Storm Uproots Tent at Chicago Festival, 1 Dead

A sudden storm ripped through an outdoor festival near Chicago Sunday, killing one person and injuring 15.

Authorities tried to clear the area as the storm bore down, but there was no time.

"It was horrible," one resident recalled. "There was everybody on the floor and we heard people screaming and crying."

High winds ripped tent poles from the ground and sent people running for their lives.

"We turned to look and the tent flew off into the sky. The fence flew up and everyone was on the floor. You heard screaming and crying," Bella Salgado, 11, told Chicago's WLS-TV.

"I saw one of my friends on the floor. Her whole arm was cut. I was really, really afraid. I was trying to get cops to come over by her," she said.

The system of powerful thunderstorms moved through the upper Midwest with rain, hail, even tornadoes.

In northern Michigan, winds ripped up entire trees, leaving one neighborhood looking like a forest of broken trunks.