Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1902-07-23
A FIERCE TORNADO.
ElcTen Persons Lost Their lives In
BaltImore-Much Damage.

balttnOre-MuCh Damage.
Baltimore. July 21.-A fierce lorna
do. characterized by a windstorm of
extraordinary velocity, thunder vivid
lightning, and heavy rain. suddenly
burst upon Baltimore at go p. m.
sunday coming from the southwest.
with the net result that IL persons
lost their lives, hundreds of houses
were unroofed, trees in the public
parks and streets were torn up by the
roots. many buildings damaged. and
several people injured. The storm ex-
hausted its fury in less than Is min
utes. The damage done in the bust
less part of the city was comparatively
slight, being confined to the blowing
down of signs and injuries to roofs 1t
was in the residence portions of the
city, along the river front and in the
barber where the wind spent its VIC
lence.
OF those who persisted nine were
drowned in the harbor from open
boats, one was killed by falling tree,
and one by live wire.
Three of the victims were out in n
Towboat on the river with three other
companions When the storm broke
the boat was capsized, three being
drowned and three being rescued by
tugboat. TIE boy killed by live wire
had, in company with two other boys.
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 Mrs. Schiller and
her children was the most pathetic in
cident of the hurricane Michael
Schiller, with his wife and three chill
dren, accompanied by his brother-in-
law, Joseph Cook, and his wife. had
gone out in the harbor for a sail in a
30-fOOt boat. When the storm came
Schiller and Cook took in sails.
Schiller sent his wife and children into
the little cabin, and he stood at the
tiller to keep the vessels head to-
ward the wind. a sudden gust of
wind threw the boom of the vessel
around, knocked Schiller down and
pinned him to the deck Another gust
capsized the boat, releasing Schiller,
who, with Cooper and his wife. were
thrown into the water, leaving Mrs.
Schiller and her children penned in
the cabin. Cooper saved himself and
his wife by hanging to the bottom of
the overturned boat, and Schiller saved
himself in the same way, after max
ing frantic efforts to get at his inn
prisoned wife and children. A crew
from the schooner Edward II. Hunt
and towed the capsized vessel to the
wharf, where it was righted and the
dead bodies of Mrs. Schiller and her
three children were taken from the
cabin.
A colored camp meeting was in
progress in Paradise grove. near Pow
haitian, on the Liberty road The CON
gregation had just been dismissed
when the storm broke. A huge tree
fell upon the tent in which the serv-
ices had been held. Several of the
worshipers were caught beneath IL as
1t fell. The tree had to be sawed into
pieces before the imprisoned men and
women could be released William
Cornish was crushed to death by the
falling tree. The others were not Sc
riously hurt
A hole several feet in diameter was
blown in the wall Of st. Mary. Star
OF the Sea, Catholic church, in South
Baltimore portion of the stone
corhice weighing more than ton fell
to the street. Fortunately no one was
injured by the falling stone and brick.
The damage to the church is esti-
mated at $1,000.
At the foot of Concord street the
Merchants and Miners Transporta-
ton Co.'S warehouse was unroofed.
with small damage to building. but the
rain poured in on the valuable cargo
stored therein, doing a damage which
is estimated from 100000 to $500. 900.