The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-22

Most of them, however, were small
brick or frame buildings and while
the aggregate damage there will be
heavy, the individual losses were COM
paratively small. The Washington
school building at Locust and Eighth
| streets suffered considerable damage,
almost the entire top portion being
| blown away. ST. Mary's Catholic
| church, on Ninth and John streets,
| was unroofed, but the school building
across the street, escaped with only
/ minor damage. st. Sigfrid'S Episcopal
| church on Eighth street, a frame
! structure, was leveled to the ground.
| The storm at this point seems to have
| lifted slightly and for several squares
| the damage done to residence property
i was of a minor character only. The
1 tornado dropped again at Lafayette
| avenue, and all of the magnificent elm
and other shade trees were uprooted
/ or twisted off.
From Lafayette park the tornado
swept up Lafayette avenue to Payne
| avenue. the principal business street
of East st. Paul, wrecking many bust
ness structures and unroofing and
| otherwise damaging residence proper
ty. The Chicago, Minneapolis, st.
Paul & Omaha roundhouse at East
st. Paul collapsed, injuring one man
Der of locomotives. Several freight
cars in the yards were picked up and
tossed about by the fierce gale and
their contents strewn in all directions
The tower and roof of the first sta
ton at Payne avenue and York street
were blown off. striking a man as they
fell and inf1icting probably fatal in
juries. The Arlington Hill Presbyte-
rian church, corner of Case and Ed
gerton streets, was unroofed and par
TALLY wrecked.
Good Shepherd Home Struck.
The tornado then veered about and
town, striking the house of the Good
Shepherd. Catholic institution, on
Milton street, unroofing and badly
wrecking the dorrnitory, killing one
child and injuring several of the nuns.
The destruction OF the building caused
a panic among the several hundred in
mates of the place. Just at the time of
the collapse of the building, which con-
tanned so many human beings, the tel
ephone service to the institution ceased
to work. City Physician A. B. Anker,
on the first intimation of the catas-
trophle, went to the scene in a carriage.
Inmates of the building and men who
had gathered at the scene We're pressed
in to work After three hours of hard |
work all who were in the dormitory had
been taken out. The roof of the dormi-
tory was struck by lightning, which |
rent the roof and soon a gust of wind |
carried the entire roof away, part of it
falling into the building. Then the |
top floor caved in and carried the first |
floor and the fifty children to the base
ment.
The damage to shade trees through
Stately elms, three feet in circumfer- |
ence, were either torn up by the roots |
or twisted off like reeds. Along Sum- /
NIT avenue famous throughout the |
country as a beautiful residence street, |
trees and shrubbery that lined the |
boulevard were devastated No consid- |
cradle damage was done to any of the
magnificent residences, however
PeriIous Experience.
The steamer Saturn and barge Venus
in tow, carrying 300 commission men
and their families, had a perilous ex-
perience in attempting to reach their
docks at the levee in the height of the
storm.
The storm, coming up from the south
with incredible speed, struck the
steamer and her tow before a landing
could be effected and the steamer was
blown against the river wall. The
shock of the steamer crashing into the
and tenders on her port side and a
panic resulted among the passengers.
The captain and his crew did every
thing possible to allay fears of the pas
sengers, but before the steamer could
be made fast to her mornings, by a
sudden change in the wind to the north,
the boat and her barge were separated
by the wind and both blown across the
river and against Raspberry island.
The barge was blown hard against the
island and many of the passengers
climbed overheard to land.
The steamer Hiawatha was up the
river with a large party of pleasure
seekers and was caught by the storm
when opposite Fort Smelling Captain
Smith made a run for a sheltering
bank and held his boat close in to
shore. In making the turn to reach
shelter from the wind, the waves put
the deck, high as it was above water
all awash.
Fort Smelling Damaged.
ST Paul, Aug 22--In the storm at
Fort Smelling, situated on a level
plateau and unprotected from the
fury of the storm, the government
buildings miraculously es-
capped severe injury.
The storm center seemed to follow
the river course. only the edge passing
over the northwest end of the reserva-
lion. Trees were uprooted, branches
torn away and hurled against wires,
crashing them to the ground. The
slate of the south roof of the Thirtieth
battery quarters was torn from it's
and distributed over a large
area. Portions of the roofs of the
quarters of the Tenth battery and the
gun shed were also ripped loose, ex-
posing the upper floors to the fury of :
The torrent of rain that poured down
for half an hour.
Small patches of slate from the ;
roofs of many other quarters were also !
-orn away, but in the aggregate not
much damage was done. The prin-
cipal inconvenience caused by the :,
storm was the arrangement of the ,
telephone and electric lighting sys- !
ems. The great force of the wind
where, disturbing connections and
putting out the lights throughout the ,
buildings.
The wind had apparently spent !
portion of its fury by the time it {
cached the fort. I
THE STORM AT MINNEAPOLIS.
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