Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-04-02
TORNADO WRECKS
CHICAGO SUBURBS
Hurricane Hits MeIrose Park.
WiImette and Other Towns.
IS PERSONS REPORTED DEAD
Storm Cuts Crooked Path 40 MiIea.
Long Through Will, Dupaee, Kane
and Cook counties-Damage
Runs Into Millions.

Chicago, March pa 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 35
lives had been lost. 1t was believed
the total death list would exceed so.
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 a zigzag path through
the country, leaving death and de.
Etruction in its wake.
Reports from southern Michigan,
said the storm swept over the country.
doing 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.,, a woman was
killed and several persons injured.
Mrs. Louis 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
700 feet through the air. Trains were
blown from their tracks. Automobiles;
were lifted from roads into corn
fields.
The property damage ran into mill
lions. Including the demolition Of
many buildings, the uprooting of trees
and the razing 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 ap-
pealed for company of soldiers to-
guard the city. Col. James 3. Stuart,
commanding the Eleventh infantry, L
N. G., had sent two companies to Will
mette and Evanston. but said he
would 90 at once to the armory and
endeavor to assemble another CONF
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
err, 1908 Twelfth avenue; John IhAn-
seek, 14O6 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 unidentified-one woman.
Chicago-Leo Simons, 1888 South
Kedzie avenue.
Dunning-Mrs. Hansen. mother of
four. 1882 Nottingham avenue. Uni
Identified man.
In 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
In Norwood Park and Irving Park,
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.
WiImette Badly Damaged.
Wilmette's business section was bad
~ 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.
It was learned from railroad train
dispatchers 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 a freak, according to
the local weather bureau. The highest
wind velocity recorded there was SO
miles an hour just aftern noon. 1t
dropped to SO miles an hour and re-
NAMED there.
But where the damage was done the
wind must have had velocity of 80 to
90 miles an hour. This condition was
termed 'local squalls" by the weather
bureau.
Woman Found Slain in Home.
Los Angeles, March 29.-Mrs. Ruby
Reed, thirty-seven, divorce, was
found dead In her apartments here. A
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