The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-28
owllng Wind Does Damage in PhlIa-
deIphia Where Many Build
lnss Are Wrecked by
Storm.
LOUIS IS SHAKEN
ale Blows All Day and Causes Panic
in Many Of the Schools Where
the Children Were
Frightened.

we're electrical storm, accompanied by
high wind which at times blew with
cyclonic force, swept over the north
ern section of this city shortly after
s o'clock last night, leaving destruc-
ton and death in it's wake.
Buildings were demolished. houses
unroofed and the New York division
of the Pennsylvania was placed out of
commission temporarily by the demol.
ition of its tower at Holmesburg, and
the station at Tacony cutting off all
telegraphic communication.
Tacony, where the greatest dam
age occurred, was cut off from the
rest Of the world Telegraphic. teIe,
phone and electric wires were blown
down and 1t was hours before the de.
tails of the catastrophe reached the
central section of the city where the
storm did not appear. The police sta.
tlon at Tacony was demolished. At
the Iacony station Of the Pennsyl-
Vanla railroad. an unidentified man
! was killed when portion of the
structure was blown away. Many
houses in this section were unroofed
Or completely demolished.
In the manufacturing section Of
kensington, in the northeast. toward
iaeony, several factories were de-
stoJed. trolley wires were blown
uown and houses unroofed. A corner
section Of the three story brick fac
Tory OF John Blood and Brothers, more
tnan 100 feet In width, was torn away.
me factory of the Enterprise Coop
eflng company, nearby, was struck by
lightning and set on fire.
In fashionable Germantown the
cupoia of st. Mitchaels church was
piown off and several buildings were
wrecked. Telegraph and telephone
communication was destroyed.
At St. Louis.
81. LOUIS, March 2S.-A gale
which blew forty-six miles an hour at
us speediest swept st. Louis vester-
uay and did much minor damage by
wfecklng signs, fences, wires, shut
'ers, windows and smokestacks in the
'i'y ana its suburbs. The gale kept
up with remarkable intensity from /
= III. Sunday to late yesterday after
noon, when it began to subside. and
" o'clock last night had slowed
uowh to ten-mile-an-hour breeze Not
q urop OF rain fell during the storm.
a dfop in temperature accompanied
'ne storm, but it stopped short of a
0oid wave. With temperature last
nisht above 40, the weather bureau
saw no indications of o killing frost
snich would do serious damage to
! .'''il and crops in the region around
p. o.. Louis. The lowest temperature in
~ Louis Yesterday was 80 degrees at
. O. m, and the highest was, so de-
siees at 5 p. M The blow was the
sesefest In ST. Louis for several
Fears.
a scare which approached a panic
j., red at the City Industrial school,
sifslnla avenue and Usage street,
.a'iy Yesterday morning, when the
sinu toppled over 50 feet of board
ehce II feet high. The noise awaken
" the boys and girls and there was
Huch excitement in the dormitories
'ohcemen were stationed at the gap
! lhe fence to guard against boys
Aahing their escape until the break
vas repaired.
/
Women Escape Glass Rain.
big lunch-hour crowd witnessed
ue wrecking of the plate-glass front
the David p. Leahy House and
.o'he Company at Eighth and Pine
.feets, about p. m. Miss Ella
,oViske and Mrs. Minnie Boundry OF
.VS Theodosia avenue were shower
: with broken glass as the big panes
napped, but were not injured. AT in
s'sa's for several minutes panes in
ie 'front.' broke. Policemen guarded
y corner all afternoon to keep ped
trans out of the danger zone,
lhe wind did good turn for the
one suburb of Midland, on the
feVe Occur line. by keeping fire
ON spreading from the Midland hall !