The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-07-23
DEADLY WHIRLWIND
Grasns Baltimore and Kills Twelve
People in Twenty Minutes.
GREAT LOST OF PROPERTY.
Gust Came Up Quite CHcNpccteuif
an,! Passed Away Just Us
Quickly. 4 Touching
Incident.

\ fierce tornado. characterized by a
wind storm Of extraordinary velocity,
thunder, vivid lightning and d heavy
rain. suddenly burst upon Baltimore
at l.3U y. H.. Sunday, coming from
southwest. with the oct result that
eleven persons lost their lives, hum
dreds of houses were tlnroofed. trees IN
the public parks and streets were torn
I'D by the roots, many buildings were
damaced and several people injured.
! The storm exhausted its fury ill less
than fifteen minutes.
The damage done in the business
portion OF the City vas comparatively
Slight. being confined t. their blowing
down OF signs and Injuries to roofs. 1t
was in the residence portions OF the
CITY alnng the river lfui:t and IN the
narDnr where the WIND spent its vlo:-
ence. OF those WHO perished Dlne
were drowned in The hartnr from GpeD
boats. one was killed !:y a falling tree
and one by live wire. tl.e loliUWlhS
is list Of the killed;
Drowned in the harior; Roy Bate
man. - years oid: Joseph Cain: 10
wears Old. John Cain, 9 years olG:
Thomas C.tr:O:l. ii years Old: Harry
Mccormick. lo years oid: MIS-. Mary
Schuler, % years old: Harry ). Schu-
Ter. 10 months old: Olive Schuicr, !
wears old: Charles Schuler. , years Old;
Killed by falling tree: William
Cornish. colored.
Killed by live wire: Charles Schae-
fer.
The first three victims on the above
list were in a rOWb0at on the river
with three other companions. When
the storm broke the boat was capsiz-
ed. three being drowned and three be-
ing reSuced by the tugboat Edna '.
George. The boy killed by live wire
in company with two other boys had
gone into a shed for protection when
the shed blew down and a live wire
fell On one Of them, resulting in his
death.
The drowning of AIrs. Schuler and
her children was the most pathetic
incident of the hurricane, Michael
Schiller with his wife and three chill
dren accompanied by bis brother-in-
law Joseph Cooper, and his wife had
gone cut into the harbor fer q sail in
3u-toot boat. When the storm calne
Schuler and Cooper took in the sails.
Schuler sent his wife and children into
the little cabin and he stood at the
tiller to keep the vessels head toward
the wind.
\ sudden gust Of wind threw the
boom CT the vessel around, knocked
Schuler down and pinned him to the
deck. Another gust capsized the boat,
releasing Schuler, who with Cooper
and the latter'S wife were thrown into
the water, leaving Mrs. Schuler and
her children.
Cooper saved himself and his wife
by hanging to the bottom Of the over
turned boat, and Schuler saved him
self in the same way, after making
frantic efforts to get at his imprisoned
wife and children. A crew from the
schooner Edward II. Hunt rescued
Schuler and Cooper and his wife and
towed the capsized craft to the wharf
where she was righted and the dead
bodies of Mrs. Schuler and her three
children were taken from the cabin.
Thomas Carroll with four other
young men, were out in the harbor
with a rowboat which was capsized
Carroll was drowned while his four
companions clung to the rudder OF the
Merchant and Miners steamship Chat
ham, from which perilous position
they were rescued by the tug Mary.