Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-13

DALY Elm N EIDE
iwho was not injured says Mr.. Schmidt
was blown through the barn door. His
body was found in the hay. The boy
was buried in the debris and receiv-
| ed internal Injuries. Mrs Elizabeth
/ Proede a bride of Il few months. was
instantly killed when the house was
carried away. Her husband, standing
in the barn door, saw her killed. He
found her body after the tornado had
passed. The Proedes lived near Or
Ifordville. Leo Ientz was blown from
a new barn he was helping to build.
Near Milton there was one death.
Helen Austin, five years old, daughter
of Alfred Austin. Mrs. Austin was Sc
riously injured Her sister. Miss Eliz-
labeth Hume. was also badly hurt.
Helen's sister Florence, was badly
bruised and her collar bone was brok-
len. Austin was in the field. When
he reached home, he found nothing but
sticks and stones of what was once a
| fine country home.
Many freakish things were done by
| the tornado. At the Douglas farm. a
about the trunk where it hung, the
rim of one hind wheel encircling the
front axle. AT .he home of William
Little u six by six timber was driv-
Ell through a COW. At the Schmidt
farm a hog was cut in two by piow,
At this same place cook stove was
carried to an adjoining field, where 1t
was deposited right side up, apparent
ly unchanged.
Springfield, Ills, Nov. 12.-Two were
killed and several seriously injured by
a storm which struck eastern Him
OILS, last night, tearing away telegraph
and telephone wires and leaving the
city isolated until tonight.
New Orleans. Nov 12-The Southwest
ern cotton belt is experiencing the cold
est weather for this season of the yea1
i'm many years Meagre reports show
that the wind blew at the rate of 40 to
70 miles an hour and brought sudden
drops of from 20 to 60 degrees in tenn
nerature. Still colder weather, with con-
tinued strong winds. is toreeasted for to
night and early tomorrow. In the sugar
and trucking region of Texas and Louisl-
ana temperatures are scheduled to drop
from four to eight degrees below freez-
ing.
Pensacola. Fla, Nov. 12.-Pensacola
and western Florida were visited by
cold nor-wester this morning, and it is
believed there has been considerable
damage on the islands and along the
coast The wind blew at the rate of APP
proximately 20 miles an hour and drop
of 20 degrees in temperature occurred
within few minutes. Frost is predicted
the section. tonight
Buffalo. n Y, Nov. 12.-The first blast
of winter struck here, today. ushered in
by 60-miles-an-hour gale and a drop Of
40 degrees in temperature The storm :
trail was marked by shattered plate
glass windows, a stranded lake freighter
and demoralized street ear service. No
fatalities occurred in the city, but at
Kennedy. Alonzo Dewey and his wife,
blinded by the storm, drove in front of
an Erie passenger train and We're killed
About u o'clock the wind tore down
the transmission cables of the Niagara
Falls Power Co. The lines on both sides
of the river were Frustrated, cutting off
all source of power for street car service
here.
Maiden, Mass. Nov. 12.-Serious
damage resulted from a severe wind
and rain storm which struck Maiden
late today. Many wires We're blown
down and Thomas Demase of Davis
street had a narrow escape when his
horse stepped on a live wire and was
killed. The electric light company has
its full force of men out patrolling the
streets in automobiles looking for fall
en- wires.
Early, this evening. the heavy rain
started and before midnight the mer-
curry had dropped many degrees.
Washington. Nov. 12.-The cold wave
reached Washington, tonight, and the
Thermometer dropped almost 40 de-
grees. The temperature at 8 o'clock
was 81 with the mercury still going
down. The cold was made intense bS
wind which in the early evening
blew 40 miles an hour uprooting small
trees and strewing the streets with
branches of larger ones
Baton Rouge, La. Nov. 12.-The cold
wave of today did some damage to the
sugar cane crop in this section. The
cold north wind and the possibilities
Of freezing tonight. add to the situa-
ton. More than half of the sugar crop
Is still urgathered.
Washington, Nov. ia touch of
winter will be felt over practically the
whole country this week and there will
be many sudden changes in the wealth
er, according to the weekly forecast
issued by the weather bureau. tonight.
THE coming week." says the bulle-
itin, will be one of pronounced wealth
| er changes and low temperatures ov-
| er practically the entire country. The
| cold wave that nov covers the Mid
die West will advance rapidly east
ward and give the lowest temperatures
| of the season the first two days of the
week throughout the Eastern states.
] AN extensive disturbance now off
the North Pacific coast viii cross the
| Eastern states the latter part of the
week This disturbance will be Dre-