Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-07-11
PRINCIPLE PART OF CITY is
Destroyed BY TERRIBLE
STORM, SUNDAY.
City Was Gaily Decorated for Dominion
Day Celebration - Converted Into
Mass of Debris-North Side is Wiped
Out-Property Loss Estimated at Ten
Million Dollars-Other Towns Hit.

Winnipeg, Man.-Dead and injured
to number estimated between 400 anC
500 persons, and a property loss Of
$10,0O0,0O0 is the toll taken Sunday by
windstorm that converted into a mass
of debris the greater part of Regina
Sask., and then swept on through the
province, leaving destruction in its
pathway.
Great destruction of building has
been reported from Qu'Appelle, and
also from Melville.
The magnitude of the calamity which
Regina had suffered cannot be estimat.
ed. 1t seemed certain, however, that
the casualties would roll up to a total
of between 400 to 500.
Crowds of volunteers all over the
city were assisting in the work of
searching the wreckage, and for hours
hardly minute went by that a human
body or the mangled form of some hv-
ing victim was not uncovered.
City in Gala Attire.
The sweep of the storm, the worst in
the history of the Canadian northwest,
was over city which only a short time
before had completed the work of
decking itself in gala attire for the
celebration of Dominion day.
Bunting and flags covered buildings
everywhere and networks of electric
lights were strung and ready for illu-
Through these gaily decor
ated streets the tornado swept, and
within half hour Regina had been
turned into city of mourning. The
tornado swooped down just a few
blocks to the north of the southern
limits of the city, cutting a swath sew
eral blocks wide, right into the center
of the town, leveling the buildings in
its wake.
In twinkling three of the handsom-
est churches il Regina were laid in
ruins.
One of the most serious losses to the
city was that of the warehouses and
the row of grain elevators in the Ca
madam Pacific yards. Upon these the
farmers of the district were depending
for the storage of their crops this sea-
son. Only one grain elevator remains
and that is much damaged.
North Side of City Wiped Out.
The whole north side of the city vir-
tually was wiped out by the storm.
Six hundred families are homeless. The
mayor and city council have started a
fund and are providing for the desti-
ute.
The tornado came from the south and
irst struck the new parliament build
ng just completed at cost of $4,000
100. The building is of steel and con-
'rete, and while it still stands, it is
BADLY shaken.
1t then swept northward, moving a
'wath six blocks wide through the
most fashionable residence district,
transforming it into a mass of wreck
lge.
Along Victoria street from Six
eenth to Eleventh street, 200 houses
we're destroyed, and many persons kill
ID. Automobiles filed with persons
we're hurled high in the air and de-
,osited blocks away.
At Eleventh street, the business dis
riot, composed of wholesale ware
Houses, banking institutions and retail
torres, were made a heap of ruins,
While the air was filled with flying
Past Eleventh street, AL
BERT, Smith, Cromwell, Searth, Hamil-
on and Rose streets the storm reached
he retail section, which received the
everest force.
Across the railway tracks several of
he largest wholesale houses in the city
we're unroofed, their heavily-laden floors
alling as their supports were loosened.
Fires Start, But Are subdued.
Two fires started, but as most of the
ire halls escaped the storm and the
water pressure was not impaired, the
lanes were confined to the ruins where
hey started.
All electric lights and power wires
ire useless and the city is in darkness.
The storm continued northwest from
Regina through central Saskatchewan,
Icing great damage, but no loss of life
s reported outside of Regina.
A special train left Winnipeg with
loctors, nurses and telegraph and tele-
)hOna renair man