Show DEATH TRAP IN DANCE HALL BALL IN LITTLE TOWN IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS BLOOMINGTON Ill June rune 11 Death n-Death Death and destruction followed last night Inthe in inthe inthe the wake of the worst tornado that has ever visited Central Gentra Illinois The wind ContInued on page 6 61 Many Lives Reposed Reported ed Lost Continued from gge page 1 ig wrought ruin and woe J property loss loss will wl be tens of thousands of dollars There is no way of realY really estimating the loss at present the uncertainty uncertainty uncertainty as to the effect upon the he growing crops which it is feared suffered hea heavily The saddest feature w was the killing of three y young ung women at a dance at theton the town ton hall hal oS ot Merna Mera a village viage ten miles mIes east of this city There iwas wa a party of young men and women at the dance In the hall hal when the tornado struck the building about 11 1 o'clock last night Everybody rushed for the door A number of held the doors to prevent the people from escapIng escaping escaping ing fearing that they might be Injured or killed if they got outside About half of them however escaped and then the building collapsed were buried in the wreck wreck Three were were ere killed kled and nd forty fody or fifty others injured some of them seriously i The d dead ad Miss Lena Mrs Edward Martin Martn Mis Annie Kelly Kely All Al are ar da daughters o pr prominent farmers farmers farmers farm farm- ers in the vi vicinity The bodies were Io horribly mutilated utia A A number numer of young men and and women taken from m the ruins in man an unconscious condition are still sUll sUl in that state and It i Is feared there may be other deaths Merna erna got the brunt o ot the te storm and many of the finest houses and barns there we were e destroyed The storm reached Bloomington about 11 1 p. p m. m commencing with a furious electrical display Rain accompanied the wind and the business district suffered suffered suffered suf suf- Mahy lahy plate plate-gl plate glass ss window windows windows win win- dows dow were blown in and stocks shocks tocks of goods were ere badly damaged of big trees w were re off at the trunks and the streets were vere alm almost st impassable Telegraph and telephone poles were snapped in two and th l trolley troley wires added to the te blockade Buildings all allover al over the city were damaged but n lid no lives s were lost nor was any any anyone one die seriously lv injured pe j r A man mart was blown feet feet but escaped escaped es es- es- es cap ed with slig-ht slig bruises Just Just oh on 01 the ev eve of commencement he the roof roof of of- Wesleyan Wesley n university was blown blo off of and the Interior was damaged damaged damaged dam dam- aged b badly by water The railroads report damaged tracks due to washouts and a a- a 8 number of freight wrecks due to telegraph poles falling on the tracks S So far as now known ro no one was a injured inthis in inthis this manner I Efforts are making makin to reach the small mal towns in the country It I is be believed believed be- be several sev-rl sev of them them have suffered more orless orleas s or darla i I At Clinton n the Chicago Chico Alton ro ro was WM dem demolished but so far as known no lives w were re lost At S San n os Jose a grain elevator levator was as as blown across cross the Alton Aion track entirely blocking traffic At Barnes arnea es an elevator alas blown blo down do rand and a many farmhouses are re reported reported reported re- re ported s damaged |