Show bEi OF I T I ID r m fJ d I J JI LLos DAMAGE i I f r f SCORE 1 Of OF EASTERN EAST TOWNS SUFFER HEA HEAVILY V LY BY BV SUNDAYS YS BIG WIND I CHICAGO SUBURBS HIT BY TWISTER PEOPLE CRUSHED IN CHICAGO March 29 With With the dead estimated from t to C more than 1000 persons injured hundreds of I cast homeless into the streets and a property loss of many million of dollars Sundays Sunday's tornadoes which tore lanes of destruction ande an am de death h through seven central yes West and d S Southern states passed ti mt int 0 r ti 0 hi history s t ory to today d ay as con constituting u ng O one ne the greatest storm disasters on r cor corIn in the United States Because of ot the great Interruption t wire and other through the wind smashed area it 1 1 impossible up to this time to exact figures as to the number c o dead The most conservative based on fragmentary reports Is 19 but If It the storm horror continues t grow as ae H it ihas has hour by hour since th thI I I death first began dribbling ii I i that that w aB ex exI exceeded I in the fn t upi up i IN AND IND ABOUT Ct Chicago Chicag o its suburbs s and abd and towns were in the section hardest h hi hiby hiby by the storms storm's Wrath t taking taking- ki the siz of the stricken district into considers tion three Thirty-three persons are know to have been killed when the struck with more than injured anat an anI I at least 15 1500 made homeless The low lowI lowest lowest I est estimate of property damage cause is placed at 20 There was greater loss of life Ufe in tl tit th ne which raged through Alabam I I and Georgia but the storm storms storm's a effect wa spread ov over er a much wider area In InI Indiana Indiana diana dlana and Ohio were the next greate I sufferers with Michigan Missouri an anI r rI I Wisconsin following I I The fact that the destruction v a wuI I not more complete within the Chicag t city limits was attributed to th thi i warding off of the storm by Lak Luk Michigan which always has been le re JeI I g as an Insurance against to tOI here LIKE INVERTED CONE I All accounts agree that the struck in a form shaped like an inverted in inverted cone comi g from tho the south southwest west Sunshine aid ad then a r thin rain ln and hailstorm preceded It S SI Sclean Sclean I clean lean was the path it cut that thai per pei perSons sons living within a block of It fI fIot fir fin learned of ot the tornados tornado's visit on goin for a stroll stroH after it stopped rain In Incoming coming suddenly on the wrecks homes nearby Reports today todar showed there wet wei e etwo two distinct storm areas one areas one I Georgia and Alabama and the oth othIn othIn othin In the Middle West WestLa estLa est La Grange Ga appeared to be th hardest hit by the storm Betwee forty and sixty were reported kills there and were wert homeless We Ve Point Ga five dead dead an Agricola Ala five dead The Western storm appeared fir near St St. Louis where one was kills Kille It Jt swept northward branching OLover Ol Olover over Indiana Ohio Illinois and extending Wisconsin finally spent itse itself over Lake Mich Michi gan SUBURBS HARDEST HIT The suburban towns and cities clUes n ne Chicago were the scenes of ot greate havoc In some portions of ot these t th twister cut a path nearly a half mile wide and e blocks Ion bouncing back into the after each visitation to rip down I lal it into some community further eRS eat ward Homos Homes s 's reN ere ero ripped to M everywhere in Its Ita path as ItS bug t Itou they had been rent asunder by bv hi big hie explosives Churches some ome of the list with the congregations Ii i side were torn to pieces swiftness Tress Trees were uprooted te t graph posts hurled burled through the thc air oil Ilk lik toothpicks and heavy objects like a a. I and d boilers were e throw about bv by t the wind with T i the eca ca ease case it I hi hia i ia a child tosses S Its Us playthings about nursery ELGIN GREATEST SUFFERER Elgin about forty miles mile from i rh Ih h cago was one of the greatest tf sl It r There the storm killed eight pers person n nand and cut a It path 1000 yards wul id i through the city In a hash the seen IN In in the town was one of buildings co col collapsing lapsing and pitching themselves Int mt the street with their roofs roots the air with trees and ad oth debris In the El Elgin ln Congregational I. I the Re Ite hey J JV W. W V Welch Veldt elch pastor had bare barf barely 1 ly 1 finished the benediction We benediction We mu always be prepared since we know mi when our time Is IR coming when th Lb h storm struck the tho church All Ml the 1100 ir l w le blown In and n a moment lat lav ire e Continued on page 3 3 I DEATHS BY BIT STORM MOUNTING IN NUM NUMBER JR Reports I Indicate Final Figures Figures Figures Fig Fig- ures Will Exceed Two q Hundred Mark Continued from pa page e 1 I Ithe the roo roof and steeple crashed down on oni i th the congregation killing v t-v d a-d injuring Injuring In- In I Juring twenty r CHICAGO CHICAG TAKES ACTION As the horror horrI ot of the the disaster grew speedy relief relle measures were taken in I i Chicago's go 8 loop district where the sun II was was' shining brightly during most o of the havoc wreaking In other sections A force of ot nurs nurses s and physicians was rushed to- to the stricken ken areas relief relict I funds were st started by the the newspapers and several militia c companies aided by armed