Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-17
MANY KILLED
IN TORNADO

GAINESVILLE, O., June 17.-Witt
the walls Of his beloved church crush
ing about him, two of his congrega-
ton dying. twenty injured and the
others trampling one another In a
panic flight yesterday, Rev. Father
A. r. Roach heroically led the living
to safety.
Then, returning to the ruins, he
knelt by one of the dying men. ad-
ministered the last sacrament, dar-
ing death with a prayer upon his
lips.
Five hundred persons were attend
Ing the morning service in the Church
of st. Thomas, when a tornado, snap
ping out Of the southwest like a
giant whip-lash, cut a welt of wreck
age through the centre of the city.
The high steeple of the church caught
the full force of the twisting wind
and went to pieces, crashing down
upon the roof and through h roof
upon the worshipers.
WINCHESTER, Ind, June H.
While trying to release his fatner
from the fatal grip of a 3OO-volt wire
Robert Addington, 5-year-old son OF
Charles Arlington, was hurled hfty
feet and fatally injured, after a de
structive wind-storm had leveled sew
eral houses In this city and vicinity
The elder Addington met death trying
to remove the wire from a number oil
oil tanks, which he feared would be
ignited.
The hearse of William e. Baker, al
undertaken on the way to a funeral
was thrown on top of a rail fence by
the storm. Baker and his driver
Omer Thornburg, were seriously hurt
but the horses escaped.
ELYRIA, o., June ia ~cloudburs'
| struck Elyria and surrounding coun'
try late last night. causing damage u
buildings, growing crops and orcharo
estimated at $4,000 No lives were
lost.
KANSAS CITY, June 17.-Fifteer
are known to be dead, and many in
| jured in Bates county, Missouri
where a tornado moved down gian
trees and destroyed all homes in Its
path.
The tornado dipped to earth neal
Lacygne, Kan, and ended five mile'
northeast of Drexel, Mo-, a distance
of fifty miles.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. June II
Between thirty and forty persons
were fatally injured in a cyclone
which swept over the Usage Indiar
Reservation, according to advices re
ceived here yesterday. The cyclone
was also attended with much greater
property loss than the preceding
nights meagre reports indicated.
The town of Nelagony was com
pletely swept away. All the injured
were taken to Pawhuska.
COLUMBUS. O., June 17,-An In
termittent series of tornado storms
yesterday played havoc in Ohio. de
%vastating several villages, killini
three persons, so far as meagre re
ports show; injuring between fifty
and seventy-1ve and doing propert!
damage which will total high into tn
millions. Columbus was visited by tn
storm and, despite the fact that II
was not in It's direct path, two per.
sons were injured and much property
was demolished.
worthington. fourteen miles north
and Plain City and Kile. twenty mile'
northwest of Columbus, suffered
heavy losses. A farmer near Worth
ington was killed. Scores Of resi-
dences. business blocks and othel
buildings were entirely demolished il
Plain City and Kile. ,
WASHINGTON, June IA heav.
thunder storm, accompanied witt
electricity swept over Washington an
contiguous territory last night, dc
ing great damage. Many houses wer'
unroofed and railroad and interurbal
service was at a complete standstill
Trees were blown down by the score
and both telegraph and telephon
communication were completely pu
out of business. No deaths as a re
suit of the storm have as yet bee
reported.