Show aw d MUCH Y- Y IS W wr r CAUSED Of WIND w AND RAINSTORMS wM E j Aviator Plunges to Earth Farmer and Son Are Arc Killed by Lightning g 38 Oa DISORDER SPREADS a OVER MIDDLE WEST MS 1 M t t tote lIt Houses Are Overturned I i Roofs Blown Away 5 Communication Lost ii CHICAGO May 19 CAr The CArThe A The The first severe wind and rain storm in inthe th the th middle west this season centered yo Its ate wrath on portions of Qt Illinois and nd Indiana bringing death deaU to three Persons one an aviator and causing caus cans ing ng hI damage estimated at In Jn northwestern north and central In Indiana Indiana In- In diana Hana and In northern and central 55 Illinois the storm which struck 1 1 ol e yesterday was accompanied by I i wi ot extreme violence several 1 being overturned sheds wr wrecked ed and roofs roots blown from buildings Trees and telephone r poles were leveled and m was hampered Fruit trees and crops especially gardens w were re damaged in tv portions o Illinois by halt hall G GREAT E T INTENSITY c j Tate rhe storm In 10 Illinois reached Its greatest st Intensity at Harvey Chicago Chi cago sago suburb There a mile 70 tor tor- like nado-like wind cut a path two I 1 locka wide and a mile long damaging dam- dam aging two score of ot houses and garages garages garages ga ga- rages and and causing damage of ot s Chicago ago escaped the wind storm was deluged b by rain which but hundreds hundred of at basements Con Considerable lder ble dama damage e also was r It done near Lafayette Ind where telephone 1 poles polee and garages and qt learns barns were wrecked The storm Jn In that area area centered at the Purdue university experimental 1 ling sheds chicken houses and other ther structures Big DIg hailstones Indianapolis but the was limited to broken win will LED TO GROUND r l At Argo Ill near Chicago o Ross trick airplane pilot in the r as 1 service and his metal all-metal i V ship were vere hurled burled to the groue ground ground- bythe by bythe J the gale Kirkpatrick a former army flyer whose home ome was Jn to 0 De Do- Detroit troit trait was dead when his wrecked machine was found after atter the storm William Arnold a farmer of ot Fort ort Wayne Yane Ind and Virginal ton 13 son of ot a Kenton Kentop 0 farm farm- 1 re killed by lightning while I a aJ work Ten ren persons In Illinois Yf y ire re Injured two proba probably lr fatally CONFUSED SCHOOL M Besides 8 P Purdue two othe other universities universities uni uni- were In the rain and storm swept Area Area At Urbana bana III late afternoon classes at nt the University University University Uni Uni- of ot Illinois were thrown Into confusion by the gale which up- up rooted trees and blew out the the win wIn- dows Many students repetition repetition repetition rep rep- of ot the tornado which devastated devastated devastated dev dev- southern Illinois a little tittle littlemore more mor than a a. year ago A sports program at the University of ot otUs Missouri Mis Us at Columbia was called off oft because of ot the storm Some orchard and crop damage was reported at Decatur and Dana Ill i Rain unaccompanied b by by wind which fell tell In Iowa was declared of ot Inestimable v value lue to crops The drouth In Kansas was br broken ken by precipitation ranging from one- one tenth of ot an inch to 1 18 8 inches |