Show A terrific windstorm carries havoc and consternation blows dm DOW 11 HOTEL lad curk under the th ruins a law large number of workmen hn fhe already talen taken oat out atad others fatally ST PAUL july IG 10 A pioneer press special from weal west superior ivis 1 says save A windstorm of 0 terrific violence I swept over superior today to day there wag was a heavy rain and the air was heavily charged with electricity the storm only lasted a short time bat but in that time it did preat great damace damage to property besides be aidea taking at least five lives and injuring a number of persons fer Bone during die the height of the e torm an alarm of fire was turned in from tha the fifth ward and the department part ment responded to find a new large three tenry frame hotel in course of 41 construction on third street near lamborn avenue a mass of ruins the structure had blown down and the cry went op up that the wreck wag was the tomb of many men the news flashed over the city and hundreds of citizens rushed to the spot in spite of the kooring rain visitors rushed in and assisted the cause of rescue the work is still in III progress fresh men trl arg the places cf those who gave up through fatigue fully folly people were at the ruins at a late hour tonight to night the dead are john laur charles lucens klucens herman Iu seey an unknown man mail ami and john schofield among the more seriously ifju injured red are john brown john long IN william illiam semple dick dark clark brown and long will probably die women ran about regardless of the ra rain in and mud wringing their hands and crying filled w with ich terrible fear that their husbands or brothers bad had been buried in the ruins an eyewitness of the disaster says he be saw raw a crew of workmen run into the building to seek shelter from the fully thirty or forty men must have been inside this disaster was the central feature but much damage was done in all 1111 directions the steel hoisting and conveying apparatus employed by the silver creek and the morris and ohio coal companies was badly damaged A large frame building was blown down at the corner of third and lower streets south superior an and d a number number of other buildings were leveled but there were no casualties lightning played havoc with the fisher hotel the unitarian church the union depot and other buildings build inz but no serious fires firos resulted |