Arizona republican., 1902-06-12
HALF SCORE DEAD
 IN PEORIA, ILLS.
City and Country RaVaged by
 ( Hurricane
The Damage to Property Will Run Into the Hundreds of Thousands. The Visitation Late at Night Her aldsd by Electrical Storm

Peoria. H., June 11.-Peoria was swept by the worst storm in years at q late hour last night. It struck the city travelling at the rate of S9 miles an hour. At feast ten people are dead and several more will die from injuries The property damage will amount to hundreds cf thousands Of dollars. Ev- cry. railroad entering the city is crip- pied. Telegraph communication was cut off ana was not resumed until 10 0 clcck this morning. Telephone con nections with the outside world Were completely severed. Factories through out the city are completely crippled ;,ni almost every smoke stack is down Tie stack Of the Central Hallway com uany, l5O feet high, was blown down. falling on the roof Of the Rhea-T:iai- lans warehouse. damaging il uo the ex- ,=nt Of 5000. The street railway sys- teHl was put out of business for seVara!
 hours, but today operations were par ti2lly resumed
 The storm was msst destructive at
 Kingston mines, a small mining village fcur miles from Peoria.
 The reco1d of the storm there is ap- paliins. An electrical storm swept over ;le village first. followed by a tornado
 The storms path was 2G0 feet wide and il swept everything before it. Three lives were lost and several others will die from injuries received. Sixteen houses were completely demolished. as
 were the Methodist church, the engine i house, blacksmith shoD and barn cf the Newsom Bros. at their mine. The -otal loss of property will exceed $20.000
 The storm struck the village at 10:15 and was preceded by phenomenal electrical storm. II was perhaps fiji teen minutes after the commend cm ent of the electrical storm that the wind i came, bringing with it awful wreck and ruin. The storm first struck NeWs0m
 Bros big engine house laying il fat. beside carrying away the dun j. trcs- tla. track and an Tna nine ,l 'a- were caught and carried completely away. The less to NewsoTn Boc. will 1 exceed S10.000
 The home of Thomas Murray was rext in it's path. and beside literally Wiping his little home from the face Cf tle earth, inc wind t0o< the lives of Mls. Murray and her child. and left the father in q dying condition. They had prepared fer an emergency cf tl,;s l:inG
 by building q cave. and were evidently t!yins to get to iu. as they were outside the houGe in the direction of the cave 4 piece (: scartlins had penetrated the
 bowels of Mrs. Murray and she had isl- len across the child. The little one died of exposure. Murray's spine was broken. Mr. and Mrs. McEwce were in their hone, which was danolishsd. They were preparing 10 retire. ! child was killed in the mother s arms, while she was fatally hurt and the father will 1 die. All were struck by falling tim
 bers.
 The following is list Of property completely destroyed
 i NeWsome Bros. barn, ccal dump, en- zine house and powder building nd the 1 following residences: James dcCuna.
 Frank BraZina. Frank AfcCune Mrs. | MoshG. Lemon Baker, Mrs. smith. .Tar ! I-acock. G. Clark. C. NJ. Thor7 Fl A $ | BaiIa. Thomas Murray. :. Nj. Glasford, John Kelly. Louis Wcodworth and the : \. hodiar Episcopal church.