Show CYCLONE OHIO v The City of Springfield Badly Tonrtp t v 1 i Only the Residence Portion Visited Larce Nrmberot Famllids Lpt Houi8lo s List 6f the Injured SInSOIELD 0 July 13no most do struciive tornado vrMca over visited this section of the country struck the residence portion of the city this morning at 1 oclock and completely demoralized thirty residences and partially ruined over I hundred hun-dred more Two persona are possibly la tally injured A conservative estimate places the loss in property at between 130000 and 200000 The tornado strucK the fair grounds hurled itself along takirig house here and there until it struck the corner south ofXimestono street and EUclitl avenue and literally demc Imbed ttio en tiro block all residence It then passed over the thy I In a northeasterly direction bowllgg down a house hero and there Scarcely half a dozen houses arc standing the demolished demol-ished blook Everything there is in hopeless hope-less ruin Lumber trees and furniture are fusion piled up for a square in awful con S TERHiriED SPECTATORS who witnessed the approach of the tornado state that it was preceded for about five minutes with a veritable cloud burst followed fol-lowed by most frightful and continuous flashes ot lightning Two clouds then approached both funnelfibaped ono from the vest and one from the soiituwest ana oisihing directly over the fair grounds began4 1h6 17012 of disaster Ameoting of citizens was hold to devise means to aid the homeless people Fully thirty families are absolutely ruined John Leacho and family of four children living in the very center of the destroyed district had a MIRACULOUS ESCAPE S They wore at dinner When the cyclone came it lifted the house and crashed it down a mast ofw rums None of tho family fam-ily wonderful to state were injured The injured are JONAS ROBERTS fatally THOMAS TnoiiA < fatally MRS MARX FLESIIENCRBXNER limbs frightfully burned CooNtr LEACH JACOB LEACH JAcon NEFT7 Mite JACOB LEACH and two daughters frightf illy cut about the face and shoulders JIM HIJKLET W R DATTOX MR OIINGEII huts HXRUT MILLER |