Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-06
Z KILLED, 10OHURT,
THREE MISSING IN
MIDWEST STORMS
Disturbances of Tornado
Violence Whip Through
Three States.
DAMAGE TO PROPERTY
TO REACH HIGH FIGURE
Wrecked. Farm Buildings and Resi-.
dences and Damaged Communica.
tion Lines Follow in Wake.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS, April s. Spring
storms of tornado violence whippee
through parts Of Minnesota, Wisconsin
and Iowa late yesterday, killing IL
persons. Three others were missing
early today and were believed dead.
More than 100 men, women and chill
dren were in hospitals, and some of
them were SO severely hurt that they
may not live.
The death list follows:
G. F. Bryan, 50, farmer, near Tay-
lors Falls, MINI.
Andrew Hanson, As, Minneapolis.
F. Lundgren, 40, farmer, near Forest
Lake, MINI.
Frank Olson, SO. farmer. near Lind
strom, MINI.
A. G. Anderson, farmer, near Glen
wood City, Wis.
Douglas, Lawrence and Dorothy Pitt
man, children of Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Pittman, farmer, near Reeves. Wis.
Miss Martha Raawe. IS, near Rice
Lake, Wis
Mrs. Lewis Reed. 50, near Rice Lake.
John T. Salmon, farmer, near Clay
ton. Wis.
George Tuin. farmer, near Little
Rock, Iowa.
The property damage can hardly be
accurately estimated, so wide was the
storms path and so incomplete were
reports from the several storm centers
but it was certain to run into hundreds
Of thousands of dollars.
In North Minnesota alone the damage
was fixed at 500 900, while the storms
wake In country sections was strewn
with wrecked farm buildings.
Resort Laid Waste.
The most destructive of the storms
formed over Lake Minnetonka, Sum-
mer resort near Minneapolis. It struck
with increasing velocity on the north
side Of the city, wrecking many homes,
damaging communication lines and up
roofing trees. It tore its way through
two Minnesota counties and. three in
Wisconsin before 1t blew itself out. In
|. this city. where the population is heav-
lest, only one man, Andrew Hanson,
was killed. George Lundgren was killed
at Forest Lake when his house col
lapsed, and at Taylor Fails, 30 miles to
the north and east, c. r. Bryan,
farmer. was crushed to death. Then
the storm lifted 70 strike again at Rice
Lake and Reeves, Wis. where four
were killed. Mrs. Louis Reed and Miss
Martha Raawe, sisters, we're crushed to
death near Rice Lake and near Reeves
the three children Of Mr.. and Mrs. Rich
ard Pittman died when their home was
demolished. A farmer, John Soloman,
was killed at Clayton, Wis
George Tuin, Little Rock, Iowa,
farmer, was the sole fatality reported in
Iowa, being killed when his chicken
house collapsed during heavy wind
storm.
Three persons were reported missing
in the Rice Lake district. They were
Mr. and Mrs. Basil Traischoms and
Marie Buchrow.
The storm developed late in the after
noon. With but little warning it broke
over Minneapolis, and In half hour
the northern section Of the city was
strewn with wreckage. From that point
the tornado worked northeast, dipping
and rising.
20 Farm Homes Wrecked.
Perhaps the most severe blow was
struck at Rice Lake and vicinity, where
more than 20 farm homes we're wrecked.
There the wind was accompanied by
heavy rain and huge hailstones, which
smashed windows.
Mrs. Reed, living on farm some
distance from Rich Lake, called her
family OF small children in the cellar.
Then the wind struck the house, it was
ripped from the foundation and the
woman was killed by rocks which fell
from the basement wall.
At Fridley, Mimi. short distance
north of here, radio station WRHM was
badly damaged.
The number of persons injured here
can only be estimated. More than 10
were treated at hospitals, and scores Of
others at their homes. At Rice Lake.
Wis, 20 were so seriously injured they
were placed in the hospital there and
Is we're being cared for at a hospital
ct Barron, Wis.
Hastings and Beatrice were among
the Nebraska cities reporting damage
from high winds. At Omaha there
wss q 32-degree drop in temperature in
eight hours from the record-breaking
COS, into which the mercury had risen.
Snowfall was predicted for parts Of that
State today.