| Show Than Fifty by Tornado I ea- ea Death Storm Sweeps Over t. t Saskatchewan Canada Property Canada Property asa ce an Loss Estimated a aV at 1 1 i i V r IN T T G M Manitoba June 30 Fifty Fifty to persons were ere killed and f damage done by a 3 tornado which struck Regina an n this afternoon on Several business blocks apartment houses houses' and resi- resi aces were wrecked wrecker The Th ho he storm struck l cI Regina at at t 4 50 I The Th ho he storm struck l cI Regina at at t 4 50 I m. m coming from frol t the H south Many I me buildings were ere destroyed The Sa Saskatchewan an government go tele- tele ono Ond nb building was pa blown d down wn and antI 11 lief Ilef gangs are w working r. r taking out tho ad T The e lo local al telephone ou office co was reeked and It is Is' Is feared eared that fifteen employed thero there were killed The exchange building the Stand- Stand d block the First Baptist church chUich andle and le me Baird and D Bottel building are ong the structures r s destroyed Communication Cut Off All AU telephone and n telegraph wires Ith the exception of r on ong telegraph Ire are down j iA A special train 1 left Ct shortly shortt fter ner 9 oc o'clock ock with doctors nurses and and telephone repairs Crossing the railway tracks several Re C the largest h J houses In the fly illy were unroofed their laden heavily floors falling to th the 1 bottom ott m as 19 their supports were ere unloosened o ened r Two wo fires broko ut ut l ut as most of oC the the fire halls d the storm and the water at r pressur was aR not nol Impaired 1 t the tho e flames l 8 were confined to the ruins h where r time the they starts started 1 All XU All electric Hell Po a Rn and 1 power wires Ires w wore re rendered us ess and the city is In darkness s. s All AtI conveyances were pressed re sd into i to convey the dead to to the h morg morgues es R aim the Injured to the hospitals At IH S' S o o'clock tw twelve I h e dead bodies had h n n 81 sighted in t tl ruins and a 1 number h ha lead i benl e liken Jakon ox storm n eRt from Regina t ouS cent centre ji Icing F ot x i l life e Is 19 re- re d dna J If IHa sel- sel i p P t r. r-r. Ij 1 ported p oppe e q and also nt at At t 10 io o'clock It W was s believed cl that tW two lives 1108 had been lost JOt The Tho tornado came camp from tho the south and first struck the ne' ne new parliament building just completed at a cost COlit of oC The Tho building is of steel and concrete and while It stands It Is Ie badly badly hadI bad had I ly shaken It then swept northward mowing n a swath six blocks wide the most fashionable residence di district transforming transforming- It Into a mass mas of wreckage Along Victoria street from Sixteenth i to Eleventh Elc streets hous houses s were destroyed d and man many persons killed Automobiles Automobiles Au Au- tilled filled with Ith people were hurled high In tho the air and deposited blocks s sawn awn away At Eleventh Ele street the street composed of oC whole wholesale ale warehouses banking institutions and retail Ator stores wn was sent Into a n. heap of oC ruins while the tho theair Mr air was filled with flying wreckage Past l m Eleventh menth street Albert Albrt Smith Cromwell Hamilton and Roso Rose streets th the storm torm rach reached d tho the retail section which received ed the severest e force Pacific tracks Then the time Canadian w r rp reached Six SIv Sl big grain elevators ele Continued C d on Page o 3 3 Column 1 r MORE THAN EUN FIFTY KILLED BY BYI TORNADO Oe Death th Dealing Storm Sweeps 0 Over r Saskatchewan Canada Can Can- ada Loss ada-Loss Loss 1 Continued From Pa Page e One toppled over the being plied on the tracks The magnitude mag of or the calamity which Re Regina lna had suffered could not be estimated estimated estimated esti esti- mated at a late hour tonight It seemed certain however that the killed and Injured would roll roU up to a total of ot be between between be- be tween and The Tho confusion contusion was that to de determine de- de termine the number of localities was out of or the question Every ambulance In the city was worked to the limit carrying the bodies of the killed and the scores of or Injured to the hospitals which were filled early In the evening e Crowds of oC volunteers all over d the city were assisting In ht the work worl ol of searching the wreckage and for Cor hours hardly a n minute o went b by that a human I bod body or the tho mangled form COlm of oC some t-ome living living living liv liv- ing victim was not uncovered In Gala Da Day Attire The sweep of oC the tho storm the worst In tho the history of of C tho Canadian northwest northwest north north- west was over O a city which only a a. short time before had completed tho the work of ot decking Itself In gala Fala attire for the celebration of ot Dominion da lay day Bunting and flags covered cred buildings everywhere C and networks of electric lights wore were strung and ready for Cor il it j Through these gaily gaU decorated decorated dec dec- orated streets the tornado swept and within a 1 half halt hour Regina had been turned Into a ct city of ot mourning In tho the track of oC the storm building after aUer building la lay In ruin shrouded In Its colored nay bunting The tornado swooped do down n Just a few blocks to the north of ot the limits o of the cil city I cutting a swath swath swaB several blocks 8 wide rl right ht Into the center of or the town leveling leveling lev lev- eling the buildings in Its ake In a n. t twinkling three of oC the handsomest handsomest hand hand- churches In Regina were laid In ruins Thc They were the Methodist x Baptist and Knox ox churches and the first of ot tho the city's largest buildings tobe to tobe tobe be blown blo down Then the roo roof was as swept from the Y F. 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A building and the walls of oC the structure were shattered while Just beyond the new public library was badly wrecked and he the Presbyterian church was laid In ruins I have e I EJI P In rapid succession the Masonic temPIe temple tem tern PIe and the telephone exchange were ere 4 leveled lo Although h man many of or the telephone girls were Injured none was killed t t One Ono of ot the most serious losses to the city was that of or the warehouses and the row of grain elevators in the F Canadian Pacific yards ards Upon these the farmers Carmels of th the district were de depending depending de- de pending ending for Cor the tho storage of their crops r this this season But one grain elevator ele remains and that was much damaged The Tho freaks of ot tho storm were ro- ro re A freight car was hurled through a freight ht shed A canoe was carried from Crom as can a lake a distance of three quarters of a n mile mite to Victoria park an and dropped there ther Many Ian dingles dingies and even small sailing vessels sels lie strewn over ovel the southern section of ot the ci city t as far as a half mile from Crom tho the lake The whole north porth side of the cit city was waR 1 practically lv wiped out by the storm Sl Six hundred families are aro homeless rhoma The rho ma mayor or and city council have ha started a fund and are providing for the desti desti- tute |
