New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-02
o[ATH LIST At REGINA
WILL Be ABOUT FIFTY
nomaoe Done by Tornado in
saskatchewan City Less than
First Reported.
DEBRIS STILL HIDES DEAD
urse Grain Elevator Was Picked
In Entire and Shifted Fifty
Feet from It's Foun-
datiou.

,,-,a sask.. July i.-Thirty-siX bodies
"a beer recovered UP 70 o'clock this
..r,ng ir the ruins caused by the tornado
I'll occurred here last evening. Hun
80 NJ searchers. busy I'm the debris
W., DAYLIGHT. have recovered sixteen
,.a,.s IN addition to the twenty recovered
last night
The death list probably viii to confined
- afr, Tho military has been recalled
,,or, IFS annual cncampment and 's In
charge Of the city
:, will BE- several days before the full
IA, NJ casualties is known. II Is believed
,bst many persons lost their lives in the
r,ssttinz Of craft on the lake. The fury
- me storm fell there first. and made
,t,,,rns OF number of persons who we're
,,,ovjns a row or g sail.
The havoc wrought by the tornado Is ap-
ealing Citizens aided the police through
,u- ,he night IN the rescuing Of the In
rrrsd and recovering bodies Of tho dead
from the ruins.
IN. storm lasted onll short time; IN
Ga, I. vas over SO quickly that the people
h.r5lv Rad time 70 realize what had taken
.,.o. Some OF tho escapes from death
we're miraculous
ppudinss only block from the path OF
,.s storm we're injured only slightly. The
s,,. ,rtination that those outside Of the
,,o-r, ,one had Of the disaster was when
,h~sa girls Who had escaped from the
,-scl4d telephone exchange belonging 10
,hs government telephone lines appeared at
a newspaper Office and told tlhr experiences
~. Young women had slid from the second
soor ~ the telephone building 20 the base
.,.rt carried down by d fftecn-ton switch
hoard
,,sry freaks or the wind ar" shown.
~ roof Of factory building was carried
,,,ss blocks and crashed through hand
,or,s nov. residence Four livery stables
rsrs demolished and every horse in each OF
them vas killed.
The escare Of seventy-fve girls working
:, the telephone exchange was probably the
,oo.t miraculous OF any. The building was
demolished ]: was at first believed that
, large number had been killed.
The canadian PACING Railway yards are
, Aat e1panse Of ruined shops and trains.
Xo, 8 whole car remains in the YARDS.
Same ~ them were picked up by the wind
,,s carried for several blocks. one was
rsrned clear through the freight yards
, The whole north side OF the city is practi-
cslly wiped ont.
One NJ the largest grain elevators fac
ing the railway wards was picked UP bodily
and carried distance Of fifty feet from
Us foundation.
There we're many pathetic incidents dur
ing the night Of searching for cead and
wounded when the workers discovered
sorne member Of their own families among
the debris.
Premier Scott early conferred with
Mayor McAra. and stated that the provin-
cial government would place $4,000 at the
disposal Of the city authorities this morn
ing. and that more would be forthcoming
II necessary.
" G. Allen. editor Of The Daily Prov
nee" with Mrs. Allen. occupied one OF
The demolished houses on Lorne street.
we lost practically everything said
Mr. Allen. but were lucky 10 come out
alive II Is n narrowing experience TO see
The root actually blown from over your
head ] thought IL Wa surely our time tc
20, but we came out With only few
bruises and cuts from flying glass. We
we're sitting on the ycranda shortly before
The storm broke. and great black looking
clouds were rolling rapidly toward eacf
other I'm the southeast. Then. before We
had time to close our windows. the ali
vas filled with flying debris and the storm
broke I'm all its fury
There we're sixty girls in the Youni
vomen's Christian Association, which facec
On Central Park. One side of the building
VAS torn out. tho roof was whirled ava!
and the windows we're blown in and most o
the furniture wrecked. How the girls IS
capped ts miracle. Miss Morton. secretar!
,sid she sav the storm coming and raj
upetairs uith several glrlr 20 put down tn
windows.
T had just cot tic windows shut sh
ssll, when 'hc storm hit Us. The win
dops came through with crash and
thought the oridiuc was going. ~ shoo'
lxs q iesf Q IN into q closet and droy'
several girls before me 1t was ell oyer IL
minute. .hoDznt surely the girls wer'
all killed Most oC them however, ran tC
the park aro hid under the bushes. How
they uero not KILLED 10y tho fying debris
snnot understand. Ou.} three wore in
Breo AID thcse no, crjoUsly"