The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-08-26
SIXTEEN PERSONS
KILLED IN TORNADO
And Nearly Fifty Injured in St.
Paul in Disastrous Wind
Storm.
THE LOSS is $4,000 900
the Twin Cities Left a Mass of Debris
by the Furious Elements Which
Swept Valley of Missis-
sippi.

ST. Paul, Mimi, Aug. 23.-Death to
sixteen persons and destruction to prop
erty, both private and public, estimated
at $4,000, 900, resulted from a s%creeching
gale which4torel down the valley of the
Mississippi from a point somewhere
near the confluence of the Minnesota
II Mississippi rivers, near Fort Shell
ing. At 20 that point the fury of
the elements. seemingly divided and.
with a roar, descended upon the Twin
cities and their environs.
The dead: ~ r
LORIN f. ROBINSON. $50 Brunson
street, killed at Tivoli theater. body re-
moved to city morgue. q
GEORGE INVENTION, carpenter, 373
Toronto IL killed at Tivoli thea
ter, body removed to city morgue.
VIOLA ROBERTSON, aged -. killed
by falling walt OF dormitory at House
of the Good Shepherd.
ALBERT oDHE. aged 80 gears, g.
HEDGES, an UNKNOWN GIRL, aged
10 years, all at st. Louis park, a suburb
of Minneapolis.
RICHARD H1LLISBICK. operator at
Minneapolis junction., killed by light
ming.
UNKNOWN WOMAN.
FOUR UNKNOWN DEAD at Wa
coma, a small station twenty miles
vest of Minneapolis.
MARY O'DONNELL, aged 10, Glen
| coe, Mimi.
SON OF PATRICK oDoNNELL,
aged II. Glencoe, MINI.
FREDERICK GROSS, Glencoe. MINI.
MRS. GROSS, mother of Frederick
Gross, Glencoe. MINI.
The missing:
Edwin Gillert. 4sS South Robert
street, was II of the last persons seen
in h Tivoli theater during the calam-
ity.
The injured:
William Lungby, 500 Payne avenue,
skull fractured. fatally injured.
Olaf Hanson. 936 Forest street, hit on
head by falling arc lamp and knocked
unconscious.
Theodore Schweitzer, Ss44 wacouta
street, blown from his delivery wagon
on the Lafayette avenue bridge; Sc
riously injured.
James Dougherty, Omaha brakeman,
blown from top of freight car in East
st. Paul yards; severely bruised.
Mrs. Robert Younger, caught in coll
lapsed house at 6l2 Lafayette avenue;
injured internally. may be fatal.
Charles Strong, machinist caught in
the collapse of the East st. Paul round
house OF the Omaha road; badly
bruised and taken to his home.
George LIE Claire, S3S South Wabasha
street, cut and bruised about arms and
body; not serious.
Theresa kempf. actress. Tivoli the
ter. badly cut on arm, and body bruised
by falling timbers.
Sadie Kenny, actress, Tivoli theater,
arms cut and head bruised.
David Berlin, stage hand, Tivoli the
alter, arms severely cut.
Sister at the House of Good Shep-
herd. name unknown, injured internally
and badly cut and bruised; condition
critical.
Unknown child. House of the Good
Shepherd, buried beneath debris; may
die.
Polly o'Neil, actress, Tivoli theater,
fell downstairs and was injured by fall
ing door. hip and body bruised and
cut.
Warren Whitney. piano player, Tivoli
theater, badly cut about the body and
bruised; rendered unconscious.
j. Weinholaer, 507 Wabasha street. in
jured in wreckage at Tivoli theater,
hip bruised and burned by live electric
wire.
Kittie Ransom, actress, Tivoli the
alter. fell unconscious when crash came
and was removed by the police; will
recover.
L. d / SIIOChSu 10y I'VE wire d1O
burned.
John Hammond, Fort Smelling. in
tured about head and body at Tivoli
theater.
Peter Smith, bartender at Tivoli,
shoulder dislocated bruised about
body and limbs.
John Lindlund, nose broken and
wound on head.
Paul Reynolds, hands badly cut by
falling glass.
Michael Egan, proprietor popcorn
stand at Fifth n Sibley streets. head
and face cut by broken glass.
John Hayden, 410 East Lucy street,
head cut and side bruised.
Bert Hayden, 40 East Lucy street,
limbs and body bruised and cut.
Annie Scott, actress at Tivoli, cut
and bruised about head and shoulders.
by live wire at Rice and Como streets.
John Dugan, telegraph operator,
head cut by falling glass.
Walter Sanborn, ga Bedford, burned
on neck by live wire.
Joseph Hanson, Cook street. struck
by electric light pole; not serious.
Property Loss a Million.
mense. conservative estimates placing
1t between $500, geo and $1,000 900. The
downtown business district was hit
hard, many of the large offices and
business blocks being completely rid
died, and the stocks Of wholesale hous-
es seriously damaged by the floods OF
rain that accompanied the wind.
The storm cloud, which came from
the southwest, first hit the ground or
the west side bluffs near the high
bridge. Two spans of this structure,
which is Of steel and crosses the Mis-
sissippi river at a height Of 200 feet
were cut out as Clearly as though done
with a knife. and thrown into the
gulch below, crushing in the roofs OF
q number Of small houses situated on
the flats along the river bank. The
storm kept OF across the river In an
oblique direction, leveling the numer-
Gus shade trees on Harriet island
where the ST. Paul public baths are
situated, but doing little or no damage
to the buildings there. It struck the
city proper near the Wabasha street
bridge, completely demolishing the
Tivoli theater, a frame structure on
the sandstone blum at the edge Of the
river. There was a vaudeville per
Torrance on at the theater, which was
fairly well filled. Two men were killed
by the fall Of the roof, and about 8
dozen women performers and others
were buried in the ruins. Many OF
them were severely hurt before they
were extricated by the police depart
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