Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-07
IA Are Reported Dead in
Wisconsin, 5 in Minnesota
and | in Iowa.
PHOTOGRAPHS REVEAL
MANY SCENES OF HAVOC
In Some Cases, Few Boards Mark
Spot Where Farm Homes
Had Stood.
By the Associated Press.

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MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, April g.
Fanciful Spring storms that blew up
from nowhere and skipped through
Minnesota and Wisconsin late yester-
day. tonight had built up total Of 20
fatalities and more than 100 injuries.
Besides Minnesota and Wisconsin,
Iowa also felt the winds force and list
ed one dead, farmer at Little Rock
Several persons were reported injured
in the Northern part of the State, just
across the Minnesota line.
Wisconsin was the chief sufferer, II
persons losing their lives and scores of
others suffering injuries ranging from
scratches and bruises to fractured bones
and internal hurts. Five of the total
number OF dead were reported in
Minnesota, two near Minneapolis and
one each near Forest Lake, Lindstrom
and Taylors Falls.
Near Exeland, Wis. four deaths were
reported. Three were listed at Reeve
when three children were killed on the
farm of Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Pittman;
two were killed near Rice Lake and one
each at Clayton, Barron, Glenwood
City and Wausau The death near
Wausau was that of Edwin Erdman, 80,
struck by lightning.
Early reports from Rice Lake today
said that three persons were missing
after the storm had passed near that
city. but a later check disclosed that
every one had been accounted for, OF
the five reported dead.
A 10-year-old son of Mrs Ida Mover
died in Barron, Wis, hospital from in
jnries suffered when the farm home Of
L. Vol, near Barron, collapsed.
Losses Estimated Over Million.
While accurate figures as to the
monetary loss must necessarily await a
closer survey, preliminary estimates ex-
ceeds the million-dollar mark
The wind beat down or blew apart
farm homes and buildings in an area
roughly 100 miles square in the north
western section of Wisconsin. Barron,
Rush and Sawyers Counties were hard
est hit and parts of five other counties
In that district felt the wrath of the
wind.
One estimate from Barron placed the
damage in that vicinity at $750,000, but
It was impossible to check the accuracy
of the report. From Glenwood City came
an estimate that damage in that dis
trict would reach 100000 and might
exceed that figure.
Two storms Believed Joined.
In Minnesota destruction wrought
in a 10.miie stretch through Chicago
County. particularly near Lindstrcnn,
was placed at 100000, while in North
Minneapolis the loss was placed at
100000.
Indications tonight were that two or
more storms joined forces In Minnesota
before launching an attack on Wiscon-
sin. Apparently one storm, coming
from directly west Of Minneapolis,
Joined another which swept into the
state from the Southwest, but neither
caused much damage until they COM
bired near Lake Minnetonka and then
fell on North Minneapolis.
A third area of high winds which
swept Northward from Southern Min
nesota did little damage. It. too, was
believed to have joined with the others
north of the Twin Cities before the
three descended on Chicago County and
Wisconsin as one.
OF the i've dead reported in Minnie
sofa four were farmers whose homes
were demolished by the wind and the
fifth was that of a motorist, whose car
was wrecked on highway by timbers
blown onto the road by the storm.
Reports trickled in slowly from the
stornlswept sections, adding to the
death list hourly as new fatalities were
made known. It was feared that when
wire communications are fully re-
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