Salt Lake Herald | 1893-04-08 | Page 1 | Wind and Hail Storm

vVIND AND HAIL S1OR1 T A Number of Buildings Blown Down in ChicagoAN Chicago-AN ACCIDENT NEAR JOLLET Sine Men Are Killed and Six Severely Injured A Tidal Wave Sweeps Up the Chicago River and Damages Several Vessels The Town of Iioiiton Ohio Burning Up CHICAGO April 7This was the warmest warm-est day Chicago has experienced during the month of Aprilin twenty years The mercury stood at 82 degrees and a hot wind blew from the south at the rate of thirty miles per hour The heated spell was broken this evening by a hail storm which passed over the southern portion of the city breaking several thousand dollars worth of window glass This morning the wind leveled the Indiana In-diana hotel a new frame structure near the Worlds fair grounds As the building build-ing came down it flattened the onestory building adjoining Another building holding a panorama which was not sufficiently suf-ficiently braced was also turned into a pile of kindling wood The river not to be outdone by the atmosphere at-mosphere showed up about 3 oclock this morning with a tidal wave four feet high which tore several vessels from their moorings and damaged them considerably con-siderably The cause is said to have been sudden squalls on the lake