The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-25
STRUCK BY SEVERE STORM
CHICAGO AND OTHER PLACES
 SUFFER HEAVY DAMAGE.

Electric Wires Badly crippied-Three
 Persons Killed at IndIana Harbor and
 Others Fatally Injured--Lssses wiii
 Aggregate many Thousands.
 Chicago, March Alone of the most severe storms this city has known in many years passed over Chicago to- night. Great damage was done in the suburbs to the south of the city, and considerable loss was sustained north of the city proper. The storm did not strike the business portion of the city in it's greatest force.
 The storm in the vicinity of Indiana harbor was the most severe ever known there. Three people are known to be dead. several are fatally hurt, and at there were several others re- ported missing, who may be buried in the ruins of their homes.
 A two-story brick building. known as the Barker building. was brown down and number of people who had sought shelter there. were buried in the ruins.
 The dead:
 M. Baker.
 Two unknown men.
 Thirteen people are missing.
 The storm covered the entire region around Hammond and Indiana Harbor, and was cyclonic in it's nature. Tele- graph and telephone wires are down.
 In addition to the Barker building, six other structures are demolished and at least thirty-two are unroofed..
 It is reported that several workmen are hurt at East Chicago. but it is im- possible to obtain any information from there tonight. For a distance of thirty miles from Indiana Harbor and Ham, mond. the wires are down and all the street car lines have been put out of business by the blowing down of their wires.
 In Thornton, the frame dwelling of E. Gardner was blown in- to stone quarry. Gardner was fatally hurt nd his wife sustained serious injuries. Several other people were injured. The Lutheran church was blown down, and a number of resi- dences damaged.
 The fall of rain west and north of Evanston, twelve miles north of Chi cago, was so heavy that the crops were badly damaged. It is said that the loss to the winter wheat in this section alone will amount to $50,00O.
 At midnight the telegraph companies were still in bad shape with small prob ability of being able to improve their service before tomorrow.
 In Hammond, Ind, number of resi- dences were badly damaged and two people were Injured, but not fatally. One end of the large plant of the Re- public Iron and Steel company was blown down. A number Of business houses were unfoofed, and the city to- night is in total darkness. So many Of the electric light wires were blown down that the authorities compelled the company to shut off all the power be- cause of the fear that lives might be lost through contact with live wires In the freight yards at Hammond great damage was done. Many cars were. unroofed and blown over, and the yards piled with wreckage. Oii Illt JIdnO AIOSclllSt 0lRul IHlieS south of the center of the city, num- Der of buildings were wrecked, freight cars blown about the yards, and the tracks os the railroads covered with debris. blocking traffic temporarily. The telegraph and telephone compan- ies suffered greatly south of the city.
 To the north of the city the storm was also severe, much damage having been done in the suburbs of Evanston, Rog- ler's Park and Thornton.
 An exceedingly heavy fall of rain ac- conpanied the storm.
 Grand Rapids, Mich., March 24.-Six houses were completely wrecked and a number of their inmates were injured here tonight by severe wind storm which was accompanied by rain. A large number of other buildings were moved from their foundations. At Muskegon several buildings were unroofed and considerable damage was done, though no persons have as yet been reported injured.
 Milwaukee, March 24-A severe rain
 
 tion of Wisconsin tonight, doing much damage to the telegraph and telephone service and in some cases unroofing buildings. Special dispatches from Lake Geneva show heavy loss to sum- mer houses on the shores of Geneva Lake.
 Racine, Wis, March 24.-A storm which is said to have swept over all of southeastern Wisconsin has cut Racine off from all communication to the west All the Wisconsin telephone wires are cut out of service, as we'll as the tele- graph wires of the Milwaukee road. The high wind here was accompanied by a heavy rain. The sewers soon be- came clogged and many cellars were filled. The fires engines of the local department were called out to save some of the stocks of the business to,.eas e+orad ;,, oa1Iarc