Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-07-01
Regina, Saskatchewan, Practl-
calIy Wiped Out by Worst
Stonm in History Of West
Central Canada.
DAMAGE WILL TOTAL
ABOUT TEN MILLIONS
Scores of Buildings in Retail
District, Huge Grain Eleva-
tors and Hundreds Of Homes
Are Destroyed.
lny MarnIns lournnl specIal Icnsea wIrel

tBy Morning Journal Special fensed Wire)
Winnipeg. Man, June 30-rrob-
ably 100 persons were killed and ten
million dollars damage was done by u
tornado when struck Regina. sas-
katchewan, this afternoon. Several
business blocks apartment houses
ana residences were wrecked.
The storm struck Regina at 4'50
p m. coming from the south. Many
frame buildings were destroyed.
The saskatchewan government tele-
graph building was blown down and
relief gangs are taking out the dead.
The city power plant Is out OF com
mission and there is no light.
Prospects are poor for ppblication
Of the two morning papers.
Two fires brake out bni lhe bri-.
gadc got u stream working and app
poared to have the situation under
control
Every vehicle in the city IS being
used as an ambulance.
The local telephone office was wreck
WI 4 nv l''lfiRAif 'N''tAifHt FAf'i''ct
the standard block. the First Baptist
church and the Baird and Bottell
buildings are among the strueturcs
destroyed.
All telephone and telegraph wires
with the exception Of one telegraph
wire are down.
a special train left Winnipeg short
~ after 0 o'clock with doctors,
NURSES ana telegraph and telephone
iepaitmen
Thr tornado came from the south
and first struck the new parliament
just completed at cost Of
! 900. 900. The building Is Of steel
and concrete and white II stili stands.
II Is badly shaken IL then swept
northMard moving 4 path six blocks
wide throush tho most fashionable
residence district. transforming IL
lnio uass of wreckage. Along VIC
tosia street from sixteenth 10 Elev-
enth 300 houses were destroyed and
many persons Killed. An automobile
dned with people was hurled high in
ne air and deposited blocks away.
Af Eleventh street the business dis
.riot was sent into heap Of ruins
Hhile ihe ar was nilcd with lying
&reekaep
Past Eleventh Albert. smith.
'romweli ~eafles Hamilton and
fsaac uetts me storm swept the RE-
gan section Nharo occurred its se-
asresi teli Jhen the Canadian Pa
lhc tracks were reached six big
srHn elevators toppled over. the tim-
3ers hcine pied On the tracks.
'rosesne Ia, railway trucks several
4 the Hfsest Wholesale houses in the
iiy were nufooiea thoir heavily la
len floors falling Go the bottom as
hsir supports were loosened.
Two fires broke out but as most
K ihe fire hals escaped the storm
md the water pressure wa nor inn
afef. the flames were confined 10
he ruins where they started.
Al letfic uehis ana power wires
tere readered useless and the city
onehi in darkness.
Alf ffs 4nnes were pressed into
efNre ~ convey ID, dead to the
aolsuts and ihe injured 10 the hos
a1is
A oioeb twelve bodies had
en sighted the ruins and NUM-
..g hai been taken Qua.
Tile fpin animIed northwest
fnm leslnl Through central sas-
atDl,p doing srcai damage. but
o loss ~ nf, IS reported outside OF
. ana.
irisf in.-es ~ biiiainEs il report
q trUm on Apr.ir,. and also az Nell