Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-09
and home consumption continue to
supply firm base for a firm market
7 LIVES LOST IN BAD BLOW;
RUIN Is HEAVY.
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of telegraph, telephone, and trolley
wires as though they were cobwebs.
One horse was caught under the heavy
roof and killed. Another was struck
by a falling trolley wire and electro
cuted.
The flight of the roof wiped out the
railroad dispatching Office and brought
all trains to standstill on both sides
of Elgin. Telephone communication
was also down. An estimated damage
of $4,000 was entailed in the three
stores in the Lynch buildfng-the
Fisher Shoe company. Bunker & Cham
bers, undertakers, and the Peterson
buffet.
UNROOFED STORE DRENCHED.
A corner of the roof of the three
story building at 10 Grove avenue,
occupied by l. Cohen & Co.. dry
goods, was ripped of and the contents
of upper floors blown into the street.
Rain, which drenched the remaining
contents Of the building and flooded
a reserve stock in the basement,
caused an estimated damage of about
$4,000.
The steeple of the First Baptist
church, directly in the path of the
storm, toppled over before the wind
and crashed to the street. The wind
wrought havoc in the interior Of the
church. A large chimney on the Grace
Methodist church was blown complete
ly over and hurled through the roof of
a nearby wagon shed, where number
of farmers had sought refuge from the
storm. The brick chimney crashed
through the roof of the shelter, but
struck no one. The farmers imme-
| diately sought safer quarters.
NINETY-FOOT STACK FALLS.
A 80 foot steel smokestack on the
roof of the Western United Gas &
Electric company was blown down
across the railroad tracks, taking with
it mesh of guy cables and electric
/ wires An electric light tower $50
feet in heighth on the campus of the
Elgin academy was blown bodily
across the street. The steel skeleton
| finally was wedged between two build
ings. A chimney on the home of the
/ Lynch family at "a South Crystal
street was blown through the roof,
driving the occupants of the house to
the street
On Highland avenue and st. Charles
street in the residence section porch
furniture was blown blocks down the
street. Barns were blown down and
gates ripped from fences.
The storm left the town without
electrical energy. No street cars were
running at night, nor could any news
papers publish. On account of the
number of electric wires down nc
power was turned on on account Of
the fear of electrocutions.
Just after the storm Iaborers found
the body of Arthur Peterson, IS year
old son of John Peterson, a farmer, ir
a gravel pit, where he had driven his
team of horses to take shelter from
the storm The youth and one of the
horses had been struck by lightning
and instantly killed. 1t was reported
at Elgin that two men had been killed
at Pingree Grove by the collapse of Z
cattle barn in which they were seek
ing refuge from the storm.
INJURED BROUGHT TO ELGIN.
Several storm victims were brough
into EIgin at night Otto Hamlin, {
!; carpenter, incurred a fracture of bott
klegs and internal injuries when BARI
: collapsed al Pingree Grove. Charles
, Anderson, who was standing under thu
, same structure, had a broken leg ant
} broken arm. George Troust incur
red similar injuries when the barn il
which he sought shelter from thu
storm collapsed. Fred Hurst, witt
both legs broken, was brought in from
Gilbert, III.
All the injured were cared for in ST
Joseph's hospital at Elgin. A repor
from Marengo that farmer had beel
struck by lightning and killed coul'
not be affirmed.
Reports from La Grange, Desplaines
Riverside, Wheaton, Lyons, and othe
points in that section were that n
great damage had been caused. Fo
some hours the eelctric lights failer
at Riverside and La Grange, ACCORDING
to reports from La Grange.
FARMER KILLED BY LIGHTNING.
Woodstock, H., reported the wors
storm in years. Trees were blow
down, telegraph and telephone wire
were broken, and chimneys we're toI
pied over. Frank O'Leary, a farmer
six miles west of Woodstock, wa
struck by lightning and killed. Hi
brother, Thomas, was murdered tw
weeks ago supposedly by farmland
4 Woodstock was unable to commun
cate with Hartland and Harvard
nearby towns, from which unconfrn
ed rumors of deaths and greater dan
4 age had been received.
Wheaton, H., was the only town i
the storm belt to report hail. VIII
dows on the north side of houses wer
broken Corn and oat crops are sal
3 to have suffered from the downfall
and the wind. A seven foot Gimme
on the home of P. NJ. Riesterer wa
blown down, damaging the roof