Minneapolis - St. Paul,
Minnesota Storm & Lightning
July
13, 1912

Minneapolis, Minn., July 13. -- Three
persons are dead and thirteen injured and a
property loss of $100,000 was caused by one of
the most severe storms in years which raged over
Hennepin and Ramsey counties (Minneapolis and
St. Paul) last night.
The dead are:
Ralph Gillette, aged 30, killed by lightning
at the Inter lochen Golf links;
Mrs. Alma Frayer, and
Mary Bergman, of
Ellsworth, Wis., killed in the collapse of a
barn
Scores were injured, several seriously
Daily Commonwealth, Fond Du Lac, WI, 13 Jul 1912

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