members of ot the American legion were dispatched to 10 th storm- storm I districts The soldiers were given ghen orders to shoot to all looters detected Inthe in inthe I the act of robbing the stricken homes Officials of ot the th Red Cross In Chicago I went to the Devastated e areas and made plans for speedy relief measures Melrose Park Just outside the city I limits was was a greater sufferer sufferer-in In point of ot lives than was Elgin though the property damage was not so gr great at There nine pe persons persons persons' sons sons' were killed d and I scores hurt it It was as estimated that more than 1000 were made homeless Fire resulted fr from m the storm havoc but was under control before re It had haddon done don great damage CRUSHED TO DEATH j Nearly all aU the dead there there as in the theother theother other otner communities hit were re crushed to death bene beneath th the timbers of their homes Moans roans of ot the dying and Injured in- in j red spurred rescuers to frantic ef efforts efforts efforts ef- ef forts to extricate them In Addison Heights another suburb One family of five was v reported killed when their house crashed down upon them while they h y were at d dinner Other suburbs where the cyclone took a toll of dead and Injured and caused ed great damage were were Dunning Irving Park Norwood Park Cragin Maywood Gladstone Park and Joliet I The greatest damage In the Chicago city limits was was' in the southern part By some some freak freak- the storm broke before striking the city Itself one part of the twister going across across the th-e th southern part of ot the city and the other to the north The b business siness section was un- un untouched un un- touched Four persons were killed within the city limits and s scores ores of homes destroyed FREAK HAPPENINGS HAPPENING The twisters twister s visit was was replete replete with freak happenings Little ittle Vincent 21 4 2 years old was blown from the sitting room of ot his home into the- the middle of ot the street and later was picked picked up up uninjured un un- injured One man reported he had been blown backward w with his horse and wagon for fora a block finally stopping In an area areaway wa way In Wilmette even steel girders were twisted into shapeless masses by the force of the wind but fitly fifty feet ot from its path a a large large- greenhouse remained intact with not even a pane of glass glas brok broken n. n One farmer near Joliet Tollet found himself si sitting on a c in which th the fire was still burning merrily just jus after alter the storm wrecked his house H Harouse He arouse an and fled to a horse trough AUTO BLOWN INTO CHURCH During the height of the blow in Elgin El Elgin Elgin El- El gin a was blown into Into St. St St. Johns John's Lutheran church where it demolished eighteen en rows of ot pews This apparently apparent apparent- ly started the engine in reverse fo foit for forIt forit it backed out of ot the edifice and was blown around a nearby c corner Passengers in a Chicago streetcar had a narrow esca escape Seeing a a. funnel funnel- shaped clo cloud d coming their way they demanded that the motorman stop the car He not only did so so but changed controls and raced the other way J. J A moment later a mass of flying debris struck the spot where the car had been standing At Dunning where the state asylum asylum lum for foi the insane is located the patients patients patients' patients patients' pa pa- scurried about abut the corridors in terror They were finally controlled with difficulty The asylum was no not touched by the wind and it offered a refuge for the first hundred wounded wound wound- ed and for tor hundreds more of of refugees In Chicago Margaret and Vincent Vincen 16 and 2 were killed in their home I Falling ailing rafters ratters crushed Margaret and a riving room table I was Yas dashed upon the little little- littleboy boy I II In Norwood Park Ill a convent conven was damaged and and anda a number of ot nuns were removed hospitals to hospitals The infant daughter of ot Peter Ros Roe was found in the street three blocks from her home when the wind win had passed Her lIer mother had been holding her a few minutes minutes' previously In Melrose Park Mr and Mrs regained consciousness to find themselves In Jn their own basement basement basement base base- ment with the adjoining house above them resting somewhat askew upon the foundations foundation's ELGIN DIGS IT ITSELF ELF OUT ELGIN Ill March 29 Elgin Elgin today today to to today day began digging itself out from the wreckage of ot yesterdays yesterday's disastrous tornado which claimed eight lives injured more than and did and did damage to property estimated at Merchants l and professional men 1 joined hundreds of laborers in clearing I the streets today Many guardsmen and soldiers ex-soldiers on i patrol last night laid aside their rifles at dawn and with picks and shovels attacked ed the heaps of brick timbers I and shattered glass Several blocks of the business dis district district dis- dis I where the tle damage was greatest remain roped off of this morning while workmen prepared to raze the totterIng tottering tottering totter totter- Ing ing wrecks Which sway in n the wind in momentary p danger pt pf catapulting into int the streets A three three story story brick business block was was totally destroyed and arid in falling crushed an adjoining shoe store |