Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-23

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Sioux Falls. S. D., Aug. %. - A tor.
nado has visited Bryant and the vicin.
ity and many of the buildings were
wrecked. A Mrs. Killing was killed,
her daughter was mortally injured and
number of others were seriously
hurt. The loss on property is heavy
Ono Killed at Willow Lakes.
Clarks, 8. D., Aug. ga tornado
struck Willow Lakes and destroyed al
most the entire town and also several
buildings in the vicinity. A farmer
named Erickson was killed and six
or seven persons in Willow Lakes
were injured, none fatally.
Hits Twin Cities.
st. Paul, Mimi, Aug. 22.-Sixteen
persons killed and probably 400 in.
1ured; property loss upward Of $2,.
100000; two of the loveliest munich
palities in the world bedraggled and
shattered and vast tracts of farming
lands with grain ripe for the harvest
and barns ready for the crops decimat,
ed and ruined-this is the record OF
Saturday nights tornado here.
The storm lasted fifteen minutes
In the Twin Cities and reports from
outlying districts say that it tarried
no longer there. The winds highest
velocity as officially bulletined last
night by the United States weather
bureau was ninety miles an hour
When the thermometer which guages
gales speed scheduled this mark II
went to pieces and it Is believed by
experts who are qualified to Judge
that for a few moments the air de
mon must have sped on his way at the
tremendous gait Of $50 miles In sixty
minutes.
Freakish In Its Course.
1t was freakish, screeching, mad
dening storm. 1t hit here and there
with inexplicable uncertainty. 1t RI
cochetted over and among St Paul's
high buildings and tore through Min
neapolis with alternate hits and
misses. 1t careened on It's way in
the rural communities, overturning
barns and destroying whole fields of
grain, but now and then lifting up
over the tops Of the tallest trees and
doing no harm at all. Within the
time 1t takes to tell it moved down
everything in its course, killing hu.
man beings and dealing death to stock
st. Paul's business and residence
district suffered severely. A path one.
half mile wide and eight miles long
shows the tornado's devastation.
Three persons were killed here, and
later reports may add to the list. In
Minneapolis smaller area was shat.
tered. Two persons in the near su.
burbs are said to have lost their lives.
At Waconia twenty miles west of
Minneapolis on the Minneapolis and
St. Louis railroad. four lives were sac.
rificed, and three fatalities occurred
at st. Louis park, another suburb OF
Minneapolis, where the station also was
demolished and saloon razed to the
ground.
Storm In Chicago.
Chicago, Aug. %. In the storm
which broke over Chicago yesterday
afternoon. bringing the heaviest rain
fall of the year, widespread damage
and inconvenience were caused. AS
result of the lightning, which was
vivid and almost incessant for an houl
a number of fires occurred, havoc was
played with trees. gardens were wash
ed out. easements were flooded and
many lines of the car service paralyz
ed for time.
In the short space of forty-five min
utes the storm covered Chicago with
1.22 inches of water. The atmospher
ic disturbances which caused the re
cent tornado at ST. Louis are said by
weather bureau officials to be distant
cause Of the local tempest, though moi
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