Show DEATH DEALING TORNADO illinois town struck by twister and five people killed five persons were killed and nine teen were fatally injured and property loss estimated at was as caused by a tornado at streator ills friday evening the first building struck was the western vulcan works which was en destroyed causing a loss of the fifty employed emp loyes had left the place only one man richard I 1 purcell the night watchman was in the factory and he was killed A quarter of a mile northeast adolph s clothing factory was razed but all had left half an hour before next the tornado caught a number of small houses wrecking some turning others half way around twisting huge trees and breaking them off at the base the baseball park the street railway park and the daiv ing park were next in the storm s path all the buildings fences and grind stand at these three places tac fmc luding a 15 amphitheatre in course of construction were destroyed at the driving park about fifty persons were injured at the dairy farm of A J dougher ty on the edge of the town a house was blown down and several ano were in it at the time very badly in aured the indiana ill nois iowa bridge costing 1000 was par bially wrecked and the hoisting works and bui dings at spring hill shaft were ruined many buildings in kang kley four miles west of streator were blown down and several persons were injured there many houses were unroofed and otherwise damaged wires are nearly all down and details are meager at emington several houses were yvere ut terly demolished and four persons were seri seriously if not fatally injured at campus one man was killed ahl e two others sustained injuries which may prove fatal the tornado was accompanied by a terrific rain storm which washed out bridges cul verts and thousands of feet of railroad track the loss of crops is vey very heavy four persons were killed and ten others seriously injured by a tornado that struck the northern part of men dota the path of the storm was about eight miles in length every thing in the storm a track was leveled to the ground |