The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-24
HUTCHINSON
SENDS RELIEF
MERCHANTS AND PROFESSIONAL
MEN HELP SUFFERERS.
Work i'm the Fields and Erect Tenn
porarv Shelter for Those Who Are
Homeless-Fierce Fury OF the Ior-
nado in Mcleod County Seen LOT
Many NIiles-Buildings on 1oo
Farms Destroyed.

Special to The Journal
Hutchinson. Mimi, Aug. 24-Hutchin-
son citizens held mass meetins LII.
morning and are furnishing hunoreos VI
men to help the stricken farmers save
their devastated crops. Ministers, law
rars doctors and merchants are pitching
grain and hay. repairing fences ana help-
Inc 70 erect temporary shelter for man
and beast. 49,
in Mcleod county The storm moved
swath from a mile to two miles "loe
entirely across the county. Grain was
blown from some farms so that absolutely
nothing remains.
| After passing across Brooktield the
storm raised and passed over Boon Lake
without damage. 1t struck again IN the
west part of Lynn town and left nothing
in It's path for twenty-four miles across
the county.
| Blown over a Grove into Lake.
| At Barber Lake three horses on their
stable floor were blown over the top OF
an oak grove and found the next morn
ing in the lake on the barn floor ana
tied to their managers unframed. Mrs.
John Kruger and two children lay out
in willow thicket and are SAFE
| Three horses were blown mile from
Hans Knudson's. Two are alive ana one
had it's throat cut.
A boy at Gus Nemitz's was blown into
| a cornfeld and every stitch OF clothing
taken from him. He was not hurt. A
pump was pulled out of a we'll here. Mrs.
Nemitz's mother was badly hurt, ana II
Is feared she will die.
| At Henry Peters six persons were saved
III q cellar, which now contains dead
horse and loads Of broken timber and
rocks.
Rudolph Nemitz and wife were in a
barn when the storm struck. They were
blown into field and BADLY hurt. The
woman cannot live.
The German church near Biscay was
blown away. Radence brothers lost five
horses under the wreck Of their barn.
John Kennedy at Biscay had five horses
killed. The roof of the mill at Biscay
is gone.
Grain stacks and hay were badly dam
aged over a strip six miles wide
Half a Million Lost.
The loss to grain, buildings and farm
machinery in Mcleod county exceeds half
a million dollars.
People who went to cellars were al
most invariably safe. There were, how
ever, many miraculous escapes.
Live stock was scattered far and wide
Some was found three miles from home.
Every farm struck by the funnel shaped
cloud was totally wrecked, and almost
as great damage was done for half g
mile each side Of the center
George Geister had one Of the finest
sets Of buildings In the town Of Lynn
He completed a fine new residence last
fall While this was not blown entirely
away, 1t looks as If it had been used as
a target for cannon practice. The flying
timbers from the barns struck it, punch
ing 1t full Of holes. which look for all
the world as If they might have been
made by cannon balls. One side Of the
Kitchen was torn away and the room
literally packed with bundles Of grain, hay
and broken boards and timber. Every
window was blown in and part Of the roof
torn off. Mr.. Geister's barns were de-
stroyed, but his live stock escaped in
jury.