Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-07-01
CITY OF iaooo WRECKED.
Early Reports Say Hundred Nay d
Dsad-loss 31oooo,oo0.

Early Reports say Hundred Nay os
Dsad-loss ~,oooe, 600.
Winnipeg. Man. July 1.-Reg1na.
Sask.. q city Of $4,000. was practically
wiped out by . tornado Sunday with
great LOSS Of HE.
II ix estimated that from hfty to .
hundred persona have been killed. and
late reports place the property loss at
SIC. .0OO.0 900.
Storm Hits Other Tswns.
Qu'Appelle. forty miles east OF Re.
gina, and Melville. further north. also
suffered severely from the storm. Wires
are down and the extent OF tho damage
in those places In unknown.
1t Is feared there was loss in other
towns In the district which have not
been heard from.
Tornado Follows Other Storms.
The tornado struck Regina at
o'clock. following n day OF thunder.
storms and high wind.
The local telephone office was
wrecked and 1t is feared that hfteen
girls employed there have been killed.
The telephone exchange building, the
Standard block. the First BAptist
church. and the Baird 4 Bcttell build.
| Ing are among the buildings dcstroyed.
psrliansnt House Damaged.
| The tornado came from the south
and hrst struck the new provinvfat
parliament building. just completed at
cost OF $2.600.0O0. The building Is ot
steel and concrete. and, while II stAi
| stands. is badly shaken.
The storm then swept northward.
| moving swath six blocks In width
thru the most fashionable residence
district. transforming II into mass
OF wrcckage.
Along Victoria street. from Sixteenth
to Eleventh street. 400 houses were de.
stroycd and many people killed.
Automobiles filed with people were
/ hurled high In the air and deposited
blocks away.
sv~ssps Over Business District.
At Eleventh street the wholesale bus
mess district was reached. and ware
houses, banking institutions. and retail
stores were sent into heaps OF ruins
while the air was flllcd with flying
wreckage. jl
Past Eleventh street Albert Smith
Cromwell Searth. Hamilton and Rose
streets. the storm reached the retail
section, which received the scvcrcst
compact.
Then the Canadian Pacific railway
tracks were reached. Six big grain
elevators were toppled over Ike ten
pins. the t,mhers being piled IN heaps
on the tracks
City Power Plant Fails.
The city power plant is our OF COM
rsission and there is no iiEht. IS
Two fires started among the ruins
left by the storm. but the brigade got
n stream working and appeared 10
have the situation unier control
All telephone aud telegraph wires
with the exception OF one telegraph
wire. are down The latter Is crowded
with private messages from people who
are safe.
A special train left Winnipeg shortly
after . o'closys with doctors. nurses.
telegraph, ana telephone repairmen.
Center Of Great District.
Regina Is situated In n rolling prairie
region. :5s miles west Of Winnipeg.
Manitoba. on the transconfinentai line
Of the Canadian Pacific railroad. IT u
the capital of the province Of Saskaf-
chewau. 1t also Is the headquarters for
the northwest mounted police.
The city has become the center OF
railroad development. AZ n result 1t
has become the trade center and imam
cial axis OF a large section.
1t Is the headquarters OF the CHIEF
agricultural machinery and implement
establishments, OF western Canada.
This. spoy;noHs financial power OF the
railroads that traverscd the section
and the prtsressive spirit Of the new
province caused the erection Of flnc.
buildings early In Its short history.
Many Large Stores There.
There were a dozen churches In the
city and a hundred stores. Two hotels
that would do credit to city Ave
times It's size and dozen others have;
sprung up. There were q dozen bAtk
buildings and grist and planning mills.
marble and boat works. machine ehopa.
sash ana door factories, and adminis-
trative buildings for express. telephone
and telegraph companies
During the sessions 10 the provincial
legislature tho social life OF the entire
province centered In Regina. The hotela
were centess OF gay parties made MD
| partly as wheat and cattle r1nChero.
from remote sections OF the provtnce'