Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-01
TORNADO WREAKS
APPALLING HAVOC
Scores Killed and Injured and
Entire Section of Regina,
Sask., Is Raced.
MANY FREAKS OF WIND
SHOWN IN DESTRUCTION
Whole Buildings Picked Up and Car
ried Long Distances.
FUND OF $4,000 FOR RELIEF
Temporary Hospitals Opened-Doc-
tors and Nurses volunteer-Pa-
thetic Incidents Witnessed Dur
ing Night by Searchers.
Whole Buildings Picked Up and Car
ried Long Distances.
FUND OF $4,000 FOR RELIEF

| REGINA, Saskatchewan. July Thirty
six bodies had been recovered I'D to 8
o'clock this morning in the ruins caused
by the tornado which occurred here last
evening. Hundreds Of persons have been
busy among the debris since daylight and
have recovered sixteen bodies in addition
to the twenty recovered last night.
The death list probably will be confined
to fifty.
| The military has been recalled from its
annual encampment and is in charge of
the city.
The storm lasted only short time:
in fact, 1t was over SO quickly that the
people hardly had time to realize what
had taken place, and some of the
escapes from death were miraculous.
Buildings only e block from the path
of the storm were injured only slightly.
The first intimation that those outside Of
| the storm zone had of the disaster was
when three girls who had escaped from
the wrecked telephone exchange. belong
ing to the government telephone lines,
appeared at a newspaper Office and told
their experiences. The young women had
slid from the second Moor of the teie-
phone building to the basement carried
down by .fifteen-ton switchboard.
Rescue Work Is Begun.
Soon hundreds of willing hands began
| the work Of rescue, which will not be
finished before tonight
| The electric light plant supplying the
city was put out of commission when the
storm struck, causing confusion and re-
tarding the work.
The new parliament building, just COM
pleted at a cost of s. OOo. 900. was one of
the first struck. and while it still stands,
| was badly shaken.
Many freaks of the wind are shown
The roof of a factory building was car
ried three blocks and crashed through a
handsome new residence. Four livery
| stables were demolished and every horse
in each of them killed.
The escape of seventy five girls working
in the telephone exchange was probably
the most miraculous Of any. The build
ing was demolished. 1t was at first be-
lieved that large number had been kill
ed Supt. ]. r. Sutherland wired the
general office at Winnipeg early in the
night that probably twenty girls had been
killed and forty injured. This, however.
proved to be untrue. Just how many
IL,
killed nor fatally injured.
List of Dead and Injured.
The following is the list Of dead so far
recovered and identified:
J. J. Bryan. manager Of the Thorpe &
Anderson Company: ]. X. Scott. George
Craven, Mrs. Guthrie. Mrs. W. T. Nc
Donald, Mrs. Logic and child, Mrs. 7 T.
| Mckay and two children, Mrs. Fred
Hindson. James Hindson. Rev. Thomas
house, Mr.. and Mrs. Blenchom, formerly
OF Illinois; Mrs. William Shaw. John Fer
euson, Laurence Hodsman. ten years old:
M Artnar donaldson MADISON W. G Grey, William
p. Frempton, A. R. McKillopp. Mrs. G.
McDougal and three daughters. W. J.
Wilson, NJ. F. Restadd, Mrs. H. Ayre,
James P. Coffee, Lisbon Island: T. W.
Harris, three Cinnamon, unidentified
Mrs. E. P. Gordon. Ellen Nykins, Mrs.
Holmes. Mrs. Susan Holmes, Mrs. Ora
| ham, Jessie Graham, James Louickie,
Mrs. A. Bruce, Alexander Reasortson, Mr.
| McKegny, Lois Bates. E. BIenkhorn.
Frank Garston. Carl Keister. ]. P. Hud-
son. James Dunn, Mrs. James Dunn. Vera
A. Saunders.
On Lorn street, one Of the principal
residence thoroughfares scarcely build
ing is left standing.
Railway Buildings Raced.
| The Canadian railway yards are a fiat
expanse Of ruined shops and trains. Not
| a whole car remains in the yards. Some
| of them were picked UP by the wind and
| carried for several blocks. One was car
ried clear through the freight sheds.
The whole north side OF the city IS
practically wiped out. No knows how
many are dead on that side.
a canoe was carried from Wascana
lake to Victoria Park, distance Of three
quarters Of a mile, and dropped there.
Sailing vessels were picked out Of the
water and strewn over the southern por-
ton of the city.
The cupola of the Baptist church was
dropped in the middle of the street three
blocks away.
Late in the evening clerks were work
| ing in the ruins Of the local branch of
the Royal Bank setting things to rights
WREN some men, seeing the door I'M
locked, walked in and demanded the
money there to their credit
Grain Elevator Dislodged.
One of the largest grain elevators
| facing the railway yards was picked up
bodily and carried a distance of fifty
leet from its foundation.