Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-26
CYCLONE KILLS
81 PEOPLE
TORNADO SWEEPS ACROSS IN
DIANA AND ILLINoIS-PRoP-
ERTY LOSS is HEAVY.
MANY ARE INJURED
SMALL TOWNS ARE SWEPT AWAY
AND RAILROADS AND
MINES SUFFER.
western newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Chicago.-As q result of series Of
tornadoes which swept across parts oi
Illinois and Indiana thirty-two persons
are dead and $50 injured, some oi
them mortally.
A hundred persons were injured, al
least eight of them SO severely they
may die, and many thousands of dol
lars damage was done to property.
The sections reported tornadoes at
the same time. Most damage appar-
emily was done by that which ap
peared from Coal City, ILL.,, and swept
eastward. The other wrought its de
vastation southeast of st. Louis in and
about Murphysboro. ILL.,, in Jackson
county.
Wauponsee. a small village near
Coal City. ILL.,. was reported wiped out
Bush, ILL.,, was partly demolished ana
fifteen dead have been taken from the
ruins of the wrecked homes. Forty
five persons were injured.
Five persons were killed and sixteen
houses demolished at Willisyille, Ill.
Sweeping across the state and into
Indiana the tornado descended upon
Kentland, where nine persons were
killed, six others so severely injured
they are expected to die. half a hun
dred others bruised, and thousands OF
dollars worth of property destroyed
In and around Morocco. Newton coun-
ty, when tornado swept out OF the
West.
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City, was reported demolished. de-
stroying telephone communication,
and making it impossible to learn the
seriousness of the damage done there.
Houses, sheds and farm buildings
near Coal City were demolished, wind
mills were blown down and many head
of cattle are reported killed. The tow
er above mine No. 5, at Carbonhill.
was toppled over.
Antoine Saloa's saloon at Aileen,
near Coal City. was blown in. Tele-
phone and telegraph wires were laid to
the ground for mile at stretch in
several places.
Twenty houses were blown down in
and near Morocco. Ind and fully for
ty houses in Newton county were
wiped out.
As near as can be judged here. the
tornado started In Iroquois county, llli-
nois, and swept eastward in gvrating
curves.
Near Dwight. ILL.,. school house, the
Dooley school, was demolished.
BY railroad telegraph it has been
learned that the Chicago. Indiana &
Southern railway station at Reddick
was blown across the tracks. Every
farm building on the property there OF
a man named Patchett. was destroyed
and the family escaped injury by
clinging to trees in the door yard.
Many other buildings were destroyed
at Redick and nearby, and several
persons were injured. none severely.
Telephone linemen sent to reptir
the damaged lines near Grant Park,
ILL.,, reported that in and arou i'd
Grant Park six persons had been
seriously injured and fifty others
slightly injured. Between fifty and
a hundred houses, said the lineman,
had been demolished. They were tn
able to give names of the dead
At S o'clock Mount Vernon was The
only town of any size in the storm
swept district which was in communi-
cation with the outside world and up
orators at that point reported their in
ability to get into communication
with points in the territory immedl-
ately surrounding.
Cairo. Murphysboro, Marion and Du
Quoin were in the affected district, but
at an early hour tonight had been un
able to report their damage.
Murphysboro. Ill.-A special train
arrived here on the St Louis. Iron
Mountain & Southern railroad carry
ing forty-one persons who We're in
iured at Bush, ILL.,, by the tornado
which swept southern Illinois.
Twelve dead were found at Bush
and it is expected that more will he
found when the debris is cleared
away.
Five persons were killed at Willis
vile and sixteen houses were demol-
ished.
The Iron Mountain station at Bush
was destroyed. as were two rows OF
houses extending across the town.
The injured are being cared for in a
local hospital.
Chicago.-Five persons were robbed