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Show r CHICAGO IN I STORM ZONE Windy City Nearly Cut Off From Outside World Today Dam- agre $150,000 c;.( Chicago, Mar. 21 Only two tele- Ifraph wires connected Chicago with ) tho outside world for several hours I Ituday, Tho onl practical relief from 1 3 i thi situation was by way or an under-Dt under-Dt around telephone cablp to Milwaukee Sleet, wot snow and occassional dhes of raJn. drlvPn by a fortv mile k tl" from the west struck the city ' at, land environs before dnvllght and Ij,, Iwlthln four hours had " prostrated r3 telegraph wire in all directions. All j transportation HneB were crippled One young wnrann waa blown un- ' sq dcr the feet of a team of homes and tvoroly hurt. The first effects of : ;ks ; ;tbe storm woro foil smith and oii or al .Chicago. Wires routed around the ifouth ond of Lako Michigan went I i. down within an hour of the time the ig litorm struck Then tho territory I iij west of the city was cut off nnd two j,I Ihoure later the lst of the above is! ground ulroH nlon tho north shore im Isuocumbnd '.n ihe combined forces of til lice and wind. The only lines which survived were q wo wires to St Louis. Over theeo a kaj carried a verv small part of tho H Imass of intelligence which normally Is 1 & (received and sent out from Chicago li i The only crumb of comfort to thoBo i charged with the transmitting of press S land commercial telegrams was that 1 ihe Good Friday holiday relieved them of th usual burden of brokor-a brokor-a iag and market reports 8ix hour oftor tho ?torm hroke the t 'fin forced lis way through the clouds 1 and tho disturbances ceased almost 1 h las suddenly as It had begun Tho j ft idamape. however, had been done and early estimates of the loss to wire snd transportation companies placed z fnc figures as high ns $16"".0on Memphis. Tenn.. Mnr ?1 Reports ' i (from North Mississippi, Ye3t Tennes-I Tennes-I Isee and southeast Kcr.t icl jr nnd Fjnortb and eest Arkanaf, which were If iirwept by a severe rain and windl I List night and early today aro delav-Bed delav-Bed by the almost complete proatia- j l i:cn of telegraph and telephone Wlrefl ' Xo definite advices hare been re-H re-H eeiveri htro from Hox e. Ark., where f the wind lr eald to have Wpvrn down1 a large number of houses and in-i in-i j'ired a score of person?. At Fulton. Ky.. considerable dara-I dara-I age was done to property. Tn llBlealpp the storm WEfi severe' SC f.o m Grenada to Water Talle-, a. 'Scnatobla the wind was unusurilly I biph rnd housea are gild to have been to?sel about as If they were playthings. play-things. Vo loss of life occurred there. Locally only minor damage was don, a heavy downpour of rain tvUh w cor.tinnoti? flr.shes of lightning ac-I ac-I compnnkd the blow. I j MANY INJURED IN MISSOURI. ' Springfield. Mo . ar 21 A score 'Or more persons were injured, some 1 I of them seriously, buildings In the I business dietrict were wrecked and - : residence." unroofed late last night at I IHoxle, Ark . about ninety-five miles II south o hero by a wind of unusual Tfelocity The loss to property, It le J H sajJ. will total thousands of dollars No death? had been reported early : 1 toda, when communication with the 1 town was cut off. out it is feared l- m ter reports will show fatalities Special trains were sent from this if city and Thayer, Mo to aid the suf- ! 2 ferers at Hoxle and other towns In B the vicinity . which t is reported. B were also affected by the wind |