The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-07-24
TORNADO IN ILLINOIS
Nine People Killed at Streator and
Mendoza.
Buildings Were Wrecked and Forest Trees
Twisted-Over SO Persons Injured. Sew
eral Fatally Great Area of Coun-
try Devast ated.

Streator, ILL.,, July 1S.-A tornado
yesterday evening killed five persons,
injured score of others and caused a
property loss of 100000. At the
race track, where new buildings had
just been erected, not building was
left standing. All of the buildings at
Electric park were destroyed and the
fence and amphitheater of the ball
park were blown away. Stauber's
pants factory, 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 81 ,OO0,-
600, 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 all down
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 a cost of $150000 Not a 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 razed. About
100 people were emploJ ed there, but
all had left half hour before. Pass
ing on the tornado caught a number
Of small houses, wrecking some, turn
ing others half way around, twisting
huge trees and breaking them off at
the base. The baseball park, the street
railway park and the driving park
were in the storms path. A $15, 1000
amphitheater was in the course Of
erection at the driving park. The
storm took in these three parks and
destroyed buildings, fences and grand
stand. At the driving park about so
carpenters had just stopped work.
There four persons were killed out
right and about Is injured. Nine
horses also were killed
At the dairy farm of A. J. Daugher-
ty, on the edge of the town, house
was blown down and several who were
in it at the time were badly injured
Four persons were killed and ten
others seriously injured by tornado
which struck the northern part of Men
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 cell
lar to escape the storm. The house
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.
Much Damage Done by a Storm.
Council Bluffs, Ia, July 1S.-A ter
rifle electric and rainstorm passed
over southwestern Iowa at an early
hour yesterday morning doing great
damage to the crop of small grain
which is just ready for the harvest
Numerous barns and other buildings
were struck nv LIGHTNING and de-
stroyed. No loss of life is reported.
A Tornado in Kansas.
Lost Springs, Kan, July 1S.-A tor
nado seven miles south of here yester-
day did considerable damage by tear
ing out barns, houses and corn cribs.
The shocks in 30-acre field of oats
were swept away, not one being left.