The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1900-09-28
A FUNNEL SHAPED CLOUD.
The Little Town of Morristown.
Minnesota, Visited by a
Regular Twister.
tI6HT MEN KILLED; OTHERS MIssINe.
Tornado Quite HEAVY buildings Lifted
Bodily From Their Foundations, Car
ried a Distance and Crushed Like Egg
shells.


st. Paul, Mimi, Sept. 25.-A Pioneer
Press special from Faribaul., M;En.,
says:
word has been received here to
night that cyclone struck Norris
town at 6 o'clock. Eight men have been
killed and a large number more are
missing. Reports very meager. A
large tree was lifted from the ground
and carried over a house top and de-
posted on a nearby building. which
was used as saloon. The house was
completely wrecked, and the bodies of
eight men were taken from the ruins.
The report does not say how much
damage was done TO property there
but it is feared that the loss is not .
small one"
\ special to the Times from Fari-
bault, Mimi, says:
The storm came without warning
upon the citizens of Morristown, from
a southwesterly direction, passing
over to the northeast. The length of
its path in the village was less than
half mile, and owing to its peculiar
action the distress and damage done
were not as great as they might have
been. The storm made jumps of one
block, but whenever il came down ev-
erything was crumbled by the power
of the wind
"A barn belonging to b. I. Dargiben,
who lives on the outskirts of the viii
lage, was the first to be DESTROYED.
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of the storm. The barn was picked
up and carried block, leaving the
floor uninjured, with two horses
standing on it. The building was
crushed.
From here the storm jumped a
block to the saloon of Paul Gatzke.
Before it reached the Gatzke saloon
there is a two-story building which
was left untouched. All the people
killed and injured in Morristown were
in the saloon, having hurriedly taken
refuge there when the storm was
seen on the outskirts of the village.
There were 16 persons in the struc-
ture at the time the storm struck.
The building was raised from its
x
shell. But before the building fell
three people managed to escape, and
the other - were found in the list OF
dead and injured.
after leaving the saloon the storm
crossed the street and destroyed the
barn of j. p. Temple, and took the
roof from the barn of w. NJ. Bigoli. 1t
then crossed the Cannon river, and
destroyed the barn of Adam Snyder,
killing several hogs.
THE storm then passed off to the
northwest, and did no further dam
age.
THE first fatality occurred, how
ever, before the village was reached
The storm was first seen by farmer
who lives four miles from Norris
town. He saw the funnel-shaped
cloud, and says that it was bobbing
up and down on its way to the village
and made four descents in four miles,
THE farm of John Olsen, a farmer
who resides two miles from Norris
town, is, as far as can be learned, the
first place where any damage was
done. Olson's hired man, Peterson,
was killed, but the particulars could
not be learned in Morristown last
evening.
THE citizens of Morristown were
prompt in caring for the dead and in
jured.
Henry s. Waite. one of the victims,
was farmer residing three miles east
of Morristown, and was republican
candidate for representative. He was
40 years of age, and had resided here