Show ruin on every side at st paul sixteen dead and scores injured property loss foots up a round million dollars 1 st paul august 21 death to twelve persons and destruction to property both private and public estimated in round numbers at rode on a scorching galo which tore down the valley of mississippi about 9 last night from a point near the conference of the minnesota and mississippi rivers near fort snelling at about that point the fury of the elements seemingly divided end with a roof descended on the clelles and their environs DEAD P IIo kanson st paul killed pt theater body taken to city pi george K carpenter SL paul ailed at theater body re anaed to city morgue unknown child killed by falling frails at house ot good shepherd albert ottoa aged 38 at at louis park six year old son of frank hedera at st ioula park unknown gm aged about 10 four unknown dead at waonia Wa onla a small stati loo 20 miles weal of minneapolis richard operator at minneapolis junction killed by lightning unknown woman MISSING edward gilbert bt paul was one of the last persons eleu in divoll theater during the calamity injured mary odonnell aged 13 glencoe glnn year old son of patrick odonnell glencoe Gle neoe aiton frederick aroas groas glencoe Gle neoe minn mrk croaa mother ot gross william fractured fatally injured olai hansen st paul hit on head ly falling arc la up and knocked un i the st pai blown from his delivery wagon in the la Fay elii avenue badge seriously in janica omaha brakeman trod lop 01 freight car in janci at paul barua yarua te verely bruised mra younger taug lil in coi aliouse injured internally may bu fatally strong caught in of the east si paul round balei ot omaha badly bruised george le claere st paul bruised about ai uia and body not serious thereca The reea kempt actress divoll theater badly cut on arm and body bul sed by falling timbers sadie kenny actress ac treas divoll theater aim cut ami head brul david nerlyn biage hand divoll theater arm cut slater at house of good shepherd name injured internally and body badly cut and bruised condition critical unknown child house of good shepherd beneath dobras may die polly onell actress theater fell down stair and was injured by falling debrie hip and body bruised and cut warren whitney piano player ti all theater baal v cut about body and bruised brenderm unconscious J st paul injured in wreck at Il voll heater hip and bernod by alvo electric wire theater tell waca crash came and wa removed by tho police will recover V B fork shocked by livo wire and burned john II ammond fort tri aured about the head and body nt tivoli theater peter gro lah bartender nt divoll theater eh dislocated and bruised about body and limbs john lindlund nose broken and wounded on head paul reynold hands badly cut by fallone alcha assan of popcorn aland head and face cut by broken glass john st Paul bead cut and eldo bru leed li i bert st paul lamba and body bruised and cut aenlo theater cut and bruised about bead and shoulders unknown boy unconscious by alvo wire john bugan telegraph operator head cut by falling joseph alansen ll ansen struck by electric light pole not loua beginning at a point below fort there is tho first known evidence that the storm struck with damaging effect it camo from the southwest and howling in its fury uprooted trees and demolished buildings in its pathway toward st paul it tore off two spans of tho high bridge completely ely thero the bridge connected with tho high bluffs at west st paul and it la feet above tho river this mass of steel was carried to the flats below where flying steel girders and heavy planks fell on several small farmhouses and crushed them none of the occupants of cheso houses were hurt they having seen the storm coming and took refuge in the caves in the hillsides hill sides tho storm tore along the flats uprooting trees on harriet island and with a deafening roar and tho hiss and splash of falling steel it struck this city there was located at the bridge entrance on opposite sides of wabash street the concert hall and empire theater both of which were fairly crowded with men watching the performance both buildings stood on the edge ot the bluff overlooking the river with sides of the buildings open and were wrecked the full force of the struck them the buildings began to sway and rock and abo audience became panic stricken men anda rushed ivr each other tor the exits the lights went out and the sheet lightning flashes one following another with gun alro rapidity illuminated a scene of pandemonium which was intensified by the crash ot glass and the tearing of timber sas the frame structures gave way before the tornado sections Sec tiona of the root were blown through the aid and landed cast in third street a block distant underneath the divoll found the mangled bodies of loran F hokinson one of the employed emp loyes in the concert hall and ceorge W wenton one of the audience on