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Cyclone In Minnesota

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Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
July
Year
1889
Copyright
Public Domain
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IINNEAPOLis, Minn., June 29. - The Jouraal's Rushford special says: A comblned cyclone, waterspout and hail-storm passed from oue to Ure miles east of here Thursday night, destroying eyery thinpr in lts path. It probably ga.thered over the town of Wiscoy, Winona County, entered Money Creek, Houston County, passed almost due south, curving glightly to the west, through Yucatán and the east part of Norway, in Fillrnore Qounty, then on through Preble. tlÜ 14 pent lts forcé. A belt two miles yri&e in the pathway of this storm tor thirty miles in lenirth is absoutely laid waste, the trees being ai bare of leaves as in winter. The loss by the storm can not fall much below $100,000. Immense trees, two feetl or more in diameter, hare been torn up nd twisted off. For two miles in width the merciless hall pelted every thtng into the ground. It crossed the railroad track, where the section men were st work, and they say that the hailstonea that feil were fully as large as a man's üst. Andrew Fizico, of Yucatán, was drowned in the flood. Another drowning is reported from Houston.

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Ann Arbor Register