The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-22
THREE ARE DEAD
AT ST. LOUIS PARK
Continued From First Rage.

partly unroofed and met a loss of
$25Y000. All Of the Malleable Iron
Works except the stack was blown
down with heavy loss. The loss to,
will be about $4,000. In stock were
LA stackers. A row of brick houses
belonging to T. B. Walker were dam
aged about $4,000. The new Odd
Fellows building was. unroofed and
the loss will be about $4,000. The
Minneapolis Land and Investment
company, was severe. The buildings
of the Monitor Drill company and
stock We're damaged $4,000. The
loss to the Interior elevators OF the
Peavey company will reach about
| $4,000. The Peoheler company's ex-
| change lost part of the roof. The
Great Western elevator was also dam
| aged several thousand dollars.
The loss at Hopkins will reach
about seventy thousand dollars. or
this amount $4,000 falls on the Min
neapolis, Threshing machine company,
whose plant was struck hard by the
wind. Finished machines in the dam
aged warehouses are seriously hurt.
The Odd Fellows building was blown
out in front and the windows We're
wrecked. Scarcely a building in town
escaped some i'll effects from the
storm.
Storm at Hopkins.
i At Hopkins, but two miles away,
the property loss was fully as great
but the storm spent nearly all it's force
i on the plant of the Minneapolis
Threshing Machine company. No one
was killed and but two persons We're
! injured. These only received slight
injuries.
i The actual damage to the plant OF
In f1rn hi r,oo o1oi on n
heavy. The steel roof of the main
building was raised up and the brick
side walls blown in. In several places
1.-THE roof was curled up and bent into
fantastic shapes.
Two sheds, each $50 feet long, were
picked up and carried across the rail
road and the pieces scattered over, the
field. The threshing separators ane
other farm implements were blown
, against each other and crushed. Ii
several places four and five of thu
, monster machines were piled up to
!. gether. Few Of them can be repaired
The damage will not Interfere Will
the company's business in any way, a
the manufacturing portion of the plan
started up as usual this morning.
} The town itself does not look s.
!, desolate as the other suburbs, and saw
J for a few overturned houses and on
E badly damaged business block, every
! thing can be repaired quickly.
! Hopkins Odd Fellows Homeless.
> The greatest damage was done t
: the /. o. O. F. hail.. a two-story brio
I building. on the main street. The roo
+ and rear wall were blown in and tn
. plate glass in the front shattered. ,
/ steel windmill that furnished waite
! for the building was bent over tn
f roof. The loss on the building wi
| be about 900.
!. The front of William FiegaPs saloo
i was stove in and the glasses and ba
( attachments hurled about the room
4 Two hay barns belonging to Geore
e NJ Burns were picked up and carrie
s over the top Of a. large grove 700 fee
e away. The boards and tinbers we1
n found late. yesterday afternoon sea
j. tered over an area of several acres.
d The two houses on the old Hopkir
r estate were slightly damaged. TT
r porches and shingles were taken 81 q
) tirely away. The upper half of tt
s. barn was also torn off. 1872
y s There were but two persons II
y jured and theyt5werer able to. after
II to their work to-day. They are, MI
g William Faltine and Mrs. Frank Safe
le Both the women were in their hous
when Nthestructures eyre overturne
Mrs. Faltine fell against the furI
ture and was painfully. bruised. II
children escaped injury by lyil
ii down on the floor.
Tugged at the Door.
ne When Mrs Safer saw that the hou
ne was sWaying, she grasped the KIN
i'll of the door in one hand and tried
u hold on to her little girl with t
ed other. Her shoulder was slight
he wrenched and her hands swollen fro
CO the tight grip.
k The trolley system between Ho
n kins, ST.. Louis Park and Minneap
lis will be out Of service for sever
on DAYS Nearly all of the poles a
he down and the cars were badly dal
he aged by the wind. ..
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