The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-22

st. Paul, Mimi, Aug. 22.-Death to
IL persons and destruction to property,
both private and public, estimated in
round numbers at $1,000, 900, rode on a
| screeching gale, which tore down the
valley of the Mississippi about o'clock
Saturday night from a point near the
confluence of the Minnesota and Mis-
sissippi rivers near Fort Smelling. At
about that point the fury of the ele-
ments seemingly divided and. with a
roar, descended on the twin cities ana
their environs.
The Dead:
LORIN F. HOKANSON, 5S6 Brunson
street: killed at TivoH theater.
GEORGE KWENTON, carpenter, 379
Toronto avenue; killed at Tivoli thea
ter.
UNKNOWN CHILD, killed by falling
walls of dormitory at House of the
Good Shepherd.
ALBERT ODHE, aged 80 years.
SiX-YEAR-OLD SON of Frank
UNKNOWN GIRL, aged 10 years.
FOUR UNKNOWN DEAD at Wa
coma, a small station 20 miles west OF
RICHARD HILLISBICK, operator at
Minneapolis Junction; killed by light
ming.
UNKNOWN WOMAN.
The N1issing:
EDWIN GILLERT, 43S South Robert
street; was one of the last persons seen
in the Tivoli theater during the calam-
ity.
The Injured:
William Lungby, e4S Payne avenues
skull fractured; fatally injured.
Olaf Hanson, 936 Forest street; hit on
head by falling arc lamp and knocked
unconscious.
Theodore Schweltzer, 544 wacouta
street; blown from his delivery wagon
H. Err
ously injured
James Dougherty, Omaha, brakeman;
blown from top of freight car in East
st. Paul yards: severely bruised.
Mrs. Robert Younger; caught in coll
lapsed house at 612 Lafayette avenue;
injured internally; may be fatal.
Charles Strong, machinist; caught in
the collapse of the East st. Paul round
house of the Omaha; badly bruised and
taken to his home.
George LeClaire, 1888 South Wabasha
street; cut and bruised about arms and
body; not serious.
Theresa Kampf, actress, Tivoli thea
ter; badly cut on arm and body bruis-
ed by falling timbers.
Sadie Kenny, actress, Tivoli theater;
arms cut and head bruised.
David Berlin, stage hand, Tivoli
theater; arm seriously cut.
Sister at House of Good Shepherd.
name unknown; injured internally and
body badly cut and bruised; condition
critical.
Unknown child. House of the Good
Shepherd; buried beneath debris; may
die.
Polly O'Neil, actress. Tivoli theater;
fell down stairs and was injured by
falling door; hip and body bruised and
cut.
Warren Whitney, piano player.
TivoIi theater; badly cut about body
and bruised; rendered unconscious
J. Weinholzer, 507 Wabasha; in
jured in wreckage at Tfvoli theater;
htTr- I,xrI HIo
trio wire.
Kittie Ransom, actress Tivolf thea
ter; fell unconscious when crash came
and was removed by the police; will
F. E. Fork; shocked by live wire
and burned.
John Hammond, Fort Smelling: in
iured about head and body at Tivoli
theater.
Peter Smith, bartender at Tivoli;
shoulder dislocated and bruised about
body and limbs.
John Lindlund; nose broken and
Paul Reynolds; hands badly cut by
falling glass.
Michael Egan, proprietor of pop
corn stand at Fifth and Sibley streets;
head and face cut by broken glass.
John Hayden, 41O East Lucy street;
head cut and side bruised
Bert Hayden, 410 Lucy street; limbs
md body bruised and cut.
Ind bruised about head and shoulders.
Unknown boy rendered unconscious
1y live wire at Rice and Como streets.
John Dugan, telegraph operator;
lead cut by falling glass.
Scores of other persons are reported
% have sustained bruises and cuts by
alling timbers and glass.
Walter Sanborn. 634 Bedford; burn
ID on neck by live wire.
Joseph Hanson, Cook street; struck
,y electric light pole; not serious.
Came From Southwest.
The storm cloud, which came from
he southwest, first hit the ground on
he west side bluffs near the high
bridge. Two spans of this structure,
which is of steel and which crosses the
Mississippi river at q height of 200
eet, were cut out cleanly as
houghT done with a knife. and thrown
nto the gu1ch below, crushing in the
oofs of a number of small houses
ituated on the fats along the river
'ank. The storm kept on across the
iver in an oblique direction, leveling
he numerous shade trees on Harriet
sland, where the st. Paul public baths
re situated but doing little or no
truck the city proper near the Wa
asha street bridge, completely de-
nolishing the Tivoli theater. a frame
tructure on the sandstone bluff at
he edge of the river. There was a
audeville performance at the theater,
which was fairly well filled. Two men
we're killed by the fall of the roof and
bout a dozen persons, women per
ormers and others, were buried in the
uins. Many of them were severely
urt before they were extricated by
he fire department, which rushed to
he rescue as soon as the storm had
bated.