Evening star., 1924-06-29
1000 Is Injured Toll-Property
Damage Is Millions-Cleve-
land and Akron Suffer.
GOVERNOR ORDERS TROOPS OUT:
LOOTING REPORTED IN PROGRESS
Eyewitness Tells of Women and Children
Dying-Refugees Fleeing, Fill
Roads-Aid Rushed.

B.
Sweeping sixty along shore OF Lake Erie between
Cleveland and Sandusk, Ohio tornado late yesterday took
toll of life estimated from ESQ $780, and injured from 500
1000 Property damage will total millions of dollars
Lorain Ohio the hardest HIT fatalities there ranging
from 200 800 with the devastation wrought by the terrific wind
and destroyed communications making impossible fix the
precise number.
of Loans dead were counted in the State Theater
which reported eighty bodies had been removed
Fifteen DROWNED IN HARBoR
Fifteen reported killed Sandusky Ohio, fifteen
drowned when automobile ferry plying between Sndusky and
Marbehead broke her moorng Sanduky and pier
and possibly fifty other persons killed towns outlying dis
tricts between Sandusky and Cleveland.
1t the serious disaster in Ohio the
of 1913, when upward of 700 persons lost their lives.
The probable death list augmented by the fear
lake steamers have down Three of
Sandusky caught in the storm. Some
passengers reported swept overheard.
CLEVELAND Ohio June 2s-Northern Ohio lay PROSTATE
under the fury of winds of tornado violence that
from Cleveland to Sandusky along the shores of Lake Erie
lated Sandusky and Loran killed possibly 400 persons injured
another 1000 and caused property damage of possibly
AS the stricken cities began try establish
tion word began le substanaed the early re
ports that the catastrophe be greatest
history of the country.
Loran alone according obtained in ccuitous fashion
from there will have 800 injured One hundred
and sxty6ve bodies have been State Theter
there early today Chief of Police
ported being supplies
for Lorain at midnight.
In Sandusky ranged to eventy-hve.
The probable death list augmented by that lake
steamers have gone down. Three OF
dusky known have been caught the and reports
have it that overheard from the decks
of one of them--the Reliance.
Scenes of the widest and confusion enacted
in the cities the furious winds buildings
the lake. blew railroad off pushed
over.
DARKNESS ADDS TO TERROR.
As the darkness came on ngted streets and homes added
to the terror while pouring rain fell
Refugees clogging the roads Eyra
to Cleveland said while relief workers
men rushing into the stricken
Gov. Donahey at Columbus has ordered northern Ohio
of the National Guard proceed three cities
and of them have started.
Tomorrow the Governor and Adutan Henderson
will proceed into the
Reports early in the evening had Loran burning with
no with which to fight the fire.
The mayor of Sandusky, in frantic appeal Gen. Hen
derson for troops, said the city in ruins
The of tornado violence the sixty
mile stretch from Cleveland Sandusky, along the lake
though other Ohio cities reported rainstorms
with much property damage, but no deaths.
EIGHTY DEAD REMOVED.
Eighty dead had been taken from the State Theater
Loran the chief of police of Eya nine miles away reported
at $50 pm.
AT II pm. the chief of police that the latest reports
available there estimated the dead Lorain about Zoo
hundreds injured.
number of the injured being brought to Eyria late
tonight Ela escaped the tornado entirely No telephone
telegraph with either or Sanduky was
available from Elyra
REFUGEES JAM ROADS.
The Eyra fire police departments and ambulance
equipment have been to Lorain.
The only way reach Loran from Cleveland through
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