Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-16
MANY TOWNS SWEPT
BY TERRIFIC STORM
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Wabash, Ind, Massillon and Toledo
Ohio, Struck by Tornado and
Lives and Property Lost.
MANY HOUSES ARE IN RUINS
Northern Mississippi Visited by Gale
Which Causes Death Of at Least
Nine Persons in One Place.

Death and destruction were wrought
by tornadoes which swept the Missis-
sippi Valley States, the States intthe
great lake region, and the lower por-
ton of Canada Monday, Monday night.
and early Tuesday.
The storm struck northern MissaSr
sippi Monday night in a tornado that
attained a velocity estimated at from
seventy-fve to 100 miles an hour Nine
persons are reported killed, fifteen were
injured, some of them fatally, and
thousands of dollars worth Of damage
done to buildings and crops.
Great Losses I'm Tennessee.
This tornado, passing north into Ten
nessee and Kentucky, caused heavy
damage to buildings, wrecking a school
house at Buntyn, Tenn, and imperiltnG
the ives of 300 children. Meager re-
ports as to fatalities come from these
sections, owing to the wrecking Of telc
graph wires, but several deaths are 70
ported, not verified.
Passing into Indiana and Ohio Tues
day the cyclone destroyed factories and
other large buildings in its pathway. At
Massillon, Ohio, the high wind, tearing
the roof from a foundry. menaced Tho
lives of 400 employees, killing one. AZ
Wabash, Ind, the havoc was wide
spread, the loss being estimated at from
100000 to 100000. Two dozen dwell
.ngs were demolished, while their IN
roofop <3n1 frr f1,nir 1SuoA vv0nn0N
with her children, was pinned under
the wreckage of her home, which
caught fire, and she will die from burns
The city's electric service was wrecked
and the toyn was in darkness through
out Tuesday night. The wind was fol-
lowed by a cloudburst, and many
bridges are washed away. Many famf-
lies are homeless. Fifteen are injured.
two fatally, in Toledo.
Northern ndia.s suAers.
In northern Indiana the storm late
Tuesday night killed n mar at Al
bion. Two hundred houses were de-
stroyed in small villages.
At Cleveland the fishing tug George
Floyd with seven men aboard and the
sandsucker Mary II. with a crew Of
nine men are missing, while the barge
Norman Kelley, with a crew OF four
persons, three men and a woman, near
%Sandusky, was rescued after a deSper-
ate struggle as a result Of a fierce wind
storm which ragged on Lake Erie.
In Michigan a boy was killed by the
flying roof of n house at Brighton, two
boys were drowned in a small boat In
the Detroit River, and three fishernen
were drowned by the capsizing Of their
boat near Wyandotte. Lightning killed
a child at Ionia and set fire to thou
sands OF dollars worth OF farm houses
and barns. A child was probably fatal
~ injured in Detroit by flying debris.
At Jennings, Mich, three young men
were killed by being caught under Q
wall that was blown down by the wind
The damage to roofs, chimneys, plate
glass, etc, probably win reach $4,000
in Detroit.
Wisconsin Il Wind Swept.
A terrific wind storm swept Wfscon-
sin Wednesday,. Many boats were re-
ported overdue ut various ports along
Lake Michigan and at Milwaukee,
while the northern Michigan copper
country reports from five inches to two
and a half feet of snow.
Southern Canada was a heavy suf-
ferer from the storm, incomplete and
unverifed reports showing that the loss
in small towns will reach the hundred
thousands. Six persons were injured
and one young child fatally hurt and
property loss of $4,000 entailed at New
London, Ont.
At Buffalo, n. Y, the gale reached
a velocity of seventy-ive miles an hour
Four persons. badly injured by flying
bricks and debris, are in hospitals, and
several ships have been beached, while
Il dredge was sunk. One man was
crushed to death by a falling cornice.
The wine reached a velocity Of sixty
eight miles per hou in Pittsburg. 1t II
estimated that damage done throughout
the city will be in excess of 100000.
About thirty persons were hurt, and
two Of them are SO badly injured that
they may die.
An airship owned by the Eagle Aero
plane Company of Pittsburg was about
ready for flight when the gale struck
the tent it was kept in and blew both
tent and airship away demolishfnI-
both.