The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-06-07
Score Are Hurt in
Minnesota TOrnQdOeS
Southwestern Part Of State
Suffers Heavy Damage
From Disturbances
LOSS PUT At $4,000
Lack Of Power Makes It Diff.
cult to Care For Those
Hurt At Worthington

st. Paul, June 7.-(F-Widespread
damage and injuries to 20 or more
persons resulted Tuesday night from
what witnesses described as a series
Of tornadoes which struck scattered
parts of southern and southwestern
Minnesota.
Several victims of the tornado In
the Worthington vicinity, most seri-
ously damaged, placed at 100000 the
unofficial estimated damage that
demolished property and wrecked
power lines, necessitating an emer-
gency operation In a darkened hos
pital while physicians worked by the
CLEAN Of flashlights.
DR.. E. A. Kilbride operated on Mrs.
Adam Balk, wife Of q farmer near
here, who suffered a serious injury
to bone in her leg when a piece Of
board was imbedded during demoli-
ton of some buildings on the Balk
farm.
Mrs. Herman Andreg, who with her
ur-year-old daughter and husband,
was trapped in the wreckage OF their
cabin, suffered a similar injury but
was not as critically hurt.
Hospitals Treat 20
They were among some 20 persons
treated at hospitals In Worthington.
Six victims of the tornado still were
In hospitals there Wednesday.
Crops, buildings, trees. windows,
and telegraph and telephone lines
were demolished here and there In
the southern and southwestern part
Of the state.
At Butterfield $4,000 bushel ele-
vator was draped across the main
line of the Omaha railroad. Blind
ed by dust stirred up by the terrific
blow, the engineer Of freight train
was unable to stop In time and ram
med into the wreckage. The train
vas not derailed and no one was
hurt.
Eight miles away. at Mountain
Lake, the wind picked up two empty
box cars from a hiding and slammed
them into the side OF a caboose. Two
men of the train crew leaped to
safety from the caboose.
The tornado struck the Worthing-
ton vicinity after a day Of high tenn
peratures when the mercury reached
100. Hundreds Of persons, seeking
relief from the heat at nearby lakes.
were caught in the open. 1t was
hours before they were able to reach
home because debris and uprooted
trees, snarled communication and
power lines, blocked the roads.
Many Towns Damaged
Among the towns suffering dam
age were Brewster, Worthington, St..
James, Mountain Lake, Butterfield,
Hastings, Lake City, Owatonna, He
ron Lake, Lakefield and Okabena.
Reports Of the tornado storms.
rather meager because Of crippled
communication lines, came from He
ron Lake, Jackson county, IN south
western Minnesota; Waseca, IN Wa
SEGA county, and Hastings, in Da-
kota county.
At Waseca the driving wind and
rain storm blew the roof off the high
water tower, battered IN windows
knocked over trees and leveled barns.
The damage. 1t is estimated, will run
between $4,000 and $4,000.
Mrs. John Hacker, seeking refuge
in q house with others who had been
at a park in Worthington was struck
by piece Of wood that pierced her
arm.
Mrs. Frisbee, the hotel managers
wife, was in the second story Of the
Thompson hotel when, as she was
leaving her apartment, window was
shattered by the driving wind. The
flying glass cut her back and an
artery on her ankle. the wounds re-
curing several stitches.
Most of the extreme southern part
Of the state was without wire connec-
lions with the outside throughout the
night. Telephone and telegraph Of
ficials said the main cause Of the dis
rupted service was breaking OF wires
by falling trees and other storm
debris.