The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-07-25
CITY OF BALTIMORE VISITED BY
DESTRUCTIVE STORM.
ELEVEN PEOPLE ARE KILLED
Hundreds Of Houses Unroofed and
Trees Torn Up by the Roots
in Streets and Parks.

Baltimore. Md, July PA fierce
tornado, characterized by a wind
storm of extraordinary velocity, thun-
der, vivid lightning and a heavy rain.
burst upon Baltimore at 1870 p. m.
yesterday, coming from the south
west, with the net result that II per-
sons lost their lives, hundreds of
hoMses were unroofed, trees in the
public parks and streets were torn
up by the roots. many buildings dam
aged and several people injured. The
| storm exhausted it's fury in less than
Is minutes.
The damage done in the business
part of the city was comparatively
slight, being confined to the blowing
down OF signs and injuries to roofs.
1t was in the residence portion along
where the wind spent it's violence.
OF those who persisted nine were
drowned in the harbor, one was killed
by a falling tree and enc by a live
wire
The boy killed by a live wire had,
. in company with two other boys, gone
into a shed for protection, when the
shed blew down and the live wire
fell on one of them. .
The drowning of Mrs. Schiller and
her children was the most pathetic
incident Of the storm. Michael Schu-
Ter, with his wife and three children,
accompanied by his brother-in-1aw,
Joseph Cooper, took in sails. 7Schuler
SEMI his wife and children into the
4 little cabin and he stood at the ti1ler
rep the vessels head toward the
la,rwffAl. a sudden gust of wind threw
III bonn of He ye1sels around, knock
efSchnlss downsaad plnned him to
thsRdeck Atrthiss1 gust capdlsedgthe
bcat. releas9a4 SCHUYLER, who. with
? Cooper and All wife. were Mrownlin
:, o-the water, having Mrs. Schuler' and
her children pinned in the ,c16in.
Cooper savyd himself and wife NV
hanging to tie bottom of the over
turned BOAT and Schuler saved him
self in the same way, after making
frantic efforts to get at his 'imprison.
len wife and children. The crew OF
the echoonef Edward H. Hunt rescued
Hchuler and Cooper and wife, and tow
sH the caIIsiineh vessel to the wharf,
where 1t ~ righted md the dead
bodfes Of Mr.. Schiller ann her three
children stdhre taken from me :cabiE-
Thomas Ntrolf with Iour other
ynmng men, were out in the harbof
in a row beat, which was eapsized-
Carroll was drowned, whifesthis -four
com panions chung to the rl7adier, sfroN
which position they were rescued by
the tug Mary.
In Paradise grove, near Powhattan.
a huge tree fell Upon a tent IN which
a colored camp meeting was being
held and several of the worshippers
were caught beTresth it. The tree had
to be sawed into pieces before the i'm.
prisoned men and ome could be
released. r
, William Cornish was crushed to
death. The others were not seriously
Kart.
A hole several feet in diameter was
blown in the wall CT St. Mary's Star
of the Sea Catholic church in South
Baltimore and a portion of the stone
cornioe weighing more than a ton
fell to the ground, but no one was in
jured.
A boats crew, from the German
steamer Breslap at anchor in the har:
Dor, picked up two men from a boat
that had been capsized off Wolf street,
At the foot Of Concord street the
Merchants and Miners TRANSPORT
ton company's warehouse was I'M
rooted and rain poured in on the val
liable cargo stored there, doing much
damage, estimated from $780, 900 to
$500, 900.
The weather bureau reports that the
storm was more in the nature OF a
whirlwind than a tornado. The wind
blew at the rate of Ga miles IN hour
and ohe-half inch of water fell. The
storm lasted but 20 minutes. So far
as known it was confined to Balti'
more and suburbs.
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