The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-07-06
ONE DEATH NAY
RESULT FROM
fierce STORM
Wind Blows at Rate Of Seventy
Miles an Hour Yesterday
Afternoon
SEVERAL HOUSES UNROOFED
| Custom House Is Struck by Light
ming, Making Large Ap-
! erature in Roof
SEVERAL HOUSES UNROOFED

Thousands of dollars worth of
property was destroyed and one
death may result from tornado
which swept over portion OF the
city yesterday afternoon about 4'S0
o'clock
The storm was he most severe be-
tween Tenth and Twentieth street,
the principal damage done In that
portion oil the city bounded by Thir-
teenth and Eighteenth streets, Ohio
/ Levee and Washington avenue.
THE storm appeared to come from
three different directions, from the
northeast, east and southeast, con-
centrating within the radius named
The Elements Combined.
Wind, rain, hail and lightning.
all contributed to the destruction
wrought. Buildings were wrecked,
roofs torn off. plate glass windows
smashed. bill boards flattened. trees
uDrooted. telegraph. telephone and
electric wires torn down. awnings
Ivipped and the fire department call
nd out on account of fire produced
by lightning.
The rain was so heavy that the
| dremen had difficulty in driving
through the streets. The streets In
several places In the several places
IN the residential districts were eff
| sectually blocked from curb to curb
by uprooted trees: and sidewalks
| were obstructed by fallen fences.
hillboards. branches OF trees and
ather debris.
Woman Fatally Injured,
a house on Poplar street, No. 1904
occupied by several negro families
and owned by John p. Glynn was
thrown from its foundation falling
distance of eight or ten feet to the
| ground and was broken up SO badly
chat 1t is practically a wreck. All
the inmates escaped harm with the
exception of Millie Hardin, negro
woman, who sustained internal in
iuries that are thought will prove
fatal The furniture was badly
ibroken up.
Stone Depot Partially Wrecked.
The stone depot, a combination
one story and two story building be-
| longing to the Illinois Central rail-
road. on Ohio street north Of Four
teenth street was badly wrecked.
This building was the first to catcif
the full force Of the storm. The en-
; tire roof OF the one story portion
which is about 200 feet in length,
was blown clear of the walls. large
part of it being carried across four
gailroad tracks and turned upside
down upon the roof of the long
Esgight shed opposite, The heavy
stone walls were shattered near the
top on both sides OF the building
and large piece of the wall fell
out on the tracks. The main tracks
were covered so badly with wreck
age that traffic was blocked for
some time Many of the clerks in
the second story of the building
we're badly frightened as they saw
and heard the awful crash through
the windows overlooking the nrst
story. A piece of lumber was blown
andways through box car.
Roof Carried Through Air,
The roof of small restaurant
building at the corner of Thirteenth
land Poplar streets was blown for q
block through Thirteenth street to
washington avenue. at the time 4
street car was passing In which were
tseveral passengers. Some loose por-
tions of the roof fell against the
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