The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1912-07-04
HUNDREDS DIE
IN CYCLONE
AT REGINA
LATEST REPORTS PLACE THE
CASUALTIES AT BETWEEN
400 AND 500.
WOUNDED HELP RESCUE.
Disaster Is Worst of Its Kind Eve,
Visited Upon Western Country
Scenes Of DesoIation eeegar
Description.
WOUNDED. HELP RESCUE

Regina, Sask., July 2. - Thirty-six
bodies have been recovered in the
ruins of the cyclone which occurred
here.
Hundreds of searchers have been
busy in the debris. since daylight and
have recovered sixteen bodies in addi
ton to the twenty recovered
The death list as far as is known is
fifty-one. The military has been re
called from it's annual camp and is in
charge of the city.
The injured number $50 to 300.
1t was a sorrowful sight after the
havoc wrought.
Citizens who had escaped death OF
injury aided the police during the lone
weary night in the work of rescuine
the injured and bodies of the dead
from the ruins.
Regina, Sask., July 2.-Between 4OJ
and 500 persons are believed to be
dead, scores of others injured, and
millions of dollars in property de.
stroyed as result of cyclone which
struck this city. cutting wide swath,
beginning at the southern and central
residential sections and extending into
the very heart of the business dis.
trict, converting whole blocks into
masses of tangled wreckage.
At the present time no complete
estimate can he made of the actual
number of deaths but every ambulance
in the city has been working since
six o'clock carrying the bodies to the
hospitals which were filled to their
utmost capacity early in the evening
Numbers of improvised hospitals were
hastily constructed in some of the
larger buildings left standing after the
storm had passed.
Crowds of volunteers all over the
city are assisting in the work Of
searching the wreckage and for hours
hardly minute went by that a dead
body or the mangled form of some
living victim was not uncovered
Hurrying men and women, speeding
on their errands of mercy filled the
streets as the night wore on. while
the authorities strove to bring ordel
out of confusion, succoring the living
and to determine as best they could
as to the identity and number o
dead. The sweep of the storm. the
worst in the history of the Canadian
Northwest, was over city which only
short time before had completed the
work of decking itself in gala attire
for the celebration of Dominion day
| Bunting and flags covered the build
ings everywhere and networks of col
ored electric lights were strung ant
ready for illumination. Through these
gaily decorated streets the tornado
swept and within halfhour, Regina
| had been turned into city Of mourn
ing. In the track of the storm, build
ing after building lay in ruin. shroud
ed in it's gay colored bunting.
Everywhere are men and womer
with heads and hands swathed il
bandages, but all thinking of others
troubles, forgetful of their own.
1t was o'clock in the Afternoon
when the cyclone struck the city ant
in the history of the West. no sucl
storm has ever been known.
Coming from the south. it dropped
just few blocks north of the south
ern city limits.
The Methodist and Baptist and Kno,
churches, all magnificent structures
were the first of the larger building:
struck.
The former went with crash tina
hardly sounded above the bowling o
the storm and the roar Of the cloud
burst that accompanied the wind.
The greater part of the roof was re
moved from the latter structure ant
the storm moved on across Victori;
square, removing the walls and roo
from the Y. w. c. A., badly wrcckin'
the magnificent new public library
both new this year; and passin,
thence to the Presbyterian church
which Jared but little better than thu
Methodist structure.
The Y. M. G. A. was next in line
and half of the building was demo1
ished in an instant. Three small
buildings were moved from their 10
cation, some being carried across tn
street, anu Lue MdSOIllC eIuple Wa
next attacked and was almost raised
In the next block to the west an,
one block farther north, the telephon,
exchange stood practically by itsel
except for a few smaller buildings.
Upon this the force of the storm
had an instantaneous effect, laying
the building a fiat mess of wreckage
under which the girls were imprisoned
for over an hour.
Up until late in the evening abso
lutely no attempt was made to esti
mate the loss Of property. The worl
of life saving will probably he cor
tinued all day today.
Except where 1t is necessary for tn
rescue of bodies, the ruins was lef
lying where they fell.
| One of the best of the effects o
the storm can be had from Lorn
street, looking south. Hardly a res
dence IL left standing on this street
Facing on Victoria square are tn