DEATH-DEALING TORNADO
Many Lives Lost at Grand Forks and Valuable Buildings Destroyed.
GRAND FORKS, DAK., June 17.—This city was visited with a destructive tornado yesterday afternoon. The storm came from the West and traveled due East.
Twenty-five or more building including the Catholic church and the University of North Dakota were blown to the ground. The laboratory and museum in the university were almost totally destroyed, besides hundreds of smaller buildings, storehouses and sheds.
The following were killed outright: Mrs. Pollett, Mrs Davis, mother of Mrs. Pollett; Flora Starbird, 12 years old, -- Gummerson, a man in East Grand Forks.
The seriously injured were Mrs. A. Starbird and child, Mrs. Ed. Tierney and two children, Mrs. J, Andrews and two children, Mr. Talton and two children, Mrs Guyot and daughter at the University of North Dakota.
In East Grand Forks fourteen business buildings were destroyed, and both bridges across the river were swept away. The total loss is estimated at $100,000.
The train fom the north was blown from the track, about four miles out, and rolled over a couple of times. No one was killed, but several passengers were severely injured.
During the storm last night Halver Leland, of Walle township, was killed. The storm is reported quite severe at Manvel and Ardock, where buildings were blown away. The Andrews family had their house blown to pieces and carried 100 feet. Ed. Tierney's house was overturned and his wife injured. The children were carried 150 feet, but escaped serious injury. One of them, six years old, was carried across the railroad track and lay there during the whole storm.
A. A. Myerstrom is dangerously hurt on the head.
[18 June 1887; Wheeling Register; Contributed by Rita Bergendahl]