The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-06-23
One Forms at Kennedy's Bridge
and Leaves Imprint.
Cuts Wide Swath Through Tim
Der; Buildings Damaged.
The Other Plays Havic on
the Soaring Farms.
From Saturdays Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
The storm yesterday afternoon wa:
more severe southeast of the city thar
within the city limits. In MankatC
there was heavy downpour for short
time, but not great deal of wind
The government rain gauge at Sibley
park showed that Lie inches of rain
fell in twenty minutes, which was an
unusually heavy fall, The capacity OF
the cutters was taxed and torrents
poured down the streets.
Some damage was down to telephone
lines in the country, and Lakes Madi-
son and Washington were entirely cut
off. ,a.-e
The greatest damage seems to have
of the city, where, the wind blew with
terrific force, resembling tornado
p. III. Finnegan of Chicago came in
last evening from his farm, where he
has been for day or two, and report
ed that several barns and farm build
ings along the road We're blown down,
and that trees were uprooted or broken
off. He said that at the farm of Mrs
Jessie c. Soaring the large barn was
completely demolished and the boards
scattered over the field, and that a
granary was moved four feet. The
windows of the house were also broken
in. Directly across the road, on the
farm of Mrs. Mary i. Soaring the
hog house was destroyed, but the TWEEN.
ty-four hogs that were in it were UNI
harmed. Several of the smaller OUT.
buildings were DANCED, but the large
windmill was. uninjured. These farms
are being operated bySJulius Anderson
On the Pettis farm, near by, the
barn was blown down.
Two Twisters.
Fred Mahowald, a brother of Alder
man Mahowald of this city, gives a
very good account of the cyclone. From
his statment, it appears that there We're
two twisters. He lives on the Henry
Potts farm, four miles southeast of the
city, and was a spectator of the actions
of one of the funnel shaped clouds. ar.
According to Mr. Manowald, the cy-
clone started near the Kennedy bridge
at $40 p. m. The greatest damage was
done in John Ireland's timber, where
swath was cut one hundred feet wide
Mr.. Ireland's timber in the valley was
torn badly, trees being pulled from
the ground by the roots. The cyclone
then started north, and switched off to
the east and south, and then went
straight east. Carl Hager's house was
struck, the kitchen being torn off and
the balance being moved from it's foun-
dation. The house was vacant, so no
one was injured. A barn one hundred
feet from the house was not touched.
The cyclone then invaded Nels Burg's
timber and tore it up badly. 1t wound
up on Henry Potts forty, about mile
and a half from the farm where Mr..
Mahowald lives. This is the forty that
Mr.. Potts lives on. When the cyclone
started it passed within two blocks of
Mr.. Manowald's residence 1t remained
in the river bottom all of the time.
and trayersed distance of three miles
in all. The roads were blockaded by
the falling trees.
The other cyclone, and which was
probably the one that struck the Scar
ing farms, passed south at the same
time. Both were seen by John Ireland.
The latter was keeping his eye on one,
when he happened to look around and
saw the other coming.
Mr.. Mahowald says that the cyclone
that he saw was an Intensely interest.
ing sight. The clouds came together
and kept whirling around like great
ball. Then they formed funnel shape,
with a red cloud below and a white one
on top. A white streak shot down and
this was followed by a black cloud that
lowered by degrees and was a terrible
thing to behold. 1t started mile
away from the house, and approached
rapidly. 1t did some queer things. 1t
took the bark from trees, and took the
heads off of the oats. in Carl Hager's
field The field is covered with brush
The cyslone crossed the corner of T
Coughlan's farm, damaging it some
The whole thing occurred within five
minutes. No rain fell until after the
cyclone had gotten in its work.
Further information received today
from the Soaring farms gives more
detailed account of the damage done
On Mrs. Jesse Searing's farm, the barn
was demolished, the roof of the corn
crib was torn off, the granary was NOV
ed about four feet, the chimney of the
house was blown off and all Of the