Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1903-07-23
A TORNADO'S TRACK.
An Immense Property Loss Caused
In Illinois by a Storm.
NASYpERSOSS KILLED, OTHERS HURT
factories and Other Buildings Blown Down
I'm the Storms Path-Nins Horses Re-
ported Killed ut streator Driving
Park-Mendota Also suffers.

Streator, ILL.,, July ia tornado
yesterday evening killed 1--WE persons,
injured q score of others and caused q
property loss of 100000. At the
race track, where new buildings had
Just been erected. not q building was
left standing. ALI Of the buildings at
Electric park were destroyed and the
fence and amphitheater Of the ball
park we're blown away. Stauber's
pants factory, a two-story brick build
ing, was blown down and all the stock
was ruined. The Vulcain Western
company's plant suffered heavy loss.
A man was killed there. The Indiana.
Illinois & Iowa bridge, costing $1,000
900, is nearly half gone. The hosting
works and buildings at Spring Hill
shaft were ruined.
Many buildings in Kangkley, four
miles west of Streator, were blown
down and several persons were injured
there. Many houses were unroofed and
otherwise damaged. Telephone and
telegraph wires are nearly Ill uoWh
and details are meager.
In Mclean county many small build
ings were blown down. Near Gardner
an entire train of freight cars on a
siding was blown over.
The factory of the Western Vulcain
works, which was destroyed, was erect
ed at cost Of $4,000. Not wall is
left standing. About so men were en-
ployed there, but all had stopped work
for the day about an hour before.
Only one man, Richard Purcell, the
night Waterman, was in the factory
and he was killed.
A quarter of mile northeast was
Adolph Stauber's clothing factory.
This factory also was RACED. About
100 people were employed there. but
all had left a half hour before. Pass
ing on the tornado caught number
of small houses, wrecking some, turn
ing others half way around, twisting
huge trees and breaking them of at
the base The baseball park, the street
railway park and the driving park
were in the storms path. A $4,000
amphitheater was in the course or
erection at the driving park. The
storm took in these three parks and
destroyed buildings, fences and grand
stand. At the driving park about 30
carpenters had just stopped work.
There four persons were killed out
right and about IL injured. Nine
horses also were killed.
At the dairy farm of A. J. Daugher-
ty, on the edge of the town, a house
was blown down and several who were
In 1t at the time were badly injured.
t Four persons were killed and ten
others seriously injured by tornado
which struck the northern part of Mem
dota last night. The path Of the storm
was about eight miles in length.
Everything in the storms track was
leveled to the ground. Nearly every
member Of the Boisdorf family was In
jured. They took refuge in their eel
lar to escape the storm. The house
I
fell in on them.
Emington and Campus, two small
towns on the Wabash railroad, also
suffered severely from the storm. At
Emington several houses were utterly
demolished and four persons were seri-
ously, If not fatally, injured. At Cam
pus 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, culverts and thousands OF
feet Of railroad track. The loss OF
crops is very heavy.
There were unconfirmed reports that
the town Of Gardner, in Grundy coun-
ty, had been destroyed and many peo-
pie killed. All wires leading to the
town are down and no definite infor-
| nation can ha obtained