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Show TORNADO KILLS MANY FIFTEEN PEOPLE KILLED BY TYVISTER AT 8T. PAUL, MINN. Two Hundred Buildings Are Wrecked, 'the Damage to Property Being Estimated Es-timated at Three Million Dollars. Fifteen aro reported to bo dead, twq score Injured nnd property loss cstl-matedto cstl-matedto reach three, million dollars aro tho results of a flerco tornado that swooped down on St. Paul, Minn, shortly after 9 o'clock Saturday night. Tho Tlvoll theater was demolished; the Kmplro theater razed f tho High bridge, an Immense structure crossing tho Mississippi at a height of 20U feet, was almost totally destroyed and 200 buildings aro moro or less damaged,. The storm was of short duration, lasting not moro than fifteen mtnutcsj Tho devastation it wrought was tcr rifle. Tho wind, according to tho govt ernment weather observer, blow eighty miles an hour, coming from tho southwest. Buildings wero unroofed and fronts blown In, tho cellars being flooded wth tho rain which camo In groat waves along with tho wind. Elcc trie wires wero prostrated and many porsons woro Injured by contact with electric light and trolley wires. Fort Snelllng, situated on a love plateau and unprotected from tho fury of tho storm, tho government m1l ltary buildings miraculously oscaped sovoro Injury. Tho storm contor seemed to follow tho rlvor courso, only tho edgo pass ing over tho northwest end of tho rest orvatlon. Trees wero uprooted, branches torn away and hurled, against wires, crashing them to tha ground. |