The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-08-25
MANY PERSONS ARE MISSING
TOTAL LOSS OF LIFE WILL NOT
BE KNOWN FOR SEVERAL
DAYS.
HAIL AND WIND RUIN CROPS
DAMAGE TO CROPS AND BUILD.
iNGs WILL REACH THOU
SANDS OF DOLLARS.

St. Paul, Aug. 23.-Devastation, ter
rible and complete, was wrought in
Southern Minnesota and Western Wis
consin by the storm of Sunday night,
according to reports received here last
night. Through all the region from
Anoka to Fillmore counties in this
state reports tell of disaster and loss
of life and property.
Members of families are missing,
and it is believed they are buried un-
der the debris which was strewn
broadcast by the wind. Many in
stances of manning are reported, and
the total loss of life will not be known
for some days.
Crops which had been cut and were
ready for threshing suffered in many
places, and standing corn was DAM
aged by hail and wind. Hail stones
several inches in circumference
worked havoc with the crops in some
sections.
Tracks Swept Away.
Large sections of railroad tracks
were swept away south of here, and
the mail trains on certain portions of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
road we're run yesterday on impro-
vised tracks, making slow time on &C.
count of the insecurity OF the roadhed.
Washouts were numerous, both along
the railroads and in the highways, the
rainfall being enormous.
In some OF the farming localities
lthe grain was stripped from the stalks
stacks were completely demolished.
Huge trees which have successfully
withstood the storms of years were up
rooted and hurled before the wind, and
barns and other outbuildings were
completely demolished. The damage
done to buildings and crops in the
southern counties will reach many
thousands of dollars, but no accurate
estimate can be formed until com.
plete reports are received.
cyc'onic in Nature.
All sections report that the storm
was cyclonic in its nature, and from
some points reports tell of funnel
shaped cloud that descended with the
most intense fury, leaving destruction
in its path.
The storm was even more terrible in
some of it's effects than that which
efr hn C,x.i,,
yesterday, but the territory in which
it's destruction was wrought was much
more widespread. Cities on all sides
of ST Paul felt its effects, and in some
it travelled in one direction, while at
other points the direction was entirely
different. 1t broke into variety Of
forms in the different localities, ap-
pearing in one place as a cloudburst
and in another as a severe electrical
storm, but in all cases these effects
were accompanied by terrific wind
velocity which added to the destruc->
ton.
st. Paul in the Senter.
The general effect is as if the storm
parted, going on either side of ST.
Paul, or else described a complete
circuit about the city, giving this i'm
mediate vicinity comparatively mild
touch of it's severity.
No computation of the loss either of
life OF property can be made as vet,
the total number of buildings de-
stroyed being still incompletcly listed,
and there being still possibility of
finding some Of the missing persons.
Some of the more remote sections of
country visited by the storm have not
been heard from, as all telegraphic
and telephone communication has
been cut off through the destruction
of the wires, and the train service on
some of the roads was so completely
demoralized as to preclude all posi-
bility of receiving accurate accounts
of the storms effects through the
mails.
Tosten Danielson was killed at Pilot
Mound in the wrecking of a church.
Five men have reported the entire de-
struction of their homes and the loss
Of members of their families to the
authorities at Lanesboro, of whom
they have asked assistance.