| Show Jot Spell Broken iI 3 by Terrific Storm two Thirty Fires Started in J Forty Minutes by Lightning lightning Light- Light I ning in Chicago 2 jI By B Publishers Press CHICAGO Sept 2 With the thermometer thermometer ther thier- ranging between 85 and degrees this afternoon and hundreds thou thousands of or holl holiday seekers throng throng- 1 ig th the parks parIes arid and beaches the worst tin In j thunder all and 1 lightning storm It I 1 declared In the history o of the Iho city IM wept Pl over Ver Chicago In forty Corty minutes two hirty fires were reported and ii every try fire hUng Is-hUng up- up aratus In Chicago was i lighting the thc lames I A great han V low hanging mass of It clouds j the city In m darkness broken I nl fly U by the iV C vivid streaks ot of lightning ne Om d the 1 flashes of electricity the 0 trolley troll C and and elevated cars Tho The I ea H titan than ra dropped twelve degrees in iii an hour and thc the streets nl were a rivers before tho the storm spent s I lt It as though ever every flash lash of or g a tire fire nn and 1 the thc in- in 14 In tho en engine hou houses es at 5 I eric ork Under n continuous M Terrific c peals of or between the flashes Clashes ad- ad lug to o ii the terror rr r of oC C tho thousands dS of or r l worn wom- ua i lit In th the tho rush of oC wat r Qa the I aches s and n parks Eight the ho l heat persons Irons a ac are c dead lOad as a result before the thc ese T storm Three TI of or died as a direct lC result a of oC tho thu heat Wai drowned e escaping caping the tIle fierce Continued I on PagO 2 Column 7 7 7 HOT OT SPELL BY TERRIFIC STOR STORMi Continued from Page One sun rays ras by bathing in the lairs laks u h four tour crazed took their own lives Mors Mort than wore were prostrated but all till wert reported out of at danger tonight f The entire south end of oC the great gred Jackson street waste disposal plant othe o the West cst Madison street bridge e v Ji j crushed by the lightning and swe swept t tInto Into the Chicago river Dozens of small boats In the lake and the park were overturned o b by the rush of wind I and several persons narrowly rols missel mistel drowning saving Life crews were kept bus busy every cry moment Water which gushed from brohs broha pipes flooded the barrooms In the and Congress hotels M main struck by lightning burst bura j stream of water was tossed Into th the theair J Jair air striking the tho canopy on the Auditorium Auditorium Auditor Auditor- I ium lum hotel fourteen feet from Irom the tho sIde sIde- Me walk It took twenty-five twenty workmen the better part of the afternoon to re repair repair reo re- pair the break brenk Five children were carried unconscious unconscious from two buildings struck by bolts Streets and basement In the tho tho business districts were flooded and time tho big JIg buildings 8 with their tenants on a holiday were Inundated Thousands of j dollars worth of goods were nere ruined Holiday crowds were drenched At Aty Wilson beach a riot resulted when several several sev sev- eral thousand people rushed from tn th the beach to the tho bath houses housea Women were trampled under foot toot and several se badly Injured Traction service ser was badly hit bol boW bOtZ surface and elevated lines being practically j stopped for almost an hour heur Wires Vires were blown down and WP palt live crews kept busy hauling sputtering The wires from the flooded streets streets- third-rail third system was circuited snort at g points all over o the tho city by the torrents r ot of rain One or of the freak features of the thI storm was that the rain did n not the tho south th side of tile the elt city for an sa bOUt bouc after alter it started on the n north rth side f Th fourteen mn two sections are about J apart In the tho south side sido a a. il struck a 0 section of about t m tl and during the hoUtS blocks blocki square part of ot the day before the rca real StO degree camo came this section was ten cooler than other parts of C the e city J |
