St. Charles, Mo: Great cyclone sweeps through middle west doing heavy damage in several small towns near St. Charles. It fills a street full of trees and blows steel coaches of a passenger train from the rails. Cincinnati: Storm razes buildings, bringing heavy toll of death. Search ruins of building in which twenty-four persons lost their lives. Greenwich, Conn: Yachts Vanitie and Resolute, built for cup defenders, sail fast match race. Detroit: Six thousand foreigners march to Belle Isle Park where they are naturalized and salute the stars and stripes. New York: Special styles designed by Lucile Lady Duff-Gordon are posed exclusively for Hearst-Selig News pictorial. Lowell, Mass: Hundreds trudge in rain in big Independence Day Celebration. Chicago: White wings with trucks remove furniture of 28-room house set in street by sheriff and used as abode by evicted settlement worker and writer for several weeks. Woodland Beach: New York newsboys arrive at summer camp and deposit their shoes for bathing suits before romp in the surf. East Moseley, England: Girls entertain wounded heroes from battlefield with teas at which dancing is a feature. Rome: Thousands crowd before Quirinal where Queen and Heir Apparent appear on balcony. Nish, Serbia: Wounded soldiers from the front and refugees from civilian population seek refuge in Nish. Temporary capital is crowded with refugees.
—Moving Picture World synopsis