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Show ' MANY MEET DEATH IN PATH OF STORM i i i i i i HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE AS THE) RESULT OF TORNADO WHICH SWEEPS MID-WEST. Hundreds Injured and Thousands j Made Homeless When Sections of Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Wis- cousin are Visited by Hurricane. i 'hir:i.La. ' P 1 1 : -1 -i o. 1 n known dead, with possibly a sn.rc of oihors killod. hundred, of injured and a propeny loss oi' so oral million dollars w ore left ill (lie wake of a innxido that swept norilioasiorn Illinois and n portion por-tion of Indiana. .Missouri and Wisconsin, Wiscon-sin, March IX The fury of llie tornado was t'olc chiefly tit Ekin and .Melrose Park. Eif-rhr were killed and more ihan 100 injured lit llie former i-iiy. thirty-six miles west of Chirnt:n. and llie property prop-erty loss there was estimated ul about 1?-I.(HK),(HI0. At .Melrose Park, jusi west of the Chicago city line, seven were killed and four were reported missing. Two t'liieaoans were killed and n score were Injured, while at Dunning, n northwestern suburb, four deaths were reporlod, more than a hundred were injured mid 1WU were made homeless. The tornado struck Klfjin nt noon and swept northeast in the t'hieago terrilory through the suburbs, leaving a pnlh of destruction littll yards wide and ti mile and a half long. In ten' minutes 75 houses' in the t'hieaf;o district dis-trict were leveled and -I0U were dam-tiKPd. dam-tiKPd. While norlheaslern Illinois sustained (he principal damage, tin' tornado, in its freakish career, swept several Indiana In-diana towns, killing three persons at Zulu, Ind., causing the death of one in an and the injury of several persons in St. Louis, and killing Mrs. Louis Iirown at East Troy, Wis. Several persons were reported killed and more than a score of houses demolished de-molished by a cyclone which struck Cenoa, Ohio. Seventeen persons are reported to have been killed, scores injured and property damaged to the amount of many millions of dollars, as the result of a tornado which swept northern Indiana. In-diana. Eight persons were killed in a tornado tor-nado that swept over portions of central cen-tral and western Michigan. A windstorm which passed over East Troy, Wis., caused the death of Mrs. Louis Brown. She was in a barn" feeding cattle when the structure was blown down, burying her in the debris. One man was killed, four persons are known to have suffered minor injuries, in-juries, and many buildings in St. Louis and the suburbs were damaged in a windstorm Sunday. |
