The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-01

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separated at the time of the storm;
The day had been extremely hot ana
many had sought comfort in the parks.
A large number of people were out on
the waters of Lake Wascana and hve
are known to have been drowned.
Every home in the city that is stand
ing has been thrown open to the
homeless Two temporary hospitals
have been OF ened
Premier Scott stated that the pro-
vincial government would place $25,-
| 600 st the disposal of the city author
tiles today Police are on guard to
prevent pilla ging.
The confusion is such that to deter
mine the number of fatalities is out of
the question Every ambulance in the
citv was worked to its limit, carrying
| the, bodies of the $Yued and the scores
of injured to the hospitals which were
| filled early in the evening.
! Crowds of volunteers all over the city
| were assisting in the work of search
ling the wreckage and for hours hardly
| a minute went by that q human body
/ or the mangled form of some living
victim was not uncovered.
| The local telephone Office was wreck
cd. The telephone exchange building,
the Standard block, the First Baptist
| church and the Baird & Bottel build
/ ing are among the structures DESTROYED.
/ All telephone and all but one tele-
! graph wire are down.
| The tornado came from the south,
and first struck. the new parliament
building, just completed at cost OF
| 80 600 600 The building is of steel and
| concrete, and while it still stands, 1t is
badly shaken. 1t then swept north
| ward moving a swath six blocks wide
through the most fashionable residence
district. Transforming it into mass of
| Wreckage.
Six Elevators Wrecked.
| ALONG Victoria street from Sixteenth
i TO Eleventh street 300 houses were de-
| stroyed, and many persons killed. Au-
| tomobiles filed with people were hurled
\ high in the air and deposited blocks
| away.
| At Eleventh street, the business dis
| tr:ct composed of wholesale ware
houses, banking institutions and retail
| stores, was sent into heap OF ruins,
while the air was filled with flying
wreckage. Past Eleventh street, Albert.
| Smith. Cromwell, Searth, Hamilton and
Rose streets the storm reached the. re-
| tail section which received the severest
| force.
Then the Canadian Pacific tracks
were reached. Six big grain elevators
| toppIed over, the timbers being piled on
the tracks.
| Crossing the railway tracks, several
of the largest wholesale houses in the
city were unroofed, their heavily laden
floors fall1ng TO the DOIlOIu DIS Lnelr
supports were looSened.
| Two fires started, but as most of the
| fire halls escaped the storm, and the
| water pressure was not impaired, the
| flames were confined to the ruins where
they started.
Ali electric light and power wires were
rendered useless. All conveyances were
pressed into service to convey the dead to
the morgues and the injured to tie hos
pitfalls.
The storm continued northwest from
Regina through central Saskatchewan,
doing great damage, but no loss of life
| is reported outside of Regina.
Heavy losses to buildings are reported
from gu 'Appelle, and also at Melville.
The sweep of the storm. the worst in
the history of the Canadian northwest,
was over city which only snort time
before had completed the work OF os1R-
ton of Dominion day. Bunting and fdSs
covered buildings everywhere and net
works of electric lights were strung anG
ready for Illumination Through these
gaily- decorated streets the tornado swept
and within half hour Regina had been
turned into a city of mourning. LII the
track of the storm. building after build
| ing lay in ruins. shrouded in its say col
ored bunting. The tornado swooped down
| just a few blocks to the north of the
Southern limits of the city, cutting a
/ swath several blocks wide right into the
center of the town. levelling the buildings
In a twinkling three of the hand
soonest churches in Regina were laid in
ruins. Ihey were the 1detnoolSt, BaptlSl
and Knox churches. and the first of the
city's large buildings to be blown down.
Then the roof was swept from the Y.
NJ. c. A. building and The walls of the
| structure were shattered. while Just be-
yond the new public library was badly
wrecked and the Presbyterian church was
\ laid in ruins
In rapid succession. the Masonic temple
and the telephone exchange were levellcd.
Although many of the telephone girls
were injured. none was killed.
One of the most serious losses to the
city was that of the warehouses and the