New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1920-06-16
SEVEN DEAD IS
TOLL OF STORM
NORTHWESTERN AND CENTRAL
MINNESOTA VISITED LAST
TUESDAY,.
PROPERTY LOSS ESTIMATED AT
100000 SUMMER RESORT
DESTROYED.

The toll of Tuesday nights wind and
electrical storm which swept over North
western and Central Minnesota and
North Dakota, leaving behind trail of
death and destruction, has now reached
seven dead, more than 100 injured, and
property damage estimated at probably
100000. S rs. 4.
The path of the storm was clearly
marked by wreckage Of farm buildings,
summer cottages, uprooted trees and
other evidences of the great; havoc
wrought. The majority Of those killed
were found in buildings which had col
lapsed during the storm.
Farmer Killed by Freak Bolt.
A freak of the storm cost the life of
A Stenberg, farmer, living near Thief
River Falls. With other members of
his family he was seated in the living
room of the house. A bolt of lightning
entered the room, followed the tefephone
wire and killed him, but did not iniure
his wife and five children.
Richard Hoelmer, farmer, living near
Fergus Falls, who was injured on his farm
while milking COWS with his 11-year-old
son, William, died yesterday from the
Injuries. The son was killed instantly.
The known dead are:
Richard Hoelmer and 11-year-old son,
William.
William Roeder, farmer living near
Garnder, n. !, crushed when his homea
was demolished.
Mrs. r. S. Wilke, 81 years old, died
from injuries received when her summer
home at Grey Eagle was demolished.
A. Stenberg, farmer of Thief River
Falls, killed by lightning.
Martin Peterson, farmer living near
Osakis, killed when the barn in which he
took shelter was demolished.
Mrs. p. Thompson, wife of farmer
living near Urbana, N. D., killed when a
windmill was blown down.
The three-year old son of Ludwig
Wolfram, farmer living near Grey
Eagle, MINI, was probably fatally in
jured when he was struck by tree as he
was running from the barn to the house.
Resorts Cottages Raced.
Grey Eagle, summer resort com
munity On Big Birch lake, was practically
wiped out. Every cottage in the little
resort town today is wreck.
The district south and east of Osakis
suffered almost as severely. A score
of barns and other farm buildings in
that district are streWn about the coun-
tryside, marking the path Of the storm.
Three st. Paul persons were included
among the 43 injured when Northern
Pacific passenger train was blown from
the rails near Foxholme and thrown into
a ditch. These are Mrs. M. b. Burnley,
W. E. Tilt and William Flint. Their
injuries are not serious, it is thought.
The injured were taken to a hospital
at Breckenridge, where the! majority
were released after having their injuries
dressed. S.
Two sTrainmen Injured.
Two ira nmen were injured when a
caboose of a Great Northern work train
was overturned near Gardner. Mrs.
A. :. Garper of Jamestown was, struck
by lightning and partially paralyzed.
Farmers living in the vicinity of
Wheaton lost many of their barns and
other farm buildings. The house on the
Fred Nelson farm near Wheaton was
little damaged, but the barn and all other
farm buildings on the place was blown
from their moorings. Two hundred
chickens and 100 turkeys on the place
have entirely disappeared, and horse
was killed by lightning.
Damage to crops was slight, according