The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-06-17
IT'S WORK rs DEADLY.
Fifteen Lives Lost in a Storm in
Minnesota.
Many Buildings Demolished and
Crops Are Badly Damaged-Fear
That Illinois Towns Have Suf-
Tered from TO~rnadoes.

st. Paul, Mimi, June ia tornado
of marked severity prevailed Tuesday
evening over sections of Clay and
Becker counties and across the south
ern portions of the White Earth In
dian reservation. 1t is reported that
Is lives were lost, many people injured
and great damage done to farm prop
erty, many dwellings, barns and out
buildings being destroyed. Grain was
leveled by hail which followed the
wind, but the crop is not far enough
towards maturity to be seriously in
jured. The region throughout which
sparsely settled and remote from tele-
graphic communication, and details of
the storm are therefore meager.
Carried Ruin and Death.
st. Paul, Mimi, June IA special
to the Dispatch from Ulen, Mimi,
says: Acyclone formed five miles west
of this place between four and five
o'clock Monday afternoon, carrying
death and desolation in its path. The
area covered by the twister was me-
half mile wide and probably 20 miles
long. 1t took a s~outheasterly course,
demolishing Is or more farm build
ings.
Hundreds of head OF stock were
killed, and everything was swept as
clean as if a fire had run over the
stricken territory.
Effect at Other Points.
Minneapolis, Mimi, June 1.-THE
following storm specials have beer re-
ceived by the Times:
Detroit, Minn.-While the tornado
that wrought death and ruin in Becker
county also dashed the country for
miles in all directions, the serious
damage seems to have been confined
to the district northwest of here.
Lake Park, Mimi, June 11.-Provi-
stems and supplies have been sent by
the merchants of this city to the Sec
ton which was on Tuesday visited by
a tornado, Is miles northwest Of
here. One person was killed, ten
were injured and the homes of nine
families were destroyed. Mrs. Berg,
whose home was near Voss Post Of
fee, was killed by flying timbers
while seeking shelter. The Spangelo
church was demolished, as we're sew
eral barns. The path of the storm
was three miles long and a mile wide
Every structure in this tract was de-
molished. There are rumors of 9TH
er lives lost, but these cannot be
substantiated, and persons who have
visited the scene discredit the stories
of greater loss of life. The Norwe.
gian Lutheran church at Atlanta was
destroyed. Ole Johnsonberg and his
son were picked up and carried 4
quarter of a mile, but were unin-
jured. The property loss will ap
proXimate 100000.
Illinois Towns Suffer.
Chicago, June 11.-Illinois was
swept by a sever electrical storm at
about midnight. Telegraph and tele-
phone wires were made useless and
no communication could be had with
any point in the central part of the
state. Grave fears are entertained
that Bloomington has been swept by
a tornado, but no word from that
city has been received for four hours.
Efforts to reach Springfield, Decatur,
Pontiac, Clinton, Freeport and other
cities proved futile. Railroad dis.
patehers reported their wires use
less, and wild rumors were circulated
of terrible destruction wrought by
the storm in the central part of the
state. Messages being sent TO the
newspaper offices from Springfield
and surrounding cities were inter
rupted at midnight and the opera.
tors reported their inability to re
gain lost wires.