Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-22
Terrific Storm Sweeps Thru Main
Business Portion and Residence Dis
sriets of Twin cities-Thousands of
F'late Glass Fronts Demolished -
Esoof. Lifted and Trees Blown Down.

civil CuS. lAC NSiobs
struck st. Paul.
The dead:
Lorin +. Hokanson. killed at Tivoli
theater.
Unidentified woman.
George Kwenton, carpenter killed ct
Tivoli stheater.
Eichard Il llisbick, operator at Min
ncapolis Junction. struck by light
hing.
viola Robertson. killed by falling wall
OF dormilory at House of Good Shep.
herd.
Albert OGho.
Frank Hedges
Unidentified girl.
The last three were killed at st.
LOUIS park suburb of Minneapolis.
-Four unidentified at Waconia. twsnty
miles west OF Minneapolis.
The severely IL jured:
William Ialngby, skull fractured;
may die.
Olaf Hanson. hit on head by falling
arc lamp.
Theodore schweitzer, blown from de-
livery wagon on Lafayette avenue
bridge.
James Dougherty. brakeman. blown
! from freight car, In East st. Paul
Mrs. Robert Younger. caught IN col
lapse OF house; may die.
From Fort Smelling, where the storm
first struck. with damaging effect, the
tornado came northeast, uprooted trees
and demolished buildings on its way to
4 st. Paul
BRIDGE Damaged.
It tore off two spans Of the high
bridge as completely as IL they had
been unboIted from the rest of the
structure and carted away by work
men.
4 This mass of steel was carried
eighteen feet to the flats below in West
ST, Paul where flying steel Orders ana
heavy plaHlks fell on several small
frame houses and crushed them. None
Of the occupants of these houses was
hurt, as they had taken refuge OH the
hillside. where they were safe.
The storm tore along the fats, up
roofing trees on Harriet island, with
denfening roar and amid the MISS ana
smash OF falling sheets of rain II struck
ST. Paul at the Wabasha street bridge.
AZ the bridge entrance, on opposite
.,S1es az wabasha street, We're situated
the Tiyoli concert hall and the Empire
+hnafer. both OF which were crowded
,u;fh men watching the performances.
r,oth buildings, whose sides were open,
were wrecked. The audience became
mo stricken when the buildings
swaved. Men and boys rushed over
.ach other for the exits The lights
,rart ont and the sheet lightning
Nashes. whose reports followed one an
q cther with gunfire rapidity. iilumina,-
- scene of pandemonium which was
! ,rtensified by the crash OF glass ana
.ha tearing OF timbers as the frame
strnctnres gave way before the lorna
DO. t,r,,
SECTIONS OF the roof We're blown thru
~. al, nd anded in East Third street,
! block distant.
Tivoii Theatre Hit.
rynderneath the debris of the T1Voii
we're found when the storm has passed
the mangled bodies of Lorin r. Hokan
ron. an employee of the concert hall ana
George Kwenton, spectator.
THE Storm rushed on to the north
east over the wholesale quarter, crush
tho glass and spiintering timbers.
84 The roofs on several buildings We're
ro,,ad In bundles and deposited in the
street. Flying plate glass. mixed with
rain. battered everything which stood
before II. and horses and carriages
were swept along the streets, which In
a short time were filed with water.
wires were torn down and part OF
the city was in darkness. The high
buildings reaching skyward above the
smaller ones In East Third street We're
shaken and in several skylights were
blown out
The German American bank building
ana the Pioneer Press building, ten and
twelye story structures, had scarcely
q whole pane OF glass left above the
second or third story on the sides ex-
posed to the storm. These with the
First National bank building In East
Fourth street, and several wholesale
houses farther east today had the APP
pearance of having been bombarded by
a battery of guns.
In the path of the wind stood the
long freight warehouse of the Chicago
Milwaukee & st. Paul railway and q
section of this building about four hun
dred feet long was cut out of the mid
die.
In East. Fifth, Sixth and Seventh
cept that In East Seventh more dam
age was done to Roofs and glass.
Telephone service between st. Pau
and Minneapolis was cut for three
hours, while all telegraph communica.
ton was cut off entirely, except thru
the medium of the Association Press.
Damage in Minneapolis.
In Minneapolis. hundreds of build
ings were damaged, all wire systems
were paralyzed and hundreds of trees
uprooted. For three minutes, the wine
blew ninety miles an hour and raii
fell in torrents. Two persons wer,
killed and several persons We're in
jured, but none seriously.
The center Of the storm hit the bus
mess quarter at Nicoilet avenue ant
Sixth street Here. the immense from
of the Glass block was blown out anc
. huge skylight blown off. the rain do.