Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-04-20
MANY TOWNS SWEPT
BY TERRIFIC STORM
Wabash, Ind, MassiIlon 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 in the
great lake region and the lower por-
ton of Canada Monday, Monday night
and early Tuesday.
The storm struck northern Missis-
sippi Monday night in tornado that
attained a velocity estimated at from
seventy-five 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 in Tennessee.
This tornado, passing north into Ten
nessee and Kentucky, caused heavy
damage to buildings, wrecking school
house at Buntyn, Tenn. and imperiling
the lives Of 300 children. Meager re-
ports as to fatalities come from these
sections, owing to the wrecking of tele-
graph wires, but several deaths are re-
ported, not verified.
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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 the
lives of 400 employees, killing one. At
Wabash. Ind, the havoc was wide
spread, the loss being estimated at from
100000 to 100000. Two dozen dwell
ings were demolished, while their in
mates fed for their lives. A woman,
with her children. was pinned under
the wreckage of her home. which
caught fire, ard 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 fami-
lies are homeless. Fifteen are injured.
two fatally, in Toledo.
Northern Indiana suffers.
In northern Indiana the storm late
Tuesday night killed one man at Al
bion. Two hundred houses were de-
0blOy GU III Slldll N1lidSCS.
At Cleveland the fishing tug George
Floyd with seven men aboard and the
sandsucker Mary II. with 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. desper-
ate struggle as result of fierce wind
storm which ragged on Lake Erie.
In Michigan boy was killed by the
flying roof of house at Brighton, two
the Detroit River, and three fishermen
were drowned by the capszing 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
ly injured in Detroit by flying debris.
At Jennings, Mich. three young men
were killed by being caught under a
wall that was blown down by the wind.
The damage to roofs, chimneys, plate
glass, etc, probably will reach $4,000
in Detroit.
Wisconsin Is Wind Swept.
A terrific wind storm swept Wiscon-
sin Wednesday. Many boats were re-
ported overdue at various ports along
Lake Michigan and at Milwaukee,
while the northern Michigan copper
country reports from five inches to two
and half feet of snow.
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ferer from the storm, incomplete and
unverified 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 entalled at New
London. Ont.
At Buffalo, y. Y, the gale reached
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
dredge was sunk. One man was
crushed to death by a falling cornice.
The wind reached a velocity of siSty
eight miles per hour in Pittsbrrg 1t is
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 1t was kept in and blew both
tent and airship away, demolishing