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Show SIGN BLOWN DOWN KILLS CHICAGO MAN Considerable Damage Done by Sixty-Mile (tale in Windy City. CHICAGO, Dec. 3 One man was killed and a score of persons Injurrd and fully $100,000 worth of pro pert) destroyed by a windstorm which struck Chicago tonight. At one time during the storm the wind reached u velocity of sixty mile an hour. Many pedestrians narrowly escaped b-lng killed by flying signs or falling chimneys. Steel Furnace Razed. Along the north shore, where the wind seerno.l In i-xcit Its greatest forcti tm-s were uprooted and everything movable was torn away. In Evanston nnd South Chicago, as well as In the city proper, the wind worked great havoc. The greatest I...- was In South hlcago, where nn open lii.iirlli film: In i-olirMe of I'l'inHlrnrllin by the Illinois Steel company was blown down. Several men w r- working on the furnace nt the time, but all escaped In-I In-I Jury. The steel company estimate their loss at $5i i. COO. Struck by a SIrii The fatality due to the storm DM c urred on Wext Ma lison street, where Thomas D. Henderson was struck on the head by a falling sign, and died In the hospital a few hours later. |