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Photo postcard showing the remains of the Telephone building in Regina Saskatchewan destroyed by the cyclone of June 30th 1912, the deadliest in Canadian history.
Photo by Benjamin Peters Skewis of Saskatoon (1860-1946)
Labeled at bottom ‘TELEPHONE BLDG REGINA SKEWIS – SASKATOON’
Publisher name on back ‘Saskatoon Drug & Staty. Co Photographic Dept.
‘AZO’ photographic paper dates RPPC to 1904-1918.
Light chips LL and right border.
The Regina Cyclone, or Regina tornado of 1912, was a tornado that devastated the city of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, on Sunday, June 30, 1912. It remains the deadliest tornado in Canadian history with a total of 28 fatalities and about 300 people injured. At about 4:50 p.m., green funnel clouds formed and touched down south of the city, tearing through the residential area between Wascana Lake and Victoria Avenue, and continuing through the downtown business district, rail yards, warehouse district, and northern residential area.
In just twenty minutes it completely leveled a number of houses, and caused other houses to explode as the pressure inside the structures rose when the tornado passed overhead."[3] The affluent residential area to the south was substantially diminished, but the tornado left houses untouched here and there immediately adjacent to houses which were flattened. "[I]n the warehouse district, it destroyed many of the storage buildings. The CPR Roundhouse was stripped to the rafters, and boxcars were pulled from the tracks and hurtled into the air."
WIKIPEDIA
