Newport weekly independent., 1902-07-25
TORNADO AT BALTIMORE.
deVen Persons Killed. Many Injured and Hundreds of Houses
 Unroofed.

Baltimore, Md, July 21.--A fierce tornado, accompanied by a wind storm of extraordinary velocity, thunder. vivid lightning and heavy rain suddenly burst upon Baltimore at 1;3O p. m. Sunday, coming from the southwest, with the net result that Il persons lost their lives, hun- dreds 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 it's fury in less than fifteen minutes. The damage done in the business part of the city was comparatively slight, being con- fined to the blowing down of signs and injuries to roofs. It was in the residence portions of the city along the river front and in the harbor where the wind spent it's violence.
 Of those who perished nine were drowned in the harbor from open boats, one was killed by a falling tree and one by live wire.
 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 end of them, resulting in his death
 The drowning of Mrs. Schuler and her children was the most pathetic incident of the hurricane. Michael Schuler, with his wife and three chil- dren, accompanied by his brother-in- law, Joseph Cooper and his wife, had gone out into the harbor for sail in a 30-foot boat. When the storm came Schuler and Cooper took in 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. A sudden gust of wind threw the boom of the vessel around, knocked Schuler down and pinned him to the deck. Another gust capsized the boat, released Schuler, who, with Cooper and his wife, were thrown into the water, leaving Mrs. Schuler and her children pinned in the cabin. Cooper saved himself and his wife by hanging to the bottom of the overturned boat, and Schuler saved himself in the same way, after making frantic efforts to get at his imprisoned wife and chill dren. A crew from the schooner Ed ward H. Hunt rescued Schuler and Cooper and wife and lowed the cap- sSa 41 was righted and the dead bodies of Mrs. Schuler and three children taken from the cabin.
 Thomas Carroll and four other young men were out in the harbor in rowboat, which was capsized. Carroll was drowned, while his four companions clung to the rudder of the Merchant and Miners steamship Chatham, from which perilous posi- tion they were rescued by the tug Mary.
 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
 
 ices had been held. Several of the worshipers were caught beneath it as it fell. The tree had to be sawed in- to pieces before the imprisoned men and women could be released. Will fam Cornish was crushed to death by the falling tree. The others were not seriously hurt.
 A hole several feet in diameter was blown in the wall of St. Mary's Star of the Sea Catholic church, in South Baltimore. A portion of the stone cornice 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 estimated at $7,00O.
 While the storm was at its height a boats crew from the German steam CT Breslau, at anchor in the harbor, picked up two men from boat which had been capsized off Wolf street. WTTT NAT DFNEuy TrIr> CrnTDr