the storm rushed to the northeast over the wholesale district and every building facing the south from wabash street tor blocks east of third street bad scarcely a whole pane of glass in any window while many on the opposite side were also broken roofs on several buildings were rolled into bundles and dropped into the street hying plate mixed with the rain battered everything which stood before it and horses and carriages were sapt along the streets which in an incredibly short space of time acie filled with water wires were torn down and part of the cly was ln darkness the high buildings reaching skyward above the smaller ones on east third street were shaken to their foundations the fine arge plate glass windows were blown in and in several buildings skylights blown out in tho path of the wind blood the large freight house of tho omaha rail croal and the small al tho end about fifty feet standing at the east side was mown away telephone service between the twin citira was cut off for three hours while telegraph communication was cut off entirely except through the medium ut the associated press across wabash street the empire theater a two story brick structure of tho samo character as the was and otherwise badly dam labod nearly all of the business blocks on third street between wabash and streets a distance of live blocks were damaged roofs were blown off and plate glasa windows shattered the minnesota club at the curent of fourth and cedar streets was damaged while the globe office building a ten story structure just across the street escaped with but little injury the pioneer press building a 13 story brick and steel structure at the corner of fourth and roberts streets was literally diddled piddled by the wind and flying dearl nearly every window on abo south side was shattered part of the cornice was damaged and a buxe ski light above the court was dashed to the glass tailing like hall in the corridors beneath there was a among the at work on the twelfth floor many of them being cut by flying pieces of glass the western union telegraph office on the eleventh floor was flooded by the phacia of rain that same in through the broken windows and the ing force was compelled to make a lasty axll the wholesale houses on fourth street buffered much damage ihu whole fialo dry goods house of finch young and mcconville was unroofed and the windows blown in the stock considerably dari ged by water alln deke warnar sons the L skinner co and sheffer possum wholesale firms also suffered considerably the storm hen swooped across st louis park le velling al shade trees and struck the five story brick building of noyles brothers cutler wholesale druggists blowing off the root and carrying away part of the upper story nicol and asane the Rood year rubber company clement granger co ogden merrill and greer and C gotsman co wholesale bouses facing on the park were all damaged minneapolis august 21 the center of the storm bit the business section att avenue and sixth avenue here the front of the glass block waa blown out and a huge skylight waa blown oft all of the stores in thia district had windows blown jn and all buffered more or ie damage to stock the mammoth skylight ol 01 tho guaranty loan building fell twelve starlen through abo interior ourt and great camago waa done by water to omica the street car service was tied upun up un til noon oday trolley wires being down in all parts ot the city as the re ault of falling arcee the loea Is estimated at fully the storm did great damage at st louig pork a suburb about six mile minneapolis the loss here Is at CO A to the tribune by courier from jaconia waconia baya that place waa visited by a tornado la evening which devastated the country for miles about and from the meagre reports obtainable tour were anil several injured st paul aug 21 ou a level plateau and unprotected from tha tur storm the government W ifera 1 i ii military buildings nt fort snelling miraculously escaped injury the storm seemed to foi low tho river course only tho edge passing over ho northwest end of the reservation trees acro uprooted branches torn away and hurled against wires crashing them to tho ground hie slate of tho south roof of tho thirtieth battery quarters ans torn from its fastening and distributed over a largo area portions 0 tho roofs of tho quarters at the tenth battery and the gun shed were alsor ripped loose exposing the upper floors to tha tury of the torrent of rain that poured down incessantly tor hau an hour small patches of alato from the roofs ot many other quarters were torn away but in tho agg regato not much damage was done the principal caused by tho storm was the derangement of the telephone and electric lighting systems the great force of the wind carried down and wires disturbing connections and putting out tho lights throughout the buildings the wind had apparently spent a portion of its fury by the time it reached the tort |