The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-07-24
STORM In BALTIMORE
Maryland City Suffers Greatly
From Tornado.
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Baltimore, Nd, July s1.-A fierce
tornado, characterized by windstorn
Of extraordinary velocity, thunder
vivid lightning and heavy rain, sud.
denly burst upon Baltimore at 1:3C
.. m. Sunday, coming from the south.
west, with the net result that II per-
sons 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
exhausted its fury in less than IS min
utes. 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.
II was in the residence portions of the
city along the river front and in the
harbors where the wind spent its vio-
hence.
The Victims.
OF those who persisted nine were
drowned in the harbor from open
boats, one was killed by falling tree
and one by live wire. The following
is list of the killed:
Drowned IN the harbor: Roy Bateman,
Y years old; Joseph Cain, 10 years oldf
John Cain. years old; Thomas Carroll,
q years old; Harry Mccormick, 10 years
old; Mrs. Mary Schiller, Is years old; Harry
s. schulsr, 10 months old: Olive Schiller,
years old; Charles schuler years old;
Killed by Falling tree-william Cornish.
colored. Killed by Live wire-Charles
Schaefer.
The first three victims on the above
list were out in a rowboat on the river
with three other companions. When
the storm broke the boat wa scapsized,
three being drowned and three being
rescued by the tugboat Edna V.
George. The 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.
A Pathetic Incident.
The drowning of Mrs. Schiller and
her children was the most pathetic
Incident 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 into the harbor for a sail in
a 30-foot boat. When the storm came
Schiller and Cook took in sails. Schu-
Der sent his wife and children into the
little cabin and he stood at the tiller to
keep the vessels head toward the
wind. A sudden gust of wind threw
1he 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 pinned in the cabin
Cooper saved himself and his wife by
hanging to the bottom of the over
turned boat, and Schiller 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 n. Hunt rescued
Echaler and Cooper and wife and
-towed the capsized vessel to the wharf,
where it was righted and the dead
bodies of Mrs. Schiller and her three
children taken from the cabin.
Thomas Carroll, with four other
young men, were out in the harbor in
a rowboat, which was capsized. Car
roll was drowned, while his four COM
panions chung to the rudder of the
Merchant and Miners steamship Chat
ham. from which perilous position
they were rescued by the tug Mary.
killed by Failing Tree.
A coIored camp meeting was in prog
1ess in Paradise grove, near Powhat-
IAN, on the Liberty road. The congre-
CATION had just been dismissed when
the storm broke A huge oak tree fell
upon the tent in which the services
had been held. Several of the wor-
slippers were caught beneath it as it
fefL 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
failing tree. The others were not Sc
1iously injured.
Boaa Capsixed.
colchester, Md, July 2l.-James b.
Post. aged 20, and Theodore o.
Parker, q years old, OF Baltimore
who came here Saturday on an ex-
eursion, were drowned Sunday after
noon. They, with four companions,
were rowing in the bay. A wind
tuuall overturned the boat. The
other occupants of the little craft
elung to it until rescued.
FLOOD VERY COSTLY.