Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1902 — TEN KILLED IN A TORNADO. [ARTICLE]

TEN KILLED IN A TORNADO.

Storm Deal* Deuth and Destruction Near Lake Park, Minn. Ten persons were killed and many hurt in a tornado which swept across the country twelve miles north of Lake Park, Minn., at 5 o’clock Monday afternoon. The storm devastated a strip as country three miles long and two miles wide. Nine farm houses were destroyed and their inmates crushed and maimed. Barns and other outhouse* were blown down and crops were ruined. The church at Spangels was demolished and several other buildings in the little towu were damaged. Lake Park is a small town in the northwestern part of Minuesota, 217 miles from St. Paul, about thirty-three miles from Moorhead and forty miles east of Fargo, N. D., and is attuated on the main line of the Northern Pacific Railroad. It is in Beecher County and has a population of COO. Spangels is a country district near I/*ke Park.