Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-08-22
DEATH IN TORNADO
St Paul, Mimi, Swept by Flu
Ia rious Gale. a.
Twelve PERSONS LOST THEIR LIVES
Half n Mile, wide the storm Cut a
Pathway Through the business
District-MinnenpoIis and
Suburbs suffer.

persons were killed, 160 injured, sew
eral fatally, and property valued al
100000 was destroyed by a lorna
do which tore down the valley Of til,
Mississippi at 8 o'clock ct night from
a point neal the confluence of the Min
nesota and Mississippi rivers hear Fort
Smelling.
With q terrific roar the furious gale
descended on the Twin Cities, st. Pau
and Minneapolis, demolishing houses
uprooting trees and tearing down
bridges. In its wake 1t left huge piles
of debris, under which the mangle,.
bodies Of its victims were recovered.
According to the weather station rec
ords the wind registered 1870 miles an
hour for one full minute before the in
struments were blown away. This.
1t is said, is the highest wind ever re
corded In the United States,
Lorin +. Hokanson and George
Kwenton. carpenter, were killed at Tho
Tivoll theater, an unknown child was
killed by q falling wall of a dormitors
Mt the House of tine Good Shepherd
three unknown persons were killed al
st. Louis Park, a suburb of Minncapo
lis, and four unknown persons at Wa
coma, a small station twenty mile
west Of Minneapolis. There were man.
seriously hurt.
The tornado cut q pathway about q
half mile in width and eight miles in
length through the business and resi-
dence district, leaving ruin and devas
tation in its track.
The downtown business district was
hit hard, many of the big Office anG
business blocks being completely rid
| died and the stocks of wholesale
houses seriously damaged by the floods
| Of rain that accompanied the wind.
Three were killed in st. Paul, four
at Waconia, a small station twenty
miles west of Minneapolis on the Min
neapolis and st. Louis road, and three
killed at st. Louis Park, a suburb OF
Minneapolis, where the station was
demolished and a saloon RACED to the
ground.
Beginning Mt a point below Fort
Smelling, there is the first known evi
dence that the storm struck with dam
| aging effect. 1t 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 II they had
been unbo1ted from the rest of the
structure and carted away by work
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the high bluffs at West st. Paul, and
1t is 1870 feet above the river. This
| mass of steel was carried to the flats
below, where flying steel girders and
heavy planks fell on several small
| frame houses of the fiat dwellers anu
| crushed them completely. None of the
| occupants of these houses was hurt.
| they having seen the storm coming.
| took refuge In the caves in the hillside
| where they were safe.
The storm tore along the flats, up
| roofing trees on Harriet island, ana
| then struck this city at the Wabash
| street bridge.
Tile storm then rushed on to the
| northwest, over the wholesale district
| and here the greatest destruction tD
property was wrought. After causing
havoc in st. Paul the tornado swept
onward to Minneapolis and its sub
urbs. Here, however, the destruction
of property was not 80 great. although
telephone and telegraph wires We're
torn down in great numbers. For
hours the Twin Cities We're cut off
from any communication with the out
side world.
Practically every building on the
north side of East Third street is
wrecked. The Habighorst block, Mt
Seventh and Wacouta streets. was un-
rooted. and the Economy department
store is reported to have been damaged
to the extent of $4,000.
The front wall of the building occu-
pied by Lindeke, Warner & Son, whole
sale furriers, 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-old son
of Anthony O'Donnell. Frederick
Gross and his mother-and has de-
stroyed thousands Of acres Of grain
and many barns, houses and sheds.
The storm extended oyer many coun-
ties. As telegraph and telephone wires
are down in all direction 1t is impos-
sible to get particulars as to the
amount of total damage done in this
section. ~
Storm strikes Chicago.
CHICAGO, Aug. 22.-A severe wind
and electrical storm passed over the
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