Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-07-09
Total Property Damage in
Cincinnati Alone Will
Reach $11,000,0O0
.fWO STEAMBOATS, GO
DOWN IN OHIO RIVER
No Street Cars Running and
City in Total Darkness
Again Last Night.

CINCINNATI, July S.-With TWEEN
~ y-two known dead, ten missing
ana property loss that will exceed
$l1,COOO0O, Cincinnati tonight is
making a valiant effort to recover
from probably the worst Wind and
rainstorm of its history.
At $50 o'clock last night the storm
broke. one-half hour later the city
and its suburbs Law in almost total
darkness. its telephone system para
lived, its street car service COM
plctely suspended, and its citizens
cropping to ascertain the toll the
storm had cXacted.
Two steamboats, had gore down in
the Ohio liver one having hit a
bridge pier, while the other was over
turned by the terrific force Of the
gale: probably a hundred houses were
leveled to the ground; q half dozen
lofty church spires we're toppled and
when the full extent Of the damage
was ascertained late today it was
found that few houses in the city had
escaped damage.
transportation Blocked.
The streets of the downtown dis
trict we're strcwn with electric signs
and plate glass windows, while in the
residence section and IN the suburbs
wagon ana automobile traffic was
made impossible by hundreds Of trees
uproOtcd and thrown across the thor
ughfarcs, Probably fifty houses
along the Ohio river were swept into
the stream aud floatcd away.
The search for bodies in the col
lapsed houses continues and the river
is being dragged and its surface
searched for the bodies of those who
are believed to have gone down on the
Sunkcn steamers.
The storm played many odd tricks.
Eleven people, all related are belived
to have been killed. The family OF
Louis Cohen and that of Meyer
Tcnnebaum, closely related but living
blocks away from each other, were
striCken--thrce of the Cohen family
and four of the Tennebaum family
being among the known dead. while
four other members, one Tennebaum
and three Cohens, are believed to be
buried in the ruins Of their homes.
Race Horses Killed
At Terrace park, a suburb, a special
train carrying race horses from
Iatonia to the eastern tracks was
wrecked. Had the train succeeded in
going / 80 Yards further II would have
run into deep cut shielded on both
sides by high walls of earth and prob
ably would not have been molcsted
by the storm. As II was, 10 thorough
bred horses were killed or injured so
that they later had to be DESTROYED.
three of their Carctakers were killed,
whila several jockeys were injured
Twenty-Five members Of the Sigma
Sigma sorority, in convention here,
were on an excursion on the steamer
Estelle The boat was Immediately
run ashore and tied up and it was
not until late today that the safety of
the party was ascertained
Six Members of Crew Missing.
The captain and 12 surviving mem
bers Of the crew Of the toWboat Con-
yoy, which hit a bridge pier and went
down, have given up all hope that
the remaining six members Of the
crew are alive. Six other members
OF the crew floated several miles
down the river on wreckage from
tho boat, but managed to land and
walk back to this city this afternoon.
The Kentucky side of the river was
hit as hard as was Cincinnati itself,
and IL has not recovered as quickly as
the metropolis. The street car com
pany has been asked to keep all Of
its power shut off for fear of bring
ing numerous dangling wires to life,
while the lighting system covers such
large area that it has been impos
sible to repair it and no hope for
lights until tomorrow is held out
The damage to Newport, Coving-
ton. Bellevue. Dayton, Fort Thomas,
4 ,t11 1IYH
on the Kentucky side, it is believed,
will almost equal the damage wrought
in this county.