The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-26
AMID STORM IND FLOOD.
Great Loss of Life and Property Re
ported In Many Sections.

POTtcu tH many oeCttOIs.
ORTONVILLE, MICH. May ga cy-
clone swept over the northern portion of
Oakland County this afternoon. The
storm passed about half q mile north of
this village. 1t came from the west and
went on direct line west. Every farm
house in its path for a distance of fifteen
miles was destroyed and between twenty
and twenty-five people were killed. Nearly
thirty were injured, some of whom will
die.
The names of some of the killed follow:
Daniel Thompson and son, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Mitchell and two children, Abram
Quick and three children, Mrs. Henry
Quick, Mrs. Joseph Porritt, John Porritt,
John Mickey, Mrs. Heaton, two children
of Mr.. Howe.
Among the injured are: Oscar Granger,
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Porritt and Archie
Woodruff.
lakewood, the next village north OF here,
is reported to have been completely
wiped out and many persons killed and
injured. AT Thomas, which is located a
few miles east of here, many buildings
were destroyed ana five persons lost their
lives.
Metamora, town few miles north of
Thomas, on the line of the Michigan Cen
trail, also suffered severely.
MOUNT CLEMENS, MICH. May 25.-A
cyclone struck here this evening. About
twenty-five houses were demolished, but
as far as can be learned nobody was
killed. Mrs. Pohl ana three sons were
seriously and perhaps fatally hurt. The
cyclone has done an immense amount of
damage to the surrounding country, many
farmhouses having been demolished, and
it is feared later reports will show that
many lives have been lost in this section
of Macomb County.
LAKE VIEW, MICH, May 25.-A small
cyclone struck this place this afternoon
destroying crops, trees and buildings of
all kinds. A large barn on Robert Edgar's
place was demolished and one occupied by
Fred Edgar was moved from its founda-
ton and crushed. No one was killed, so
far as learned.
DULUTH, MINI, May 25.-What was
probably the tail end of the Iowa cyclone
passed over Duluth this afternoon. Sew
eral chimneys were blown down and some
houses were unroofed. A sailboat con-
tanning pleasure party of four persons
work by the hfe-saving crew they were
rescued.
MOUNT CARROLL, ILL, May 25.-The
hardest storm ever experienced in this sec
ton broke last night and continued four
hours. Carroll Creek rose twenty feet in
half an hour. The ]. NJ. Shirk Company's
milldam broke, flooding the electric-light
plant, Lebeker's carriage mandatory, the
Mount Carroll tannery and all the build
ings along Galena avenue. The fire alarm
was rung at o'clock, and people were
rescued on improvised RATS. Two hun
dred feet of the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul Railroad track was washed out
Hundreds of cattle and horses were
drowned. The damage in Carroll County
alone is estimated at 100000
OELWIN, Iowa, May 25.-A terrible
wind and rain storm last night through
Delaware and Dubuque counties caused
great damage. The Chicago, Milwaukee
and st. Paul, Illinois Central and Chicago
and Great Western railroads are washed
out, bridges and culverts destroyed and
the track torn up for miles. The storm
was most severe between Oneida and Dn-
buque. A firm of contractors at Graf lost
complete outfit of tents, wagons, tools
and thirty-five or forty horses. The rail-
roads are unable to move any trains
through this section.
PONTIAC. MICH, May 25-Reports from
Ortonville, lakewood, Oxford and Thomas,
which are located in Oakland County,
north of here, say that a cyclone swept
those sections this afternoon. Ortonyille
and Thomas were nearly wiped out of ex-
istence. 1t is said that fully dozen per-
sons lost their lives at Ortonville, while at
Thomas four were killed.
CHICAGO, ILL, May PA storm of
wind, rain, thunder and lightning struck
Chicago this morning. Over an inch of
water fell in less than ten minutes. The
sewers were unable to carry off the water
and easements all over the city were
flooded. The pressrooms of the three
morning papers were flooded, and fire
engines had to be called to pump out the
water before the second editions could be
sent to press. Much damage is reported.
The storm extended south into Will and
Kankakee counties. All telegraph wires
are down in this vicinity. On the lake
there was tremendous storm. It is prob
able that many wrecks VIII be reported.
Thousands of persons living in the South
Shore suburb of Ravenswood and Lake
view narrowly escaped death by inhaling
illuminating gas. The district affected ex-
tended from Fullerton avenue to Edge
water. The pressure in the mains was
reduced just enough to extinguish the
lights in houses, where jets are kept burn
ing all the time, and the escaping gas soon
tiled the rooms. As soon as the police
learned of the danger every officer availa-
BILE was sent out to notify the sleeping
people of their danger. The aroused peo-
pie thought the town was afire, and MANY
were SO much overcome by the fumes that
several hours in the fresh air was necessary
to restore them.
While Policeman John McGann of
Lakeview was at work saving other people
his children were lying at home inhaling
the deadly gas. Mrs. McGann was aroused
by the storm. She aroused her sister. and
the four children were revived in the open
ar. The sleeping occupants of the Wave
land Flats in Lakewiew were panic
stricken when the police awakened them
to their danger
Some ran out in their night clothes
thinking the huiidinp wac m 6ra ~.