Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-07-02

up to 8 o'clock this morning IN
the ruins Of the cyclone which
occurred here last evening. Hun
dreds of searchers have been
busy In the debris since day'l9ne
and have recovered fifteen bodies
In addition to the twenty recov'
cred last night. The death list
probably will be confined to hfty:
The military has been recalled
from its annual encampment ana
Is in charge Of the situation.
Regina, Sask., July 1t was sor-
rowful sight on which this morning
broke, after the havoc wrought by the
cyclone which struck this/city early
last night. Citizens who had escaped
death or injury aided the police dur
Ing the long weary night in the work
Of rescuing the injured and bodies OF
the dead. 1t will be late today before
the exact number of dead is known. III
The following Is list Of dead SO Tar
recovered and identified:
]. Scott, George Craven, Mrs.
Guthrie, Mrs w. T. Mcdonald, Mrs.
Logic and child, Mrs. j. L. Mckay and
two children; Mrs. Fred Hindson, Jas.
Hindson, Rev. Lewis House, Mr.. and
Mrs. Blonkhorn, Mrs. William Shaw,
John Ferguson, Laurence Hodsman,
ten years old, Arthur Donaldson Grey,
William McMurdo, William Crabb,
Charles Lynn, E. Frempton, A. B. Nc
Gillopp, Mrs. McDougal and three
daughters, w. J. Wilson, M. F. Res
tadd, Mrs H. Ayre, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Blenahom, formerly OF Illinois;
James P. Coffee, Lisbon Island, T. w.
Harris, three children, unidentified;
J. j. Bryan, maAager OF the Thorpe
and Anderson Coy
w. G. Allen, editor OF the DAILY
Province, with Mrs. Allen, occupied
one of the demolished houses on Lorne
street. They lost practically every
thing.
There were 60 girls in the Y. W. G.
A. which faced on Central park. One
aide of the building is torn out, the
roof was whirled away and the win
dows were blown in and most of the
furniture wrecked. How the girls es-
capped is miracle.
Many Miraculous Escapes.
The storm lasted but short time;
IN fact it was over so quickly that the
people hardly had time to realize
what had taken place, and some OF
the escapes from death were miracu-
lous
Ruildings but block from the path
of the storm we're but little injured.
The first intimation that those outside
Of the cyclone zone had OF the district
was when three girls who had escaped
from the wrecked telephone exchange
belonging to the government telephone
lines, appeared at the office OF local
morning paper and told their expert.
ences The young women had SLID
from the second floor of the telephone
building to the basement, carried
down by fifteen ton swltcnooard.
Soon hundreds of willing hands be-
ran the work Of rescue which Will not
be finished before tonight.
The electric light plant supplying
the citv was put out Of commission
when the storm struck, adding confus-
Ion and sadly retarding the work.
MANY freaks Of the wind were shown.
The roof Of a factory building was
c.rried three blocks and crashed
through a handsome new residence.
rour livery stables were demolished
and eyery horse in each Of them
killed.
TeIephone Girls Escape Death.
The escape of seventy-five girls
~orking in the telephone exchange
was probably the most miraculous Of
any. The building was completely
demolished. It was at first believed
that large number had been killed.
superintendent J. R. Sutherland, wir-
Ing the general officers at Winnipeg
early in the night that probably twen-
ey girls had been killed and forty in
lured. This, however, proved to be
untrue. Just how many were injured
is not known, but none were killed.
On Lorn street one Of the principal
residence thoroughfares, scarcely a
building is left standing
The Canadian Pacific railway yards
a a fat expanse of ruined shops and
trains. Not whole car remains IN
the ward. Some of them were picked
I'm by the wind and carried for several
blocks. One was carried clear through
the freight sheds.
The whole north side of the city is
practically wiped out. No one knows
Now many axe dead On that side. Late