The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-03-29

TWENTY-EIGHT DEAD
IN ILLINOIS SWEEP
CONTINUED


boil weighing nearly ton. being
deposited 100 feet away.
The roof of the parish house ad-
joining was carried away and three
nuns were injured by flying debris.
Fire for "A time threatened TO add
TO the havoc, hut the flames were
confined TO the wreckagc.
Tho state hospital at DunninG on
the edge of Chicago, was converted
into an emergency hospital "A place
Of refuge for tho homeless More
than 200 houses were destroyed at
DunninE.
Cnlls for medical assistance from
tho suburbs poured into Chicago.
Emergency Red Cross stations were
established in several Of the villages,
and physicians and nurses from the
municipal sanitarium were hurried
to the stricken towns.
Path Of 200 Yards.
a path 200 Yards wide was torn
through the main part OF Wilmctte
and property damage was estimated
at close to n half million. Among
the buildings damaged were the
town hall and the Episcopal church.
a score OF houses in Evanston were
demolished. but no fatalities were
reported
At Elgin and wllmette companies
Of tho Illinois national guard were
| called out to protect the storm swept
quarters from lootinE. and at Mel
rose Park force of 1875 members
of tho American Legion was organ
ICED TO patrol the streets.
The Citizens state bank. the first
| building at Melrose park TO be dam
aged by the tornado. was under
guard tonight, and tho mayor asked
that state militia he sent TO protect
| the building A relief society tonight
| obtained $4,000 TO provide food and
clothing for the storm victims Beds
We're provided in the village hotel
for a number OF the 1000 made
| homeless.
I The Eleventh infantry, Illinois
national guard, was ordered out for
palrol duty tonight. Colonel James
I u. stuart said the regiment would
be assigned by companies to quar-
tcrs of Chicago and the suburbs
! hardest hit bv tho storm, to aid in
systematizirg the work OF relief for
the homeless. Soldiers from Fort
/ Sheridan were distributed over the
North Shore suburbs TO guard prop
ertv.
The known dead:
Elgn, S.
Mrs. ". D. Kimban, Miss Eliza
beth Mowat, Miss Zila Foote. Miss
Elizabeth McConnachic. Samuel
Wyrtck. Sam Beverley, Mrs. Ada
Beverley and unidentified farm
hand,
Melrose Park. 9:
William SelK Philip King, Fred
Fippinger. Antoinette Los8iiski, Mr..
and Mrs. William Tcckmeyer, Au-
guest swanson. Mrs. Nellie Butts, so
years old; Joseph Ivansck.
Dunnlng. 4:
Mrs. II. Hansen. Edward Jane
son, Alfred II. lianse. Elizabeth
Laufenbergen.
I Chicago. .:
i Leo simmons and an unidentified
man.
Zulu, Ind. 2:
Three, unidentified,
81. Louis, /: Louis HellinGs.
East Troy Wis. !: Mrs. Louis
Brown
George Mix, a watchman at a
railroad crossing In W!lmette. was
severely injured when the storm
: lifted his shanty and rolled It for
} more than three blocks. carrying
him as prisoner.
A lath blown from the Sacred
J Heart academy at Melrose park
! penetrated a tree seven inches In
diameter 800 feet away.
/ James Irving and his son and
J daughter were blown into an aban-
doned basement so feet away when
. the storm destroyed a small portable
/ house in which they were eating
= dinner.
I; One-half OF the roof OF st
Augllstine's Episcopal church aI
, Wilmette was carried more thar
Z three blocks by the wind. The par
{ sonage was not damaged.
$ T.. A. Waidner, a Chicago COM
Q mission merchant, lost trees valued
. at $4,000.
Swanton and Haabs Corners
Ohio. scveral reported killed.
I Nashville, Ohio, four killed and
score injured. with heavy proper.
damage.
Fenton, Michigan, seven killed.
n Hart, Michigan. one killed.