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Show MANY INJURED IN AJORNADOj I i Watertown, S. D. June 23. score of persons Injured, two of whom are j expected to die, and about fifty homes j either totally or partially wrecked, are the results of a tornado which -triuk Watertown earlv this evening The storm left a trail of wreckage wreck-age through a thickly populated resl-; resl-; ilence section of the city, many houses beini; wholly wrecked, while others were unroofed and moved from foun-I foun-I datlons. Proper! v damage is estimated at about $100,000, Following is a partial list of the injured Mrs Carl Bachlund anJ bab ; mother cut about the head, infant sustained fractured skull Mrs Mary Ecklove of Stockholm, fractured nose, face cut .lames Hagen fractured skull, bioken shoulder, internal Injuries; expected ex-pected to die. Norman Rose arm broken, skull fractured: seriously injured Mrs Alice Sauter, bruised. Mrs Elizabeth Forest, minor Injuries K M Uaicneil, badly bruised Joe Anderson and son. Norman; cut about head Mrs M Fulgen, bodv bruised. Mrs. Bergmaster. bruised about head F S. Thompson, arm broken The storm approached from the southwest, striking the southern edge of the city and wrecking buildings in a strip about two blocks wide and twenty blocks long Telephone service ser-vice and the electric wlres went out with the storm and caused great confusion. con-fusion. The storm lifted the big two-story barn n the John B. Hanten property and left if turned upside down on the roof of bis neighbor's barn An incoming Rock Island passenger I - I train was caught in the storm and all of the windows blown out of the I coaches The only person injured j I however, was lack Ryan, who left the train and took refuge in a ditch by the side .f the truck. He was slightly 1 injured. St. Paul Tune 2?,. Developing at times cyclonic proportions, a serious windstorm, accompanied bj a driving rain, tonight swept parts of North and South Dakota, Minnesota and western Wisconsin demoralizing wire communication, com-munication, Impeding traffic and razing raz-ing small buildings |