The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-21
At Least Five Are Dead and Scores Are Injured in
 Awful Storm
.BIG STEEL BRIDGE ACROSS
 MISSISSIPPI DEMOLISHED
Minneapolis Also su.fers Heavily From the Gale-TivoIo Theatre Is De- mollshed and Several Act
 resses Are Injured.

st. Paul. August 1.--Five are reporteu to he dead. two score injured and prop ertv loss estimated to reach $2OoO,OOo are the results of a fierce tornado whien swept down on the city shortly after o'clock D. m.
 The Tiyolo theater was demolished, the Empire theatre razed, the high bridge an immense steel structure crossing the Mississippi river at height of 200 feet was almost totally destroyed and 2OO buildings are more or less damaged
 A report at midnight Is that the House of Good Shepherd, Catholic institution was wrecked and twenty-five injured. All communication with outlying dis tricts is cut off and 1t is impossible to say whether or not the damage there has been as great as that done In the city.
 The property damage at Minneapolis is said to have been nearly as great as at St. Paul The storm was of short dura- ton lasting not more than fifteen min utes. The devastation it wrough was terrific.
 Blew Thirty Miles an Hour.
 The wind according to the government observer blew thirty miles an hour coming from the southwest. Building were un- roofed and fronts blown in, the inter- iors being flooded by he rain which came in great waves along with the wind Electric wires were prostrated and many persons injured by contact with the cur rent from electric light and trolley wires. An excursion steamer towing a barge on the river below St. Paul is reported to have been wrecded. Relief parties in steam launches have been dispatched to the rescue. It Is said that many lives were lost there.
 Vim. Donaldson & Co.,. big department store in Minneapolis was badly damaged by the storm. The loss is said to be $3OO'- 0O0 Later reports from Minneapolis are to the effect that no one was killed but many were injured. : Practically every building on the north side of East street is wrecked, Tho streets was unroofed and the economy | department store was damaged to the ex- tent of $2o,00o.
 The Dead.
 The dead so far indentified are: George Jewton, killed in the Tivolo the atre
 Lawrence Hutchinson. killed in Tiyolo theatre.
 The Injured. George Le Clair. cut and bruised about arms and body. | Thereson Rents, actress Tivolo theatre badly cut and bruised.
 Sadie Kenny. actress Tivolo theatre hands cut and head bruised
 Pony O'Neill, actress Tivolo theatre, mp and body badly bruised. | John Johnson, piano player. Tlvolo the atre, badly cut and bruised; condition serl- l ous.
 Kittie Larson. actress Tivolo theatre | John Hammond, injured about head and | body, not serious. | William H. Arno, injured about body and internally. William Linsby. skull fractured. He was injured by part of the roof striking | him on the head. Ola Swanson, hit on head by falling plank, injuries may be fatal
 Theo Switcher, blown from his delivery wagon and smashed against iron railing of bridge, seriously injured.
 James Dougherty Omaha, brakeman; blown from the top of freight car, se- l verely injured. l Mrs. Robert Roringer, caught in col- lapsed house at 612 La Fayette avenue, injured internally; may die
 John Dugan, newspaper man, 0adly cut about the head.
 Many Buildings Damaged.
 The St. Anthony Elevatony in Mime apolis was blown to the ground. the wreckage blocking the Great Northern tracks. One person is reported killed in the Hclse. of Good Shepherd
 A 3I0k Rirl was Lfifed and some ten