The Washington herald., 1909-04-22

Cleveland. Ohio. April n--In a tornado
which struck Cleveland al 12.s3 O'Clock
to-day and lasted only five minutes. from
Eve to a score Or persons were killed.
another seore fatally injured. and hun
dred hurt. while property damage esti-
mated at S500eo0 was caused
The death list is nor completed, owing
to the fact that the storm swept the en-
tire city. leaving victims in its wake in
all quarters
Tie storm broke at p.Ss with hardly a
minutes warning. and 50 terrific was the
wind which accompanied the driving rain
and hail that roofs were blown scores OF
feet. houses and barns and even more
sturdily constructed structures were de-
nolished. telephone and telegraph poles
were snapped OF. and wires we're blown
across streets in parts OF the city
Church SteePIe Kills Youth.
\ boy. Med Niebalski. vas killed by
the topping over OF the steeDle OF St
Stanislaus Church in Todd street
Jasper Cromwell was blown from q
crane in the Cleveland furnace. meeting
death in his fal
The roofs were blown from the main
building OF the Case school Of Applied
Science and AdeIbert College.
Another workman in the Cleveland FUR
mace. as yet unidentified. was killed under
falling JimbeTs-
An unidentified man. whose last name
IS believed 10 be Bautman. was blown
from train in the Baltimore and Ohio
yards and was killed under another train.
Mrs. Olive Phelan. an attendant in the
Newburg State Hospital, vas hit Oh the
head by a stone blown from q chimney
and her skull was crushed
\ bog, bit BY live wire dangling in
Detroit avenue. died in St Johns Hos
pitaL and q csddie at the Euclid Club
golf course was crushed in falling au-
tomobiIe barn. and suffered injuries from
which be died
Sixty Injured in One Plant.
The roof Of the Cooperative Stove
Company's plant in Central avenue was
lifted high in the air and hurled ffty
feet on the roof OF fhe Weltman-Seave--
Morgan Engineering Company's plant,
.demolshing the roof OF that plant and
wrecking its wall Sixty workmen IN TIA
latter plant were injured by falling tim
beCs and glass.
The Standard Tool Company's biz plant
near by was partially wrecked. ITS roof
being IN ruins and part Of its walls
coH5p 5psirg. Several employees were IN
jured
At Cedar avenue and East 10Th street
the plant Of the Kinsman Ice Cream
Company and the Salvation Army post
han were wrecked by the wind \ young
woman was blown into Wade Park and
drowned
Just in the rear Of the ice cream fac
tory the barn Of Giles Bros. was lifted
in the air and deposited 6fty feet in the
rear Of It's former site. X was twisted
and the rOof burst from il as IL landed.
but four horses inside the barn were not
harmed. Their weight held the flooring
Of their stalls. and they stood too sur
prised TO rear even. unprotected from the
storm when the barns settled.
Buried Under SnoISestack.
Earl Grant. sixteen years OF age. son OF
Mrs. Ella Grant. florist. was buried IN
the debris Of the greenhouse when a
forty-foot smokestack crushed through
the glass building He was unconscious
when removed and suffered severe in
irIries-
-Four 5o0-pound cornices OF the Zion
Lutheran Church were stripped from the
building. one striking John Carter. a
sszcc.er. Twenty children at play in The
chUrchyarG ran panic stricken into the
pastors house and escaped injury
Two blocks from the church, the roof
and front siding OF the second floor. OF
7. S Claymont's home were torn or.
Otherwise. the house escaped injury By a
freak OF the storm
The storm swept Northern Ohio. doing
property damage in Elyria, Wellington.
New London. Geneva. Ashtabula. and
other cities.
In Ashtabula. r T Woodwork. OF Ply
mouth. was killed in the collapse Of a
church shed in which he took refuge
A Chinese laundryman in Wellington was
blown head over heels through his shop
and out Of the rear door. suffering a
broken leg.