling from southeast to
northwest, which struck Biwabik late
Saturday afternoon. II
Nine lives were lost and many per-
sons received serious injuries. The
list Of dead includes an entire family
OF six Aving two miles north Of Biwa-; 3
blk. The remaining three lost their
lives in the town. One of them.
Mrs Marowitz, was found 400 feet
from her home in q terribly mangled
condition. Her husband was found a.
I quarter OF mile away, and he, too
was
i Horiibly AIutilated.
y The properly loss will reach SIS, u
900. The shaft houses and buildings
Of three mines which stood in the
path OF the hurricane are q mass Of
kindling Two little children
and theia q who wac lying
their i.' hodse q. ia iifts sIs the floor
and blown slightly injur-
ing those inside sore Of other sur
prising and hair escapes from
death occurred. The citizens of BIZ
wabik ftirnsehed immediate relief to
all in na The cyclone was pre-
ceeded b5 wind and rain storm OF
terrible II When the rapidly
mnvinc. NJ Sxed cloud struck, SO
suddenly ASM( Y almost no warm
ing. the souns fleming
Rnin g. snster
Followed it's coiTs ina substantial
buildings collapsed { ana were sucked
into it's mighty vortex as so much
straw, Frangments Of the buildings
in It's path were scattered all over the
surrounding country. The duration OF
the. cyclone was about three minutes
PloXing through the outskirts OF
4 town, the cyclone struck the Duluth
mine, destroying two shaft houses, an
engine house. blacksmith shop dry
house and three cars which stood near
on a side track. The greater part or
TIE debris was lifted clear Of the
ground, carried some distance and
! dumped into pit. BY an unexplain-
able circumstance, nearly all the en-
Y loves managed to reach cover. The
Efound was swept as IL with broom
at the Biwabik property and with In
credible swiftness everything stand
Ing in the Austrian district. where
the mine is located,
Was Demolished.
The engine house Of the Duluth, Me-
saba e Northern, near by, several
cars land a locomotive. were shifted
clear OF the tracks and hammered
into mass of wreckage. Other in.
stances Of the diabolical fury OF the
hurricane were not wanting, ana
hardly structure which. stood in the
path Of the funnel has any portion re-
maining standing. Among the build
ings destroyed were many houses
(: owned by the mining companies ana
tenanted by their employees. a
marvellous providence seems to have
cared for these, and nearly all man
aged to reach places Of safety with
out injury: For mile northeast OF
town there are timbers and masses OF
debris scattered everywhere. which
were ca(ght up by the cyclone and
dropped lis its violence abated. Sew
eral open spaces present the appear
anch of a forest of gigantic toothpicks.
% thick did the broken timbers and
splintered boards fall.