The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-06-04
STORM WRECKS
A SUMMER PARK
FOREST PARK AT WEST EDGE OF
CHICAGO is PRACTICALLY
DESTROYED.
Was Just Ready to open-Another
Tornado Sweeps Through oklaho-
ma-Lowlands Of Missouri Are
Flooded by Heavy Rains.

Chicago. May 29.--One OF the Sc
Verest electrical, wind and rain storms
In years struck Chicago Thursday
evening, doing immense damage In the
city and suburbs. The greatest de-
struction was done to Forest Park,
large new summer amusement resort
lust built on the western edge of the
city and which was to have been
opened Saturday.
Lightning struck the great coaster,
destroying II and the machinery OF the
chutes, and the wind wrecked five OF
the buildings and the water and sewer
plants. The extent Of the damage was
not known fully, but 1t was so great
that the opening had to be postponed.
Another Oklahoma Tornado.
Guthrie. Okla, May ga tornado
has swept through the district be-
tween Henrietta and Navina. The
towns Of Zion and Wanamaker were
In the direct track of the storm. Tele-
graph and telephone wires are down.
Heavy rain, almost cloudburst, fell
over the central and northern parts OF
the state.
Missouri Lowlands Flooded.
st. Joseph, Mo-, May 29.-Reports
from Maryville, Oregon, Tarkio and
other northwest Missouri towns are to
the effect that thousands Of acres OF
Iowlands have been flooded. Most OF
this land had been planted to corn
and the damage is heavy.
Killed by Storm In Kansas.
Topeka, Kan, May ga terrific
windstorm of almost the proportions
of a tornado which passed over the
southern part Of Jewell county
Wednesday night killed one man and
injured 22 persons, seven of them
probably fatally
High Wind at Quincy.
Quincy, ILL.,, May pa windstorm
swept over Quincy Thursday after
noon and did much damage. Buses
running from the Country club were
dashed to pieces. e. l.. Walcott and
wife were taken from the wreck Of
rone bus, severely hurt. DR.. Thomas
ID. Gardner was also hurt. Principal
buildings at Wonderland park were
blown away and many smaller build
lngs were demolished. Many trees
were uprooted. George Werener was
killed by lightning during the storm
The country south OF Quincy was
swept by a tornado and so dwellings
AID outbuildings were demolished
No one is reported killed in the coun-
try region.
Fatal Tornadoes In Oklahoma.
12 injured, several fatally, hundreds
OF head Of cattle killed. vast acreage
of crops destroyed, ruin and desola-
ton, are the results OF a series OF
tornadoes that visited Alfalfa county,
Oklahoma, Tuesday night.
The dead are: Mrs. Guy Hutchison
and baby, Peter Rudy, wife and two
children; Mrs. Elliott, Mrs. Parker
and baby, r. c. Atchison.
Tornadoes In Nebraska.
Omaha, Neb., May 2S.-A severe
storm, accompanied by a wind which
destroyed everything in its path,
struck the north end Of the city early
Wednesday.
Three Nebraska towns were visited
by small tornadoes. At Hastings the
barns of James Railston and Frank
Kellar were razed and their homes
badly wrecked. No person was hurt.
At Chadron a storm with tornado fea-
lures occurred, wrecking small build
ings. Two persons were injured. At
Fremont a small tornado demolished
the cribs and sheds of the McCaull-
Webster Elevator company and de.
stroyed the elevator at Wood Clif.