Show TORNADO KILLS MANY MAN y FIFTEEN PEOPLE KILLED BY TWISTER AT ST PAUL MINN two hundred buildings are wrecked the damage to property properly being estimated at three million dollars fifteen aro are reported to be dead two score injured and property loss estimated to reach three million dollars are the results ot of a fierce tornado that swooped down on st SL paul blinn shortly after 9 saturday night the tivoli theater was demolished the empire theater razed the high bridge an immense structure erps sing tho the mississippi at a height ot of feet was waa almost totally destroyed and buildings are more or less damaged the storm was of 0 short duration I 1 sting lasting not more than fifteen minutes 4 the devastation it wrought was ter rifle the wind according to the gov eminent weather observer blew eighty miles an hour coming from the tha southwest buildings were unroofed and fronts blown in the tha cellars being flooded with the rain which came in great waves along with the w wind ind electric wires were prostrated and many persons were injured by contact with electric light and trolley wires fort snelling situated on a level plateau and unprotected from the tury fury of the term storm the government mil gitary buildings miraculously escaped severe injury the storm center seemed to follow the river course only the edge pass ing over the northwest end of the res er erv atlon trees were uprooted branches torn away and hurled against wires crashing them to the tha ground |