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Show STORM DDES GREAT J DAMAGE III CHICAGO m iOnc Large Building Struck m by Lightning and Nearly M Destroyed by Fire. Wi EIGHTEEN ARE INJURED At Niles Center the Wind ) Swoops Down After Man- M ner of a Cyclone. m By International News Servlc. . CHICAGO, April ti Heralded by m fiful squalls ,d showery the first eJ storm of tho BeRfon made its appear- j' ancc this afternoon, a a near tor- ; undo, accompanied by thunder and j-'? lightning nnd a terrific downpour oi i raiu thnt resembled a cloudburt. ' Otio largo building was struck by lightning bnd nearly destroyed by fire, - scores of other build in en were partly i. j, uuroofed, the Belmont avenue bridge, " over the north br.snch of the Chicauo .-.' river, was picked up and hurled into the river and at Nilcs Center, noar Kvnnstoii, eighteen pefeons wore in- ; ''', jured when four large green houses and ) fy',', several residences were wrecked. i j jj. Much Damage Done. Signs, windows aud awnings in the : 11, loop district were torn from their fnst- ' y-y onings and smashed; pedestrians wero '; hurled from udewalks into the streot, . wngons were overturned and, in gen- " V, oral, the storm king played have on his t first appearance. 'I Two street car tracks, tho paths of ; heavily loaded street ears extend . across the Belmont avenue bridge , 'j and onlv good fortune prevented . one or two cars being on thi bridgo ; when it was flung into the river. Run- ning east and west, the bridge was a ; temporary wooden structure, but very )r solidly erected because of th heavv '', traffir. ' y-l. Out in the western cud of 'he city the lightning vied with the wind in ' doing the most damane. At -15-0 22 Hi?! Wrtt Mndison street the stable and re- ' "j lay station of the Boston store wan - f struck bv lightning, five persons were ..ji stunned and damage to the extent of .!"; ,12'i00 resulted from fire and water. " . .::,t Almost a Cyclone. " '-A-. When the storm struck Niles Center i it rme with the snddenness and sever 3 ity of a evcJone. Sliein Jennetinc, own- V'-V I er of se eral green house, was v.nrking :!,, in one of them when the storm broke. In an instant green houses and all i'X started skywards. iM-lj John Kiel, a neighbor of Jonnetiue. j J'w fled into his bnrn when he saw th Hfy f;reen houses flying to pieces, aud hnrd v had reached the shelter when some- ' ' tiling struck the barn with a tremen- v dous crash. i,-' Kiel thought he was living his Inst J;;f moments, or timbers and joists of the I f barn bognn to crash down upoTi him t'.'r and when ho crawled out from under I' the ruins, a mass of euts and bruises, i he found that a shed on the ,Icanet;no 1. V promisoo hnd been picked up bodilv i ' and hurled apainst the other strurturs. :j wrecking both. "i;:? |