New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-01
Stories by
L. j. Beeston
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
James Hay, Jr.
Articles by Clever
Contributors, and
Daphne of the Forest
By William Frederick Dix
in the neM
Sunday Magazine
Of the
New>York T ribune

ruins. swathed in its shroud of gay COLI
ored bunting
Coming up from the south. the tor
nado swooped down just few blocks
10 the north Of the southern limits OF
the city, cutting a path several squares
wide right into the centre of the town.
leveIling the buildings in its wake. In
twinkling three of the handsomest
churches in Regina were laid in ruins.
They were the Methodist, Baptist ana
Knox churches. and they were the frst
of the city's large buildings to go down.
The Methodist church fell with a crash
that sounded above the bowling of the
storm and the roar of the cloudourst
that accompanied the terrific wind.
Then the roof was swept from the
Young Mems Christian Association
building. across Victoria Square, and the
walls of the structure were shattered,
while lust beyond the handsome new
public library was badly wrecked. and
the church of the Presbyterian denom-
ination was laid in ruins almost as COM
plete as those Of the structures further
south.
In rapid succession the Masonic Tenn
pie and the telephone exchange building
were attacked and practically levelied.
The storm seemed 10 spend the height
Of its fury on the latter structure. I'm
der the mass of wreckage left were the
forms OF many victims, the greater part
of them girl operators Of the telephone
switchboard. Fortunately. although
many Of the girls were seriously injured.
none was killed.
one Of the most serious losses TO the
city was that of the warehouses and
the row of grain elevators beside the
Canadian Pacific Railway yard. Upon
these the farmers Of the district were de-
pending for the storage Of their crops
this season. Only one grain elevator re-
maned, and that one much damaged
Railroad Cars Smashed.
The freaks Of the storm were remark
able around the railroad yard. Hardly
a car remained whole. Several cars we're
picked up bodily and carried long dis
tances One was hurled right through
the freight shed
other peculiar doings Of the wind
were many. canoe was carried from
Wascana Lake, a distance of three-quar-
ters of a mile. TO Victoria Park. and
dropped there. Many dingies. and even
small sailing vessels. lie strewn over
the southern section OF the city as far as
half mile from the lake. OF numbers
Of persons out on the waters Of the lake
when the storm broke FIVE are known to
be drowned.
The whole north side Of the city was
practically wiped out by the storm. SIX
hundred families are homeless. The
Mayor and City Council have started a
fund and are providing for the destit-
tute Families were widely separated
in the confusion Tonight husbands
are searching for their wives and moth
ers for their children. Men STOPPED
from time to time in their work of res
cue TO ask passing acquaintance Tor
news of friends and relatives.
one of the first names given out as
among the dead was that Of Andrew
BRYAN. manager Of the Ludnope Ander-
son Company, Of Orillia. whose wagon
and carriage warehouse was totally de-
stroved. He was a member Of the
Council Of the Board of Trade of Re-
gina.