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Show CHICAGO AND AQJAGENT TOWNS RAIDED BY WILD WINDS. Northern and Southern Sections Sec-tions of City Suffer Frm Fury of a Tornado. At Indiana Harbor Buildings Collapse Killing One and Maiming Several. Storm Extends Into Indiana, Leaving a Trail of Wrecked Houses, Buildings Build-ings and Injured People. CHICAGO, March' 21. One of the most sovere storms this city has known in many year?, passed over Chicago tonight. Great damage was done in the suburbs to the south of the city, and much loss was sustained by the people living to the north of the city proper. The storm did not atrlke Ihc business portion of the city in Its greatest force. The town of Indiana Harbor, twenty miles southeast of Chicago, on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad, was the heaviest sufferer. One man. L. Barker, the proprietor of a dry goods store, was killed, and fifteen fif-teen people who were In his store when the storm struck, were injured, some of them seriously, although none of them are expected to die. Barker's store was entirely demolished. ONE KILLED, MANY HURT. Eighteen residences were blown down, and a number of people were hurt In the ruins of their homes. The Htorm in the vicinity of Indiana Harbor was the inost severe ever known there. Three people are known to be dead, several are fatally" hurt and at' midnight mid-night there were several others reported re-ported missing and they may be buried in the ruins of their homes. A two-story brick building, known as the Barker building, was olown down and a number of people who had sought shelter thero were buried in tho ruins. The dead: M. Earker. Injured: Henrj' Vandlne, may die; Mrs. M. Barker, two children of M. Barker, Eugene Travis, woman, servant serv-ant of the Barkers; B. Lowenthal, George Lowenthal. All three of tho hotels In the plnco were badly damaged, Green's hotel in particular being badly wrecked. One two-story frame building was turned entirely over. Tho storm created havoc in the town of Hammond, Ind. A number of residences resi-dences were badly damaged, and two people were injured, but not fatally. One end of the large plant of the Republic Re-public Iron & Steel company was blown down, causing a loss of at least $25,000. A number of business houses were unroofed. In Grand Crossing, eight miles south of the center of the city, a number of buildings were wrecked. To the north of tho city the storm wns also severe, much damage having been done in the suburbs of Evnnston, Rogers Park and Thornton. An exceedingly heavy fall of rain accompanied ac-companied the storm. In the suburban town of Thornton the frame dwelling of E. W. Gardner was blown into a stone quarry and reduced re-duced to kindling wood. Gardner was fatally hurt and his wife sustained serious injuries. Several other persona were Injured. 1 Lightning Piicd Buildings. EAST ST. LOUIS. III., March 24. An electrical storm, accompanied by a high wind nnd a heavy fall of rain, caused much damage here tonight. The lightning struck many buildings, among them the plant of a fireworks manufactory, which exploded and three of tho larger buildings were burned. A large number of persons were Injured, In-jured, many dwellings demolished and the loss will reach many thousands 6'f dollars. GRAND PORKS, N. D.. March 21. Reports from northern North Dakota. Montana and Canada say the worst storm of the winter is raging. Snow hn been falling all day in the Northern North-ern part of this Stale. Mlnot reports a fall of two feet, Langon an equnl amount and Culbertson, Mont., reports drifts from flvo to ten feet deep. |
