The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-22
FATHER, MOTHER
AND BABY DEAD
Gustaf Moy Family sorely smit-
ten Only Survivor May
Die.
FREAKISH TORNADO
RAZEs MANY HOMES
Terrorized Village Folk Unable
to Explain How They
Escaped.

4eHpeSCuOuS W1nd ana rain MIN
gled in a twisting, tearing and uproots
ing onslaught which nearly wiped
Waconta from the earth Saturday
night. The tremendous forces which
worked disaster in Minneapolis and st.
Paul seemed to center over the little
fourteen miles beyond Excelsior on
the st. Louis road. Yet the people Of
Waconia, waking gradually from their
daze, are thankful.
Nearly every one of the houses
which, nesting together on the shores
esque towns, shows evidence Of the
winds fury. The flashing Of the tail
Of the funnel cloud and the daying Of
the torrents of rain and hail, killed
four persons, destroyed the town hall,
and whipped the crops into shreds.
| Lying in the cutters in the peltins
rain, clinging to the green sward,
clutching the tinbers Of the Coney
island boat, or blindly cropping their
bers, the terrified people, one and all.
prayed for life to be spared.
Death visited two families. From
one was removed the father, mother
and baby boy; from another the aged
| father.
Family Killed Outright.
Gustaf Moy his wife and child,
injured are Freddie Mey who was
i brought last night to st. Barnabas
hospital, and Mr.. and Mrs. Winser.
The funeraI4of the Moy family will be
held Tuesday. Today their bodies lie
in the little brick schoolhouse.
Baby Terribly Crushed.
AS the twister left the village u
| whirled a neighbours barn thru the
kitchen Of the four-room house where
| the Moy family were sitting.
The investigation Of the Carver
Norwood, showed that Gustaf Moy
had a surely fatal injury to the back
of his head from flying debris and his
ribs were crushed. Mary Moy, his
wife, was struck by scantling, by
8 inches and IL feet long, across the
skull. Freddie Moy. the baby, was
found to have had an injury in tho
occipital region. Cruel cuts were deale
his head and one little leg was
crushed.
| Other Aroy Boy May Die.
One member Of the Moy family re-
mains. A boy IL years old, who was,
Immediately assumed as charge by
the town Of Waconia. Unconscious
from a blow at the base Of the brain,
producing a probable clot, he was
placed on q cot last night and taken
the long drive to the station. Here he
was removed to the baggage car OF
the night train and removed to st.
Barnabas hospital as patient Of DR..
w. b. Rockford. AS yet the boy does
not know he has suddenly been made
alone in the world.
Killed by Shock.
! Hubert Lohmar, the fourth to die,
was an aged farmer, living over two
miles from town. His house was de.
stroyed, and examination, failing to
develop signs of injury, it is supposed
he died from the shock Of the storms
impact. He was the father Of John
Lohmar, 1914 Dupont avenue N.
Man Blown Seven Blocks.
Almost miraculous seem the escapes
Of many. Twenty-Five young people
stood in the little railroad station for
protection from the storm. When one
wall was blown down, all walked out
uninjured.
A boatload bound for Coney Island
was thrown ashore by lofty waves two
minutes before the storm broke.
A young man was blown seven
blocks and escaped uninjured. House
after house was blown down.
A hardware store was wrecked, but
the seven inmates Of the second story
manner of the Alpine climbers. pulled
one another from the falling ruins.
Notable deeds Of bravery arising
from the circumstances Of the storm
will go down in history Of Waconia
also. Doctors braved the elements to
attend the injured. Men and women
; dared many things to rescue their be-
loved, all amid the roar, the creaking,
tearing Calling gunlike sound Of the
twisting storm cloud.
Crowds Marrow Escape.
!, The two clouds which apparently
collided and together did the dam
age at Waconia, appeared about half
past seven, Saturday. The night train
/ from Minneapolis had just arrived.
One busload had started for the boat
landing and about twenty-five of the
passengers and townspeople waited
for the second load. For five min
utes a peculiar rumbling sound was
heard, and finally everybody on the
, platform crowded into the station for
protection against the imminent
breaking Of the storm.
AS the height of the whirl struck
, the Undertook Of the building, the wall
toward the rails bulged out and the
,, people inside rushed over across the
. tracks and hid in the ditch. Almost
!. at the instant the station fell with q
! crash.
Many Minneapolis and St Paul peo,
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