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Show WILD MINNESOTA TORNADO KILLS FORTY-SEVEN EVANSVILLE, Minn., June 23 Forty-seven persons are known to bo dead, 160 arc injured and in emergency emer-gency hospitals and property valued at $6,000,000 Is destroyed as a result re-sult of tlie tornado which swept I through Fergus Falls late yesterday afternoon. Relief work Is under way with plenty of doctors and nurses on 'hand. There Is a possibility that the death list may reach sixty when the ruins of the Grand hotel' have been thoroughly searched, as it is known many bodies are still beneath the pile. The greatest loss of life took place at the Grand hotel, a three story building. Five persons aro believed to have been killed when tho hotel was smashed by the twister. More than fifty guests were In the building. Special relief trains from Sa. Paul and Minneapolis arrived at Fergus Falls'at 6 o'clock this morning. Tho Ottertatl county court house county jail nnd sheriff's lesldcnce wero destroyed. At Ono Mile lake, near Fergus Falls, four children of John Kreldler, a farmer, were blown Into the lake and drowned. Messrs Held Shamhart and Louis Llnnartz will ieavo for the east next Sunday morning. They will attond tho big Wlllard Dcinpsy fight at Toledo, Ohio, on July 4, and from there Mr. Shamhart will go to tho eastern cities on a buylug trip for the Shamhart Christiansen company. Mr. Llnnart will go to New York for a short visit with his. family, before returning to Logan. They will bo gone several weeks. I |