The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-06-26
HALF MILLION LOSS
Damage to Buildings and Crops in
South Dakota So Estimated.
STORM IN SOUTHEASTERN SECTION
Three known to Have Been Killed,
While Several Are Criti-
cally Injured.
Specials to The Journal.

Specials to The Journal.
Sioux Falls, S. D., June 26.-1t will re-
quire a round half million of dollars to
replace the damage done by the storm
which wrought havoc in the entire south
ern portion of the state early Wednesday
morning Many would regard the esti-
mate as high, but if the stories of losses
now coming in are verified the figure CIV
en- is not far from right, =. - , -. -. 49,. !.
The section visited includes the richest
part of South Dakota extending to the
Iowa line on the east, to Douglas county
on the west and from Minnehaha county
on the north to the Missouri river on the
south. 1t is 1926 miles east and west and
forty miles north and south. So far
as known three people We're killed and a
| number critically injured. s-
The loss to crops in Hutchinson county
Is put as high as 30 per cent. A house
containing five people at Wakonda was
totally wrecked and MRS. Fredericks, one
of the occupants, was fatally injured
DR.. G. F. Curtiss, a: druggist at Beres-
ford, was thrown to the cement sidewalk
and probaly fatally injured. The Catholic
church at that place costing $4,000 is re
ported to be total wreck, also =, the
Methodist church which was completely
surrounded by debris. At several places
! pieces of timber were driven into dwell
| iGgs and many miraculous escapes are re-
ported. Memo, in Hutchinson county, is
laid fiat. -: 49, -
:. Centerville, S. D., June ga hurricane
struck. this place and lasted one hour and
| twenty minutes. 1t was a steady wind
from the northwest. The German Evan
! gelical church was demolished and the
Norwegian Lutheran church was moved
Noble block, the finest brick block in the
town, was damaged by having the TOP
of the front flush torn off, and plate
glass in the front broken. Barton's res
taurant and bakery were unroofed and the
| fronts of Finley Bros, 3Colman's, Gem
! restaurant and other buildings: were blown
off. Scores Of barns and smaller build
ings were destroyed.
In the surrounding country almost every
farmer reports the loss of barns and
smaller buildings, and several houses
| were blown from foundations and dam
aged, while scarcely windmill is left
standing in the whole country.
At Hooker, a little station just west
only two buildings were left standing
The store, two churches, station and sew
eral houses were blown down, and one
man is reported seriously hurt.
Canton, S. D., June 26.-The storm hat
all the appearances of a tornado, but wa!
high and only dipped down in spots. II
Canton several small buildings were
blown down. One large elevator was de.
| molished and house under construction
was wrecked. Shade trees suffered. Til,
streets we're literally strewn with trees
and branches. The tower on the schoo
house was torn from It's place and carried
away with the large bell. Part of tn,
front to the new Linn Kennedy block I'm
der construction was torn out
Parkston, S. D., June ga tornado
passed over this section Tuesday night
The building in which G. w. Mus enho1de
had his hardware store was badly demol
! ished. Numerous windows we're broke,
in. Barns and outbuildtngs wer demol
ished in the surrounding country and II
some instances houses were blown away
It will take hundreds of dollars to replac
: the loss.