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

Ut 50 one comes acrOSS Inc ruin VI
what was once fine machine. 1t
is believed that this is due to the fact
that the stores were open Wednes-
day night ard large number of
country people had driven into town.
One public garage was destroyed
throwing the roof on top of num-
Der of new cars.
The village Wednesday night was
in darkness except for what lamps
could be hastily procured Artificers
of the Fifth Infantry hastily got to-
gether an emergency plant which was
used for lighting the headquarters of
the guard in lodge hall.
Call Sent For Blankets.
Here the soldiers were fed and OBJ
tanned what rest they could. A call
was sent to Mankato last night for
blankets, as the men Wednesday
left in such rush that they did not
bring them along.
Colonel G. A. Lewis and his staff,
acting under General Rhinow, took
charge of affairs upon arrival on the
Mankato relief special at D. m.
Wednesday. The train carried about
twenty nurses and Red Cross women,
who Immediately went to help out at
the hospital and relieve the tired Ty-
Ter volunteer nurses. A supply of
bandages brought on this train was
badly needed.
Pipestone and Worthington sent
speedy relief, as did Baiaton, Garvin.
lvanhoe, Tracy and many other
towns. The work is in very good
shape, so good in fact that several
volunteer physicians from nearpy dis
tricts were allowed to go home to
care for their own patients. DR. L. A.
Fritsche of New Ulm returned home
Thursday evening.
P. N. Rayn, Alden, Mimi, who hur-.
ried to Tyler from Currie, to look out
for the safety of Hans Laurltsen and
family, relatives, was Mortified when
ne visited the farm a quarter mile
west of town to find no trace of the
house, barn, corncrib or other struc-
lures. He later found the family safe
In town. There wasn't piece of
board big enough to write my name
on" said Mr.. Ravn. "I don't know
where 1t went to unless it was all
blown into Tyler. There is no de-
Drls to be removed at our place."
r. II. Christensen, director of
the Lincoln county fair beard. who
was killed while attending a county
fair directors meeting in the Farm
ers State bank, is believed to have
been Drained by an automobile that
was hurled into the demolished
building.
Storm Extended to the West.
That the storm extended some dis
lance to the west is shown by the
finding on Main street at Tyler a
signboard reading six miles 20 Dix
le," Dixie /is near Elkton, s. d., some
twenty five miles west of Tyler.
The Baptist church was so badly
wrecked that when the pastor went
there to get some of the 100 chairs
which were in the building he could
md no trace Of them. The Catholic
church also was wrecked.
woman living over the postof-
nee on Main street was L.own from
her home onto the operating table in
DR.. Vadheim's office, several doors
south, it is said. SIZE was unhurt
another report stated that the BODY
OF one OF the women killed was found
i'm a tree.
High up in several trees could be
seen pieces of rugs and carpet suck
ed out of homes by the raging twister.
The scene in the wrecked district
OF Tyler was well summed up by one
OF the Mankato guardsman when he
said: "The kaiser could not have
done better job"
The H. P. Dalton, who was report
ed as coming from Mankato, and who
was killed in the cyclone at Tyler,
was an architect in La Crosse. His
son, who was sitting in an automobile
several hundred feet away, was un-
iniurd.