Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-03-31
SEV ERE STORMS.
The Suburbs of Chicago Suffer
From Their Work.
Eighteen Houses Wrecked at India ma
HarbOr. Ind. - Reports of DEE
structiOn In Others Towns
Many People Were
Injured.

Chicago, March 25.-One of the
most severe storms this city has
known in many years passed over
Chicago last night Great damage
was done in the suburbs to the south
of the city and considerab loss was
sustained north of the city proper.
The storm did not strike the bust
ness portion of the city in its great
est force.
The town of Indiana Harbor, 20
miles southeast of Chicago, on the
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
railroad, was the heaviest sufferer.
One man, l.. Barker, the proprietor of
dry goods store. was killed and Is
persons who were in his store when
the storm struck were injured, some
of them seriously.
Eighteen residences were blown
down and several persons were hurt
in the ruins of their homes. 1t is al
most impossible to obtain full details
because of the condition of the tele-
graph and telephone wires, nearly
all of them being down for miles be-
tween Chicago and Indiana Harbor.
The wires of the electric lines were
knocked down and the power was
shut off, making it impossible for
anybody to reach the place save on
the regular trains of the railroads
running through the place.
The number of people injured at
Indiana IIarbor viii probably APP
proXimate -. All three of the hotels
in the place were badly damaged,
Green's hotel in particular being
badly wrecked. One two-story build
ing was turned entirely over.
The storm in the vicinity of Indiana
llarbor was the most severe ever
known there. Three people are
known to be dead. several are fatally
hurt and at midnight there were sew
eral others reported missing and
! they may be buried in the ruins of
their homes.
A two-story brick building was
blown down and number of people
who had sought shelter there were
buried in the ruins.
The storm created havoc in the
town of Hammond. Ind. \ number
of residences were badly damaged,
and two people were injured, but not
fatally. One end of the large plant Of
the Republic Iron and Steel Co. was
blown down, causing a loss of at least
$4,000. y number of business houses
were unroofed and the city was in
total darkness, so many of the elec-
trio light wires were blown down.
The authorities compelled the COM
pany to shut off all power, lest lives
might be lost through contact with
live wires. In the freight yards of
the roads running through Ham
mond great damage was done. Many
cars were unroofed or blown over and
the yards in many places are piled
with wrccka@e.
In Grand Crossing, eight miles
south of the center of the city, a
number of buildings were wrecked,
freight cars blown about the yards
and the tracks of the railroads cover
ed with debris to such an extent that
the majority of incoming trains were
compelled to call upon their passen-
gers to assist in removing the wreck
age from the tracks so that the trains
could proceed.
The telegraph and telephone COM
panics suffered greatly south of the
city. Up to midnight not Il wire was
working east of Indiana Harbor on
any of the three railroads running
through the place. Telephone COM
mumicaton was possible only as far
as Whiting, Ind. three miles west Of
Indiana IIarbor. The street car lines
running from Chicago in the direc-
tion of Whiting and Indiana Harbor
were all out of business, their wires
having been blown down in Il number
of places.
Grand Rapids, Mich, March pa
small but destructive tornado struck
| the south end of the city last night,
doing damage that reaches into the
thousands. Two persons were i'm
| iured, barns were laid fiat. chimneys
and other portions of houses were
| blown away, stock was killed. houses
were thrown from their foundations
| and trees uprooted. Besides there
was considerable damage by light
ming.