The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-08-22
DEATH IN TORNADO
st. Paul, MINI, Swept by Flu
rious Gale.
TWELVE PERSONS LOST THEIR LIVES
Half n Mile Wide, the storm Cut a
Pathway Through the business
District-MinneapoIis and
Suburbs suffer.

suueFs
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Aug. 22-SiXteen
persons were killed 100 injured, sc,
eral fatally, ana property valued at
S2,0O0,0O0 was destroyed by tOrna-
do which tore down the valley of the
Mississippi at . o'clock at night from
Il point near the confluence of the Min
nesola and Mississippi rivers near Fort
Smelling
With a terrific roar the furious gale
descended on the Twin Cities, St Paul
aud Minneapolis, demolishing houses,
uprooting trees and tearing down
bridges In its wake it left huge piles
of debris, under which the mangled
bodies of its victims We're recovered.
According to the weather station rec
ords the wind registered $50 miles an
hour for one full minute before the in
struments were blown away. This,
it is said, is the highest wind ever re.
corded in the United States.
Lorin f. IIokanson and George
Kwenton, carpenter, were killed at the
Tiyoli theatcr, an unknown child was
killed by falling wall Of a dormitory
at the House of the Good Shepherd.
three unknown persons were killed at
ST. Louis Park, suburb of Minneapo-
lis, and four unknown persons at Wa
COMA, small station twenty miles
west of Minneapolis. There were many
seriously hurt
The tornado cut a pathway about
half mile in width and eight miles in
length through the business and resi-
dencc district. leaving ruin and deyas-
tation in Its track.
The downtown business district was
hit hard. many of the big office ANA
business blocks being completely rid
died ana the stocks of wholesale
houses seriously damaged 10y the floods
Of rain that accompanied the wind.
Three were killed in ST Paul, four
mt Waconia, a small station twenty
miles west of Minneapolis on the Min
neapols and St Louis road, and three
killed at st. Louis Park, suburb Of
Minneapolis, where the station was
demolished and a saloon razed to the
ground.
Beginning at point below Fort
Smelling, there is the first known evil
dence that the storm struck with dam
aging effect. II came from the south
west and, bowling in its fury, uprootel
trees and demolished buildings in its
pathway toward St Paul.
1t tore off two spans of the High
bridge as completely as if they had
been unbOlted from the rest of the
structure and carted away by work
men. There the bridge connected with
the high bluffs at West st. Paul. and
it is $50 feet above the river. This
mass of steel was carried to the flats
below, where dying steel girders and
heavy planks fell ON several small
frame houses of the fiat jewellers and
crushed them completely. None of the
occupants of these houses was hurt,
they having seen the storm coming,
took refuge iu the caves in the hillside.
where they weresafe.
The storm tore along the flats. up
roofing trees ON Harriet island, and
then struck this city at the Wabash
street bridge.
The storm then rushed on to the
northwest. over the Wholesale district
and here the greatest destruction To
property was wrought After causing
havoc in ST. Paul the tornado swept
onward to Minneapolis and its sub
urbs. Here. however, the destruction
l.If
telephone and telegraph wires were
torn down IN great numbers. For
hours the Twin Cities were cut Off
f, from any communication with the out
side world
Practically every building on the
north side of East Third street is
wrecked The IIabighorst block, Mt
Seventh and Wacouta streets, was I'M
rooted. and the Economy department
store is reported to have been damaged
to the extent of S20,0uO.
The front wall of the building occu-
pied by I.indeke. Warner X Son. whole
sale furricrS. was shattered and stock
and fixtures damaged to the extent of
thousands of dollars.
The st. Anthony elevator in Mime
apolis was leveled to the ground, the
wreckage blocking the Great Northern
tracks.
Four Killed by Minnesota Tornado.
GLENCOE, Mimi, Aug. 22.-A tor
nado struck the townships of Rich
Valley and Bergen on Saturday night.
killing four persons-Mary O'DOnnell,
AGED thirteen; the seYen- Year-OId son