Show ead cad image image age at Elginn Elgin n Ill III March March arch With With eight ht era imn n dead or more injured and perty loss that ma may exceed 1000 i Elgin tonight Is paralyzed as a ait ait ault it of or a tornado that swept swept- over overtown town at noon today t this city of ot persons Is darkness and almost cut but off oft from fromi i outside world At 5 p p. p m. m the busl- busl district which bore boro the brunt of ot storm was cleared by order of or oror for or Erwin H L Price and national finds ids an and volunteers arc are patrollinG to prevent t looting favor Price Irice in a proclamation Is- Is ii 1 this afternoon called on company compan Tenth Illinois infantry to take and asked ex cx pen men and andrs andrs rs rs to volunteer More than OO steers man many In the uniform of or army and navy y and with Ith over- over i chevrons on their leo alcoves respond- respond supplementing the sixty men of or the guard Juard company compan and Klein's Kleins re regu- regu u- u force fore FIt Fifty uniformed Boy lloy Boyuls also answered the tho call Churches Greatest t. t Sufferer The he he storm which swept a a. path OO ds wide across tho heart o of the thc city pk k tho tiro greatest toll of ot lifo lIo at tho the and Baptist churches ere cre four women were Mere killed and i ens injured Che he kno known dead are art are rs Tr W. D D. Kimball 6 s. s iss Elizabeth Mowat 20 Has lIs Footo Foote 21 L Babel abet 1 12 uel luel engineer at the state me no asylum nt n Beverley actor of fru Ill ra Ada Add Beverley Be actress of ot n unidentified man e C first four were n-cro killed when the tho church collapsed Sers Ser Ser- ers er- er s had been completed a few moita mota mo- mo ita ts ta before and tho tiro majority of or the tho rC had bad gone pono home A few lined walling waiting for tIle tho rain to abate I In en n without warning tho storm storm tick rack and the brick edifice col- col burying tho the victims in fn Its kagG kas I Killed I In Irl sire fr r r. r and Mrs Ham Sam of or Mil Mil- kee were In their dressing room I boo ho Grand tl theatre catro preparing for tho the thoc Ince c performance when tho the stage P eil I Their presence In the tho build build- I 18 s forgotten for fOI more than two i fl When search finally was start start- the i bodies uncovered unco Both Doth rent Y had l been cen instantly killed billed 10 o e G w Perk 1 Mit store tore a tory lory brick structure the Land Land- and ald several of or tho principal busi- busi t structures were completely dc- dc 1 yc JC J. J They carried no tornado Jn- Jn anc nr ncr ncr- lire broj broke c out In three the tornado the flames addI add add- I i. i to l the e terror of or thou thousands thousand ands who j ed ica Into tho the streets when houses stores tores carno carne tumbling dow down n. n I v t street car s has been BUSt sus- sus t w storm sl struck ck cat JCl in from the i R fist bi k Sl during a m. Corr torrential c down down- M db b ram rain T Tb The ire wind storm was waR folL folen fol fol- 1 L en dri y r a fL a terrific hall storm lasting s i I eion c felt the tho full u effect ct of i Baton alt 11 o y Dung lC Al and Marengo 1 4 f by l 5 a Is IR saki to lo have been passed Sounder florn storm but damage mago l In n the time y 3 rK farminG arming country was very p Tres ot of horses and cattle man j b are ll d st st- Jos Joseph ph hospitals We Ie Is other ace th Ith Injured tonight 1 were bruised and tand hoiting SO reports of or 1 1St pe b e. e The w J K g Jere ere Acro received City elt eley store was tallow aldow display of or ofIs orb Is b Were Yero cro report away ay 4 w of or a a. 0 have looted away i th the tho 3 display y tore carry carry- t it-t t looting i 1 s spring hats ats a Pr r la or Price e ls- ls J It t district uit u placing i th this thi s r military law k i TI tr stunts of ot the j 4 storm aro are legion Tho The families of or Louis Doula and Charles Henning were seated at dinner dinner when tho the cyclone lifted the house from over tho the heads and carried It away without injuring anyone I I Ten houses In the tho space of ot a L block In that neighborhood were destroyed Th This first train into Elgin leaving Chicago Chi ChI- cago cao at at- 05 P P. m m. reached hero shortly I alter after 4 o'clock and was halted In the outskirts outskirts outskirts' while workmen workmen sawed and chop chopped d awa away scores of ot trees which had been thrown across the tracks It proceeded pro pro- west after a delay of more than an hour William McClure city assessor estimated estimated esti estl- mated tonight ht after a n. survey surrey of tho tiro wrecked re district that reconstruction would cost |