Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-07-05
TORNADO PUTS
TOWN IN RUINS
Causes $10,O0O,O00 Property
Loss in Regina, Saskatchewan
SCORES BURIED IN DEBRIS
Elevator Blown on Track-Puts Wires'
Power and Light Plants Out OF Com
mission-OnIy Hand Presses
for Printing Papers.

Winnipeg, Manitoba. - Dispatches
from Regina, Saskatchewan, state that
at o'clock p. m, cyclone struck the
southwestern portion of that city and
tore it's way northeasterly through
eight blocks in the business part OF
the city.
Falling walls and flying timbers kill
ed people as they walked in the street
or hurried along in automobiles.
The estimated number killed and in
jured is 200.
All available conveyances were call
ed to pick up the dead or injured, who
were hurried off to hospitals or homes
The telephone office was in the
heart of the ruins, and all lines were
put out of commission, the operators
being removed from the debris.
The power plant was also put out OF
gear, and the town is without electric
power or light.
The morning papers issued sheets
from hand presses. All telegraph
wires are down except two, one of
which has been reserved for death
messages.
A large elevator was blown across
the railway track. The only skyscrap-
er in the city was in the path OF the
cyclone.
The property loss is roughly esti-
mated at $1O,000,000, including the
building and plant of The Regina
Standard.
Two fires started but the brigade
got a stream working, and appeared to
have the situation under control.
Qu'Appelle, forty miles east of Re-
gina and Melville, further north, also
suffered severely from the storm.
A special train left Winnipeg short
ly after o'clock with doctors and
nurses and telegraph and telephone
repair men.
The cent. al path of the storm in Re-
gina lay between Hamilton steet on
the east and Albert street to the west,
including between them the greater
portion of the financial, business and
shopping districts.
Before it entered the city the storm
passed directly over the Provincial
Parliament buildings south of Was
cana Lake, but it is impossible yet to
obtain word of the damage there.
Crossing the lake, its path north was
over the Dominion Jail buildings,
when it struck the most select residen-
tial section included on Sixteenth,
Fifteenth, Fourteenth, Thirteenth, and
Victoria avenues. On the latter is the
Land Title and other public buildings,
and number of big churches. Next
it swept Twelfth and Eleventh ave
nues and South Railway street, which
cover the financial and business dis
tricts.
Not abatng a whit in fury, the
storm passed over the Canadian Pact
fic Railway, taking down in its course
half dozen elevators. 1t then passed
to that portion of the city lying north
of the railway, where the wholesale
houses are largely situated, while be-
yond it is a big residential district.
Although the fury Of the storm was
most apparent between Hamilton and
Albert streets, good deal of damage
was done elsewhere particularly in the
Western Railway yards. The cyclone
was so sudden that at first indescriba-
BILE confusion regned, but soon order
was restored and relief gangs were or
ganized.
The storm continued northwest
from Regina through Central Saskat-
chewan, doing great damage, but no
loss of life is reported outside of Re-
gina.