Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1920-04-01
STORM TOLL HEAVY
IN SOUTH AND WEST

= 1ntireu To-Day by u tOrnauO tnat swept
the country and number Of towns
north and west Of Chicago, and ravaged
some of the. city's Northwestern
suburbs.
The property damage ran into mill
lions of dollars, including the demoli-
tion of many buildings, and the razing
of telegraph and telephone lines. Com
munication with rural regions was for
time cut off.
Six persons were killed and score
injured when the tornado swept through
the center of Elgin, ILL.,, about 30 miles
west of Chicago, causing $4,000 900 dam
age to property. Mclrose park, SUI.
burb of Chicago, reported six dead, and
Dunning, another suburb, and Wilmette
north shore town, each reported two
dead.
From Elgin the storm passed on to
the northeast. Half dozen business
buildings, two churches and 20 resi-.
dences were demolished in Elgin.
Meager reports brought in by farmers
indicated local damage in widespread
rural region. Falling telegraph and
telephone poles cut of communication,
and many trees, uprooted by the twist
ing wind, so tangled the wires that
restoration of communication presented
difficult problem.
The Elgin company of the state mill.
tin was placed on duty to guard prop.
erty, laid open to the public by the hn-
roofing and upsetting of stores.
AT Melrosc Park, on the western edge
of Chicago, 60 houses were destroyed,
the devastated area covering four
blocks. The tornado followed in the
wake of a severe hailstorm.
Tonight six dead had been identified
Mt Melrose Park, and it was predicted
the fatality list would reach l2. Scores
were injured.
Fires followed the collapse of build.
ings and the fire departments of sew
cral suburbs were summoned.
A score of houses in. Evanston, q nor.
thern suburb, were demolished and a
number of persons injured, but no fa.
talities were reported. Roofs were car
riei, from houses and trees were up.
rooted and carried half block in some
instances.
The damage in Wilmette, another
north shore suburb, was estimated at
$500,OOO. Many buildings in the busi-
ness quarters were damaged, along with
the town hall and the Episcopal church.
The storm tore path 200 yards wide
through the main part Of Wilmette.
Mrs. III. Hansen and Edward Jameson
were killed, several hundred injured
and 1000 made homeless at Dunning,
n northwest suburb. More than $50
houses, mostly frame structures. were.
destroyed there.
Mrs. Hansen and her four Children,
were in the parlor of their home when
the building was blown over by the
wind. The children were uninjured.
Jameson was buried in the derbis Of
his cottage.
The Chicago state hospital at Dun.
ming was not damaged, but several
smaller buildings on the hospitals farm
were destroyed. The injured were taken
to the hospital, which also was con-
verted into barrack for the hon,.
less g..
Among nearby towns damaged by the
storm, according to reports, were Wau-
conda, McHenry, Woodstock, Algon..
quin and Marengo. Dundee was re-
ported to have been passed over by the
storm, but damage in the surrounding
farming country was heavy.
Atlanta, March 2s.--At least 80 lives
were lost, hundreds of persons were
injured and property damage prob
ably running into millions of dollars,
was caused by tornadoes that swept
through Georgia and Alabama late to.
day. La Grange, and West Point, Geor.
gia towns near the Alabama. Georgia
border suffered the heaviest, the esti-
mated dead at La Grange running to
30, II bodies were known to have been
found. West Point, which lost heavily
last December from the flooded Chatta-
hoochee, reported ten dead and severe
damages in the business section. .
The tornado also was felt in Macon
where property damage ran high and
some persons were injured Washington
Ca, town near Augusta, also felt the
effects of n storm, but apparently no
lives were lost. Some damage also was
thought to have been caused i'm east
ern Alabama.
Wire service, both telegraph and
telephone, was partially paralyzed and
1T was almost impossible to ascertain
exact damage, or to get reports from
many sections of the state that have
felt the effects of the storm. Heavy
rains fell throughout great portion OF
Georgia during the day and it was
feared flooded rivers might add to the