Mower County transcript., 1904-08-24
PROPERTY DAMAGE IN STRICKEN
DISTRICT is ESTIMATED At
FULLY TWO MILLIONS.
PRIVATE CITIZENS THE HEAVIEST
LOSERS, MANY HOMES BE-
ING PARTLY RUINED. -:

stricken people. 49,.
In st. Paul the dead number three;
the injured forty-five. OF those WHO
are hurt it is reported by physicians
that all will recover. Following is a
list of the dead in St. Paul:
Lorin F.. Hokason, 586 Brunson
street; killed at Tivoli theater.
George Kweton, 378 Toronto ave-
nue.; killed at Tivoli theater.
Viola Robinson. fourteen years old,
orphan, killed at the House of the
Good Shepherd.
At Waconia, q. town of 400 inhabi-
tants, about forty miles southwest of
st. Paul, the fury of the storm was
not appeased until the death of four
persons and the injury OF twenty 9th
ers had been recorded.
St. Louis Park, a suburb of Mime
apolis, was plunged in the depths OF
deepest sorrow. Out of a population
of few hundred three are dead and
over score injured.
Property Loss Falls Upon Masses.
The loss is an even greater calam-
ity than would appear upon the face
of the statement, inasmuch as it is al
most total. Not the big insurance
corporations nor~the firms which con-
troll millions are: the greatest losers,
but instead they are the private -citi-
zens, the heads of families struggling
for. existence, the farmer, whose live
lihood from year to year depends upon
his crops-the masses.
The storm in st. Paul seemed to
center at Bridge square, where 1t
struck the frail structure OF the Tivoli
music hall and crushed it like an egg
shell, burying it's 200 terrified patrons
in the debris. 1t was here that the
greatest loss of life in St. Paul &C.
CURED, and here the majority of Sc
rious injuries were recorded, for from
the mass of debris mangled forms
were borne by the score.
In the country adjacent to st. Paul
there are direful reports of the dis
aster. Crops ruined, homes destroyed
and the occupants left homeless are
the tales that are repeated over and
over again. The loss to farmers, while
as yet impossible to accurately esti-
mate, will reach many thousands of
dollars, and probably in no case are
the losses covered by insurance.
At Saltwater the damage inflicted
by the hurricane totals 100000. Lum-
bermen were among the heaviest
losers. No injuries of serious conse-
quence, however, are reported in Still
water, though property in the city suf-
fered greatly.
In Minneapolis and Vicinity.
Minneapolis, Aug. 22.-The storm
which visited Minneapolis caused dam.
age to the amount OF several hundred
thousand dollars and cost a number of
lives.
The only person killed in Minneapo-
lis was Richard Hilgedick.
Three persons were killed and over
twenty injured by the storm which
swept over the St. Louis Park district.
Property valued at 100000 was de-
stroyed. The heaviest loser is T. B.
Walker, the Minneapolis capitalist,
who owns most of the twenty houses
which were overturned and some of
the manufacturing buildings.
The dead are Albert Ohde, aged thir-
ty-two: Anna ,Haydo, aged six, and
six-year-old son of Frank Hedger.
When day broke in Minneapolis Sun
day morning there was sorry sight.
In the business district there were
shattered store fronts, plate glass
gave way to tarpaulin, telephone and
telegraph wires trailed in the street,
policemen were on guard at all places
of business, bricks from shattered
chimneys covered the pavement and
stocks of valuable goods were scat
tered about the street or else massed
in piles in the stores whose shelves
they had once adorned, saturated with
water and almost valueless.
In the residence district trees which
lined the street were lying PROSTATE.
Iocomotion in street or on walk was
impossible, and dangling telephone
and electric light wires made progress
difficult and dangerous.
Four People Killed at Waconia.
Waconia, Minn., Aug. 22.-The cy-
clone which struck this village Sat.
uruay appealeu 70 vent It's lu44 lorce
on one family, three of whom were in.
stantly killed and one so badly wound
ed that there is no hope for his re.
c0very. While hundreds had escapes
of the most miraculous charcter, the
family of Gustaf Moye suffered the full
fury of the wind, and father, mother
and one son were instantly killed by
the crash of their little home. 4
OF the 100 houses, residences and
stores, seventy are more or less de-
molished, and the country for strip
one-half mile in width extending four
miles along the Minneapolis and st.
Louis tracks east and west, there is
scarcely a building standing. -Four
dead, nine seriously injured and q
property loss OF $3.50, 900 is the story
In brief Of the worst storm in the his.
tory Of the community.
Gustat Moye, aged forty-two; Mrs.
0ustaf Moye, aged forty; Freddie
Moye, aged four. and Hubert Loahmer,
aged seventy-nine, were killed, and
Fred Picha, eleven years old, was "a
seriously injured he will die.