Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1903-07-22
KILLED BY
A TORNADO
Illinois Towns Suffer From a Death
Dealing Storm, Which Swept
Central Part
FIVE ARE DEAD IN sTREAToR
Four Are Killed In Mendots-Property
Loss viii Run Into the Millions
Expensive Bridge Gone.

Streator, ILL.,. July IA tornado
this afternoon killed five persons, in
jured a score Of others and caused a
property loss of S2,O 1000.
The dead are:
HARRY DOYLE.
NELs H. BIvENS.
r. PURCELL.
CHARLES SNYDER.
WIN. BROWN.
Following are those reported severe,
ly injured:
George Doyle, Mrs. Doyle, Bessie
Boucher, Chas. Snyder, Fred Crone,
Mrs. Crone, Mrs. Smith, Miss Smith,
Captain Peabody and wife, Ralph
Boucher, Mrs. Henry Pease and baby,
George Hunter. Geo. Doyle's little
child. three children of j. A. Dough.
erty and a man employed on the lat
ter's farm. A score or more are re.
ported to have sustained broken bones.
The first damage reported was the
, stripping OF the covering of c. r.
Schurman's ice plant about two miles
west of the city. The wind tore away
the roof and sides. II next reached
the river and cut away the trestle on
the west side of the three-I bridge.
The Western Vulcan Works, erect.
ed at a cost of $500 600, was torn to
pieces, not a wall remaining standing.
About 80 men are employed here, but
had quit work for the day about an
hour before. Only n man, Richard
Purcell. night Waterman, was in the
factory. and he was killed.
A quarter of a mile northeast was
Adolph Stauber's clothing factory.
This factory was alos RACED. About
100 people are employed here, but
they had all left half an hour before
and no loss of life occurred. Passing
on, the tornado caught a number of
small houses, wrecking some, turning
others half way around, twisting huge
trees, three feet in diameter, and
breaking them off at the base. The
base ball park. street railway park
and driving park were in the storms
path. A $4,000 amphitheater was IN
the course of erection at the driving
park. The storm took in these parks
and destroyed buildings, fences and
grandstand. At the driving park just
about SO carpenters had closed work
and left. A number Of horsemen and
fine horses were in the park. Here
four persons were killed outright and
about Is injured. Nine horses were
also killed. At the dairy farm of A
]. Dougherty, on the edge of town, a
house was blown down and those VIII
were in IL at the time were severely
injured.
All but Purcell were killed at thu
race track. New buildings had jus'
been erected and the races were t.
have been given week after next. MOI
a building is left standing. All OF the
buildings at Electric park were de
stroyed and the fence and amphithe
alter OF the ball park were blown away
Stauber's pants factory, a twostor,
building. was blown down and al
sock was ruined. The Vulcan West
ern company's plant suffered a heav,
loss. Purcell was killed there. Al
Indiana. Illinois and Iowa bridge, cost
ing 81 1000, 900. is nearly half gone, the
hosting works and buildings at Sprinf
Hill shaft were ruined. many buildings
in the angley, four miles west o.
Streator. were blown down and sever
al persons were injured. Many houses
were unroofed and otherwise damag
ed. Telephone and telegraph lines arr
nearly all down and details are meag
er.