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Show ffl?iTES Deaths Follow Destructive Gale: Train, Blown From Tracks, Burns ST. PAUL, Minn.. June 9. Two persons per-sons dead, several trains , wrecked, scores of persons Injured and extensive exten-sive property damage was the known loll of a severe wind, electric and hail stony which swept over eastern North Dakota and northern Minnesota yesterday. yes-terday. Tho known dead: William Hokmer, 11. killed when barn collapsed near Fergus Kalis, Minn. William Rceder, farmer, living near Gardner, K. D., killed when homo was demolished. Score Arc Injured. A score wore injured, one perhaps fatally, when four cars of Northern Pacific passenger train 2so. 15C were blown from tho track jiear Foxholme. A. A. Corlblom, of Gwlpner. N. D.. former North Dakota auditor, was so seriously injured ho may die. The ifoor coaches wore destroyed by fire. Two mombors of a freight train crew were- seriously injured near Gardner, Cass county, North Dakota, when several cars were swept from the track by a gale. Several cars were reported blown from Great Northern freight train near Sauk Center; Minn., but no one was injured, SIOUX CITY, la.. June 9. Property Prop-erty datnuge estimated ut $100,0u0 was dono 'in Sioux City . last night when the city was swept by a 90 mllu an hour gale. The heaviest damage was in the business district where plalo glass windows were shattered. No one was injured. |