New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-29

building. A relief society in Melrose
Park tonight obtained S. 900 to provide
food and clothing for the storm VIC
Tins.
Professor Henry j. Cox, weather
forecaster for Chicago, regarding the
tornado said tonight:
"Tornadoes are rare in this region
because Of the lake air. Approaching
the lake regions tornadoes generally
are destroyed when they come into con-
tact with the cooling lake air, and that
probably explains why the storm caused
less damage in lake shore towns than
it did west Of Chicago"
The known Dead
The identified dead:
Elgin, 8.
Mrs. W. D. Kimbau. fifty live.
Miss Elizabeth Mowat, twenty.
Miss Zilla Foote, twenty-one.
Miss Isabel McConnachie, twelve.
Sam Beverley, actor.
Mrs. Ada Beverley, actress.
Samuel Wyrieck, engineer at the Ell
gin State Hospital.
An unidentified farmland.
Melrose Park, 8.
Mrs. Nellie Butts. eighty.
Joseph Ivansek.
william Selk, Philip King, Fred
Fippinger, Antonette Lesanski, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Teckmeyer, August Swan
son.
Dunning, 4.
Mrs. H. Hansen, Edward Jameson,
Alfred H. Hanse, Elizabeth Laufen
derger.
Chicago, 2.
Leo Simons and an unidentified man.
Zulu, Ind. three unidentified men.
ST. Louis. l.
Louis Heilings, of Oklahoma City.
East Troy. Wis.,. !.
Mrs. Louis Brown
Elgin was in darkness tonight
Light wires and trolley wires were
down. Streetcar service was suspend
ed Trains were blocked by uprooted
trees, and for time only one tele-
the city with the outside. In proclaim
ing martial law, Mayor Price called
cut Company b. 10th Illinois National
Guard, to patrol the wrecked area. He
also asked for volunteers and more
than hundred former service men in
Uniform and scores Of Boy Scouts re-
sponded. =
In Elgin the first four were killed in
the collapse Of the Congregation Church.
Services in the church had been COM
pleted and most Of the congregation
ing for the rain to abate, when sud-
denly the storm struck. The brick
edifice collapsed, burying the victims
in it's wreckase.
Mr.. and Mrs. Beverley were in the
Grand Theater preparing for their
afternoon show when the theater fell.
The G. w. Peck department store, Z
three-story brick structure, and several
OF the other principal business struc-
lures were completely destroyed.
Fire broke out in three places fol-
lowing the tornado.
Communication Interrupted
Communication with surrounding
towns was interrupted, but reports
Drought IN indicated heavy damage and
probable loss Of life in nearby rural
districts.
sherman and St. Joseph hospitals in
Eigin were filled with injured tonight,
while scores who were bruised and cut
received treatment at doctors offices
and then went to the homes of friends.
Eight square blocks of the business
district and five blocks Of the resi-
dence section were in the path of the
tornado. which left behind trail of
wrecked and damaged buildings.
Stout brick business blocks were de-
molished, roofs were blown off. and in
me residence section houses were
nited from their foundations and flung
against their neighbors. Hundreds Of
trees, torn out by their roots, blocked
the streets and railroad tracks.
Looters Gather up Jewelry
The window display of a jewelry
store was blown into the street and car
ried away. by looters before the mill
tary guard had been established. Girls
FAnnTtAd 70 haVv
dew of a millinery store, carrying
away the display of spring hats.
Under the mayors proclamation call
ing for 9 military law, all persons were
barred from the damaged district, un-
less provided with passes.
Stories of the strange pranks Of the
storm in Elgin were many. The families
of Louis and Charles Hennins were
seated at dinner when the tornado lifted
the house from over their heads, with
out injuring member Of the party.
in the neighborhood were totally de-
stroyed.
Hotels Lose Windows
Hardly a business block downtown
escaped damage. The Kelly and the
Fossats hetels lost most of their win
dowb. Part Of the roof of the City
Hall was carried away and many of the
windows broken.
Six box cars standing at the Chicago
4 Northwestern station were hurled
down the embankment to the edge of
the Fox River.
II Dead in Georgia
ATLANTA, March 90. - At least
twelve persons were killed in tornado
that struck Lagrange, Ga, late to-day,
according to word received here to-
night.
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