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Show FOUR KILLED IN MINNEAPOLIS St Paul, Minn.. June 24. Four killed in Minneapolis, two fatally, and a score seriously injured at Water-town. Water-town. S D . property damage estimaf ed at more than one million dollars, with an almost complete prostration of telegraph nnd telephone communication communi-cation for a number of hours, was ' the reported havoc today of last night s wind and rain storm which swept over North Dakota, South Dakota, Da-kota, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Reports of the storm, however, were Incomplete here at. noon and It is quite possible (hat the loss of life and property damage totals may be large, ly increased when communication is restored In the four states. Apparently the storm struck with I greatest severity at Watertown, where it cut through a section of the city for sixteen blocks with sylonlc force Between 250 and 300 buildings were wiped out. Mrs. Carl Backlund and baby and Miss Marie E. Clove were caught in the wreckage of their homes and possibly fatally injured In Minneapolis Esther Munson, 17 years old, was killed when her home collapsed Louis Grnms and Margaret Kelly1 were drowned when their canoe was blown over in Lake Harriett. Mlss Loretta Gram6 of Jordan, Minnesota, j also was caught in a cano erhlcb was swamped in Lake Harriett, and , drowned. Clear Lake. R. D., June 24. H. E. Manning was killed and Mrs. Chris- f , ' ' tlanson and baby daughter fatally I - hurt in a tornado near here last I I night Property loss is estimated at 140,000. I nn I , |