The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-03-25
Eleven States Suffer from Biz.
zard and High Winds
OVER 100 VICTIMS IN PATH
Millions In Property Destroyed In
Middle West-crops Ruined by
cycIonic Wind, Snow, sleet and
Hail from Texas Northward.


just as Spring was being ushered in,
swept east and northward, causing the
deaths of fully hundred persons, in
1uring hundreds of others, and damag-
ing property to the extent of millions
of dollars.
Extending through parts of Texas,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Ar.
kansas, Missouri, Kentucky and Ten
nessee, the storm crossed the Ohio
River and passed through Indiana,
Ohio, Pennsylvania and western New
York.
Definite advices have been received
accounting for at least sixty-nine per-
sons dead.
Reports from Alabama show the loss
of life was heaviest in that State. The
number Of dead there is definitely
placed at forty-five. The town of
Lower Peach Tree was wiped out.
Two are dead in Indiana, three in Ten
nessee, two in Ohio, two in New York,
one In Michigan, one in Louisiana, and
one in Texas.
Accompanying the death lists are
estimates of injured totaling more
than 200.
The property loss was heavy all
along the storms track. Besides de-
molishing or unroofing buildings and
telling trees, the high winds, rain,
hail and sleet did serious damage to
early crops. Estimates of loss by
damage to property of all sorts from
Indiana and Michigan alone total ST.
100000.
Not in many years has there been
such prostration of telegraph and
telephone service. Chicago was cut
off for hours from communication with
points east. Only by devious routes
was connection finally established.
Railroad traffic was seriously delayed
In many districts where wire COM
munication was crippled and washouts
occurred.
The wind attained record velocities
at some points. Detroit reported S8
miles an hour the Weather Bureaus
high record in that city.
In Tennessee probably twelve were
killed, two in Indiana, three in Ohio,
two in New York, one in Missouri, one
in Michigan, two in Louisiana, while
at least three were lost when their
fishing smacks were overturned in
Lake Erie.
A telegraph wire blockade, the like
of which the country has not known
in years. also resulted. All telegraphic
between New York
city and Chicago was absolutely nil.
Every one of the 200 trunk wires be-
tween the two cities were lost"
The storm visited Chicago in bliz-
zard form and the streets are covered
with ice, half a dozen persons being
seriously hurt. Street traffic was
practically suspended.
Western Pennsylvania suffered heav-
lily from the windstorm. At East Pitts
burgh house was wrecked and three
persons we're seriously hurt In
Mount Pleasant, Pa, windows were
blown in and the steeple of church |
toppled over. At Latrobe horse and |
wagon were picked up by the gale and |
blown across the street. Eastern and |
Central West Virginia were storm
swept with heavy property loss.
The Middle West felt the grip of a
one of the severest of the !
entire winter. The cold wave en-
veloped nearly all the States between |
the Rocky and Allegheny Mountains
and the great lakes and the Gulf of
Mexico. The freezing weather extends |
as far south as the Gulf of Mexico.
Many persons were injured in north
ern Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee |
and southeastern Missouri. In Missis-
sippi the storm was severe from Gre
NADIA to Water Valley.
Two persons were killed and sew
eral injured in Centraliana, Ind.
The wind reached a velocity of rs |
miles an hour.
At Salem, La, where five persons |
were killed and thirty injured, sixty
buildings were demolished.
At Hoxie, Ark, the Frisco railroad |
station was wrecked, the Van Noyz
eating house destroyed and a refriger-
ator car was blown on to the station |
platform.
Louis Erb, owner of a 1000 acre
apple and peach ranch at Cedar Gap,
Mo-, said that fruit was not hurt in
the great Ozark Mountain apple re-
gion. The storm in eastern Tennessee
and southwest Virginia unroofed
building and killed live stock.
A tornado swept Indiana doing
damage estimated at a million dollars.
Omar A. Vice, cab driver at Frank
tort, was crushed by falling roof, and
Henry Walters Lafayette was killed
by falling sign. Walters was on an
errand for his sick wife when killed.
The Methodist Church at Harmony
was wrecked and three churches at
Franklin were damaged.
Lightning struck the county jail, at
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