Nearly 200 Casualties and Damage to Property of $12,000,000
Peoria, IL, June 28.
Five persons were killed and 20 tornado here. The ated at $1,590,000.—Reuter's American Service.
Gleveland, June 29.
A disastrous tornado has visited parts of Ohio. Three hundred persons are reported to have been Killed and at least 1,500 injured in the county of Lorain, while thy Lorain has been wiped out, are meagre, owing to des truction of communications in the neighbourhood, but frantic appeals for help are being received from the towns of Sandusky and. Elyria, which are also. in ni Reuter's Ohio, June 2
The latest estimate' of the dead is between 150 and 800. The loss is estimated at $20,000,000. A thousand buildings at Lorain were unroofed and demolished. Six hundred troops have arrived to preserve order.—Reuter's American Service.
Cleveland, June 29.
One tiunsdred and sixty-five bodies have been recovered from the Sta Thentre at Lorain, but Elyri is undamaged.
Later.
The damage at Lorain ix timated at $12,000,000, Other Lake-front cities' have suffered severely. The water-front at dusky is reported to have been entirely demolished, with some loss of life, Lorain sot the full force of the tornado, which swept an toppled roafx went fying report that houses
through the air, trees were mowail down aus if by a hue scythe, some walls of houses were blown out and other houses were alamo, the bridge over the river. was' de. molished.
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