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Show I IB STORM I PLAS HAVOC ? IN TWIN CITIES Heavy Property Damage .' Caused by Rain and Wind In North TREES ARE UPROOTED BASEMENTS FLOODED nwfrists Dies of Heart Failure Fail-ure as Wind Destroys His Minneapolis Store Four persons are dead today, 21 7 injured, and one child is missing . (S a result of a violent wind and i,i storm over the St. Puul-Miu-' grauolis area. There was heavy property daiuase ,ritl) trees uprooted and basements flooded. 1 Tivo of the victims were killed hen the lake Harriett pavilion in J Minneapolis collapsed. Nine others in toe pavilion at the time were Injured and hundreds of pieknicers ", make panicky rush for safety. 1 William J. Ford, 40, wns the third ,t(irm fatality. He wns Mown from He tab of a traveling crnne, which : jf wns operating fifty feet above Hie sround. He attempted to" climb to the top of the cab and close the window when the storm broke but lost his footing and hurled to the j ground by the wind. Ho died at the ospitul. Charles R. Fiestler, 47, died of bonrt disease aggravated when the Kind wrecked his Minneapolis drug Morc. |