Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-04-02
CHICAGO SUBURBS
HIT BY TORNADO
Melrose Park, Evanston. VIII
mette and Irving Park StreWn
With WreCkage.
ia DEAD, HUNDREDS INJURED
Damage Runs Into Millions as Towns
In Will. Dupage, Kane and Cook
Counties Are Hit-crooked
Path Forty Miles Long.

Chicago, March 30--A hurricane
that swept over northern Illinois ant
southern Wisconsin took heavy toll OF
life and property. The storm struct
Chicago shortly after one O'Clock in
the afternoon Reports showed IL
lives had been lost. II was believed
the total death list would exceed 200
The number Of injured was estimated
at above 1000.
The hurricane came out of the south
west and held a northeasterly direc
tion. II took a 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 vast amount Of damage and il
was believed there had been loss Of
life, but no figures we're available Al
Battle Greek some frame buildings
were wrecked.
At East Troy, Wis, woman was
killed and several persons injured.
Mrs. Losiis Brown lost her life when a
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
were lifted from roads into corn
fields.
The property damage ran into mill
liGps, including the demolition OF
many buildings, the uprooting OF trees
and the razing of telegraph and tele-
phone poles,
Six persons were killed 10 haywood
and Meirose 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 q company of soldiers to
guard the city Col. james II. Stuart,
commanding the Eleventh Infantry, |.
n. G.. had sent two companies to VIII.
mette and Evanston, but said he
would go at once to the asnory and
sndeayor TO assemble another COM
paay by telephone. Nurses and doc
tors were sent out in motor relief
trains.
Melrose Park--WilIam Salk, 1103
Thirteenth avenue George Feckmey-
or. 1206 Twelfth avenue; John Iban-
seek, l406 Twelfth avenue: Gus Swan
son Fred Peppeneui, Twentieth ave-
nue.; King Peppenger. babS 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 unidentlfied--on woman.
Chicago-Leo Simons. 3739 South
kedzie avenue.
Dunning-Irs. Hansen. mother Of
-four, 34S2 Nottingham avenue. I'm
Identified man.
In Addison Heights Charles Han
sen, his wife AMI three children are
reported 10 have been killed when
their residence at Seventy-first avenue
and Irving Park boulevard was de-
str0yed
The greatest damage In the city was
in Melrose Park and Irving Park,
where homes and business buildings
were razed or unroofed and several
persons killed.
Wilmette's business section was bad
ly damaged and many beautiful homes
ruined.
or the nearby cities Elgln 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 we're razed.
Telephone communication with FL
gin and many other cities and villages
was cut off.
II was learned from railroad train
dispatchers and a few isolated tele-
graph stations which were still in
touch with Chicago that the damage In
the farming districts Of WIN, Dupage.
Kane, Cook and the southern end Of
Lake county is very great.
The storm was a freak, according 10
the local weather bureau. The highest
wind velocity recorded there was 3s
miles an hour just after noon. II
dropped TO S6 miles an hour and re-
malned there.
But where the damage was done the
wind must have had velocity OF so to
DO miles an hour. This condition was
termed local squalls" by the weather
bureau