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M FCM, TELEGRAPHIC AND CABLE NEWS SERVICE , OF 77F UNITED PRESS THE DAY BOOK f tfwV 1 pi li-v 50u S, PEORIA ST. 398 TEL. MONROE 353 Vol. 1, No.. 238 Chicago, Monday, July 1, 1912 One Cent TORNADO LIFE IiOSS BIG. Regina, Sask., July 1. There is scarcely a family in Regina that is not mourning a dead or badly injuredmember as the result of the tornado that swept the city last night. . Thirty-five bodies already have been recovered. The total num ber of dead will surely reach half a hundred. There are 300 known injured. hospitals and morgues are full to overflowing. Churches and schoolhpuses-and halls have been pressed into service. Husbands are -searching for wives, wives for husbands, and parents for children in the ruins. Regina is the capital of Sas-; Jcafewan. Yesterday it was in gala dress in honor of Dojninion day, a national holiday. Today it is in Sguins-anmourning. - Red Coats are jgfffHng the streets. The ,propertyloss will be over 5,000,- tioo. ,The great building! of Parlia ment Hpuse, built of solid steel, still stand, but are half wrecked. The government telephone build ing, collapsed. AlfM;he telephone gris escaped, but many of them are badly injured, Railroad cars standing in the yards were picked up and hurle4 many feet Boats were lifted out of Wascana lake and deposited v Victoria park. Automobiles fulj of people were thrown out o their course and their occupants killed or injured. Of the thirty-five bodies, recov ered all but three havcbeen iden tified. , " The "storm played freakish -tricks. It tore out one side of many houses and Jeft the inside umiisturped. It twisted" many houses so tbadly they will, have to be torn down. r ' Four hundred of th$ finest homes-in-the cityare in ruins, and among these ruirts can be Heard .the cries of trapped women and children. THE DEMOCRATIC MESS. (Reports' Direct from Baltimore by United-Press Wire,) The Democratic convention to day became marked- with just such bitterness as distinguished the Chicago fiasco.w The story of the day isrbest told by thjfe ballots. Ifis-the story of Woodrow Wilson's growing strength, of Cham Clark's iosj of strength. Early in the afjernopn Wsoi t il f 1