Arizona republican., 1904-08-22
. WOEFUL NIGHT
Details of the Storm at
 Minneapolis and St. Paul
TWELVE PEOPLE KILLED
A Large Area in the Track of the Storm Is Yet to Be Heard From. Tall Buildings Rocked in the Fury of the Wind.

St Paul, Minn.. Aug. 21.-Death to twelve persons and destruction to prop erty, both private and public, estimat- ed at $1,OOO,OOO, rode on a screeching gale which tore down the valley of the Mississippi about g o'clock last night from a point near the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers, near Ft Smelling. At about that point the fury of the elements seemingly divided and with a roar descended on the Twin Cities and their environs. The dead are.
 LORIN F. HOKANSON, killed at Tivoli theatre.
 GEO. K. WENTON, carpenter, kill ed at Tivoli theater.
 Unknown child, killed by falling walls at house of Good Shepherd.
 ALBERT ODE, aged 31, killed at St. Louis park.
 Six year old son of Frank Hedges, killed at St. Louis park. Unknown girl, aged about 10 years. Four unknown dead at Waconia, a small station twenty miles west of l Minneapolis.
 | RICHARD HILL, operator at Min neapolis Junction, killed by lightning.
 Unknown woman.
 JOHN DUGAN, telegraph operator.
 The list of missing and injured num- bers 90.
 | Beginning at a point below Fort Smelling there is the first evidence that 1 the storm struck with damaging effect. | It came from the southwest and, howl ing in it's fury, uprooted trees and de- molished buildings in its pathway to- ward St. Paul. It tore of two spans of High bridge completely, where the | bridge connected with the high bluffs at West St. Paul and is 1S0 feet above the river This mass Of steel was car ried 10 the flats below where the steel girders and heavy blanks fell on sev- eral small farm houses and crushed them. None of the occupants Of these houses were hurt. they having seen the storm coming had taken refuge in the caves in the hill side.
 The storm tore along the flats. up roofing trees on Harriet island. and with a deafening roar and hiss and splash of falling steel 1t struck this city. Here were located at the bridge entrance on opposite sides of Wabash street the Tivoli concert hall and the | fairly crowded with men watching the performances. Both buildings stood or the edge of the bluff overlooking, the river with the sides of the building: open, and were wrecked. The ful force of the tornado struck them Tht building began to sway and rock anC the audience became panic stricken Men and boys rushed over each othel for axftc mt Shpatl of lightning flashes, one following an other with gun-fire rapidity. illuminat ed the scene of pandemonium, whicl was intensified by the crash of glas and the tearing of timbers as fram , structures gave away before the tor } nado. Sections of the roof were blowl through the air and landed in Eas Third street, a block distant. Under I heath the Tivoli were found the man gled bodies of Lorin F. Hokason, on of the employees in the concert hal and Geo. K. Wenton, one of the au dience.
 On the storm rushed to the north east over the wholesale district, am every building facing south from Wa bash four blocks east on Third stree had scarcely a whole pane of glass il any window, while many on the op posite side were broken also. Tn roofs on several buildings were rolle into bundles and dropped into tn street, flying plate glass mixed wit rain battered everything which stpo before it, and horses and carriage were swept along the streets which, i an incredibly short space of time, wer filled with water.
 Wires were torn down and par of the city was in darkness. Hig buildings reaching skyward above tn , smaller ones on East Third street wer shaken to their foundations. Fin large plate glass windows, and in sev eral instances, skylights were blow - out.
 In the path of the wind was tn \ large freight house of the Omaha rail road. A small section of the enc about fifty feet, was left standing a
 the east side but the rest was blow away.
 The telephone service between tn
 Twin Cities was cut for three hour!
 while the telegraph was cut off CT
 tirely, except through the medium (
 the Associated Press.