In Minnesota; "Twisting Funnel-Shaped Cloud"
Anoka, June 19.
Eleven persons were dead and at least 200 were injured today following a furious and sudden tornado that tore through Anoka and in a few minutes cut a swath of terrible destruction to the extent of US.
$500,000.
Five blocks of the town were demolished by the terrific tornado. Mrs. Anna Freeman James and Mrs. Bradley Ellen Freeman were killed when the tornado swept their automobile from the state highway and tossed it into a field. The furious wind caught the car and lifted into the air as if it were a matchbox.
Governor Harold Stassen and the Adjutant-General of the National Guard, Mr. Ellard Walsh, personally directed the rescue operations after the tornado had swept through the New Delicate Situation
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