Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-07-21
FIVE KILLED AT sTREAToR AND
FOUR AT MENDOZA.
SCORES ARE INJURED
Houses and Factories are Laid Low
in Many Towns-Property Damage
Will Amount to Mlaons-Heavy
Storm Near Council Bluffs.

storm Near Council BUTTS,
Streator, ILL.,, July 1S.-A tornado
about $50 o'clock last evening passed
over a portion of this city killing five
persons, injuring a score of others and
caused a property loss of $2.000.000.
The dead:
HARRY DOYE.
NELS H. BIVEN.
R. PURCELLE.
CHARLES SNYDER.
WIN. BROWN (colored)
All but Purcelle were killed at the
,ace track. New buildings had just
been erected and races were to have
been given week after next. Not a
building is left standing.
Many Fatally Injured.
The fatally injured are:
GEORGE DOYLE AND CHILD.
MRS. DOYLE.
BESSIE BOUCHER.
FRED CRONE.
MRS SMITH.
MISS SMITH.
CAPTAIN PEABODY.
RALPH BOCHER.
MRS. HENRY PEASE AND BABY.
GEORGE HUNTER AND THREE
CHILDREN.
A. ]. DAUGHERTY and a man en-
ployed on the latter's farm.
A score or more are reported to
have sustained broken bones.
Much Property Damaged.
All buildings at the Electric park
were destroyed and the fence and
amphitheatre of the ball park blown
away.
Staubers. pants factor, two-story
brick building, was blown down and
the stock ruined.
The Great Western company's plant
suffered heavy loss. Purcelle was kill
ed there.
The Illinois and Iowa bridge, costing
100000 is nearly half gone, the
hoisting works and buildings in fKang-
ley, four miles west of Streator, were
blown down, and several persons in
jured.
Leaves Ruin in Its Path.
Not wall of the Volcan works was
left standing. The tornado caught a
number of small houses, wrecking
some, turning others half way around
and twisting huge trees and breaking
them off at the base. Buildings and
fences at the baseball. street railway
and driving parks were completely de-
stroyed. At the driving park four per-
sons were killed outright and fifteen
injured Nine horses were also killed.
At the dairy farm of A. ]. Daugherty
the house was blown down and several
persons badly injured.
Four Killed at Mendoza.
Mendoza, ILL.,. July 1S.-Four persons
were killed and ten others We're seri-
ously injured by tornado here last
night. Everything in the storms track
was levelled. The dead:
CORA BOISDORF, aged Is.
ORA LUNY, aged 10.
SCHAMEL BOYS, aged 10 and 4.
The injured:
John Wirschem.
Miss Wirschem.
Mrs. Oscar Milligan.
Jerome Milligan.
Alice Wilson.
Eda Austin.
James Smith and wife.
Henry Schweitzer.
Besides the above nearly every mem.
Der of the Boisdorf family was injur-
ed. They took refuge in the cellar and
the house fell in on them.
Joliet, ILL.,, July 18.-The report of
the destruction of Gardner in the storm
last night proves unture While the
storm was the worst in the history of
the town. no lives were lost and no
one was injured.
Reports of Many Deaths.
Peoria, July bennington and Cam
pus two towns on the Wabash rail-
road, suffered severely from the storm.
At Emington several houses were de-
molished and four persons seriously, if
not fatally injured At Campus one
man was killed and two others proba-
bly, fatally injured. The cyclone was
accompanied by a terrific rainstorm,
which washed out bridges, culverts
and thousands of feet of railroad track.
Loss of crops is very heavy.
Blows Freight Train From Siding.
Bloomington, ILL.,, July 1S.-A wind
storm swept central Illinois last night
and caused damage in Mclean county
to wires and buildings. Many small
b were UlOWu uOWu 1NSdi
Gardner poles and wires were blown
down, destroying communication and
an entire train of freight cars on the
siding were blown over
Heavy Storm Hurts Iowa Crops.
Council Bluffs. July 1S.-A terrific
electric and rain storm passed over
southwestern Iowa doing great dam.
age to crops just ready for harvest.
A number of dwellings were struck by
lightning and destroyed No loss OF
life is reported.
Storm in Wisconsin.
Lacrosse, Wis, July 1S.-Reports
have been received here this morning
of severe rain storm. which swept
over the country twenty miles south OF
here late yesterday afternoon, washing
out many small bridges and doing dam
age to crops.