Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-27
DEATH AND RUIN
Game on the Wings of a Terrific
Wind Storm.
TWO INSTANTLY KILLED
And Many Others Very Dangerously In
jured by
A DESTRUCTIVE GALE,

The Storm ut Louisville, Ky.
CLEVELAND, o., May 24.-The terri
bic wind storm that passed over this
city yesterday morning left death and
| destruction in its wake 1t is known
that two men were killed and nine per.
sons injured. Buildings were unroofed
trees blown down and telegraph and
telephone wires broken The most
| serious accident occurred at the Cleve.
land rolling mills, in the Twenty-sev.
enth ward, where two men were killed,
one fatally injured and two others
badly hurt At the north ends of the
property owned by the company new
steel mill is in course of construction.
The cupola house of the mill building
is sixty feet in height. The posts in
the building were tied with girders
and other timbers were supported with
: guy ropes When the wind struck the
building the men We're at work upon
it. They were first made aware OF
their danger by the falling timber and
had no chance to escape.
Michael Drebna, an Italian, aged 40
years, died few minutes after being
taken from the ruins. His body was
crushed. He lived near the mills and
leaves family.
Jacob Rabish, aged so, single man,
was struck by a falling post while run
ming to escape, and was instantly killed,
his body being crushed. Several others
who We're injured are not expected to
| live.
Two men were at work upon scaf,
| folding on the new building almost
completed on the southwest corner of
Superior and Erie streets. They saw
the storm coming and realizing their
danger stepped off and saved them
| selves just in time. Their narrow es.
cape meant serious injury and possibly
death to others, for the instant the
wind struck the corner of the building
the scattolding was loosened from its
fastenings, and whizzing through the
air it came down with Il crash on top of
| four unfortunate men working on the
| street below.
The men We're employed by the gas
company laying pipe and the debris OF
the scatfolding descended without
moments warning and almost covered
them as it struck the sidewalk.
In an instant ambulances came dash
ing along from all directions and the
four men We're removed to Lakeside
! hospital. Their names are: William
OMalia, As years old, married; Michael
Murphy, so years old married; Michael
Hughes, 25 years old, single; Miles
johnson, 45 years old, married.
| Inquiry at the local weather bureau
at 1920 n. IN. elected the fact that at
the height of the blow the rate for
full minute was seventy-five miles an
hour, after which it fell off to sixty
miles, at which it held for several min
utes. There was nothing in the char
acter of the storm to indicate that it
belonged to the tornado or cyclone
class, as popularity known. 1t was
straight wind, and the damage it
caused was owing to its great direct
motion.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, May 24.-Again the
wind has worked its will upon Louis
vile. Dwellings, are ruined, streets
filed with the wreckage of roofs, with
broken and uprooted trees, with rem
nants of walls and twisted wires. No
lives are known to be lost and few of
the injuries received are serious. The
rain came at midnight Monday night,
but people slept peacefully until just
before dawn. About o'clock the be-
lated people saw a low black cloud,
with greenish fringe, sweeping swiftly
up from the southwest.
The blow struck the south of the city
first, marking its destructive force first
upon the Louisville & Nashville round
house at Tenth and Broadway. From
there on the center of the city suffered
little, save by chimneys blowing down
and trees uprooted
When the storm struck the city eight
worlimen, under the charge of James
Dadigan, night foreman at the big
Louisville & Nashville roundhouse,
were busy about the engines. AS the
wind struck the circular building the
roof was lifted free from all fastenings
and then as lull came, dropped from
its own weight, squarely upon the
structure. The walls stood the press
ure, but the roof crashed down upon
the interior. The heavy engines were
overturned like tops, but the men es-
capped almost miraculously from death.
AS the roof lifted each man dived into
the pit beneath his engine and there
lay safe and unhurt until the storm
passed and all crawled out.
Twenty-Five houses in the eastern
part of the city We're blown down. No
loss of life. Loss $4,000.
DETROIT, Mich, May 24.-A heavy
gale, amounting to almost cyclone,
struck Detroit at s o'clock yesterday
morning. No damage was done, how
ever, beyond the destruction of trees.
Across the river at Windsor and in the
vicinity the damage amounts to $4,000.
No one was injured so far as known.
4 storm Ilnrnnfal GanT.nA
johnson block and Holly Company's
block and the opera house.
AT Lenawee Junction the cyclone de-
stroyed innumerable houses and barns
Tuesday morning. The roads between
Adrian and Tecumseh are strewn with
: debris and are impossible At Romulus
the Romulus Manufacturing Com
( pany's building was completely demas-
ished. At Hudson. Mich. reports are