Show ST STORM RM SP SPREADS E DEATH IN EAST ERST PROPERTY LOSS IS PLACED AT 40 PERSONS ARE HURT Storm Sweep Sweeps From Mississippi To New England Cau Causing Much Suffering Suffering Suf Suf- fering and Damage on its I Way Chicago A A severe severe ever wind wind and anti rats rait storm approaching the proportions of a tornado in some localities swept a destructive course from the Mississippi sippi to New l England last Sunday Several persons were killed and Injured Injured injured In In- while property damage was estimated estimated estimated es es- at New England was deluged with snow show and low temperatures were wera reported reported reported re re- ported at many points Scores of buildings were dl destroyed or unroofed trees were felled boats were wera beached and telephone and und tel telegraph telegraph telegraph and power service crippled while fire in some towns completed destruction In the wake of high winds and driving rains Churches were marked sufferers the tho roofs or steeples of several beIng being be be- ing carried away while services were in progress wl within hin but with out InJury In In- injury Jury to congregations Two persons were killed In Peoria Ill m. in the collapse collapse col col- lapse of a building while a 1 man roan was electrocuted at Macomb 1 Ill when he picked up a live wire blown down by the storm Ten were injured at Wheeling V. Y Va fifteen at Pitta burg two at Ia Pa and a dozen others in scattered towns thru- thru out the storm area In central Illinois Peoria and Peking Peking Pe Pe- king were the hardest hit In where property damage was estimated ed at ut two night watchmen were killed when a story five brick block crumbled The storm in Peoria drove amities amit amil lea ies to the streets in panic A repetition repetition repe repe- of the recent storm that swept through the southern part of the state was feared All through the business quarter quarter- plate glass windows were shattered by hall hail Three scows were beached at Racine Racine Racine Ra Ra- cine Wis Vis when torn loose from their moorings Four and one halt inches of snow fell tell at Duluth The snowfall at Woodsville N. N II li was reported at fourteen inches |