Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-04-06
CHICAGO SUBURBS
hit BY TORNADO
MeIrose Park, Evanston, VIII
mette and Irving Park StreWn
With Wreckage.
ia DEAD, HUNDREDS INJURED
Damage Runs Into Millions as Towns
in viii, Dupage, Kane and Cook
Counties Are Hit-Crooked
Path Forty Miles Long.

Chicago, March 30-A hurricane
that swept over northern Illinois and
southern Wisconsin took heavy toll OF
life and property. The storm struck
Chicago shortly after one o'clock in
the afternoon. Reports showed ia
lives had been lost. 1t was believed
the total death list would exceed zoo.
The number of injured was estimated
at above 1000.
The hurricane came out of the south
west and held a northeasterly direc-
ton. 1t took zigzag 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 it
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 so and
100 feet through the air. Trains were
blown from their tracks. Automobiles
were 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 razing of telegraph and tele-
phone poles.
Six persons We're killed in haywood
and Melrose Park.
Six were reported killed in Elgin.
Two were reported killed at Dun
ming and another dying.
Mayor Wolf of Melrose Park ap-
pealed for a company of soldiers to
guard the city. Col. James E. Stuart,
commanding the Eleventh infantry, l..
n. c., had sent two companies to Will
mette and Evanston, but said he
would go 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.
Melrose Park-William SaIk, 1903
Thirteenth avenue; George Feckmey-
er, 1906 Twelfth avenue; John Iban-
seek, 1406 Twelfth avenue; Gus Swan
son; Fred Peppenger, Twentieth ave
nue.; 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 unidentified-one woman.
ChicagO-LeO SimOns, 3739 South
Kedzie avenue.
Dunning-Mrs. Hansen, mother of
four, 1882 Nottingham avenue. IN
identified man.
In Addison Heights Charles Han
sen, his vito and three children are
reported to have been killed when
their residence at Seventy-first avenue
and Irving Park boulevard was de-
stroyed
The greatest damage in the city was
in Melrose Park and Irving Park,
where homes and business buf.4fngs
were RACED or unroofed and several
persons killed.
Wilmette's business section was Dad
~ damaged and many beautiful homes
ruined.
OF the nearby cities Elgin suffered
Ill 4
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.
The storm was freak, according 10
the local weather bureau. The highest
wind velocity recorded there <ras 3S
miles an hour just after noon. 1t
dropped to 36 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.