Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-03-30
Death and HAVOC
IN STORMS wake
TORNADO STRIKES CHICAGO AND
SUBURBS CAUSING THREE
FATALITIES.
SEVERAL OTHERS ARE
SEVERELY INJURED
Hurricane Sweeps from Evanston to
Indiana Harbor-Little Damage Is
Done in Heart of City-Storm at
Other Points.

"a uA ACaAe sweeps from Evanston to
Indiana Harbor-Little Damage Is
Done in Heart of City-Storm at
Other Points.
Chicago, March ga tornado which
struck Chicago and suburbs Thursday
evening was one of the worst recorded
by the local weather bureau. Build
lngs were destroyed or damaged all
over the city and surrounding towns.
1nree persons were killed at Indiana
f1aroor by falling walls. Many persons
were injured throughout the storm re-
gion.
The damage by water was extensive.
Street car service was interrupted on
many lines and telephone and telegraph
lines were blown down. Lightning add
ed to the terrors of the storm and fire
completed the damage The wind at
tanned velocity of 50 miles an hour
from the west, and for time had some
OF the force Of cyclone
Storm Travels in Curve.
! The path of the storm described 2
curve, bending inland from the lake
| shore and leaving the heart of the CITY
! unlnjured, compared to the damage
which was wrought in the outskirts.
From the district in which Evanston is
situated the storm swept down to Rogers
Park, then inshore among the Des
PLANES river suburbs, south through
Thornton and Chicago Heights, bending
| back toward the lake with the Calumet
valley and brushing every village from
! Blue Island to South Chicago with de-
| structive forces. Thence it blew through
Hammond to Indiana Harbor. where the
loss of life and property was greater
than at any other point.
Three Towns Hard Hit.
| The greatest violence of the storm
was felt at Indiana Harbor, Hammond
and East Chicago. Beside the Barker
block six other buildings in Indiana Har-
Dor are reported to have been practic-
ally destroyed by the force of the wind.
while 80 structures were unroofed in the
two minutes duration of the tempest
The South Bay hotel was among the
buildings, the occupants being driven
into the storm. Telegraph wires were
blown down and roads and railroad
tracks blocked with the debris. The
pennsylvania railroad tower at Indiana
HarbOr was wrecked, causing a tie-up
| on the Pennsylvania line for several
hours
Store Cru1nbles Like Paper.
All the known victims at Indiana Har-
Dor had gathered in the store in the
two-story brick building owned by
Louis Barker to escape the storm.
Without warning the building crumpled
like paper in the clutch of the gale.
Twelve persons are known to have been
caught in the falling mass of timbers
and walls.
The dead: Louis Barker, proprietor
of store, crushed by falling walls and
killed; unknown man. unidentified boy
Among the injured were: Mrs. Louis
Barker, internally injured. not expected
to live; Sadie Barker, bruised Susan
Barker. bruised; Harry Barker, bruised:
Miss Susie Robbins, 20 years old, skull
fractured and spine injured; Leonard
Travis, clerk in Bankers store, body
crushed, internal injuries; NJ Thall,
crushed and injured Internally; Marion
Hall Travis, bruised and thought to be
injured internally; Henry Van Dine, 80
years old. millwOrker from Holland,
Mich, skull fractured, will die.
Persons injured at places other than
Indiana Harbor were: Charles Shade,
Hammond 20 years old. hurt by falling
| timbers while rescuing his mother, will
recover; Fred Brunk, South Chicago.
struck by falling bricks from roof of his
home, severely bruised; Rebecca Brunk,
injured by falling bricks when roof of
house was torn away; E. Gardner,
Thornton, injured when his house was
blown into stone quarry may die: Mrs.
E. Gardner. blown into stone quarry
with her husband. severely injured:
Mrs. S. Scharpier, Washington Heights,
cut by flying glass.
At Other Illinois Points.
At Joliet a score Of houses were nm
rooted by the storm. Many barns and
small buildings collapsed. Windows.
chimneys, sidewalks and fences all over
the city suffered.
At East st. Louis the wind and rain
storm caused large amount of pronerty
damage. injured many persons and Sc
riously crippled the local and interurban
street car traffic. but no fatalities have
been reported.
At White Heath the Universalist
church, Murray's elevator, and Flana-
CAMS hotel were blown down BY the
storm. The Methodist church was un-
rooted and several houses lifted of their
foundations. Many telephone and tele-
graph wires are down.
In Wisconsin.
Milwaukee, Wis, March ga severe
rain and wind storm swept over a large
portion Of Wisconsin Wednesday night
doing much damage to the telegram
and telephone service and in some
cases unroofing buildings.
Mob Furnishes Highway Robber.
st. Clair, Mo-, March 26.-Fortv
masked men, many of them carving
shotguns, broke into the Jail here early
Friday and, securing VIM Davis. ar
rested on the charge of highway rob-
berry, took him from the jail, whipped
| him nearly to death and then turned