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Show DEATH DEALING WINDSTORM. Tornado In Mlnnosot Cause Seven Death and Destroys Much Property. A tornndo struck St. Charles, Minn, at 2:10 p. m. Saturday aud ruined the town. Seven persons wore killed and twenty eight Injured, many seriously The cutlro main street of the town waa HtoraJly wiped out, hardly a business place bolng left standing. Forty-two residences also wer destroyed, de-stroyed, snd th total proporty dam-age dam-age la estimated at $100,000. The town was crowded by peopl doing their Saturday' trading when th storm struck the plsce It sooms almost al-most miraculous that there was not a greator loss of life. Four of those killed wer In John Evans' saloon whon It collapsed, and they wer burled benoatb th wreckage. Two other were In a dry goods store which was blown away and they were killed by ths falling wall. Ed Paters Pat-ers of Dover waa killed In the wreck of ths hotel. Ono man waa killed Ln the street by boing struck by a plow-share plow-share hurled through the air by the force of the storm. |