The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-22
Property Damage Inflicted by the Storm is Estimated
 at $3,OOO,OOO
GREATEST LOSS OF LIFE
 WAS IN TWO THEATRES
swaylne Buildings Caused a Panic Among the Audiences, and Wild Bushes Were Made by Men
 and Boys for the Exits.

st. Paul, Mlnn, August a.-Fifteen uelI le were killed in the fierce tornado wrich overwhelmed the Twin Cities and which wrought devastation in other parts of the s;al. last night. The aggregate property loss is oonservatively placed at s3oO9foO. Of this St. Paul suffered to the extent of about S1,0oO,0oO, Minneapolis damage estimated at s1.5OOO 900, while in tlrs outside districts 1t Is feared that sseO,s00 'sii not cover the damage.
 The Dead.
 Lorin F. Hokanson, 5s6 Brunson street. killed at the Tivon theatre
 George Kneton, carpenter. SIS Tornto avenue, killed at the TivoIi theatre.
 Viola Robertson, age 12, killed by falling wall of dormitory at house of Good shep- herd.
 Albert odho, age s2 killed at St, Louis Park, a suburb of Minneapolis
 Six year old son of Frank Hedges at St. Louis Park.
 Unknown girl, age 10. killed at St. Louis Park.
 Four unknown dead at Waconia, small station twenty miles west of Minneapolis. Richard Hillisbick, operator al Mlnneap- oils Junction, killed by lightning.
 Unknown woman, Minneapolis
 Mary O'IQnnell, age 13 Glencoe, Minn Seventeen year old son of Patrick oDonneIl, Glencoe, Minn.
 Frederick Cross Glencoe, Minn.
 Mrs. Gross, mother, Glencoe, Minn
 The missing: Edwin Gilbert 43S South ,F sons seen in the Tivoli theatre during the calamity.
 Those whose injuries are of importance number thirty and of these four may die.
 Scores of other persons in all the dis tricts of the city are reported to have sustained bruises and cuts by falling timbers and glass.
 Theatre Fairly Crowded.
 Both the Tivoli concert hall and Empire theatre were fairly crowded with men watching the performance. Both theatres stood on the edge of the bluff overlook ing the river, with the sides of the build ings open, and were wrecked The full force of the tornado struck them. The buildings began to sway and rock and the audience became panic stricken. Men and boys rushed over each other for the exits. The lights went out and the sheet lightning flashes. one following another with gun-fire rapidity, illuminated scene of pandemonium, which was intensified by the crash of glass and the tearing of tmbers as the frame structure gave way before the tornado.
 Sections of the roof were blown through the air and landed east on Third street, block distant
 Underneath the debris of the Tivoli were found, when the storm had passed, the mangled bodies of Lorin F. Hokanson, one of the employees in the concert hall, and George Kweton, one of the audience.
 Path Eight Miles Long.
 The tornado which last night struck this city cut a pathway about a half mile in width and eight miles in length through the business and residence dis- trict, leaving ruin and devastation in its track. Fortunately the loss of life was not great, six persons having been killed, but the list of those injured Is a long one, in which there are many who are reported to be fatally hurt
 The property damage was immense, conservative estimates placing 1t between $500,000 and $1,000000. The downtown bus- ness district was hit hard, many of the big office and business blocks being com pletely ridded and the stocks of whole sale houses seriously damaged by the hoods or rain that accompanied the wind. The storm cloud, which came from the southwest, first hit the ground on the west side bluffs near the High bridge Two spans of this structure, which is of steel and which crosses the Mississippi river at a height of 200 feet were cut out as cleanly as though done with knife, and thrown into the gulch below, crushing in the roofs of a number of small houses situated on the flats along the river bank.
 Crosses the River.
 The storm kept on across the river In an oblique direction. It struck the city proper near the Wabash street bridge, completely demolishing the T1voli thea ter, frame structure on the bluff at the edge of the river. There was a vaude- vile performance on at the theater, which was fairly well filled. Two men were killed by the falling of the roof. and about dozen persons, women performers and others, were buried in the ruins Many of them were seriously hurt before they were extracted by the fire department, which rushed to the rescue as soon as the storm had abated its fury Across Wabasha street tho Empire thea ter, a two-story brick house of the same character as the Tivoi was unroofed and otherwise badly damaged Nearly all of the business blocks on Third street be- tween Wabasha and Sipley streets. a dis tance of five blocks, were damaged. Roofs were blown off, plate glass windows shat tered, and huge signs sent scurrying through the air like feathers The Min nesota club. at the corner of Fourth and