Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1890 — CYCLONE AT FARGO. [ARTICLE]

CYCLONE AT FARGO.

A wind storm visited Fargo, N. D., on the 7th, and came near wrecking the town. Many small houses were demolished and w sole blocks of larger ones unroofed. A Northern Pacific train was blown from the track and fifteen passengers were injured. The residence of Captain McCarthy was demolished and seven ohildren were instantly killed. A special says: The children. who were at home with their mother, sought safety in the coal bin, where they were all crushed to death. Tho mother was also seriously injured, but it is thought she will recover. The Northern Pacific through west-bound passenger train, after being stopped by the force of the wind in the western suburbs of the city, was blown from the track and every one of the twelve cars turned over. Many of the passengers were severely but not dangerously injured, their injuries consisting merely of cuts and bruises. The Northern Pacific repair and machine shops were damaged *30,000 worth; the freight depots of the Great Northern and the Milwaukee roads were demolished; several churches were badly wreckod, and numerous other buildings more or less damaged.