Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-08-24
TORNADO HITS TWIN CITIES
Sixteen Persons Die Wind Storm
in Minnesota.
SCORES OF PEOPLE HURT
Hurricane Flows Wide Furrow Through
Business and Residence Dis
tricts of Cities.
RECORD OF STORM.
DEATHS.

.
Property damage, over. s., 0OO, 900
BUILDINGS DAMAGED.
Empire theater Observation-Disclosures nroofed
Minnesota club ................... Damaged
Globe Office building ...... Damaged
Pioneer Press building All windows broken
Habighorst building .............. Unroofed
~ n; M. 4 st. T, roundhouse. - Wrecked
Arlington Heights Presbyterion church.
House Of Good Shepherd Dormtory partly
wrecked
ST. Marys Roman Catholic church. -. ;,
St. sigfrids Episcopal church =. Damaged
Davidson building ........... Damaged
Nearly all business blocks between Wa
DaSha 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
cltles-scores of persons injured and
property damaged exceeding S2OOO,OOO
are the results of the tornado which
swept over this section at 8 o'clock Sat
urday night Other parts of the state
also were 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
q 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.
lin roofs of some of the structures
were rolled in bundles as one would roll
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 were 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,
Minneapolis.
HILLIsBICK. RICHARD, operator at
HOkANSON, LORIN F., $50 BrunSop
street; killed at TivolI theater; BODY re-
moved to city morgue.
>, kWENTON. GEORGE, carpenter, 37s
Toronto avenue; killed at Tivoi theater;
BODY removed to city morgue.
0DHE u ALBERT ALB aged 80; Minneapolis.
wall of dormitory at house of the Good
Shepherd.
USKNOwN WOMAN, Minneapolis.
ROBERTSON, VIOLA, aged 10
-FOUR UNKNOWN, dead at Waconia. a
small station twenty miles west of Mil
neapolis.
AT GLENCOE.
GROSS, MRS. F. J.
GROSS, FREDERICK
O'DONNELL, MARY. aged 10.
ODONNELL, PATRICK, aged II.
Missing.
Gilbert, Edwin, 43S South Robert street;
was one Of the last persons seen in Tiyoli
theater during the storm.
The Injured.
Berlin. David, stage hand, Tivon theater;
arm seriously cut.
Dougherty, James: Omaha. brakeman;
blown from top of freight car 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, F. E., shocked by live wire and
burned.
Hanson; Joseph, Cook street; struck by
electric light pole; not seriously injured.
Hanson, Olaf. 936 Forest street; hit on
head by falling arc lamp and knocked IN
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, Tivoi theater;
arm badly cut and body bruised by falling
tmbers.
cut and head bruised.
Leclaire, George, 33s South Wabasha
street; cut and bruised about arms and
body; condition not serious.
Lindlund, John, nose broken and wound
Lungby, William, 94s Payne avenue; skull
fractured; fatally injured.
ONeil, Polly, actress, T1yoli theater; fell
downstairs and was injured by falling door;
hip and body bruised and cut.
Ransom, Kittie, actress, Tivoi theater; fell
unconscious when crash came and was re-
moved by police; will recover
Reynolds, Paul, hands badly cut by falling
glass.
Sanborn, Walter, 634 Bedford; burned on
neck by live wire.
Scott, Annie actress at Tivoli; cut and
bruised about head and shoulders.
SchweitZer, Theodore, ga Waconta street;
blown from his delivery wagon on the La
fayette avenue bridge; seriously injured
Smith, Peter, bartender at ,EivoH: 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
Unknown child, House of the Good Shep-
herd; buried beneath debris; may die.
Younger, Mrs. Robert, caught in collapsed
house at 612 Lafayette avenue; injured in
ternally: may be fatal
Weiholzer, j., 5O7 Wabasha; injured in
wreckage at Ttvoli theater; hip bruised and
burned by live electric wire.
Whitney, Warren, piano player Tivoll
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 pathway
about falf 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 a