The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-04-01
TORNADO WRECKS
CHICAGO SUBURBS
Hurricane Hits MeIrOse Park,
WiImette and Other Towns.
35 PERSONS REPORTED DEAD
Storm Cuts Crooked Path 40 Miles
Long Through viii, Dupage, Kane
and Cook Counties-Damage
Runs Into Millions.

and Cook Counties-Damage
Runs Into Millions.
Chicago, March 29-A hurricane
that swept over northern Illinois and
southern Wisconsin took heavy toll Of
sife ana property. The storm struck
Chicago shortly after one o'clock in
the afternoon. Reports showed 80
lives had been lost 1t was believed
the total death list would exceed 80,
The number of injured was estimated
at above 500
The hurricane came out Of the south
west and held a northeasterly direc-
ton. 1t took zgzag path through
the country leaving death and de-
'struction in its wake.
Reports from southern Michigan
said the storm swept over the country,
doing a vast amount of damage and 1t
was believed there had been loss of
life, but no figures were available. AT
Battle Creek some frame buildings
were wrecked
At East Troy, Wis, woman was
killed and several persons injured
Mrs. Louis Brown lost her life when
barn in which she had taken refuge
was blown away.
Towns were demolished. Houses
were upturned and swept 80 and
100 feet through the air. Trains were
blown from their tracks. Automobiles
we're lifted from roads into corn
fields.
The property damage ran into mil
lions, including the demolition of
many buildings, the uprooting of trees
and the razlng of telegraph and tele-
phone poles
Where Dead Met Fate.
Six persons were killed in haywood
and Melrose Park.
Six were reported killed in Elgin.
Two were reported dead at Dun
ming and another dying.
Mayor Wolf of MelrOse Park APP
pealed for a company of soldiers to
guard the city. Col. James +. Stuart,
commanding the Eleventh infantry, |,
n. c., had sent two companies to Will
mette and Evanston, but said he
would 90 at once to the armOry and
endeavor to assemble another COM
pany by telephone. Nurses and doc
tors were sent out in motor relief
trains.
Known Dead.
Melrose Park--William Salk, 1903
Thirteenth avenue; George Feckmey-
er, 1908 Twelfth avenue; John Inn
seek, 1406 Twelfth avenue; Gus
Swanson; Fred Peppenger, Twentieth
avenue; King Peppenger, baby son of
Fred Peppenger; - Selky, found
buried in ruins of house at Twelfth
avenue and Fourteenth street
- Two other bodies are at Prignano's
morgue unidentifed-one a woman.
Chlcago-Leo Slmons, 3739 South
Kedzie avenue.
Dunning-Mrs. Hansen, mother of
four. 1882 Nottingham avenue. Uni
Identified man.
Addison Heights Charles Han
sen, his wife and three children are
reported 70 have been killed when
their residence at Seventy-frst avenue
and Irving Park boulevard was de-
stroyed.
The greatest damage in the city was
a., It.yt Do
where homes and business buildings
were RACED or unroofed and several
persons killed.
Melrose Park, western haywood and
Wilmette of the suburbs suffered the
worst.
Wlmette Badly Damaged.
Wilmette's business section was bad
ly damaged and many beautiful homes
ruined
OF the nearby cities Elgin suffered
worst. Six persons were killed and
scores injured. The business section
was wrecked. The city was cut off
from light and power. The opera house
and telephone building were unroOfed,
the Congregational church and another
church edifice were demolished and
many of the homes and business struc-
lures were RACED.
Telephone communication with FL
gin and many other cities and villages
was cut off.
1t was learned from railroad train
dlspatchers and few isolated tele-
graph stations which were still In
touch with Chicago that the damage In
the farming districts of VIII, Dupage.
Kane, Cook and the southern end of
Lake county IS very great.
Tragic Freak of Wind.
The storm was freak, according to
the local weather bureau. The highest
wind velocity recorded there was 3S
miles an hour just aftern noon. 1t
dropped to SO miles an hour and re.
manned there.
But where the damage was done the
wind must have had velocity of so TO
80 miles an hour. This condition was
termed "local squalls" by the weather
bureau
Woman .Fc ind Slain in Home.
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