Ogden Weekly Standard | 1905-08-25 | Page 3 | Center of a Severe Storm

twin cities get reports of heavy damage st paul aug 22 devastation terrible and complete was wrought on all sides of the twin cities by the storm of sunday night according to reports just received here through all the t region from anoka to fellmore counties reports tell of disaster and of life and property members 01 families are missing and it Is believed alrey are burled under the debris which was strewn broadcast by the wind many instances oc maiming are reported and the total loss 0 life will not be known tor some days crops which had been cut and were ready for threshing suffered in many places and standing corn was damaged by hall and wind hall stones several inches in circumference worked havoc with the crops in some sections large sections of railroad tracks were swept away south of here and the mail trains on certain portions of the chicago milwaukee st paul road were run yesterday on improvised tracks making slow time on account of the enforced insecurity of the roadbed washouts Wa shouts were numerous both along the railroads and la the highways the rainfall being enormous in some of the farming localities the grain was stripped from the stalks even in the shocks by tho furious wind and rain and haystacks were completely demolished huge trees which have successfully withstood the storms of years were uprooted and before the wind and barns and other outbuildings buildings out were completely destroyed st the damage done to buildings and crops in the southern counties will reach many thousands ot dollars but no accurate estimate can be formed until complete reports are received all sections report that tho storm waa cyclonic in Rs nature and from acme points reports tell of a tunnel shaped cloud that descended alth the most intense fury leaving destruction in its path