Nestor Nowakowski drove by the Wadena Cemetery where he works on Saturday morning to find it was vandalized.

25 headstones were tipped over on the cemetery's west side and three were damaged. (Submitted by Nestor Nowakowski) Nowakowski, who has worked as the cemetery caretaker for the last eight years, told CBC News he could see scattered flowers on the road.

As he looked further, he saw 25 monuments on the cemetery's west side were tipped over and three were damaged.

"Some are very old," Nowakowski said. "There's one with an old white cross from 1907. It was a little baby's cross."

The culprits also vandalized ornaments, lights, and flowers that people placed on their loved ones' graves.

Monuments were tipped over and flowers were strewn across the cemetery. (Submitted by Nestor Nowakowski)

"I just got sick," he said. "I just thought, 'My God, what else?' No respect for nothing."

Nowakowski said he called the RCMP, who took fingerprints of the scene.

The damage to the Wadena Cemetery is estimated to be about $4000, not including damage to the headstones.

Nowakowski speculates the damaged was caused during late night partying. He said it makes him sick that people would disrespect a cemetery.

​"It's some place you don't touch. You leave it be. For guys to come in and do that, it's so low-life. People respect their dead," he said.

Wadena RCMP said the investigation is ongoing, but don't have any details at present.