Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-08
MANY KILLED
BY A TORNADO
High Winds Strike Ohio,
Indiana and Other States
Last Night
DAMAGE TO PROPERTY
Railroad Passenger Cars Blown From
Track and Down Embankment--
Loss VIII Reach S1,OOO,0OO.

J Cincinnati, July S.-Passenger
| coming to Cincinnati today on
Louisville and Nashville train fror
Louisville, said the storm in Louis
Vile did less property damage tina
earlier reports indicated and SC ia
as they knew nobody was killed o
seriously injured.
They said Hendersonville, Ky, &C
cording to rumors in Louisville, wa
struck by two cyclones and ther
was considerable damage.
Cincinnati, July S.-Forty report
ed dead, more than score known t
be missing, scores injured, man,
buried under the ruins of. building
and in the hulks of Steamboats, tina
sank-that is the toll Of the tornado
that swept Cincinnati last night.
The tornado destroyed hundreds O
plate glass store windows and outsld
showcases.
1t ripped the heaviest signs from
their fastenings.
1t turned over automobiles stand
ing on the street.
It uprooted hundreds of trees.
1t is the greatest disaster that ha
ever befallen Cincinnati.
Four coaches Of Pennsylvani;
railroad passenger train were blown
from the track and rolled down ;
steep embanl;meNt at Beechrnnnt
Linwood, a suburb.
Three bodies were taken from tn
crushed coaches and sixteen scriousl.
injured were rushed to hospitals.
Police and fire departments hav,
been so busy digging for the deac
md injured that no accurate coun
has yet been made of financial loss
1t is thought it will come close t
$1,OOO,OOO.
Dozens Of buildings were blowl
down. Two of them, three block
apart, were Inhabited by members o
the same family, most of the mem
bers of which are now thought t
I've dead.
Cleveland, Ohio, July s-Twelv
persons are dead and more than 4
dozen are buried in the wreckage 0
buildings at Cincinnati, following
tornado late yesterday.
Eight buildings in the city ar
known to be destroyed and it is be
lieved that the life and property los
in small towns surrounding Cincir
natl is great.
Vincennes. Ind. July S-Two per
sons were killed and property est
mated at S5O0,OOO was destroyed b
a terrific cyclone at Lawrencevil!e
Ill.,, late yesterday. Fifty houses wer
shattered by. the twister. and TIL
village is practically in ruins.
Terre Haute,. July S-Lawrence
vile, ILL.,, so miles south of Terr
Haute, was visited by terrific winG
storm late yesterday. Two person
are reported to have been killed an
more than 80 houses were destroye
1t is estimated the damage will e,
ceed half a million dollars4.
Rock Island H., July S-A clout
burst here last night flooded base
ments in the business section an
in some instances submerged frs
floors. Considerable damage was dor
to merchandise. and the property los
was heavy.
! st. Louis Mo-, July S-Reports tn;
st. Peters. Mo-, 80 miles north {
here was razed by tornado toda
and that several score persons wel
! killed reached here last night, b1
verifcatior was impossible at
O'Clock, as every telephone and tel
graph wire into the town was dowI
4 tornado struck st. Charles, NJ
% miles northwest of here at s.:
O'Clock in the afternoon. i was =
ported that the storm razed di
trict Is blocks long and IA bloc
, wide, that two large churches we
destroyed and that the Waba
bridge across the Missouri River W
; damaged.
AS far as known no lives we