SOUTHERN MINN. IS AGAIN DELUGED BY VERY HEAVY RAINS

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Many Counties Experience

Severe Wind And Rain Storms.

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ROCHESTER VISITED BY ELECTRIC DISTURBANCE

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Four Persons Injured. Large Circus Tent Quickly Collapses.

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Southern Minnesota was visited again by a severe windstorm last Thursday which at Rochester assumed miniature cyclonic proportions. Other sections experienced severe rain and at some places hail storms resulted in some damage to growing crops. New Ulm escaped this time. It looked threatening for awhile to the south and east,but the rain stopped on the other side of Searles.

Mankato Hit

Intermittent heavy showers accompanied in the earlier part of the evening by hail and wind, starting at 6:45 p.m., and lasting through the night visited Mankato. Over nine-tenths of an inch of rain fell during the night.

Telephones queries to villages, townships and rural districts thruout Blue Earth county and in Nicollet county revealed that no damage of any extent was done by Thursday’s storms.

Some amount of damage was done by wind on Highway No. 7 where it was reported several large trees were blown over. Within the city of Mankato the disagreeable feature of flooded sewers was noticeable in many sections.

The storm broke about 6:45 with sharp electrical displays and a heavy down pour. Shortly after 7 p.m.,volleys of hail, occurring mostly in the local districts, descended for fifteen minutes. The hail was large but did not come down with the sharpness noticeable in previous storms. The rain continued, increasing and decreasing in intensity thruout the night.

Circus Tent Collapses

Four persons were injured, scores of trees, carrying with them a number of live wires, blown down, telephone wires were crippled and a large tent of a circus collapsed as the result of a severe wind storm which struck at Rochester and vicinity at 10 p. m. Thursday.

Hundreds of persons, driving to reach their homes when the storm struck were caught by the heavy rain following a swift wind. Thousands of persons who jammed the huge circus tent were forewarned of the impending danger but all, with the exception of about 300, remained in the canvas enclosure.

Traffic Was Halted

Traffic in the down town section was halted for thirty minutes because of high tension telegraph wires being blown to the ground.

The monetary damage in Rochester was slight. Crops suffered very little if any according to reports from a farmers. Kasson and Oronoco, all within a radius of thirty miles of Rochester were visited by heavy rain storms,but, with the exception of trees being knocked down and windows shattered there was no damage.

A heavy rain storm accompanied by a high wind, visited Blooming Prairie and vicinity Thursday night. A few trees were blown down but no reports of damage to property or crops was received here.

A severe electrical storm struck in Zumbrota and vicinity Thursday night causing damage of between $5,000 and $6,000 to a barn on the farm of Elof Elofson in Roscoe township.

A heavy rain with frequent out-bursts, played over the Zumbrota territory, some hail falling. Crops, however, were not damaged by the hail.

High Wind Near Albert Lea

A severe rain storm, accompanied by a high wind, visited the section around Geneva, fourteen miles north of Albert Lea Thursday night and forced tourists camping in tents to take refuge in hotels.

The highways were blocked by trees blown down by the heavy wind and rain, and automobiles had to drive thru fields in order to get to town.

Storm Kills Cattle

Hail and rain accompanied by lightning, visited Winona and Southeastern Minnesota Thursday night, beating down cabbage plants near Plainview and flattening small grains at other points. St. Charles and Lewiston were without electrical service during the night, telephone service was crippled,and several head of cattle were killed by lightning in Winona county.

Brown County Journal,

July 10, 1925