The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-07-05
REGINA fatalities
TO REDUCED TO 90
NUMBER OF DEATHS LESS THAN
FIRST REPoRTED-INJuRED
NUMBER 400.
MANY MORE WILL DIE
odmas Great-Hundreds Labor
clearing the Oehris.-Propcrty
Loss Estimated at
5000, 900.

regina. Sask., July 81 Forty.one
are dead with a number of bodies ir
the debris left by Sunday nights tv
clone. There are fully 400 jniuref
n several Of them will die. The
property loss is estimated at fen y,
eleven million dollars.
The debris is being removed SLOWLY
Tor the workers seem afraid of thei,
task. Many streets are still blocked
and wide detours have TO be made ia
get 10 certain portions of the CITY.
The death list will probably reach
81 lor there were many people boating
on Vascana lake at the time the CIV.
clone hit Regina and but two or three
or them have been accounted for
Some of them were noticed struggling
in h water and were then seen TO
sink. Their bodies may not be recov-
cred until the lake dries up in the
late summer.
Many of the large wholesale houses
are a total or partial loss. The Capi-
tai City Flour mills; Toronto Type
Foundry. Alderman building, Gaar.
Scott, Gushing Bros, and II. w. Laird
colnpany's warehouse are among the
wrecked. Back of this district many
of the comfortable homes of the labor
ing men working in this district were
completely demolished. The total
financial loss to the city has been
estimated at between $1,000, 900 and
$4,000, 900. The heavier losers among
the prominent business men are: L..
V. Kerry. II. w. Laird, Capital Flour
Mills.
Wild rumors are being received
from outside points of farm houses
having been destroyed and their in
mates killed, but all rural telephone
lines are down and residents Of this
city are too busy to cou the oun
try to see what damage has been
done.
The cyclone evidently wiped out
some farm buildings, but with what
loss of life is not known.
1t is without doubt the worst dis
aster in the history OF western Can
ada.
Preparations are being made for a
long distance telephone exchange at
the corner of Albert and Dewiny
streets and instructions have been
Sent to Montreal for a switchboard.
1t is stated that no action will be
taken to drain the lake at present for
fear of typhoid. The lake will, how
ever, be dragged for dead bodies.
The finance committee met and de-
cided to accept all offers Of help
which have been made, among them
being the following: City of Winni-
peg, Calgary, Edmonton, Moose Jaw.
government of Manitoba, D. ]. Mann,
Dominion government and the Winni-
peg Telegram.
His worship was asked by the COM
mittee to reply to all the wires re-
ceived accepting their offers with the
cities thanks. A committee OF 40
Young men were appointed to anvas
the city and make list OF the missing
and also list the needs OF the people
who were driven out.
A special request is made that all
neople who are living with others re-
MORT at once to the city hall in order
that proper list of the missing may
be prepared. 1t was stated that Coro'
ner Jones had stated that the total
death list resulting from the accloeht
would reach over ~.
The militia in conjunction with the
mounted police will police the terri
forv. One hundred tents will be erect
cd in the parks, while others VIII De
provided through the city.
In no respect is the disaster more
rouarkable than for the organization
80 Tho different civic departments for
Tho relief of the suffering. A relief
committee with ex-Alderman mccall
mol at its head has its quarters IN the
~m.vor's office to deal with all cases
of personal need.
Citizens whose homes escaped de-
..r,ct,on file in. offering one, two or
.hrao rooms for the accommodation
NJ the destitute. But up I noon yes
terday. very few cases had been orougnt
20 the attention Of the committee as
~ rescued ones have to a great *
tent been accommodated in the homes
- the;r friends without the interven'
t;on Of he relief committee.
The most important at pres
~, ;s that of clearing up the debris
the further rescue of bodies and fitting
nm of partially dismantled houses ioi
the use of the survivors.
All the wagons and teams OF the
a,rarent departments are al worf
clearing away the debris from the
streets. 1t is being carried to the out
.I;rts of the city where the danger
trom fire will be less. All materia
Rot can be used for the repair o
bindings or in any way to relievve INT
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