Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-04-02
Little Girl Prayed for
Home and 1t was Left
Standing While Others
Had Aerial Fits.
Train Tardy; 500 on it
to Late for Deadly Re-
ception; Hot Stoves Go
Soaring With Houses.
Chicago Tribune Special Dispatch to
Great Falls Daily Tribune.

Chicago Tribune Special Dispatch te
Great Falls Daily Tribune.
, Chicago, April Grim jokes were
| played by the death-dealing tornado in
| its erratic journey across the thickly
populated territory west Of Chicago Sun
| day. 1t denuded people Of their clothing,
but left their homes; in other instances
sparing their garments, but destroying
| their habitations. In some instances
it lifted the third house in a row and
demolished it utterly. Then the second
house was lifted and planked down on
the foundations of the one that had been
destroyed. Still another gust picked up
the third house and smashed it down up
on the spot just vacated by the second
house, but the work was done with such
violence and haste that the third house
mostly repOses in the cellar.
Dog Guards Hole in Ground.
Out in the Dunning district small
dog is guarding what is left of his mas
ter's premises. Police and other intrud-
ers are warned away by swapping teeth
and barking voice at the gate, but the
gate is all that remains of the home
There is hole in the ground where the
house stood. a couple of shirts and a
pair Of socks wave lonesomely from a
clothes line, but the hole in The ground
three garments, with the valiant brown
pup are all that remain.
Back of the pretentious Praeger home
which was reduced to powder stands a
dilaEidated shack, of which not even n
Single was disturbed. 1t is about II
feet from where the Pracgcr home stood,
but is intact. While all the remains 0f
the Praeger house is a solitary water
pipe. from the top of which floats
v1<,l 4
Wag.
Pigeon Cote left: Home Wrecked.
Nearby a pigeon house. perchins on
a flmsy. thing, constructed of latA.
Twenty feet away substantial two
story home was demolished.
All the siding and sbeathing was strip
ped from one house, bnt the roof was
untouched, perched high up upon the
bare and skinny studdins. A piano was
whipped out Of this house, blown en-
tirely through another and left bottom
side Up in an alley, two blocks dist
ancc.
The house of Alexander Jameson,
who was instantly killed, disappeared
completely. Not a stick or stone, or
handful Of material of any description
remains.
Policemen Chased by Death.
Chief of Police Sieber. OF Wilmctte.
and two member of his force had just
completed a hearty dinner and had laid
down for their regular siesta. just then
the storm struck and their first introduce
ton to the tornado was when half
wagon load of brick were hurled through
the roof and windows. They took refuge
in the basement, but the tornado tore
down the smokestack and piled it in the
basement Fleeing up the street, they
barely escaped death when the roof OF
the municipal building came hurtling
after them and distributed itself over
half block.
One facetious hardware merchant in
the heart of the devastated district put
up sign:
''Ihe tornado has nothing on our
washing machines when it comes to
up"
Picture Blown Out Of Frame.
The limb Of a tree eight inches in
diameter was blown entirely through
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