St. Paul daily globe., 1893-05-24
MET DEATH IN A GALE.
Cleveland Visited by a Sew
enty-Five-Mile-
Wind.
ScaRolds Blown Down and
Several Men Crushed in
the Ruins.
Many Buildings Demolished
Many Buildings Demolished
by the Winds Powerful
Force.
Louisville Gets a Touch of
a Cyclone in the Early
Morning.

CLEVELAND, o., May ga gale
with the biggest rain on record struck
Cleveland at 9:3O this morning. Trees,
signs and wires were blown down in
every direction. The big building at
Dean and Superior streets went 10
wreck, one man being badly hurt. Two
men were killed at the Cleveland Roll
ing mills in Newburg during the gale.
The new steel cupola was blown down
and four men who were on the scatfold
fell eighty feet. Jake Bavish was killed
instantly. An Italian was caught
by steel beam and crushed
to death. Tommy Mcclure had
both legs and back broken, and will
die. Another unknown man was Sc
vereiy injured, but will recover. The
steel cupola is total wreck. The scat
folding at the new Bradley bridge, cor
ner of Erie and Superior streets, was
blown down and four men were in
jured, William O'Neill, Miles johnson,
Michael Murphy and Michael Hughes.
The injured were taken to Lakeside
hospital. Telephone, telegraph, electric
light and street railway wires were ter
rlbly mixed up. The trolley current
was grounded in the public square by
a broken guy rope of the electric light
masts, causing a pyrotechnic display
and blockade of cars. The Big Four
freight house ON the docks was almost
entirely uuroofed.
stopped the Street Cars.
The wind was so strong that some
wagons were blown on their sides, and
narrowly escaped being blown into the
flats below. 1t was necessary to stop the
street cars and set the brakes, as the
overhead wires swayed in all alarming
manner, and when the electric current
was cut off the force OF the wind car
ried the cars along without any addi-
tiOnal power. In the heart of the city,
near the postoffice, several ladies were
blown from their feet and rolled into the
middle OF the street. Two of them were
seriously bruised. On Superior street
| near Doane, two houses were blown
down, and the house at 7S State street
was demolished. No one was injured
in either instance. About seventy feet
of the Lake Shore freight depot was
demolished, and the roof was sent flying
to the lake shore itself. A car on the
ScOvile avenue car line was blown
| from the track, and the three passengers
were given good shaking up. ouggy
was torn loose from the horse that was
drawing it, on the Superior street VIA
duct, and the buggy went tearing up
the street faster than the horse could
! follow.
Numbers of the beautiful shade trees
that line the streets of the city were up
rooted and thrown to the pavement.
| Telephone and electric light wires were
torn from their fastenings, and the city
was without incandescent lights during
the remainder Of the day. The weather
bureau in the city stated that it was not
cyclone, but brisk, seventy-five-
mile-an-hour gale that was purely local.
The motion of the wind was not circu-
lar, but its great force did the mischief.
The damage will amount to several
thousand dollars. The damage to the
trees is beyond computation, as it will
take years to replace them. The rain
fell in torrents while the blow lasted,
put ceased as soon as the force of the
wind was expended.