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Show DEATH DEALING. TORNADO. Illinois Town Struck by Twister and Five People Killed. Five persona were killed and nineteen nine-teen worn falully Injured and property Ins estimated at t!.0O0,0O0 waa raused by a tornado nt Htrcator, Ilia., Friday evening. Tho first building alrurk waa thn Woatorn Vulcan works, which waa entirely en-tirely destroyed, canning a lima of $&o.niO. Tho fifty employe had left the plnre. Only uno man, Illrhnrd Purooll, thn night watchman, wnt .u the factory, and ho wnt killed. A quartrr nf a mile nnrtbra-M Adoliih Htauber'a clothing factory was ra7.rd, but u 11 bad left half nn hour before. Next thr tornnilo caught a number of amiiM bouse, wrecking tome, turning othern half wny around, tw-ltlng huge tree and breaking them off at tho bnso. Thr hasrhnll pnrk, the ttreet rnllway park and the driving driv-ing pnrk were next In Ihn atorm't path All tho building, fencct and griuid attind at these three place, tnrludlug a HB.Ofln tmphllheatro In rourse of cnnKtrticlitin, wrrn drlroyrd. At the driving park about fifty portent were Injured. At Vho dairy farm of A. J. Dougherty, Dougher-ty, on the edge of tho town, a home waa blown down and tevcrnl who wore In It at the time very badly In-Jurod. In-Jurod. Thn Indiana. Illinois A Iowa bridge, coating fl.nno.OuO, waa partially par-tially wrecked and the hoisting works and bul'dinga nl Rprlng Hill shaft wore ruined. Many buildings In Knng-kley, Knng-kley, four mllrt wrst of fitrentor, were blown down and several prrxona woro Irjurcd tboro. Many hotisri were unroofed and otherwise damaged. Wfrea uro nrurly all down and dntutla nrn meager. At Kmlngton tnvrrnl houea were tit-tntly tit-tntly drmollshrd and four peraotit were trtluuly. If not filially Injured. At Cnmpii one mnn wn killed wht.o two othera austulned ltijurle which mny provn futul. The tornado waa accompnnlril by a terrific rainstorm, rain-storm, which wnhed out bridges, culverts cul-verts and thouHanil of fiet of rnllrond track. The lost of rrup la very heavy. Four persona were killed and ten othera trrloitfllv Injured by n tornado that struck the northern part of Men-riota. Men-riota. The pnth of the eturin was gliout eight mllet In length. Kvnry-thlng Kvnry-thlng In the ttonn't track waa leveled to the ground. |