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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Boy standing among the wreckage of various farm structures and implements apparently after a wind storm or tornado. |
| Date: | 06 22 1919 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of Fergus Falls after a cyclone ravaged it. Grand Hotel (middle), and Catholic Church (right), have been labeled. Red River Milling Company ... |
| Date: | 04 01 1925 |
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| Description: | Men readying a line of McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractors for delivery for "tri-state tornado" victims. The tractors are parked in a row near what appears to... |
| Date: | 04 15 1925 |
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| Description: | A man uses a McCormick-Deering relief tractor to drag metal pieces from a "tri-state tornado" damaged residential area. The trees along the street have bro... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A group of men gathering around a McCormick-Deering relief tractor in an area damaged by the "tri-state tornado." The tractor may be an 10-20. |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of rescuers and onlookers standing among the wreckage in the wake of a cyclone. Bare trees, horses, houses, and a church steeple are in the bac... |
| Date: | 06 1899 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of New Richmond after the tornado hit on June 12, 1899. Many people are gathered around the railroad tracks and a few others are seen among t... |
| Date: | 07 1899 |
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| Description: | People stand among the rubble of Ward S. Williams Co.'s stone block building after a tornado. |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | View of debris, perhaps from tornado damage in the business district of New Richmond. A group of onlookers investigate the damage. Caption on stereograph r... |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | The still smoldering foundation of a burned brick building in the wake of a tornado that swept through the town. More debris can be seen in the background. |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | Two well-dressed men survey piles of debris left in the wake of a tornado. Part of the wall of a brick building is in the background. |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | Men, one of whom is holding an umbrella, stand looking at a tree that has been stripped of its bark by a tornado. It also appears to be embedded with a pie... |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | Elevated view toward the horizon over a bridge on a river of the widespread destruction left in the wake of a tornado. Destroyed houses litter the scene an... |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | A hooded woman sitting on the remnants of a house. As the amount of debris and barren landscape can attest, the area around her had been leveled by a torna... |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | A man works to clear debris in the aftermath of a tornado. Other men, women and children are gathered nearby. |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | Still smoldering fires and wreckage amidst debris left in the wake of a tornado. |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | A firetruck with its hose hanging into the water is surrounded by debris and other wreckage left from a tornado. |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over water, perhaps Hatfield Lake, of damage to houses and property caused by a tornado. Groups of people are scattered throughout the town. |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | View over water, perhaps Hatfield Lake, of houses damaged and demolished in a tornado. Floating at the edge of the lake near an eroded bank are numerous pi... |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over water of the damage created by a tornado. A river, with debris visibly floating in it, runs through the town. Groups of people are walki... |
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