Show SEVEN PERSONS ARE KILLED IN A TORNADO St Paul Minn Oct 3A tornado struck St Charles lInn at 210 p in today and ruined the town Seven persons per-sons were hilled and twentyeight In juied many seriously DEAD John Evans Sr J Kvana Will vans i William Adams Ed Murphy Oscar Cri t tendon r George lesson tEd r t-Ed Peters INJURED Carrie Evans Charles Crlppens LJIankonburg Pike farmers boy fatally Injured P H Rock LwlL skull crushed will die Jacob Helm farmer crushed fatally hurt I I Daughter of Paul Johnson farmer fatally crushed Jacob Murphy crushed about body will dieD die-D J Chandler head cut Ezra Stevens foot crushed Agent Wai to of the Chicago Croat Western bruised by falling timbers L Sheridan back sprained Judge Edward Gould legs broken G W Babcock of Chicago leg fractured frac-tured feet crushed and face lacerated I Schlosslngur farmer badly bruised William Stevens bruised Mrs Dr Rollins shoulder dislocated I ankle sprained 13aby Rollins face cut I Family of nix names not given all flllghtly Injured I I The entire main street of the town was literally wiped out hardly a busl l I newi place being left standing Forty two residences also were destroyed I and the total property damage is estimated esti-mated at 5100000 Among the buildings build-ings demolished were the Central school building the Chicago Great Western depot the Catholic church and Parrotts wagon works FARMERS FILLED STREET This being Saturday people from the surrounding farms had gathered In large numbers In the main street to do their customary shopping At 2HO the storm cloud wad = seen approaching from the southwest and there was an Immediate Imme-diate scramble for places of safety The tornado struck the town from the Houthwcst i quarter and made a cleans clean-s through It following almost entirely en-tirely the line of the main street and devastating buildings on either side Then the residences further back were lit uclt and many of them blown completely com-pletely away BURIED IN WRECK It seems almost miraculous that there was not a greater loss of life Four of those killed were In John Evanss saloon sa-loon when It collapsed and they were burled beneath the wreckage Two a others were in a dry goods store which was blown away and they were killed 1 by the falling walls Ed Patent of Dover Do-ver was killed In the wreck of the hotel ho-tel TELEPHONE GIRLS HURT The telephone exchange was demo lahcd and two of the girls were ac rlously Injured Their names are not obtainable tonight toIl t-oIl Blankunburg was the proprietor of a large grain elevator and he was caught in the wreck when this was de Htroyed lie was seriously injured KJLLJ5D BY PLOWSHARE One man was killed In the street by being struck by a plowshare hurled through the air by the force of the storm All the telegraph < and telephone wires were leveled at the flrst blast of the storm and communication with other citieS was cut off WRECKAGE FILLS STREETS Utter confusion reigns In tho town The streets arc filled < with wreckage trees and farm Implements which were blown through the air The horror of the affair has practically paralyzed action ac-tion for the time being on the part of the citizens who stood about awestricken awe-stricken at the awful devastation by the elements It was some time before crews began to clear away the debris which It Is feared may cover many a sickening sight WAS OLD SETTLEMENT St Charles Is a 1 village of 1500 inhabitants i inhabi-tants on the western boundary of WI nona county and Is mil of the oldest settlements in the StateWIDE State-WIDE SECTION SWEPT The storm which struck the town with such disastrous results swept a wide section of country down the river division from the Twin Cities tothe Minnesota boundary doing much damage dam-age and cutting oft telegraph communication communi-cation between the Twin Cities aid Chicago for a Umo f |