Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1912 — Chicago Suffers Damage la Sunday Electrical Storm. [ARTICLE]

Chicago Suffers Damage la Sunday Electrical Storm.

Damage estimated at |150,000 occurred 4n Chicago Sunday afternoon as the result of a big rain and electrical storm. Five inches of rain fell, according to. dispatches. Lightning struck a large tenement house on W-tpt Lake street and twenty families were driven into the street The storm brought relief from the heat wave. Three deaths from heat exhaustion occurred earlier in the day, while nine were reported Saturday and eight on Friday. , ;