Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-04-29
DEATH IN TORNADO
IN CLEVELAND, OHIO
Lasts Five Minutes, Kills Six and
Injuries Fifty.
sTREWS CITY WITH WRECKS
The Storm Broke Without Warning
With Such Violence as to Wreck
Churches, Overthrow Smoke-
stacks and DemOlish Factories.

Cleveland, Ohio. - From six to
twenty persons are dead, at least nine
are fatally injured, fifty or more ara
seriously hurt. and property has been
damaged to the value OF $1,00O,000.
as the result of tornado lasting only
five minutes, which hit Cleveland at
noon.
!. The storm broke with hardly Z
minutes warning, and so violent wa3
thetwind that roofs were blown away.
small houses, barns and strongly
braced smokestacks demolished, tele-
phone and telegraph poles uprooted
or snapped OF, and wires blown
across streets in all parts Of the city.
The known dead are:
Jasper Cromwell, blown from q
train at Cleveland Furnace Company
plant; Mrs. Olive Phalen, nurse at
State Hospital, skull crushed by stone
blown from building; unidentified
woman blown into a pond at Wade
Park and drowned; Joseph vessla.
killed by falling smokestack at Cleve-
land Frog and Crossing Works; Louis
Petro, crushed by falling roof. died
at hospital; Joseph Slack, struck on
head by flying timber, died At hos
pital.
The fatally injured are: John ME-
balski, boy, injured by falling steepla
at st. Stanislaus Church; J. Rubysky.
crushed by flying timber; Louis Pee
May. injured by falling shed; Mrs. G.
J. Herig, fell in kettle of hot water
when roof collapsed; Charles Traut-
man, blown of Baltimore and Ohio
freight train and lost both legs, roll
ing under wheels; Charles Heller, six
teen years old, struck by lightning:,
David Young, body crushed when
| wind overturned his wagon; Harry
| Bender, head crushed, caught under
buggy overturned by wind: Fred Cruz
gel, committed suicide during the
height Of the storm because he was
/ afraid he was about to be killed. He
rushed into barn out of the rain
and drank carbolic acid.i He left q
note explaining his action.
| The storm came from the north
east, off the lake, the gale blowing at
sixty-six miles an hour. In its wake
followed sheet Of rain and hai1
which fell with terrific force.
In the binding rain pedestrians
were blown off their feet and hurled
against buildings, while in many
cases they were struck down by fly
ing bricks and timbers which filed
the air. Porches were stripped OF
houses, and, in some instances, roofs
were carried 800 feet. Skylights and
windows were crushed and many per-
sons were injured by flying glass.
Twelve school buildings we're dam
aged and many pupils had remarkable
escapes, but none was seriously hurt.
IL The largest single damage was
} done to st. Stanislaus Church, East
Sixty-fifth street and Forman avenue.
, The wind almost demolished the
structure. The loss is estimated at
$125,OO0.
At Cedar avenue and East 10Th
: street the plant of the Kinsman Ice
/ Cream Company and the Salvation
: Army Post Hall were wrecked by the
wind. A barn owned by Giles Broth
, ers was lifted in the air and deposited
. fifty feet in the rear of its former
site. It was twisted and the root
burst from it as it landed, but four
horses inside the barn were not hurt
Karl Grant, sixteen, son OF Mrs
Ella Grant Wilson. florist in South
Fourteenth street, was buried In the
debris of the greenhouses when
fifty-foot smokestack crashed through
the glass building. He was uncon
:, scious when removed, and suffered
serious injuries.
!; Four 50O-pound cornices Of Ziol
Lutheran Church, Branch avenue
and West Fourteenth street, were
> ripped from the building, one strik
: ing John Carter, a laborer. Twent.
: children at play in the churchyart
ran panicstricken into the pastor
house, but escaped injury. = 80.
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