Show TERRIBLE TORNADO I SWEEPS OVER PORTION OF ILLINOIS L Loss of Life and Destruction of Property Heavy I FIVE DEAD IN STREATOR Nineteen Others Are Fatally njurd I Property Loss in the City Will Aggregate Ag-gregate Two Million Dollars Several Other Towns Hit Strel tor Ill July 17Fie persons were killed and nineteen were fatally injured and a property loss estimated at 2000000 was caused by a tornado here this evening DEAD Larry Doyle N II Bevinc Richard Purcell Charles Snyder S h William Brown negro r r x r FATAILY INJURED U George Doyle Mrs Doyle f < lV v Besie Boucher So t JT L Charles Snyder T Fred Crone fracturedskull I Mrs Crone Mrs Smith r r r Miss Smith Capt Peabody and wife Ralph Boucher Mis Henry Pease and baby George Hunter George Doyles little child Three children of A J Dougherty and a man employed on the latters farm A score or more are reported to have sustained broken bones RAZES IRON WORKS The first building struck was the Western Vulcan works which was entirely en-tirely destroyed causing a loss of S150 000 The fifty employees had left the place Only one man Richard Purcell I the nlghtwatchman was In the factory and he was killed LEVELS CLOTHING FACTORY A quarter of a mile northeast Adolph Staubera clothing factory was razed About 100 people were employed there but all had left half an hour before PLAYS PRANKS WITH HOUSES Next the tornado caught a number of small houses wrecking some turning others halfway around twisting huge trees and breaking them off at the base DESTRUCTION IN PARKS The baseball park the street railway park and the driving park were next in the storms path All the buildings fences and grand stand at these three place Including a 15000 amphitheater In course of construction were destroyed de-stroyed At the driving park about fifty carpenters had Just stopped work Continued on Pore lOl I TORNADO IN ILLINOIS Continued from Pace 1 There were four persons killed outright out-right and about fifteen Injured DAIRY BUILDINGS RAZED At the dairy farm of A J Dougher ty on the edge of the town a house was blown down and several who were in it at the time were badly injured PARTIALLY WRECKED BRIDGE The Indiana Illinois Iowa bridge costing 1000000 was partially wrecked and the hoisting works and buildings at the Spring Hill shaft were ruined Many buildings in TCnngley four miles west of Streator were blown down and several persons were injured there Many houses were unroofed and otherwise damaged The wires are nearly all down and details are meager DEMOLITION AT EMINGTON At Emington several houses were utterly ut-terly demolished and four persons were seriously if not fatally Injured DESTRUCTION AT CAMPUS At Campus one man was killed while two others sustained injuries which may prove fatal RAINSTORM DESTRUCTIVE The tornado was accompanied by a terrific rainstorm which washed out bridges culverts and thousands of feet of railroad track The loss of crops Is very heavy |