Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-08-22

St. Paul, August 22.-Three people
are known to be dead, several are
hundreds are injured more
Or less seriously and property valued
at hundreds of thousands of dollars
destroyed, as result of the terrific
storm which swept over St. Paul and
beginning at $40 o'clock Sat-
urday night.
The storm was the most disastrous
in the history of the city. The streets
were rushing torrents of water and the
wind swept trees, wires, bridges and
before it,
The thermometer of the St. Paul
weather bureau recorded velocity of
100 miles an hour, blowing from the
northwest for one minute, and then
broke. The rain gauge was demol-
ished early in the storm, Sol that the
will never be known.
The center of the storm seemed to
follow the Mississippi river from Fort
Smelling to Bridge Square. where the
greatest damage was done, and then
to spend it's force in the wholesale
district, Dayton's Bluff and northeast
ern part of the city.
Two spans of the high bridge were
crumpled into mass of debries. The
Tivoli concert garden on Bridge
Square was crushed as II it were an
eggshell, killing two people and more
or less seriously injuring a score of
people. The porch along the river
frontage of the Empire theatre concert
hall, on Bridge Square, was carried
over the building to Third street, and
the interior of the structure wrecked.
A frame annex of the House of Good
Shepherd, used as dormitory, was
blown down, killing girl, and several
inmates are not accounted for.
The storm was particularly severe in
the wholesale district Almost every
window in many establishments was
blown in, and the floors were flooded
with water, entailing a loss that can.
not be accurately estimated for sever
al days.
The retail district, too, felt the fury
of the storm, and suffered a severe loss
in broken windows and consequent
damage by water
The storm was by no means confined
to the business portion of the city.
however. Everywhere were disman-
tied houses, school buildings and
churches.
Communication with the outside
world was absolutely cut off by the
storm. Not a telephone or telegraph
wire reaching st. Paul escaped it,
fury.
Chimneys were carried away, houses
were wrenched from their foundations
roofs were torn off and outbuildiags
torn to bits Windows were blown in
in every section of the city, ana the
damage from loss of glass alone Nil
reach many thousands Of dollars. The
flying glass, too, was a prolific source
of injuries, and hundreds of people
were cut, more or less seriously.
Uprooted and shattered trees made
the streets impossible. The water
tore great washouts in the filled
streets, and aided the wind in demol-
ishing sidewalks and bridges.
Electric light, street car, telephone
and telegraph wires were carried down
and wriggling among the tree-tops aid
ed in blockading the streets. The
ambulance which started for the House
Of the Good Shepherd was unable to
find passable thoroughfare and was
obliged to turn back. The current in
the wires was shut off promptly when
the severity of the storm became evil
dent, so as to minimize danger from
live wires, and few accidents were re.
ported from this cause.
The beautiful park system of ST.
Paul suffered damage that it will take
years to repair. Magnificent trees
were pulled up by the roots or snapped
as if straws. Flowers and shrubs were
beaten into the ground by the down.
pour OF water and thrashed to shreds
by the wind Gullies were cut in