The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-08

Wsp followed by . wind storm of un- usta1 vioIsnce and many. accidents end ct yeast one death have been reported-
 Year Ion1a lightning entered farm eetse along telephone wire and Kill sAefght year old Benjamin Helmef ana etsereiy shocked two other children wlfie the family of seven persons were sf4fng at the supper table. Intsrurban trsfic out of Grand Rapids was deley- oSfm. Doxene of barns In Western S4chigan were set on fre by lightning
 The wind averaged from 50 miles hn. hour fn the western part of the btsts to as high as ss miles in this , Vicinity. One child was severely in- kursd here by . failinE sign.
 / At Hrighton. Ray Miller was killed and his brother 4uy was severely tn- yursd by being struck by the roof of lAs house which hlew on and on them
 whils. driving by. = baftment this afternoon that they saw Nwoe other little boys blown into the ietver from -a dock on Belle Isle.
 |. fhte this afternoon tt was reported that boms. .Huura arians had been drowned in :shs river on Wyandotte by the cap Sising of their boat in. the high ses Ahas is running on tho river. E us~.t Dess |. mseAiea..
 Detfoft- Mich. April 7.-At least Uight persons lost their lives In the storm that visited Detroit and Michi- Ean last night and today.
 Anthony Kaup, a-sAloon keeper; Joe Kad1ch. q barber and Adam Feiin. all Of Wyandotte, attempted to cross the Detroit River in a row boat from Wy andcttss to Canada this afternoon in . ffty-miis gale to settle wager, and aliAthree were edrowned when their boat eapsi2ed. Kadich bet Kaup 70 What i,e would not dare to cross in the efnairr boat, and Feiin was the stake holder. I. lAe Jennings, in Missaukee County. three young men. Bernard Carlson. charles Jacobsap and John Tnrrey, were killed by being caught under . swafI That was blown down by the wind It the Mitchell Brothers mill.
 sEfEht.yesr-ol Ben Heliner was Killed by lightning near Ionia last nfelit, snd Ray. MilIer was killed at Brikhtwood today when he vas struck by .. roof that had been blown on.
 :Rnmors thst . little boy, and girl were drowred while fishing at Belle ,rsies Detroit. have not been confirmed.
 .1he dan1ays to roofs. chimneys. piate xiass. etc. will probably reach Sso.ooo in Detroit and Michigan. The wind velocity reached seventy miles an. hour. !
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 chicako, April 7.--Wiress east of Chi- eseor as far as Pittsburg went down rapidly in today's gale. according to the telegraph companies.
 wheeling, ". Va. reported every S,fre down. east of that point. Of the numerous leased wires running into Chicago but one, was working this aft ernooh and conditions were said to be growing worse. -
 Tn. this city several persons received minor Injuries from toppling fences and ,loosened sign boards. Scores of plate glass windows were broken.
 By far the most freakish whim of the storm was to. give a perilous ride 10 Samuel Holland. an elevated rail- road conductor. Holland. was seated on the, runway of. box car on the Metropolitan elevated road when the roof was lifted up by the gale. It slainfained q horizontal position and Holland went whiriing away like a fly on a piece of cardboard He 1it over Q hundred feet from the starting place none the worse for his experience. The roof settled to the ground with com paratiye stea6inesss consideriag its kwsfght.S4 ses a5sfs str.s
 ' FTisnas among the train crew in- sisted that the conductor must be in- formally injured and took him to 6 physician but the latter confirmed Hoi- lands statement that he was unhurt.
 Several plate glass windows were boards leveied.
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