Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-03-28
MANY KILLED IN STORM
OTHERS INJURED BY CYcLoNIc
WIND THAT SWEEPS STATES.
Total Loss to Crops and Property
in Numerous Sections Can be Ex-
pressed Only In Millions.

Cleveland, O.-More than 80 per-
sons are known to have been killed
by the severe windstorms that swept
through the southern states, the Ohio
valley and parts of the middle west
Thursday night and Friday. The
greatest loss of life was in the south
Everywhere property damage mounts
into thousands. The total loss to
crops and property generally can be
expressed only in millions.
Most of the dead were killed by
flying debris. So far as meager re-
ports coming over the crippled wires
indicate, the storm at every point was
of cyclonic violence. Buildings were
torn to bits and scattered before the
storm. Those luckless enough to be
in the way of flying timbers and
bricks were left dead or injured.
Blazing a regular and semicircular
trail, the storm, which at points
gained hurricane force, struck the gulf
states of the south and swung north
ward and eastward over Louisiana,
Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Mis-
souri,, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois,
Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and New
York
Alabama sends the worst story of
death. The latest report from the vii
lage of Lower Peachtree, in that
state, is that 29 persons were killed
and many more hurt. Thomasville,
Ala, is said to have suffered 2S killed.
The village is reported as practically
wiped out. In Fulton, Ala, so persons
are reported injured.
But the south was not the only re-
gion to suffer. Two died in Indiana.
One was man killed by a falling
wall at Frankfort and another by
falling sign at Lafayette. Detroit re-
ports one dead and there are many
stories of injuries throughout Michi-
gan. Ohio's toll is three dead, with
the possibility that others may be
found dead when the ruins of, the
county infirmary at Tffin are cleared
away.
Twenty-four men were rescued from
floating ice foes in the outer harbor
of Buffalo.
Two students at the Syracuse Uni
versity Forestry school were drowned
when their canoe was overturned in
Cuba lake near Buffalo by the gale.
Detroit reports one death due to
the storm, and meager dispatches
from Michigan indicate there have
been many injuries.
In Chicago many trolley lines were
tied up. During the worst Of the
storm in the morning street traffic
was suspended. The sidewalks were
covered with fallen branches unable
to sustain their loads of ice. A half
dozen persons were reported serious
ly injured as a direct result of the
storm. Some of them will die.
Indiana, besides her two dead and
many injured, suffered loss of prob
ably million dollars. Trees blown
across trolley wires delayed the in
terurban cars, and washouts on the
steam lines in the southern part of
the state made travel uncertain.
Western Pennsylvania also suffered.
At East Pittsburgh a house was
wrecked by the wind and three per-
sons seriously hurt. In Mount Pleas
ant, Pa, windows were blown in, the
steeple of church toppled over and
telegraph and telephone wires pros
trated. At Latrobe, Pa, horse and
wagon were picked up by the gale
and blown across the street. Dam
age will amount to many thousands
of dollars.