The Detroit times., 1909-04-08
Loss OF LIFE IN
STORM MAY Be 20
This Is Estimate As Result Of Gale
Tuesday Night and Yesterday
Property Loss 81, 100000.

CLEVELAND. Ohio. April S.-When
the last corner of the country swept
by the wind storm of the past as hours
is heard from the loss OF life will
probably exceed score and the prop
erty loss million.
These winds were the result OF the
unreasonable warm wave OF the first
Of the week which today is chased into
the Atlantic ocean by spell Of cold
weather. In places they reached
velocity OF 20 miles an hour and ali
the states east OF the Mississippi ex-
cepting the southern Atlantic coast
were affected.
The storms worst damage occurred
in the extreme southern and northern
portion OF this territory. Mississippi.
now that the toll Is all in. reports ten
dead and twenty injured. In Michigan
eight dead from various causes. all
due. however, 10 the high winds.
Lake Erie, the center OF the dis
trrbance yesterday. has thus FAR no
shipwreck 10 add to the tale of disas-
ter Three vessels were thought lost
on its storm-whipped waters last night.
but this morning II was found that
all had reached port. The tug Floss.
last OF the trio. was reported safe at
Fairport today. The barge Kelly.
swept from her moorings at Kelly ISL
and yesterday morning with four men
and woman aboard, was caught by
tug last night and at great risk tow
ed safely to port. The sand sucker
Mary H., in distress of Kelly's island
yesterday with nine men, reached
Sandusky during the night without a
mishap.
In London. Ont. six persons were
! injured. one fatally, when a tall chin
rey crashed through the roof of the
Aberdeen public school. imprisoning
800 pupils and teachers. The fremen
rescued the children with ladders.
The gale struck New York late Aast
right at a speed OF 60 miles an hour,
creating havoc among the frame struc-
lures of the suburbs and sending
small craft scurrying TO shelter in the
harbor.
ROCHESTER, n. Y, April S.-A
Observation-Disclosures gale which RAJ
ed all night caused the death Of one
person, the fatal injury OF another.
property loss of thousands OF dollars.
put telephone and electric light
by tanning a $4,000 blaze in a luul-
her yard to proportions that threat
ened to escape the control of the de-
partment.
John Veith. brakeman. was blown
from the root OF car and died OF a
fractured skull. A ten-year-old girl IS
dying In the hospital from being
struck by a brick blown from a chin
ney.
Fire OF unknown origin started In a
shed OF the Holster Company's yard
and swept through the freight yards
OF the New York Central. igniting car
after car until at one time half hun
| dred cars were on fire.
| BUFFALO. ~. Y, April S.-One man
killed. nine persons injured and heavy
damage 10 property resulted from the
terrific wind storm that swept over
Buffalo and vicinity last night and ear
| ly today. At times the wind reached
velocity OF "a miles an hour, wreck
ing shipping, crippling wires and top
ping over chimneys, trees and frame
buildings.
VIM. Fagel. aged 40. was crushed
TO death when a wagon In which he
was riding was overturned by the
wind
The damage to property In Buffalo
alone will amount to thousands. Two
great lake freighters were blown from
their moorings and went aground.
They were the j. j. s. Brown and w.
Hi Truesdals.