CABLEGRAMS.
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HEKHftiA OITY STMTO^^^H TOILXxVDO. 50 PERSONS KiLLED^^H MA'NIY TERRIBLY AIMEIDI^^ TOWN A MAS 9OF RUINS. OTTAWA, July 1. Regina Clity is involved in a «reat catastrophe. A tornado struck the place, levelled several hundred buildings, and killed fifty persons. Cfommuniclation is cut off with the outer world. Relief trains with doctors jui.'l nurses have been despatched from .Winnipeg. The loss of property is roughly estimated at a million sterling. ■ Most of the people were crushed in the ruins of their houses.
Several motor parties were lifted bodily and hurled blocks away. x Six grain elevators were (lestr iyed on the Canadian (Pacific traolii.
Parliament Buildings, just completed of reinforced concrete, withstood ' the tornado's violence, but were badly shaken. Thie town generally is a nia ss of ltu'ns.
Boats were whirled from to rivers surface and carried threequartei's of a mile distance.
Fires followed the destination of tho houses, but the fire hall escaped unscathed, consequently the nienn-n prevented the flames from sprealiiip Patnetici scenes mark the veo tvnry of the bodies.
Districted relatives search cv« vy where for lost ones.
Kailway cars were carried into h streets fi'orai the yards.
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Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10289, 2 July 1912, Page 2
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194CABLEGRAMS. Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10289, 2 July 1912, Page 2
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