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Show DEATH IN THE WIND. A Destructive Tornado Passes Over Spring field. Springfield, O., July 14 The most destructive de-structive tornado which ever visited this section of the country struck the residence portion of the city yesterday at 11 o'clock and completely demoralizing thirty residences resi-dences and partially ruined over a hundred more. Two persons are possibly fatally injured. in-jured. A conservative estimate places the loss in nrorertv at between f 150. 000 and '20O.. 000. The tornado struck the fair grounds, hurled itself along, taking a house here and there, until it struck the corner south of Limestone street and Euclid avenue, and literally dimolished the entire block, all residences. It then passed over the city in a northeasterly direction, blowing down a house here and there. Scarcely half a dozen houses are standing in the demolished demol-ished block. Everything there is in hopeless hope-less ruin. Lumber, trees and furniture, are pi'ed up for a square in awful confusion. confu-sion. " The terrified spectators who witnessed the approach of the tornado state that it was preceded for about five minutes with a veritable ver-itable cloudburst, followed by most frightful and continuous flashed of lightuing. Two clouds then approached, both funnel-shaped, funnel-shaped, one from the west and oue from the southwest, and coming directly over the fair grounds began the work of disaster. A meeting of citizens was held to devise means to aid the homeless people. Fully thirty families are absolutely ruined. John Leach and family of lour children, living in the very center of the destroyed district, had a miraculous escape. They were at dinner. When the cyclone came, it lifted the house and crashed it down a mass of ruins. None of the family, wonderful to state, were injured. The injured are Jonas Roberts, fatally; Thomas Thomas, fatally; Mrs. Mary Flesheucrenner, limbs frightfully fright-fully burned; Cooney Leach, Jacob Neftz, Mrs. Jacob Leach and two daughters, frightfully fright-fully cut about the face and sboulcrs; Jim Ilinkley. W. R. Dayton, Mrs. Olinger, Mrs. Harry Miller. |