The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-28
PHIL [ADE[PH|A HAS SEVERE WIND STORM Freight Cars and Tomb
 Stones Missing TRAFFIC IS STOPPED All Wires Are Put Out of Commission and One Man Is Reported
 Dead-Oil Derricks
 Destroyed

I Philadelphia, March 27-A severe cleo trical storm accompanied by high wino which at times blew with cyclonic force 1 swept over the northern section Of this | city shortly after o'clock tonight, leav- | ing destruction and death in its wake Buildings were demolished, houses un- | roofed and the New York division oi the Pennsylvania railroad was placed out of commission temporarily by the | demolition of it's tower at Holmesburg and station at Tacony, cutting off all | teleeraphic communication.
 Tacony, the section where the great est damage occurred, was completely shut off from the rest of the city. Tele- graph. telephone and trolley wires were blown to the ground and it's was hours before the details of the catastrophe had l reached the central section of the city
 where the storm did not appear The police station at Tacony was de- | molished The evening squad of police
 men was preparing to leave for their | beats when the roof of the building was blown off and every window broken by sudden burst of wind At the Ia cony station of the Pennsylvania rail- TCaQ an ull1uentll1tQ Illdn WdS kllle0 when a portion of the structure was
 blown away Many houses in this sec tion were unroofed or demolished. In the manufacturing section of Ken
 sington, in the northeast, toward Ia
 cony, several factories were destroyed trolley wires were blown down and roofs of houses hurled to the center of the streets. A corner section of a g.
 story brick factory, more than loo feet ,,l,
 valuable machinery. Three hundred and
 fifty men who were employed here, it is said will be out of work for at least two weeks
 In the fashionable section of German town the storm also caused havoc. Telegraph and telephone communica- ton was also destroyed but up to late hour no lives have been reported lost in this section. So completely was the Pennsylvania railroad line to New York tied up that no trains were sent over the New York division from this city early tonight and no tickets to Philadelphia were obtainable at the New York end of the line.
 Many mills were unroofed by the storm in Manyunk in the northwest sec
 tion of the city and a wall of the surgi- cal department of St. Timothy's hospital at Peterborough was crushed in The pa-
 
 bris but were rescued without having sustained serious injuries.
 Reports from points throughout the state show that many towns in the southeastern section were visited by the heavy wind and in some instances by unusually large hail stones.
 New York. March 27-Pennsylvania railroad officials here reported tonight that ctn Wnipb hrnkp delphia also had struck the station at Tu1ytown, Pa. 60 miles from New York. The extent of the damage could not be learned but 1t was reported that a man had been killed and that freight cars had been lifted from the tracks.
 The railroad declined to accept pas sengers for Philadelphia on the express
 leaving here at S:04 tonight. Through trains from the west were being operat- ed over cut-offs
 The tail end of the storm whsked across upper Manhattan with a spec tacular electrical effect and a down. rour of hail. --i.,
 Washington, Pa, March 27-A blizzard swept Washington county today and to- night the mercury dropped 30 degrees in eight hours. Sixty oil derricks at Mcdonald were eveled, causing a loss of s25,0O0. At Waynesburg tombstones were picked up by the wind and carried from a cemetery into road hundred
 feet away.