Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-07-25
ILLINOIS TORNADO
TAKES MANY LIVES
Five Were Killed at Streator
and Four More Lives Lost
at Mendoza
MANY ARE FATALLY HURT
Seventeen Received Injuries That WV
Likely Prove Fatal-Miilions OF
Dollars of Property Was
Lost.

Streatr, Ill, July lV.-A
day evening killed five persons, injured
G. score of others, and caused q prop
erty loss of s2,000.000.
The dead:
LARRY DOYLE
NELS p. BIVEN.
r. PURCELL
WILLIAM BROWN, negro.
The following were fatally hjureat
George Doyle.
Mrs. Doyle.
Bessie Boucher. L..4
Charles Snyder -
Fred Crone, fractured u
Mrs. Crone.
Mrs. Smith.
Miss Smith.
Captain Peabody and wife.
Ralph Boucher.
Mrs. Henry Pease and BABY
George Hunter.
George poyle's little child.
Three children of A. J. DauSfIerty
and a man employed on the latter
farm.
A score or more are reported to
have suffered broken bones.
All but Purcell were killed CT inc
race track, where Lew Buildings he'd
inst been erected. ISJt Il building Is
left standing. ~ .i the dlngs AT
Electric park vr"c G.Str>ycd, and the
fences and a~mpaIs~cttCr of the oail
park were blown away.
The Vulcan Western eompany's
plant suffered hc..'i%. The Indiana.
Illinois and Iowa bIaIsc, costing VI
600, GOO, is nearly hail gonc. the
hosting works ard buildings &C Spring
Hill shaft were rUt~ed.
Much PRIORITY Destroyed.
The ia, tory t.c y s,tci vulcan
~ A~nnt.
works, which VIZ "'t."; y. was erect
ed at a cost Of flo, ~; u wall Is
left rt~nG;ng. Abou, nEty aIen were
employed there, but all hid stopped
work for the day about an E"ur before
the storm. Only one man, Richaro
Purcell. the night Waterman. was IN
the factory, and he was killed.
A quarter of a mile northeast was
Adolph Stauber's clotl.tng factory: Inv
factory also was razed. About 10Y peo.
pie were employed there, put al hao
left u half an hour before. -,
Passing on, the tornado caught d
number of small houses. wrecking some
turning others half way around. t"ist-
ing huge trees, and breaking them on
at the base. The baseball park anC-the
street railway park ana the orlFlrR
park were In the storm's path. a sl''Ooo
amphitheater was In course OF cree
ton at the driving park. The stor1.
lOOh IL lllCEC - - -.
buildings, fences and ~grandstan, " AZ
the driving park about fifty carpenters
had just stopped work.
There four persons were killed out
right and fifteen injured. Nine horses
also were killed.
At the dairy farm Of J.
on the erge OF the town, a mouse was
blown down n several VINO were III ~
were badly injured. ,
Bad at Peoria.
Peoria, H., July 20.-Ilmington ana
Campus, W. small towns on the wa
bash railway, suffered severely from
the storm. At Emington two houses
were utterly demolished and four per-
sons were seriously If not fatally in
jured.
At CAmpus one mar was killed,
while two Others sustained injuries
which may prove fatal.
The tornado was accompanied by a
terrific rainstorm. which washed out
bridges, culverts and thousands Of feet
of railway track. The loss Of crops Is
very heavy.
Gardner May Be Hit.
Chicago, July 20.-There are unoon-
frmed reports hat the town OF Card
ner, in Grundy county, has been de-
stroyed and many people killed. All
wires leading to the town are down,
and no definite information Is learned.
Many buildings in KanSley, four
miles west of Streator. were blown
down, and several persons were in
jured there.
Many houses were unroofed and 9TH
erWise damaged.
Wind at Bloomington.
Bloomington, ILL., July 20.-A wind
storm swept central Illinois last night
In Mclean county many small build
ings were blown over.
Near Gardner an entire train of
freight cars on a siding were blown
over.