Detroit and Becker County, Minnesota
Tornado
June 9, 1902
DETAILS LACKING
Detroit, Mich., [sic] June 10—The tornado
yesterday afternoon swept across the
northwestern part of the (Becker) county and,
while owing to the distance from here and poor
communications, details are yet meager, it is
certain that three or four persons were killed
and a property loss of $60,000 occasioned.
Mrs. O. Berg was killed and the farm
houses of the following were destroyed:
ARNEK KNOUTSON, HENRY
LYSNE, SAM HOUGE, JOHN GUNDERSON, JOHN MOREZ, S.
O. MOSSALY, PAUL SMEAK, OLE JOHNSONBERG, A.
SPORICK AND
JOHN BERG. It is probable that some
of the inmates were killed, though names are not
yet at hand. The Norwegian Lutheran church at
Atlanta was destroyed.
Ole Johnsonberg and his son were
picked up and carried a quarter of a mile by the
storm, but were uninjured.
The Daily Northwestern, Oshkosh, WI 10
June 1902
DETROIT’S LIST
Detroit, Minn., June 11—The list of the
killed in the tornado of Monday afternoon is as
follows: Mrs. E.O. Berg
and four children of
Andrew Hium,
two girs aged thirteen and eleven and two boys
aged fifteen and six. The Hiums had five other
children, who were all more or less injured.
Mrs. Hium was hurt probably fatally, but Hium
himself was unscathed. In all thirty farmhouses
and barns were totally destroyed.
The Daily Northwestern, Oshkosh, WI 10
June 1902
DETROIT, Minn., June 11—A corrected
list of the killed in the tornado of Monday
follows:
Mrs. E. O. Berg
and four children of
Andrew Hium, two girls aged thirteen
and eleven, and two boys, aged fifteen and six.
Five other Hium
children were more or less seriously injured.
Mrs. [sic] Hium himself was unscathed. In all
thirty farm houses and barns were totally
destroyed.
Reno Evening Gazette, Reno, NV 11 Jun 1902
Articles transcribed by
Patty. Thank you, Patty!
Five killed in a Minnesota tornado.
A tornado of marked severity prevailed Monday
evening over sections of Clay and Becker
counties, Minn., and across the southern
portions of the White Earth Indian reservation.
The region through which the storm prevailed is
comparatively sparsely settled and remote from
telegraphic communication, and details are
therefore meagre.
The list of dead includes the following:
MRS. O. A. BERG,
wife of a farmer living near Voss, killed by
falling timbers.
Four Children of ANDREW
HOIN living north of Ulen, killed by
collapse of their home.
The storm seems to have first struck northwest
of the town of Ulen, in Clay county, whence it
traveled southeasterly across the northern part
of Becker county, striking the towns of Foss,
Atlanta and Walworth, along the lower edge of
the White Earth reservation.
At Atlanta a large Norwegian Lutheran church was
completely demolished and a number of other
buildings partly wrecked. The path of the storm
was about a mile and a half wide and from thirty
to fifty miles in length. It has been impossible
to verify the report from the White Earth Indian
agency that fifteen people were killed on the
reservation by the tornado.
The property damaged from the storm is roughly
estimated at $100,000.
Davis County Clipper Utah 1902-06-13
Submitted & transcribed by Stu
Beitler Thank you,
Stu!
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