Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1914 — Tornado Visits Kankakee and Its Vicinity. [ARTICLE]

Tornado Visits Kankakee and Its Vicinity.

Kankakee, 111., April 25.—One woman dead, one man is fatally injured, hundreds of head of farm stock were killed and three villages razed, by a tornado that tore through Kankakee and Iroquois counties early today, according to .meager reports reaching here this afternoon. When the twister struck Clifton destroying three business blocksand eight houses, Mrs. H. Collins was struck, caught in the debris of her ruined home and received fatal injuries. At Otto, Ray Madrix, an operator, was fatally injured when the tornado demolished a railroad watch tower.' His wife and sister were in the tower when the storm broke but escaped with minor injuries. The Illinois Central station at Otto was wrecked. Momence also sustained heavy property damage but reports from that village are meager. The path of the tornado was about 100 feet wide in most places.