Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-03-29
SEVERAL STATES
SWEPT BY STORM
AND KILLING MANY
Continued From Page IL

and Merengo, III. Dundee is said
to have been passed over by the
storm but damage in the sur
rounding farming country was
heavy. Scores of horses and cat
tie we're killed.
sherman and st. Joseph hospt-
tails here are filled with injured to-
night, while other scores were
bruised and cut.
Two reports of lootinS were re-
ceived by the police, The win
dow display of jeWelry store was
carried away.
Girls were reported to have
looted the window of q millinery
store, carrying away the display
of spring hats,
To prevent looting Mayor Price
issued proclamation tonight
placing the business district under
military law.
Stories ~ef the freak stunts Of
the storm are legion. The fam
lilies of Louis and Charles Hen
ming we're seated at dinner when
the cyclone lifted the house from
over their heads without injurinS
any member of the party. Ten
houses in space of three blocks
in that neighborhood were de-
stroyed.
The first train into Elgin, leaVr
ing Chicago at POS p. m, reached
here shortly after 4 O'Clock and
was halted in the outskirts while
workmen sawed and chopped away
scores of trees which had been
thrown across the track. 1t pro-
ceeded west after a delay of more
than an hour,
William Mcclure, city assessor,
estimated tonight after survey OF
the wrecked district, that recon
struction would cost S4,000,0O0.
Fort Wayne, Ind, March 26.-lt
is reported here that the town oil
Edgerton, Ind, eighteen miles east
of here has been wiped out by
storm. 1t is also reported that tive
men were killed at Zulu, ten miles
east of here, and the town de-
stroyed.
st. Louis, Mo-, March 2S.-Ont
man was killed, four persons were
| injured and many buildings in 81
Louis and the suburbs were dam,
aged in a wind storm this after
noon.
Louis Hellings, 20, Oklahoma
City, was struck by a falling cor
| nice that had been disIodged by the
wind. dying instantly,
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Milwaukee, Wis, March 2S.-A
| wind storm which passed over Eas
Troy about twenty miles southweS
of here at noon today caused the
death of Mrs. Louis Brown.
Macon, Ga. March ga storm
| of cyclonic intensity struck Macoi
tonight causing heavy damage
Several persons are known to have
been injured. Several buildings
| were unroOfed.
Dayton, o., March 2S.-Severa
persons were reported killed ant
n dozen or more badly injured il
a storm which struck near Green
vile. O.. shortly after s o'clock TO
night. The storm centered abou
four miles west of GreenVlile
Wires are down and traction serV
| ice has been cut off.
A storm which apparently set
tied on Nashville. a village tel
miles west of Greenville, tonight
lis reported to have wiped out ina
village, and is known to haV'
caused the death of four persons
land injury to a score more.
Toledo, O., March ga mum
| Der of persons are reported kllle'
land injured in a storm at Swantoi
and Raab's Corners, twenty mile
lwest of here late tonight,
Two ambulances have been sen
from here on a Lake Shore tram
THE word was brought here by
Imotorist who said he saw men ant
women lying in the streets witt
buildings wrecked all about them
Detroit, Mich. March U.s. Eigh
persons were killed in a tornado
That swept over portions of cen
trail and western Michigan today
according to fragmentarv report
reaching here over demorali2e
telegraph and telephone wires to
night
Seven men were killed whei
buildings in which they took refug
from the gale collapsed nea
iFenton. sixteen miles from Flint
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