The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-08-22
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sE1FTEEN PEOPLE kiLLED-LoSs
Z OF PROPERTY PLACED HIGH
in THE MILLIONS-LlST
OF#THE8 DEAD.

of the State Saturday night.
The aggregate property loss is con
serEatvely placed at two millions and
ahalf dollars. OF this amount St. Paul
suffered to the extent of about a mil
lion Minneapolis damage is estimat-
ed ar million dollars, while in the
outside districts it is feared that five
hundred thousand dollars will not
cover the damage done to crops and
Farm property.
The Dead.
IorIr r: H Hoakanson, Killed at Tivoli
Theater.
George Knewton, carpenter, killed at
TiYoli Theater.
= CTKnown Child, Killed by falling wall
Of dormitory at House of the Good
Shepherd.
Richard HiIIsbeck, operator at Mime
apo1is Junction, killed by lightning.
Jnknown woman.
Albert Odhe, killed at ST. Louis Park,
a suburb of Minneapolis.
Sn-year-oId-son of Frank Hedges, kill
ed at st. Louis Park.
-Four unknown dead at Waconia,
small station twenty miles west of
minneapolis.
Fatally Injured.
William Lungby, skull fractured.
Mrs Robert Younger, caught in col
Iapsed house; injured internally.
Sister at the House of the Good Shep-
herd, name unknown; injured inter-
nany ana body badly cut and
bruised.
unknown child. House of the Good
Shepherd. buried. beneath debris. -
When 1t Started. NJ
There were many others less seri-
Dus1y hurt. Beginning at a point be-
low Fort Smelling, there is the first
known evidence that the storm struck
with damaging effect. 1t came from
the southwest, and bowling in it's fury
uprooted trees and demolished build
SIngs in its pathway toward St. Paul. 1t
tore off two spans of the high bridge
as completely as if they had been un-
4boIted from the rest of the structure,
and carted away by workmen.
There the bridge connected with the
high bluffs at West st. Paul, and it is
s1So feet above the river. This mass of
steel was carried to the flats below,
where flying steel girders and heavy
pIankS fell on several small frame
houses=o the fiat dwellers and crushed
them completely
None OF the occupants of these
houses was hurt, they having seen the
storm coming, took refuge in the caves
in the hillside, where they were safe.
The storm tore along the flats, uproot-
ing trees on Harriet Island and then
struck this city at the Wabash street
bridge.
Under the Ruins.
Underneath the debris of the Tivoli
were found when the storm had passed
the mangEed bodies of Lorin F. Holl-
anson, one of the employees in the con-
cert hall, and George Kwenton. one
OF the audience.
S The storm then rushed on to the |
northeast, over the wholesale district, |
and here the greatest destruction to |
property was wrought After causing |
havoc in st. Paul, the tornado swept |
onward to Minneapolis and it's SUI |
Sburbs Here, however, the destruc- |
ton of property was not SO great, al
though telephone and telegraph wires
We're torn down in great numbers. For
hours the Twin Cities were cut off
side world.
OF the ten fatalities three of the vic
tins met death in st. Paul, four al |
sWaconia, small station near Mime
apoIis, and three at ST. Louis Park.
Latest Report.
St PAUL, Mimi, Aug. 22.-While
sixteen fatalities have been reported,
nobody believes that the death roll is
complete. So great a section was
marked by the awful track of the tor
nado and SO much damage was done
that with the confusion and interrupt
ed wire service it has been impossible
to get complete reports of the loss of
life.
3 The total runs into the hundreds.
and in the face of the great calamity
many whose names would ordinarily
ngure in a casualty list will never be
known.
report has reached here that Brai.
alard, MINI. was practically destroyed
by the storm. With all the wires down