Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-07-18
MANY VICTIMS
OF A TORNADO
live People Killed and Nineteen
Fatally Injured,
SOME HAVE BROKEN BONES,

Damage TO Property VIII Amount 10
Two Million Dollars streator aud
MENDOZA, lii, Towns Affected.
streator, H., July l7.--Fiye persons
were killed and 10 were fatally injured
and property loss estimated at s., OOO
VOO was caused by tornado here this
svening.
DEAD.
Larry Doyle.
~ II. Bovine.
Richard Purcell
Charles Snyder.
William Brown negro.
FATALLY INJURED.
George Doyle
Mrs. Doyle
Bessie Boucher.
Charles Snyder
Fred Crone, fractured skull
Mrs. Crone.
Mrs. Smith
Miss Smith.
Capt 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
farm.
A scora or moro no renortaa IN hava
sustained broken bones
The first building struck was the
Western Vulcan works, which was en-
tlrely destroyed, causing loss of $780,
900, The SO employees had left the place,
Only one man, Richard Purcell, the
nightwatchman, was In the factory. and
he was Killed.
A quarter Of a mile northeast, Adolph
Staubers clothing factory was razed,
About 100 people were employed there,
but all had left half an hour before.
Next the tornado caught a number Of
small houses, wreoking some, turning
others halfway around, twisting huge
trees and breaking them OF 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 grandstand at these three
places, including $4,000 amphitheater
IN course OF construction, were des-
troyed At the driving park about
80 carpenters had just stopped work.
There were four persons killed out
right and about Is injured
AZ the dairy farm OF A. j. Dougher-
~. OH the edge of the town. a house
vas blown down. and several who were
in Il at the time were badly Injured.
The Indiana. Illinois a Iowa bridge,
costing 81 600 900, was partially wrecked,
and the hosting works and buildings
at the Spring Hin shaft were ruined.
Many buildings in Kangley, four
miles west OF Streator, were blown
down and several persons were Injured
there. Many houses were unroofed
and otherwise damaged. The wires
are nearly all down and details are
meager.
At Emlngton several houses were ut
terly demolished and four persons were
seriously II not fatally injured
At Campus one man was killed, while
two others sustained injuries which
may prove fatal
The tornado was accompanied By a
terrific rainstorm, which washed out
bridges. culyerts and thousands Of feet
OF railroad track. The loss OF crops Is
very heavy.
FOUR PERSONS KILLED AT MEN
DOTA.
Mendoza. H., July H.-Four persons
were Killed and 10 others seriously In
iured by a tornado that struck the
northern part Of this city tonight. The
path OF the storm was about eight
miles in length Everything In the
storms track was levied TO the ground.
KNOWN DEAD.
Cora Boisdorf, aged Is.
Ora Luna, aged 10.
- Sehamel, boy. aged H.
schamel, boy; aged T.
INJURED.
Mrs John Wlrschem.
Miss Wirschem.
Mrs Oscar Milligan.
Alice Wilson.
Eda Austin.
James Smith.
Henry SchWitzer,
Besides the foregoing, nearly every
member Of the Boisdorf family who
took refuge IN their cellar was injured
The house fell In on them.