Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1920-05-27
one KILLED AND
EIGHT INJURED in
MINNESOTA STORM
Village of Castle Rock Raced
Other Towns Struck
Hundreds Left Homeless
Red Cross Renders First
Aid.

ports from Saturdays storm were
still coming in today and show
that the country northwest of this
village was hit hard. Farm
buildings were hurled from their
foundations and hundreds OF
shade and fruit trees were des-
tloyed, many of them being torn
up by the roots.
Only one person, . child by
nann. OF Anderson living In
Chester, was injured. The dam
age cannot be estimated. but it
will run int othe thousands of
dollars.
Summary Of Tornado.
One dead and three injured at Red
Wing.
Five injured at Castle Rock.
More than half the village OF Cas-
tie Rock, including the Methodist
public school and six resi-
dences laid in ruins.
Scores of farms in Steele, Dakota,
Goodhue and Rice counties laid IN
waste.
Vast injuries to crops thru a wide
area of southern Minnesota and west
ern Wisconsin.
Four Minnesota towns and two in
Wisconsin bear brunt Of storms fury.
They are Castle Rock, Red Wing,
and Rochester, Mimi, and
City and Nelson, Wis.
Storm area cut of from world by
destruction of miles of telegraph and
telephone lines.
Railroad traffic in southeastern
and western Wisconsin
halted as result Of destruction
caused by floods which followed the
tornado.
Red Cross of St. Paul and other
cities rushes aid to the hundreds of
in the stricken district.
St. Paul, Minn., May 22.-Morc
than half the village Of Castle Rock,
~ miles south of st. Paul, is in ruins.
dozens of farm buildings in Dakota,
Steele, Rice and Goodhue counties
were leveled to the ground, and Sc
we're damage was done to crops in
southern Minnesota by a tornado yes
terday afternoon which caused the
death of one child and severely in
jured eight other persons.
More than 100 persons in the dis
trict visited by the storm are home
less and last night Red Cross kid
was being sent into the stricken aera
from st. Paul and Northfield.
The Dead.
Esther Swanson, IL month-eld
daughter of Godfred Swanson whose
farm home. five miles from Red
Wing was destroyed by the twister.
eg The Injured. :
Thomas p. Steele, 65 years old.
Castle Rock, severely cut and bruis-
ed. .s..
Lester Steele. 20 years old, Castle
Rock, left thigh fractured. cut and
bruised.
M rs. Sarah King, IS years old.
Castle Rock. bruised.
Dorothy Simpson, IL years old.
Castle Rock, bruised.
Godfrey Swanson, 43 years old,
Red Wing, cut and bruised.
Mrs. Godfrey Ewanson, Red Wing,
cut and bruised.
Hildegarde Munson, II years old.
Red Wing, cut and bruised.
Most Of the injured were taken to
hospitals at Red Wing and Farming.
ton directly after the storm. 1t was
said that all would recover.
A road which some OF Castle
Rocks 100 Inhabitants took to be the
sound OF an airplane while others
thot that it was the coming Of fast
passenger train, portended the ap-
pr0ach of the storm when 1t was yet
several miles distant.
People Hurry to Cellars.
The storm cloud was first seen
mile and half southwest of the viii
lage where the tornado demolished
the buildings on the farm Of John
leaving not even an out
building standing.
The barn and outbuildings on The
farm Of Harley Nelson, a mile from
the village were in the direct path OF 4
the tornado and they were swept
away as the great black cloud mon-
ster lowered above them forsan in.
slant. sEf s.
AZ the buildings on the Nelson
farm disappeared the village people.
many Of whom had watched the ap-s
proach Of the storm. 90 that II vas
heading directly for them and hur4S
ried to their cellars. Some had
scarcely reached safety when the tori
nado struck the village with full
force.
Almost Buried Alive.
Sweeping across the village from
southwest to oSnortheast the storm de-
molished a. The NJ aces pf SssessI
1ontdss six resid deness. ths ~ thoiilsk.