New-York tribune., 1915-07-09
81 DIE In WEST;
CINCINNATI HURT
MOST BY STORM
Thirty Killed in Ohio
Damage Amounts to
Several Millions.
TORNADOES WRECK
TRAINS AND SHIPS
Eleven in One Family Dead
Nineteen Race Horses on
Way East Killed.

way Last NIliSO.
Cincinnati. July s.--With thirty known
tead. more than a score missing and
property loss that will exceed $1,000
600, Cincinnati tonight is making
valiant effort TO recover from probably
the worst wind and rain storm of its
history.
At $3.50 o'clock last night the storm
broke. A half hour later the city and
its suburbs lay in darkness. its tele-
phone system paralyzed, and its street
car service completely suspended.
Two steamboats, had gone down in
the Ohio River. One hit bridge pier,
while the other was overturned by the
terrific force Of the gale, hundred
houses were levelled TO the ground, a
half dozen church spires were toppled,
and when the full extent of the damage
was ascertained late to-day it was
found that few houses in the city had
escaped damage
The streets Of the downtown district
were strewn with electric signs and
plate glass windows, while in the resi-
dence section and in the suburbs even
wagon and automobile traffic was made
impossible by hundreds upon hundreds
OF trees uprooted and thrown across
the thoroughfares. Fifty club houses
along the Ohio River were swept into
the stream and foated away.
Tonight finds the city with its
street-car service practically normal
with the exception of the Kentucky car
lines, which are still out Of commits
sion. The telephone service is rapidlv
recovering from the blow. while the
city has done almost miraculous work
IN cleaning up the debris.
Eleven persons, ell related ara ~
Heved to have been killed. The families
OF Louis Cohen and Meyer Tenne-
baum' closely related, but living
block away from each other. were
stricken. Three Of the Cohen family
and four Of the Tennebaum family are
among the known DEAD. while one Ten.
nebaum and three Cohens are believed
TO be still buried in the ruins Of their
homes.
Special Train Is Wrecked.
At Terrace Park, a suburb. special
train carrying racehorses from Latonia
10 the Eastern tracks was wrecked. Had
the train succeeded IN going 15O yards
further il would have run into deep
cut shielded on both sides by high
walls Of earth, and would have probably
escaped. Nineteen thoroughbred horses
were killed, with three of their care
takers. Cornelius Hogan, thirty-eight
Years old, Of PSI East 13Sth Street,
New York City, sustained a fractured
right ankle
Among the racehorses killed were
Little Father, Fitzgerald, Blood Test.
Brick and Mortar, Margaret D., Bnps
Sister and White Wool. Blind Bag
gage, for whom the owner is said to
have recently refused an offer of $50
600, and Prince Hermis are missing.
Tonight the work Of searching foI
the dead in the collapsed houses goes
on, while the captain and the twelve
surviving members of the crew Of the
towboat Convoy, which hit a bridge
pier and went down, have given up all
hope that the remaining six members
of the crew are alive.
The Kentucky side Of the river was
hit as hard as was Cincinnati itself,
and it has not recovered as quickly
as the metropolis
St Louis. July 8.-Reports to-day
from the stormswept area Of Eastern
Missouri and Western Illinois left the
death roll at four Three persons who
were reported missing at s.. Charles,
Mo, the largest town in the path of
Wednesdays tornado were found later
10 be safe.
Dawn disclosed that the damage done
at ST. Charles had been OveIestimated.
While the tornado swept a section of
the city eighteen blocks long by nine
blocks wide, the damage was confined
largely to the uprooting Of trees.
indianapolis, July 8.-Three persons
are dead, more than fifty reported in
jured and property damaged to the ex-
tent Of $750,000 as a result of the
storm which swept central and south
ern Indiana and Illinois last night.
At Lawrenceville, Ill.,, a few miles
from Nincennes, Ind, Clara Riley.
seventeen years old, was crushed to
death when the Riley home was de-
molished. Her father was buried in
cover. A prisoner at the state penal
farm at Greencastle was struck by
lightning and killed An electrician
was killed while attempting TO repair
q wire at Martinsville.
Some sections of indianapolis were
flooded, and heavy damage to railroads,
trolley lines and telegraph and tele
phone systems is reported from many
parts of the state.
Columbus. Ohio, July s.-Central
Ohio was swept by torrential rains and
high winds last night and early to-day.
Great damage was done 10 property,
but so far as known no loss of life
occurred in this section.
Washington Courthouse was hardest
hit by the storm. The streets there
were mass Of wrecksge to-day.
Througout Fayette County growing
crops were levelled, while many miles
of fencing was torn away and country
residences and farm buildings un-
rooted.
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