The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-18
ten KILLED.
A Tornado Visits the Northern
Part of Illinois.
The Property Loss Is Estimated
at $2,OOO,OOO.
MANY ARE INJURED.
StreatOr and Mendoza in Line O1
the Storm.
Wind Was Accompanied by a
Terrific Rain.

Streator, Ill, July 1S.-Five persons
were killed and nineteen were fatally
injured and property loss estimated at
$4,000 900 was caused by a tornado
here last evening.
THE DEAD:
LARRY DOYLE.
n. r. BIVENE.
RICHARD PURCELL
CHARLES SNYDER
WILLIAM BROWN, negro.
THE FATALLY INJURED
George Doyle.
Mrs. Doyle.
Bessie Boucher
Charles SNYDER.
Fred Crone, fracture skull
Mrs. Crone.
Mrs. Smith.
Miss Smith
Captain Peabody and wife
Ralph Boucher.
Mrs. Henry Pease and baby.
George Hunter
George Doyle's little child.
Three children of A. J. Dougherty
and a man employed on the latter's
form
A score or more are reported to have
sustained broken bones.
The first building struck was the
Western Vulcan works, which was en-
urely destroyed, causing a loss of $780,
600. The fifty employees had left the
place Only one man, Richard Purcell,
the night watchman was in the factory
and he was killed. A quarter of a mile
northeast, the Adolph clothing factory
was razed. About 100 people were en-
Dloyed, but all had left half an hour be-
fore Next. the tornado caught a num-
Der of small houses wrecking some,
turning Others half way around, twist
ing huge trees and breaking them off
at the base
The baseball park, the street railway
park and the driving park were next in
the storms path. All the buildings,
fences and grand stand at these three
places, including a $4,000 amphitheater
in course of construction were destroy
ed. At the driving park about 90 car
penters had just stopped work. There
were four persons killed outright and
about Is injured.
At the dairy farm of A. J. Dougherty,
on the edge of the town, a house was
blown down and several who were in il
at the time were badly injured. The
Indiana, Illinois & Iowa bridge costing
$1,000,000 was partly wrecked and the
hosting and buildings at Spring Hill
shaft were ruined. Many buildings in
Kankley, four miles west of StreatOr,
were blown down and several persons
were injured there. Many houses were
unroofed and otherwise damaged.
AT Erington several houses were ut
IeTly Oen1O1SnSQ ana IOuT persons were
seriously if not fatally injured.
At Campus one man was killed while
two others sustained injuries which may
prove fatal
The tornado was accompanied by 4
terrific rain storm which washed out
bridges. culverts and thousands of feet
of railroad track Loss of crops is very
heavy.
FOUR KILLED AT MENDOZA.
Mendoza, Ill, July 1S.-Four persons
were killed and ten others seriously in
jured by a tornado that struck the
northern part of this city last night.
The path of the storm was eight miles
in length Everything in the storms
track was leveled to the ground. The
known dead:
CORA BOISDORF. aged Is.
ORA LUNY. aged 19.
- SCHAMEL boy, aged 13.
- SCHAMEL, boy, aged 4.
The injured:
Mrs. John Wirschem.
Miss WirSchem.
Mrs. oscar Milligan.
Jerome Milligan-
Alice Wilson.
Icda Austin
James Smith.
Henry Schweitzer.
Mrs. James Smith
Besides the foregoing nearly every
member of the Boisdorf family who
took refuge in their cellar was injured.
The house fell on them
Joliet, Ill, July 1S.-The report of de-
struction of Gardner, Ill, in the storm
last night proves untrue While the
storm was the worst in the history of
the town, no lives were lost and no one
was injured A few houses were dam
aged and trees and shrubbery were de-
stroyed-
6amage bv rain and winds but no fatal