Inter-Mountain Republican | 1906-05-24 | Page 2 | Storm Brings Death

STORM BRINGS DEATH Three Dead and Several Hurt HurtIs Is Record at Hammond Hammond Hammond Ham Ham- mond Indiana Chicago May fay 23 Three Three persons dead deall as many seriously Injured and half hat a score others slightly hurt hurl tell teH tellof tellof of the havoc wrought by a thunderstorm thunderstorm thunder thunder- storm that struck Chicago and Its ita suburbs at noon today Telegraph and andt t wires were thrown to the round ground and scores of or were ru e homeless by the storm to rage with great tho of or Ind 1 P f hess Su I o 0 the los ot or-Jire-oc- or for it wa Von So So heavy heaY was as the rainfall C led ruined as asIt It stood In the tho rain was the and trolley trone wires crippled street car system Storm Was as ns Freaky The storm should be classed as a freak for while It raged on the south southside southside southside side and the streets were not nota a n drop of ot water fell feU in the downtown district until late In the afternoon While there were constant flashes of oC lightning and continuous thunder In the southern part of or the city there was but on flash of or lightning and amid andone one clap of thunder in the tho shopping center But this caused more frI fright hl than all an of oC the south Thousands of or persons on the tho streets and In th time the stores and office buildings w were re thrown into a panic and all an were certain certain tain lain the bolt boll had struck at their feet At Monroe and State streets a u. little girl In white fainted and fell tell to the pavement