The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
200 ARE KILLED
 IN OHIO STORM
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(Continued from Page One) than 40 others are dead in other parts of the city.
 Reports from various other sources placed the dead as high as 800.
 Troops Are Rushed
 About 50 members of the 112th enEi- neers corps of the Ohio National guard were rushed to Lofain in taxicabs upon receipt of Governor Donahey's orders They were in charge of Colonel Ralph R. White. A Nickel Plate train is ready to take the remainder as soon as they can be mobilized.
 Martial law has been declared in Lo- rain by Mayor George Hoffman. Po- lice deputized American Legion mem bers to cooperate with them and the National guard. Looting is said to be going on freely.
 Lorain is without water, lights, tele- phone and food and has little gas.
 The chief of police at Elyria, nine miles from Lorain, said that the latest reports available there at Il p. m., estimated the dead at Lorain at about 200 with hundreds injured.
 A huuUCN OA tue 1uJuEeu were DcInk brought to Elyria late tonight, the po- lice chief said.
 Elyria escaped the tornado entirely. No telephone or telegraph communica- tion with either Lorain or. Sandusky was available from Elyria.
 The American shipyards at Lorain are reported to have been raised. Two boats belonging to Henry Ford were reported to, have broken loose. .ty Steamers Reported Lost
 Reports here are that small passenger. steamers plying between Eandusky and Lake Eris island ports have been lost, sbut could not be confirmed late to- night. ~y ...|-e o :f-
 An automobile ferry plying between Sandusky and Marblehead broke loose from her moorings at Sandusky and struck a pier. Fifteen passengers on the ferry are, reported to have been drowned.
 Considerable damage along the shore line east of Cedar Point is reported. Some summer homes are said to have been blown down and several persons killed.
 The City of Erie, an excursion steam CT, reached here tonight from Cedar Point, near Sandusky, undamaged. Cap tain Edwin S. Hickel said the storm brought the heaviest display of light ming he had ever seen in years. The wind was extraordinarily heavy at Ce- dar Point, he said, but there was little damage there.
 Relief Train Sent
 The first relief train sent from here | N.5 East Lorain late tonight, but could not proceed to Lorain because of the bad condition of the tracks, the Nickel Plate dispatcher announced. A second Nickel Plate train is due at Lorain at II p. m. The first relief train made no report of the conditions at Lorain.
 Reports received over crippled rail road wires from Sandusky late tonight state that between 50 and 70 persons were killed or drowned there late to- day when a tornado struck that v1s cinity. The Sandusky water works and several large buildings along the lake front were blown down.
 Rain continued to fall in Loratn for several hours. ts
 Collapse Confirmed
 Confirmation of the collapse of the theatre and washout of the Black river bridge at Lorain was brought to Cleve- land by A. Downer, conductor on the Lake Shore electric railway, the first eyewitness of the disaster to reach this city. Many women and children were killed, motorists told him.
 Practically every house on Broad way, the main east and west street, was blown down, Downer reported, and au- tomobiles were picked up and over turned on the sidewalks.
 Nickel Plate trainmen reported that all the government houses in South Lorain, north of the railroad tracks, had been blown down;
 Two men were killed here and thou sands of dollars worth of property dam aged. Property damage at Akron was estimated to total more than $1, ,000, GOO.
 One of the first eyewitness stories of the tornado to reach Cleveland was brought back by l.. F. Forster of Bay Village,
 Surveys Devastated Area
 He was in Lorain within a few minutes after the tornado struck and he walked over several blocks of the devastated area, saw unroofed build ings, fallen trees and telephone poles, heard screams of some of the injured and afterwards saw refugees fleeing the city.
 "My wife and I and a party of friends were driving toward Lorain, !" he said. 1t must have been about 80 o'clock when the storm struck. We were about three or four miles east of the city, and a heavy rain was falling.
 At gasoline station we met an-