The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-06-09
Great Wind and rain
Storm Sweeps ONTARIO
IMMENSE DAMAGN CAUSED IN
CITIES OF THE PROV
INCE.

Oak and Maple Trees on the Principal
Streets of Hamilton Cut OFF at the
Base as Cleanly as Though by a saw
Forty Buildings in the Course OF
Construction and Some Just Finished
Blown DOwn--Panic at the Race
Track.
Hamilton, June s. A terrific wind
and rain storm passed over Ontario
from one end Of the southern peninsu-
Ia to the other to-day, demolishing
buildings, uprooting trees and leYeling
the telegraph and telephone lines. Moth
ing like an accurate estimate of the
damage caused by tthe storm can be
given tonight. The storm struck TINS
city at 4S5 this afternoon and Tor
twenty minutes the wind tore through
the streets at the rate of eighty-1lVe
miles an hour. Immense oak and maple
trees on the principal streets were cut
off at the base as clearly as though
by saw. The street car service was
suspended for four hours. Forty build
ings in course of construction and some
that had been finished were blown
down. The roof was blown off the
Hamilton Vinegar works and wing
of the Hamilton club was razed to the
ground.
lReports from the rich fruit belt east
and west of Hamilton state that the
damage to fruit trees will reach many
| thousand dollars.
This was ladies' day at the race track
and the grand stand was crowded with
| women when the storm broke. The
horses were parading past the stand
for the second race but were sent back
to the paddock. When the wind reach
ed such velocity that it threatened
to wreck the stand, a panic seized the
! crowd The women screamed, and hud-
| died together anG many Of the men
climbed over the fence into the infield
where they laid fiat upon the ground in
the drenching rain.
Nothing has been heard from Paris
Woodstock and London, cities west OF
here, in the direct path Of the storm
A large number of people in the city
sustained slight injuries, but so fai
as known no one was killed
Detroit, Mich, June S.-Eastern On
tario was swept by terrific wind ant
rain storm this afternoon and all wirt
communication between this city ant
points east of Chapman, about sixty
miles from here, was cut off. Chatham
suffered severely from the storm
which unroofed houses, blew dowr
trees, felled wires and filled the streets
with debris, but no one was seriously
hurt.
A torrential rainstorm, accompanied
by a forty mile wind swept Detroit jus
before o'clock this evening. Tree
We're felled all over the city, causing
severe damage to wires and putting
several hundred telephones out of com
mission and stopping several street ca
lines by broken trolley wires. Uncon
firmed reports Of loss of life on tn
river were current tonight. One 0
these reports was that eight lives wer
lost on the river near Wolfe, a resor
on the Canadian shore mile above tn
head of Belle Isle; another was tina
child had been picked up by the win
and swept off tie Belle Isle bridge.
; Both the Weetern Union and Posta
, Telegram companies were making des
perate but unsuccessful efforts earl
in the night to reach interior Canada
points Long distance telephone ser
vice east of Chatham is also cut off
Both telegraph companies reporte
e that the prospects of reaching Canad
: ian points tonight were very poor.
s Reports from the eastern part of tn
I state tell of a severe storm with cor
t siderable property loss, but no loss {
: life.