Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-03-22
STORM Sweeps III
Twenty s TATEs|
West and Middle West Suf-
fer Greatly From Ele-
ments Yesterday.
ONE HUNDRED KILLED.
Six Hundred Injured and Property
Loss Estimated at Five Million Dol
lars.

Washington, March 22.-Weathel
Bureau reports today show the great
western storm of yesterday and fast
night is raging thu ough the ST. Law.
renee Valley on its way to sea, leaving
behind a long swath of death and de,
struction.
While returns from some of the
stricken sections were still vague ii
was estimated today tina; the death
list would total near 10 the hundred
mark and the property damage reach
into the millions.
Telegraph and telephone service
were crippled in wide sections of the
country through which the great
storm swept, making the official re-
ports very slow.
Buffalo, N. Y, March 22.-The big
storm from the west ragged over the
lake and out St. Lawrence river way
during most of the night and today
found the city telephone and telegraph
service crippled; many houses stripped
of their roofs, and hall finished build
ings demolished. Az times the wind
exceeded IS miles an hour.
Water in the inner narbor rose five
feet under the impact of the wind
from the other side of the lake. The
winter fleet, with immense cargoes Of
grain was threatened with destruction
but rode through the storm safely.
Fire tugs rescued a dozen fishermen
from ice foes in the lake.
Reports from other towns in west
ern New York today indicate heavy
damages. Niagara Fails and Tonaw
anda were as heavily hit as Buffalo.
Cleveland, o. March 22.-SiX dead,
"a score missing or unaccounted for,
many injured and property damage
estimated at more than S2,000,000 is
the summary today Of the eighty mile
gale that swept over Ohio yesterday.
Tiffin and Seneca counties suffered
most.
Three men are believed to have per-
'ished in the lake near Sandusky.
They were seen to leSve the harbor in
a small boat early in the 'nitrning. A
few hours Tier the overturned boat
was discovered, pounding on t,he
rocks. No trace of the men mas been
found.
Chicago, March 22.-The toll of
dead in the storm that swept twenty
states of the west and middlewes!:
yesterday probably will reach 100.
Six hundred were injured and prop
arty loss aggregating at least S5,000,-
900 done.
Partially restored communication
from towns in the south today brought
reports of terrible destruction by tor
nadoes. The wire damages has been
so great that it probably will be seve-
raj days before the exact number of
dead is known.
A cold wave followed the storm and
zero temperature was reported today
from western states.
Detroit, Mich, March 22.-Accurate
estimates of the havoc wrought by
Yesterdays wind storm in Michigan
the worst in the forty-two years his
tory of the Weather Bureau in the
state-were still impossible today
Many cities and sections of the stajtt
were still impossible today. Many
cities and sections of the state still
unreported because of the prostratior
of telephone and telegraph wires, i
was known that the property loss viii
run into millions of dollars. 1t i:
also known that one person wa:
Killed, two tataily injured anu ANU
one hundred others hurt.
A drop of temperature over. nigh
caused great suffering among tn
hundreds of persons made homeless
by the storm.
In Detroit conservative estimate
of property damage today placed tn
loss to crops and orchards in southern
nation from state points indicates tha
this figure will be increased by a
least one million when the total prop
erty destruction in the state IS known
In addition it is estimated that tn
! loss to crops an dorchards n souther-
Michigan will exceed THE million dolla