Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-04-22
IS ARE KILLED
IN ILL. TORNADO
Storm Wiped Out Whole
Villages and Property
Damage Is Great
COMMUNICATION CUT Off.
Northern Indiana Also Felt
Destructive Effect of
Terrific Hurricane.
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| Chicago, H., April 22-The Tor
nado which late yesterday swept over
Central and southern Illinois and
northwestern Indiana, killed at least
thirty-fve pjersons and injured nearly
200 others according to advices re-
ceived here early today. Miles of te-
legraph and telephone wires were
blown down, farm houses were demol-
ished and it is probable that the
death list will be incre9 sed when COM
muncation is restored with all points
over which the tornado passed. While
! there is no means of estimating the
| damage by the storm it is certain TO
! run into hundreds of thousands OF dol
lars.
| Village is Wiped Out.
At Bush, a village in Williamson
county, the greatest loss of life, oc-
| Cured, eighteen persons having been
killed and more than forty injured.
Nearly every building in the village
was either destroyed or damaged.
Most of the dead were foreigners
/ who worked in the coal mines near
Bush. At Morocco, Indiana, nine per-
sons lost their lives by being crushed
| in the collapse of their houses. At
Grant Park Illinois, half a dozen per-
sons were injured and damage amount
, ing to more than 100000 was caused
| by the tornado.
List of Dead.
The family of Nelson Hulse, at
Campus, a village near Reddick, was
almost wiped out. Hulse, his wife
and oldest daughter were killed, and
two other children were severely in
jured. The loss of life in the towns
which are in communication with
the outside world follows:
BIsh, Illinois, IS dead, 40 injured; !;
Willisville, H., dead, forty injured;
Campus, ILL.,, 8 dead, six injured; Nor
occo, Ind, nine dead, 10 injured.
Officials of the Illinois Central rail
road today made unsuccessful efforts
to confirm the reported loss of life
and damage to property caused by
Sundays Windstorms in Kankakee
and Livingston counties. Telegraph
and telephone wires between practic-
ally every point touched by the storm
and Chicago are reported down and
communication cut off.
Forty-one injured persons were tax
en- TO Murphysboro in a special train
the crew of which said only small
portion of the village of Bush had
been searched The St. Louis, Iron
Mountain & Southern R. R. shops at
Bush were demolished and many re
sidences were destroyed. Four per
sons were injured, one probably fatal
| ly, just north of Murphysboro. Heavy
property damage, but no loss of life
was reported at Quoin.
Residents of the stricken area de
/ clared there were two distinct storms
one striking at $50 o'clock and the
other shortly before 7.
Twister Struck Cemetery.
Bloomington, H., April PA tor
nado Sunday afternoon destroyed {
: house and six barns at Piper City, ant
approaching Chattsworth, struck tht
cemetery, wrecking many monuments
: Great Loss of Life and Damage to Pro
perty.
st. Louis, Mo-, April 22.-Reports
reaching here early this morning from
towns in the stornswept territory O
= Southwestern Illinois, tell of twenty
! three deaths, hundred injured ant
c erty, including wire and rail traffic.
Woman Killed by Timber
4 Kankakee, ILL.,, April 22-Mrs. Davic
+ Jay, who with several friends, was re
8 turning from Kankakee Sunday nigh
y to her home eight miles west of here
was killed by the tornado and other
in the party were seriously injured
!. They had taken refuge in a deserted
v house. The wind tore off the roof ant
4 threw down some of the walls. Mrs
8 Jay was instantly killed by a heav.
g timber.
r. St. Louis, Mo-, April 22.-The dealt
h list caused by high windstorms il
S southern Illinois, continued to grow
t.. today, in the meager telegraphic ant
d telephone reports received here. A
e Murphsboro, Illinois. George Meade
t. who lived two miles north, died Of in
juries. One woman and two childrel
OF the forty-one persons brought her
r. last night from Bush, died today in
l. hospital.
|. Death List Growing.
II Two men were reported dead a
l. Freeman, Illionis. The second relic
L train which was started from Bus
g for Murphysboro was sent to anothe
q town because of the crowded cond
II ton of the Murphysboro hospital.
y A child of Thomas Taylor was XII
g led and many persons were injure
when the storm swept path in H;
u milton county, Illinois. Fourteen hol
ses were demolished.
Five Killed in One House.
a. At Bush, five persons were killed
q. the home of Section Foreman Cam
n bell of the Iron Mountain Railroad
~ Seventy-five houses, the hotel, pos
!. office, mining company's Offices an
store and the round house were de