Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-25
CHICAGO STORM
CAUSES HAVOC
Wind and Water Does Incal-
culabIe Damage In the
City Suburbs
MANY TOWNS INUNDATED TO-DAY
Roofs Blown From Houses and the
Inmates Drenched With Torrents Of
Rain - Trees, Wires, Poles, Etc,
Fill Streets in Tangled Mass-Many
Persons Injured.

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Persons Injured.
| Chicago, March 25.-Further details
of damage caused by last nights storm
| in the suburbs of Chicago were OBJ
tained today at Washington Heights.
Several persons We're injured ana
houses blown down or unroofed. In
Morgan Park and Fernwood the storm
reached the proportions OF a tornado.
Five houses were unroofed and another
blown from it's foundation. and miles
OF telephone and telegraph wires were
blown down. Twisted telegraph wires
blocked the Rock Island and Pam
Handle tracks. Sidewalks were
wrenched frcm their places and thou
sands of yards of fences scattered thru
the streets. Among the injured at
Washington Heights We're Mrs. Schar
pier, who was badly cut by flying glass,
and the families of Peter Melien and
Mrs. r. Ray had narrow escapes. Mrs.
Mellen and daughters We're IN bed
when the storm struck. In an instant
the roof was carried away and the ter
rified women were drenched by the
rain.
The Ray cottage was 600 feet away
Mrs. Ray and several friends were III
the parlor when the roof of the Mellen
house crashed upon their dwelling,
wrecking the upper story. A number
OF other houses and stores We're badly
damaged. Traffic on Calumets electric
street railway and the Chicago Ele-
waited Traction Company operating be-
tween Blue Island and Auburn Park
was tied up for hours. Almost every
,noase liz Burnside was damaged In he
storm. Chimneys we're blown down
and roofs torn away. and there was
scarcelA an unbroken window left IN
the suburb. No one was injured SO far
as the police were able 70 learn. Wa
ter covering this portion OF the city
rose about six inches during the storm.
| In South Chicago the storm continued
thruout the night, sweeping down tele-
graph poles and flooding part of the
town.
Fred Brunk of South Chicago. ana
and wife Rebecca We're severely injur-
ed when the roof of their dwelling was
blown off Both were struck by
bricks. At Seventy-fifth street and
Railroad avenue, the wind blew tha
roof from the building occupied by
Brown & Co, coal dealers and hurlei
| 1t against a car on the Calumet cleo
| trio line filed with passengers. Thea
| car was knocked from the track. None
| of the passengers was seriously in
jured.
| AT Dauphin Park. the Illinois Cen
! tral station platform and roof were
| torn up by the wind and thrown across
the track. stopping traffic. The situa-
| tion in Dauphin Park is serious. Many
acres of land are under several feet of
iwater already and sidewalks in the
south end of town are submerged. Last
nights storm added materially to the,
| gravity of the situation and the total
| damage there was put at $4,000. The
wind put an end to the Rogers Park
street car service in North Clark street.
Between Devon and Greenleaf avenues
fallen trolleys and arc light poles and
tangled and broken wires stopped ali
traffic during the night and caused
calling of policemen and firemen to
prevent fatalities. Thruout Lake View
considerable damage was done by wind
and rain. In Evanston the wind blew-
down a number of trees and trolley
poles and traffic was suspended so..e
| time.
| The Monon bridge and three big
wagon bridges near Hammond have
heaxar .,.f
| alyzed. The Monon expected another of
its big bridges to go out last might. The
company is now running all trains over
! the Chicago & Eastern Illinois rail-
way.
/ At Washington Heights and Morgan
| Park ten houses We're blown down, the
towns We're in darkness, and the Rock
| Island trains We're blocked by the
buildings and poles blown across the
| tracks. One woman is reported seri-
| ously injured.
At Joliet six houses were blown
Gown, sidewalks We're picked up by the
wind and driven thru the sides of the
frame buildings. The electric light
plant was forced to shut down, and tho
town was under police law all night.
Great fear was felt for the Chicago &,
| Rock Island bridge. 1t the water con-
tinues to rise it is said the bridge will
be swept away.
For hours last night Chicago and her
suburbs were cut off from all commu-
nication with the outer world as effect
ually as If she was the tiniest village
on bleak western prairie.
owing to the severity of the storm
all telegraph wires We're down after Z
o'clock except those belonging to the
Western Union, which remained in
commission until 8 O'Clock.
The high waters prevented street car
traffic west on Madison street, the wind
blew down the wires and poles along
the car lines running south of Chicago.
and the Evanston line was unable to
run cars for four hours while the storm
was at its height.
At Evanston and Rogers Park the
telegraph. telephone and electric light
wires were blown down and the pail