Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-08-23
VICTIMS OF TORNADO,

st. Paul, Aug. 23.-Eleven dead. 1O4
injured and property loss of over
$2,O00,000 is verified record of the
damage inflicted by the cyclone which
passed over st. Paul and vicinity Sat.
urday night, leaving in it's path a.
scene of desolation and a calamity
stricken people.
In this city 3 persons are dead and
43 injured; in Minneapolis l man is
dead and IA persons injured; in Waco.
MIA are dead and 20 injured, and in
st. Louis Park are dead and rs in
jured. The list of victims is as fol-
lows:
st. Paul-George Keaton, aged sew
enteen; Lourien S. Johanson, aged
twenty-five; Viola Robertson, aged
twelve.
Minneapolis-Alf w. Hilgedick,
operator at Minneapolis Junction,
struck by lightning.
Observation-Disclosures Moy, forty years
old; Mrs. August Moy, thirty-eight
years old; Baby Moy, one year old;
Robert Lehman, thirty years old.
L
keeper; John Hedger, six years old;
Anna Hodge.
The damage to property is estimated
at over 100000, divided as follows:
St. Paul, $l,OO0,OOO; Minneapolis. $780,
600; st. Louis Park, $4,000; Waconla,
$75,000; Saltwater, 100000; outside
districts, 100000.
High Bridge Partially Destroyed.
The greatest single property loss at
St. Paul was the destruction OF two
spans of the high bridge, a burden
which will fall upon the city at large.
The other damage is distributed
among thousands Of residences and
hundreds of business houses.
The storm confined it's area manly
to the localities where fatalities are
reported, although Saltwater reports
q loss of 100000. In both St. Paul
and Minneapolis the business districts
suffered severely, several wholesale
houses being unroofed and hundreds
of plate glass windows being blown
in, causing immense damage to stocks.
In the residence district of st. Paul,
principally in Lower Town and Ar
lngton Hills, many houses are COM
plete wrecks and others are seriously
damaged.
In Minneapolis, considering the in
tensity of the storm, the residence dis
tricts of the city escaped with COM
paratively slight damage. Although a
few structures were unroofed and the
contents Of the buildings drenched
with water as q rule the people of
these districts suffered no great loss
At Waconia, of the 100 houses, resi-
dences and stores, seventy are more
or less demolished and in the country
for a strip one-half mile in width ex-
tending four miles along the Mime
apolis and St. Louis tracks east and
west there is scarcely building stand
ing. as<
At st. Louis Park nearly. all of the
large manufacturing establishments
were more or less wrecked and houses
were RACED to the. ground. The heaviest
loser is r. B. Walker, the Minneapolis
capitalist, who owns most OF the TWEEN
ty houses which were overturned and
some of the manufacturing buildings.
Storm Divides at St. Paul.
The scene of wreck and ruin in St..
Paul extends from the Minnesota
: transfer through to the eastern limits
of the city and no locality escaped
without some damage. The storm, be-
lieved to have been genuine cyclone
as it approached Fort Smelling from
the southwest, divided at the fort and,
rushing onward in two main sections,
made clean sweep of the city. The
section which caused the greatest
wreck followed down the Mississippi
close to the south bank, wrecking two
100-foot spans Of the high bridge, leav-
ing a trail of ruined trees and build
ings on beautiful Harriet island, veer-
ing across to the north end of the
'Wabasha street bridge and DESTROYING
the Tvoli theater like q cardhouse
killing two, thence taking q course
due northeast through the heart of the
Wholesale district and on through
Lower Town and out across Arlington
Hills to the city limits, where It
Seered again and twenty minutes later
caused tremendous loss Of property in
B saltwater.
The second portion Of the tornado
cloud followed the Minnesota river for
70 short distance, then swept down on
4 the Minnesota transfer, leyeling two
huge grain elevators to the ground.
From that point the clouds seem to
WILL NOT FACE THE JAPs.
Russian Warships At Shanghai to DO
II Disarned. Il 81 g:S
st. Petersburg, Aug. 23. Dispatch