The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-08-30

storm. Lying on improvised bench
es and covered with white sheets, the
bodies were prepared for the grave.
Tyler did not have enough coffins
to take care of the huge death list
and many were hurriedly brought from
surrounding towns.
Most of the dead were terribly
bruised and in some cases limbs had
been torn off. They ranged in age
from young children to old persons
Mrs. George essen and her son,
John, were crushed to death in the
hospital of Drs. Vadheim and Paul
son, on the second floor of the Farm
ers State bank. The young man had
just brought his mother from Russell
Mimi, for treatment. She was found
clasped in his arms. Nearby was the
body of Miss Rose Nelson, a nurse.
DIR. Vadheim said that had Mrs. Os-
sen stayed in bed she should have
escaped unhurt.
The hospital was so badly wreck
ed that DR.. Vadheim had to crawl
through wreckage to get twenty
pounds of bandages for use of the in
jured. at was all we saved from the
hospital" he said.
DR.. Paulson's wife was probably
fatally injured in tho ruins of Their
home and is expected to die at any
time
J Despite the disaster to themselves
the two physicians, the only ones in
town, at once took charge of caring
for the injured and dying. Up to
a late hour last night neither had
had any sleep.
! The thirty injured were first talk
en- to the Tyler hotel, where first aid
was administered The Danish Lutb-
er college, handsome new building
then was turned into hospital and
the injured removed there and placed
In the students beds. The college Is
admirable for this work, as it is d.
4, Vlded into small rooms for dormitor,
purposes.
Three May Die.
J IL is believed that only three of the
/ injured are in danger of >eath. These
are Mrs. Paulson, Arnold Smith. 2
boy of eleven, who has a fractured
skull and Martin Brown of Mtnneap-
Oils, whose spine may be Broken. II
| was planned to remove Smith TODAY
to the University hospital at Mime.
apolis in the hope that his life might
be saved.
Beautiful Home Damayed.
| The home of NJ Glammersta d
cashier of the First National bank. ;
beautiful new $4,000 dwelling. wa,
snorn OF it's east wall as If by a gian;
cieaver. The storm left PRACTICAL,
every room in the house exposed II
the street with the bath tub. refrig.
orator. kitchen cabinet and beds Wis.
IDLE from the outside. Seven person.
IN this building escaped injury by
lhloWlng themselves to the floor.
| was just going upstairs to shu
Ine WINDOWS" said Mrs Glammer.
stad when | heard a roar like s
thousand railway trains. l knew i
was storm, so I called to eyerybod,
10 lie down on the floor. Then the
wall went and the front porch and :
part of the roof followed.
"A coal scuttle from some neigh
DORIS house came through che Twins
room window and crashed down or
the piano, nearly soaring us to death
We are thankful to be alive wen Or
many OF our friends were killed" :
MI. Giammerstads automobile. 3
large machine, was picked up from
the back yard and hurried through the
ar Tor a block, being practically de.
molished. N
chickens were shorn of their featb-
ers and could be seen walking through
the debris as clean as handpicked
birds in a poultry house. Hundreds
or fine trees, of which Tyler was yery
proud, were uprooted or broken off
snort near the ground. Others bad
every branch stripped and look like
dead trunks.
| Acres Of Wreckaoe.
| There are literally acres of wreck
age with here and there roof peak
sucking through, starting from Main
Istreet and extending east for six OF
iseven blocks. A curious yeature ;e
the number of wrecked automobiles
Including many new cars. Every rod