Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-08-29
AND s2,ooo,o 900 DAMAGE TO PROP.
ERTY WROUGHT.
HAVOC IN TWIN CITIES
Business District Hit and Two Spans
of Great Bridge over the Miss
issippi River Gone-Wind Blows at
Awful Rate of 80 Miles an
Hour.
Record of Storm.
Deaths.

.
Property damage, over -. 100000
Buildings Damaged.
TivoH theater r..... Demolished
Empire theater ..... Unroofed
Minnesota club ............ Damaged
Globe office building ...... Damaged
Pioneer Press bldg. Windows broken
Habighorst building .,...... Unroofed
Washington school. ...... Damaged
c.. M. & st. p. roundhouse. Wrecked
Fire station -. .......... UnroOIed
Arlington Heights Presbyterian
church ..,...... =. Unroofed
House of Good Shepherd Dormitory
.... .. .... partly wrecked
st. Mary's Roman Catholic
church ...... 80. -. Damaged
St. Sigfrid's Episcopal ch.. Damaged
Davidson building ....i.... Damaged
Nearly all business blocks between
Wabasha and Sibley streets damaged.
Two spans of Mississippi river
bridge gone.
st. Paul, Mimi, Aug. 22.-Sixteen
lives lost-twelve of them in or near
the twin cities-scOres of persons in
jured and property damaged exceed
ing S2,000,OO0 are the results of the
tornado which swept over this section
at o'clock last night. other parts
of the state also were devastated, the
loss of crops and buildings being ex-
tensive.
In st. Paul and Minneapolis the
greatest damage resulted in the bust
ness districts. From Wabash street
for blocks east on Third street in st.
Paul scarcely a building contains a
whole pane of glass. AS the tornado
struck some of the skyscrapers and
the crash of glass was heard, many of
the tenants were panic stricken.
The Dead.
Hedges. 6 year old son of Frank
Hedges, Minneapolis.
Hillsbick, Richard, operator at Min
neapolis Junction; killed by light
ming.
Hokanson, Lorn F., $50 Brunson
street; killed at Tivoli theater; body
removed to city morgue.
Kwenton, George, carpenter, S7S
Toronto avenue; killed at Tivoh
theater; body removed to city
morgue.
Odhe, Albert. aged 80, Minneapolis.
Unknown child, killed by falling wall
of dormitory at house of the Good
Shepherd.
Unknown woman, Minneapolis.
Robertson, Viola, aged II.
Four unknown, dead at Waconia,
small station twenty miles west Of
Minneapolis.
At Glencoe.
Gross, Mrs. F. J.
Gross, Frederick.
ODonnell, Mary, aged Is.
ODonnell, Patrick, aged II.
Missing.
Gillert. Edwin, 43S South Robert
street: was one of the last persons
seen in Tivoli theater during the
storm.
The Injured.
Berlin. David, stage hand, Tivoh
theater; arm seriously cut.
Dougherty. James, Omaha, brakeman;
blown from top of freight car in East
St Paul yards; severely bruised.
Dugan, John, telegraph operator;
head cut by falling glass.
Egan. Michael, proprietor OF popcorn
stand at Fifth and Sibley streets;
head and face cut by broken glass.
Ford, F. E, shocked by live wire and
burned.
Hammond. John.
Hanson, Joseph. Cook street; struck
by electric light pole; not seriously
injured.
Hanson, Olaf, 936 Forest street; hit
on head by falling arc lamp and
knocked unconscious.
HAYDEN. Bert, 40 East Lucy street:
limbs and body bruised and cut.
Hayden, John. 40 East Lucy street;
head cut and side bruised.
Kempf, Therese, actress, TrivOh thea
ter: arm badly curt and body bruis-
ed by falling timbers.
Kenny. Sadi, actress, TivoH theater;
arm cut and head bruised.
LecIaire, George, 33S South Wabasha
street; cut and bruised about arms
and body; condition not serious.
Lindlund, John, nose broken and
wound on head.
Lmgby, William, 94S Payne avenue;
skull fractured; fatally injured.
O'Neil, Polly, actress, TivOli theater;
fell downstairs and was injured by
falling door; hip and body bruised
and curt.
Ransom, Kittie, actress, Tivoli thea
ter; fell unconscious when crash
came and was removed by police;
will recover.
Reynolds, Paul; hands badly cut by
falling glass.
Sanborn, Walter, 6S4 Bedford; burn
ed on neck by live wire.
Scott. Annie, actress at Tivoli; cut