Evening star., 1940-11-12
Weather
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places and sub-freezing temper
atures were general from the
Rockies beyond to the Mississippi.
Tornado winds struck Louisiana,
Arkansas and Tennessee. Twenty
families were left homeless when
the storm struck Crocker Mills,
Tenn, causing damage expected to
exceed S150,000.
Snow blanketed much of the
western half of the Continent, piling
into drifts that crippled transpor-
tation in Minnesota, Nebraska,
Iowa, South Dakota and Utah.
There were eight storm deaths
in Illinois, which suffered extern
sive property damage in both urban
and rural sections. An electric
sign at Randolph street and the
Outer drive in Chicago was blown
down, although built to resist a
wind of 100 miles. The steel sign
was 10 stories high and valued by
it's owners at S150,000
Windows of many fashionable
shops along Michigan avenue in
Chicago were shattered. The 3-ton
belfry of the Olivet Baptist Church
crashed to the ground as did a
7-foot statue of Christ from atop
the f1ve-story Columbus Hospital
More than so injury cases were
reported to Chicago police. Many
persons were cut by falling glass
and loose bricks. A 3-foot-thlck
tree snapped in the gale and killed
a woman pedestrian. In suburban
Evanston a towering flagpole was
bent into a right angle by the wind.
Army Plane Disappears.
The storm halted air traffic in
the Midwest and was believed to
have cost the lives Of three Army
flyers. The Army plane disappeared
while on a training flight from st.
Paul to Omaha and was believed
to have plunged into Spirit Lake, in
Iowa.
Three deaths were reported IN
Indiana. A gale that reached a
velocity of 10 miles unroofed a
school at Talma while l55 pupils and
8 teachers were in a downstairs as
sembly hall. None was injured.
A 357-foot transmitting tower OF
radio station wind at Gary, Ind,
snapped in midsection. A Gary pc
destrian was picked up by the wind
and blown through the plate-glass
window of woman's apparel shop.
In Hammond, Ind, Robert Slem-
ering was imprisoned for an hour in
the refrigerator compartment of his
ice cream truck when the wind
slammed the door shut. He was
removed unconscious and nall
frozen.
Three persons we're killed in Wis
consin and fears were expressed for
the safety of eight duck hunters on
a barren, treeless island in the Wis.,
consin River near Portage.
Ten Marooned in Island.
Ten duck hunters were marooned
on a flooded, windswept island in
the Mississippi River at Dallas City,
Ill. A Naval Reserve boat with a
crew of seven was said by shore
watchers to have run around on the
island while making rescue at
tempt during the night.
A blizzard that struck Minnesota
left highways clogged and COM
munication facilities impaired.
DR.. Anthony Reymont, a deer
hunter, found his way to safety after
wandering "a hours in near zero
blizzard northwest of Santa Fe, N.
Mex. w. M. Garrison, 80, was Okla
homa's first exposure victim. He
was found frozen on the cottage
floor of an Oklahoma City COM
munity camp.
Snowdrifts measured 3 feet in the
Western Colorado mountain ranges.
The cold weather was blamed for an
auto death in Colorado and another
in Wyoming. Two Iowa motorists
were killed in an accident caused by
! slippery highways.