The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-01

authorities. The police are guarding
the ruins to prevent pillage.
Stories of Storm.
w. G. Allen, editor of daily paper.
occupied, with Mrs Allen, one of the
houses demolished on Lorne street.
We lost practically everything"
said Allen, but were lucky enough to
come out alive. 1t is narrowing ex-
| perience to see the roof actually
thought it was surely our time to go,
but we came out with only a few
bruises, sprains and cuts from flying
glass;
There were sixty girls in the Y. W..
| G. A. building which faced on Central
| park. One side Of the building was
torn out, the roof whirled away and
the windows blown in and most of the
furniture wrecked
How the girls escaped is miracle
Miss Norton. secretary, said she saw
the storm approaching and ran ups
stairs to close the windows.
II had just got the windows down, /"
she said, when the storm hit us.
The windows came through with a
| crash and / thought the building was
going. 70 shcok life leaf. ] ran
into closet and drove several girls
in with me.
1T was all over in minute. /
LAAOdEAL ohA0Ay llAS S11AS WSAG nA hAAA~
ed, Most of them. however, had run
to the park where they hid under
| bushes. How they were not killed by
| flying debris cannot understand.
Only three were injured, these not
seriously"
| Probably no citizen Of regina was
as hard hit as ex-Mayor n. w. Laird.
i His home, his big forwarding COM
/ pany warehouse and his wholesale
house were either totally or partially
wrecked. The Lairds' magnificent
residence on Victoria avenue was
badly wrecked and expensive furni-
ture destroyed. The forwarding COM
pany establishment is a complete
| wreck and the wholesale house was
/ wholly wiped out Laird said today:
1T Is a hard blow. / estimate my
total loss at S125,00. Tomorrow we
begin the erection of temporary quar-
ters next to the ruins of the whole
sale house to house the various COM
panies which the wrecked building
left homeless.
THE forwarding company will re-
build at once. Everything is q total
loss as the insurance policies did not
cover loss from this cause"
The telephone exchange is nothing
but a pile OF disheveled bricks and
mortar and a tangle of wires This
was one of the first buildings at
i First 100 men, then 200 worked
frantically to rescue the girls from the
1 wreckage. The means and screams
| from the debris directed the efforts of
the rescuers. One by one the girls
were reached and it was found only
one was injured. Miss Russell was
hurt internally and probably viii die.
James Sutherland, superintendent OF
the telephone department was one OF
those who strove heroically in work
of rescue. Today Sutherland declared
it would be three weeks before the
phone service could be restored.
Mr., and Mrs. FL. B. Smith were in
a section Of the city apart from their
/ home when the storm broke. Their
two sons, Hartley and Gilbert and 16,
respectively. were in the house at the
time. The building tumbled about
them, but they were saved from death
when pinioned under furniture. They
crawled out safe when their parents
reached the ruins of the house
II felt sure our boys were killed" +"
said Smith today, and started hunt
4 ing through the ruins. We were over
i joyed when the boys turned up safe
and sound. I have lost all the prop
erty ! had. My loss is $4,000"
Central park in the heart of the
city, is mass of ruins. Every tree
i in the place is leaved. Great pieces of
! timber were diven two feet or more
in the ground The credit Foncier
building, facing Central park was bad
ly damaged though the walls are still
j standing.