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THREE DEAD IN
PEIILA, STORMS
Woman, Girl and Baby Victims
Of Terrific Gale.
WIND BLEW 60 MILES HOUR
Houses Were Unroofed, Parks and
Public Squares Uttered With Trees
and Hundreds of Cellars Flooded.


Philadelphia. Aug. IA girl and a
young woman and baby are dead,
scores are hurt, families are living in
borrowed homes, the parks and public
square and streets are Uttered with
fallen trees, telegraph and telephone
poles are down, cellars are flooded
this sa partial toll of one of the
worst storms that ever swept through
Philadelphia and vicinity.
A series Of three storms in quick
succession and continuing intermit-
tently caused havoc with life and
property. The single relieving feature
was the lowering of a temperature
that of itself had caused no mean suf-
fering
The dead are: Agnes Murphy, nine
teen years old, of 1870 North Newkirk
street; Lottie .Germier, forty years
old, Of 2z47 Eddington street; James
McNamee, infant, Of 260S Salmon
street.
Miss Murphy was killed by tree.
which fell at the very beginning of the
storm. 1t happened near the city line
in Fairmount park Miss Murphy was
just in the act of swapping a land
scape picture with a small kodak she
carried. She was dead when carried
into St Timothy's hospital.
Miss Germier came to her death by
drowning. With Samuel Kirkshaw, of
Chester, and James Richardson, She
was rowing in the Delaware river.
When the storm broke quick attempt
was made for shore, but, the haste
caused the overturning of the boat,
and she was drowned. The men got to
shore all right and were placed under
arrest.
An eleven-months-old baby, James,
son of Patrick McNamee, 260S Salmon
street, was killed by falling tree
during the wind storm prior to he rain
in Our Mother of Sorrows cemetery.
The child was with its father and
seven-year-old brother, Patrick, Jr.,
when the accident happened. Both the
brother and father were injured by
the falling tree and were treated at
the West Philadelphia Homeopathic
hospital.
The storm played freaks all over the
city and lightning literally played ten
pins with trees. Traffic was every5
T rainfall in Manaynnk anu hoAhUfolfsn
that travelling automobiles were stali-
ed because the water rose above the
| floor of the machines and stopped he
| machinery. Z.
t1,n CT
was at it's worst-the velocity OF the
wind was at the rate of sixty miles an
hour. The maximum was rated forty
eight miles an hour.
Thirty-five persons were injured by
| the falling OF the roof of the Georges
Hill picnic pavilion shortly after the
| storm started More than 200 persons
| were crowded into the small space,
| which afforded the only place of she[
tter in that section of the park whSn
a gust of wind blew all the braces
| from under the roof. The conical shape
| of the roof was the only thing that
saved many from being killed and
more injured, according to those who
escaped unhurt.
When the roof fell those in the CEN
ter were imprisoned under the huge
tent shape covering, but were unhurt.
Two serious eases of injury are those
of Miss Anna Gratz, of 1888 Moore
| street, and Hugh Gallagher, of 1852
| Wood street. Miss Gratz was at
Woodside park and was struck by a
| falling tree. Both of her legs were
| broken Gallagher was working on the
roof of his home and toppled over
when the wind hurled him from be-
hind. He struck on his head and may
| die.
The damage of the storm was gen.
eral. A great part of it was caused by
the trees that were uprooted. Fair
mount park was as desolate as it was
| devastated five minutes after the
storm begin. Pavilions were sought,
| and unfortunately sometimes, for the
roofs were no more stable than On
| some of the houses In Logan, Rltten-
| house, Washington and independence
SQUARES trees of scores of years were
| uprooted. :.
More than twenty-five trees were
blown down in Our Mother of Sorrows
cemetery, at Fortyeighth street and
| Cirard avenue The neighborhood at
Forty-second street and Woodland ave-
nue. was badly cut up by lowered trees
and poles.
At Broad street station flag pole
| blew down, and at Broad and F'ilbert
streets part of small tower blew
down. Several windows on the Juni-
| per street side of Wanamaker's store