Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-08-26
TORNADO H|TSTW|N CITIES
Sixteen Persons Die Wind Storm
in Minnesota.
SCORES OFPEOPLE HURT
Hurricane Flows Wide Furrow Through
Business and Residence Dis
tricts of Cities.
RECORD OF STORM.

trIctS or Cities.
RECORD OF STORM.
DEATHS.
Twin cities s
Other Minnesota points. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. s
property damage. over. .S2,OUV,ooo
BUILDINGS DAMAGED.
TivoIi theater ..................De Demolished
empire theater ...............--S nroofed
Minnesota club Observation-Disclosures. Damaged
Globe office building. ............. Damaged
Pioneer Press building. All windows broken
Habighorst building .-............ Unroofed
HasHlngto a school ;iass E Wraaged
Arlington Heights Presbyterion church.
House of Good Shepherd Dormtory partly
wrecked
St Mary's Roman Catholic church: -.
St slgfrids Episcopal church. Damaged
Nearly all business blocks between VA.
paSha and Sibley streets damaged.
Two spans Of Mississippi river bridge
gone.
st. Paul, Mimi, Aug 22.-Sixteen lives
lost-twelve of them in or near the twin
cities-scores Of persons injured and
property damaged exceeding S2,OOo,0OO
are the results of the tornado which
swept over this section at 8 o'clock Sat
urday night. Other parts Of the state
also We're devastated, the loss of crops
and buildings being extensive.
In st. Paul and Minneapolis the great
est damage resulted in the business dis
trlcts. From Wabasha street for blocks
east on Third street in ST. Paul scarcely
a building contains whole pane of glass.
AS the tornado struck some of the sky
scrapers and the crash of glass was
heard, many of the tenants were panic
stricken.
Tin Roofs Given a Roll.
Tin roofs of some of the structures
were rolled in bundles as one would roll
a huge sheet of paper and deposited in
the street. Wires were torn down and
part of the city was in darkness Tele-
phone service between the Twin cities
was cut off for three hours and telegraph
lines were Frustrated.
Two river steamers with large crowds
on board We're caught in the gale and
buffeted about and the passengers thrown
into panic. The wind blew ninety
miles an hour.
The Dead
HEDGES 6-year-old son of Frank Hedges,
Minnea polls
Minneapolis Junction. killed by lightning.
/ HOKANSON, LORIN F., $50 Brunsop
street; killed at Tivoli theater; body re-
moved TO city morgue.
/ Toronto avenue; killed at Tfyoli theater;
body removed to city morgue.
9DHE Eo ALBE RI, aged 81; MINNEAPOLIS.
wall of dormitory at house of the Good
Shepherd.
TSKSoWN WOMAN, Minneapolis.
/ ROBERTSON. VIOLA. aged -
! FOUR UNKNOWN, dead at Waconia. a
small station twenty miles west of Min
| neapolS.
AT GLENCOE.
GROSS, MRS. +. j.
GROSS, FREDERICK.
O'DONNELL, MARY. aged IS.
/ O'DONNELL, PATRICK, aged II.
Missing.
| Gilbert, Edwin. 43S South Robert street:
was one OF the last persons seen in Tivoli
/ theater during the storm.
! The Injured.
Berlin. David. stage hand, Tivoli theater
! arm seriously cut.
Dougherty, James,. Omaha. brakeman:
/ blown from top of freight in East ST
/ Paul yards: severely bruised.
Dugan: John. telegraph operator; head
! cut by falling glass.
Egan, Michael, proprietor of popcorn
stand at Fifth and Sibley streets; head and
| face cut by broken glass.
Ford, +. E., shocked by live wire and
| burned.
Hanson. Joseph, Cook street: struck by
electric light pole: not seriously injured.
! Hanson, Olaf, $50 Forest street: hit on
| head by falling lamp and knocked un-
! conscious.
Hayden, Bert, 40 East Lucy street.;
! limbs and body bruised and cut.
Hayden, John, 40 East Lucy street; head
| cut and side bruised.
| Kempf Therese. actress. TivoH theater ::
arm badly cut and body bruised by falling
Kenny, Sadi actress, Tivon theater; arm
cut and head bruised
street: cut and bruised about arms and
body; condition not serious.
Lindlund, John, nose broken and wound
on head.
fractured; fatally injured.
O'Neil. Polly. actress, Tivoli theater: fell
downstairs and was injured by falling door;
hip and body bruised and cut.
Ransom. Kittie. actress, TivOli theater: fell
unconscious when crash came and was re-
moved by police; will recover.
Reynolds, Paul. hands badly cut by falling
glass.
Sanborn. Walter. GA Bedford; burned on
neck by live wire
/ Scott Annie, actress at TivOli; cut and
bruised about head and shoulders.
SchweitZer, Theodore. J44 Waconta street:
blown from his delivery wagon on the La
I fayette avenue bridge: seriously Injured.
! Smith Peter, bartender at TivOli: shoulder
dislocated and bruised about body and
| limbs.
Sister at House of Good Shepherd. name
unknown: injured internally and body badly
cut and bruised; condition critical.
Strong, Charles. machinist: caught in the
! collapse of the East st. Paul roundhouse of
/ the Omaha: badly bruised.
/ Unknown boy, rendered unconscious by
/ live wire at Rice and Como streets.
! Unknown child, House Of the Good SheD-
! herd: buried beneath debris; may die.
Younger, Mrs. Robert, caught in collapsed
! house at 612 Lafayette avenue; injured in
! ternally may be fatal.
! Weholzer. j.. 507 Wabasha; injured in
/ wreckage at Tfvoh theater; hip bruised and
/ burned by live electric wire.
Whitney, Warren piano player. Tivoli
/ theater; badly cut about body and bruised ::
rendered unconscious.
Scores of other persons IN all districts
! Of the city are reported to have sustained
! bruises and cuts by falling timbers and
! glass.
Cuts Path Half Mile Wide.
The tornado in st. Paul cut a pathway
| about a half mile in width and eight
miles in length through the business and
| residence district. The downtown bust
ness district was hit hard many of the
! big office and business blocks being rid
! died. and the stocks of wholesale houses
/ seriously damaged by the heavy rain that
! accompanied the wind.
| The storm cloud, which came from the
! southwest, first hit the ground on the
west side bluffs near the high bridge
| Two spans of this structure, which is of
| steel, and which crosses the Mississippi
/ river at a height of 200 feet were cut
! out as clearly as though done with
| knife, and thrown into the gulch below
| crushing in the roofs of a number of
| small houses situated on the fats along
the river bank.
| DemoIishes Tivoli Theater.
| The storm kept on across the river in
an obliCue direction. 1t struck the city