River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-07-04
KILLED BY CYCLONE
TORNADO SWEEPS CANADIANS
TOWN AND HUNDREDS PER-
lsHED IN WREcKAGE.
5000 TROOPS SENT TO REGINA
Dozen Telephone Girls Plunged to
Their Death When Exchange Is
moIlshed-canadlan City In
Total Darkness-Loss $5,ooo,o 900.

Winnipeg, Man, July "A cyclone
swept through Regina, the capital OF
Saskatchewan, Sunday night. leaving
corpses in it's wake estimated to
number between one and four hun
dred, devastating large strip OF the
business district, demolishing three
churches and dozen or more busl-
ness houses.
The telephone exchange was razsd
with dozen or so girls amongst the
debris. The power plant shared the
same fate, and to make the work OF
rescue more terrible, the city is In
darkness Cyclonic clouds have
lowered around the northwest, and It
is feared the storm will return.
Before entering the city from the
southeast it destroyed the new capitar
building, then 1t cleaned up some two
hundred or more private residences
Then six grain elevators were blown
across the tracks, completely block
ing traffic. Then 1t passed away 10
the northeast. Chaos reigns here.
Five thousand troops are being
rushed to the scene from Sewel camp.
for already pillaging has commenced
and the mayor has issued orders 10
shoot anyone on sight seen pillaglns
or robbing dead Details are very
meager from Regina and every ais
patch gives a different number Oh
dead. Three churches were destroyed
and hundreds of people are injured
All hospitals are filed and stores,
are being turned into morgues ana
temporary hospitals. Surrounding
cities and towns are sending doctors
and nurses. All direct COMMUNICATION
with Regina is cut off and messages
being received here are Dispatched
from neighboring towns. The three
telegraph offices are wrecked as Wen
as the railroad stations.
The loss will run into $5,OOO,OOO on
most conservative estimate and may
run double this amount. Dispatches
received here placed the dead at 20
with number injured who Will de-
Reported several villages to north4
east Of here also struck but this can
not be confirmed. Canadian Paclnc
will accept nothing but death mes
sages for points west as far as Regina
Several fires broke out in Regina after
cyclone and two of them attained dam
gerous proportions, but heroic work on
| the part of firemen and volunteers
saved the situation, but the fire Is
liable to break out again at any mo-
ment for there is the widest disorder
which the royal northwest mounted
police are not able to control
Some thirty large wholesale blocks
we're destroyed and had 1t not been
Sunday night the loss OF life would
have ben far greater. William Allen,
formerly well-known sporting man.
lost everything, but he and his wife
escaped injury. Several newspaper
men are missing and are reported to
be dead.
Later scenes in the darkened city
are indescribable, railway yard
stores are ransacked for lamps and
the Imperial Oil company Is giving
away oil. Hotels and surviving
churches have been turned into tenn
porary hospitals and morgues. The
difficulties of search are made worse
bv the darkness. Seven telephone
girls have been taken from the debris
Of the Government Telephone ex-
change Railroad yards in the west
end of the city are wrecked.