Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-24
TORNADO AT BALTIMORE.
Eleven Persons Killed. Many Injured and
Hundreds of Houses


Baltimore, Md, July ala fierce
tornado, accompanied by a wind
storm of extraordinary velocity,
thunder, vivid lightning and a heavy
rain suddenly burst upon Baltimore
at 1870 p. IN. Sunday, coming from
the southwest, with the net result
that II persons lost their lives, hun
dreds of hoIses 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 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. 1t 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 persisted nine were
drowned in the harbor from open
boats, one was killed by a falling
tree and one by a live wire.
A 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 a live wire fell
on one end of them, resulting in his
death.
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 Cooper and his wife, had
gone out into the harbor for a sail in
a 30-foot boat. When the storm came
Schiller and Cooper took in sails.
Schiller sem 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 Schiller down and
pinned him to the deck. Another
gust capsized the boat, released
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 overturned boat,
and Schiller 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 Schiller and
Cooper and wife and towed the cap
sized vessel to the wharf, where it
was righted and the dead bodies of
Mrs. Schiller and three children taken
from the cabin.
Thomas Carroll and four other
young men were out in the harbor
in a rowbost, which was capsized.
Carroll was drowned, while his four
companions chung to the rudder of
the Merchant and Miners steamship
Chatham, from which perilous posi-
ton 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
fell upon the tent in which the serv-
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
lam Cornish was crushed to death by
the falling tree. The others were not
seriously hurt.
A hole several feet in diameter vas
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 a ton
fell to the street. Fortunately no
one was injured by the falling stone
and brick. The damage to the church
is estimated at $1,000.
While the storm was at its height
a boats crew from the German steam
er Breslau, at anchor in the harbor,
picked up two men from a boat which
had been capsized off Wolf street.
WILL NOT RENEW THE STRIKE,