Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-13
MIDDLE: WEST
STRICKEN BY
FREAK STORM
Fourteen Dead And Four Miss
ing AS Result Of Heavy Winds
And Binding Dust.
PROPERTY LOSS SEVERE
Snow In Eastern Area Also
Responsible For Deaths Over
Weekend.

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Nov. 13. UP)
Residents of dozen midwestern
storms today rubbed dust from
their eyes and counted the toll of
raging autumnal gale that
brought death, accidents, large
property damage and discomfort.
Fourteen deaths were attributed
to the storm and four persons we're
missing, believed drowned.
The blast shrieked down from
the north across the prairie states,
heralding the approach of winter.
From sunrise Sunday until long
after sunset the winds lashed with
hurricane force. the velocity vary
ing from 35 to so miles an hour.
Several persons were killed in
traffic accidents when motorists
view was obscured by dust. An
airplane, lost in the thick, stiffling
dust clouds, crashed. Four were
injured.
Sparks ignited tinder-dry leaves
and timber in several localities and
fire caused heavy damage to wood
lands. Falling trees injured
woman. Plate glass windows were
smashed. Signs and wires toppled.
Top soil was blown from wheat
lands, drifting in windows along
the highways.
The stricken area included the
states of North and South Dakota,
Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa,
Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Okla
home, Minnesota and North Texas.
The storm ragged eastward to New
York
Three were killed in traffic acci-
dents in Indiana because of icy
pavements.
Michigan reported two traffic
deaths. An unidentified junk col
lector was killed by hit and run
driver at Detroit, whose car skid
ded in the slush. John Ryan, %,
Big Rapids, Mich. was killed at
Big Rapids, when his car skidded
and overturned,
Ralph E. Ireland, 33, Detroit, and
Clifford 2. Foster, st. Claire Shores,
Mich, were missing after a duck
hunting trip. Their overturned
boat was found a mile from the
shore. Thelma Brown, II, and
Donald Hope, "a. bennington, Ont,
were missing. Their car was found
in Lake Erie, having skidded
through a guard rail.
Hunters Drowned
Three Rochester, N. Y, hunters
were drowned when their boat ov-
erturned. Two Holcomb, N. Y,
girls, returning from church, were
killed by an automobile, driven by
schoolmate, which struck them
during a binding snow storm. One
person was killed at Roodhouse, H..
by an automobile driven by a man
blinded by the dust. At Cam
bridge, Mass. Reupert A. Marden
periShed from exposure on Mount
Washington during a mountain
climbing expedition with college
mates.
At Whitehill, H., Laurence Linn.
blinded by dust, stepped into the
path of an automobile and was
killed. The gale weakened a IS
foot scaffcld at Clinton, Iowa, on
which Raymond Ross of Los An
geles was working. He was cata-
pulled to his death.
An airplane flying from Okla
homa City to Kansas City last night
could not see landing lights al
though flying directly above them
here. The plane crashed. Pilot
Walter T'auber, DR., x. L. Suiz-
bacher, his son, Louis Sulzbacher,
and DR.. Lee Lyon, all of Kansas
City, were injured seriously.
Scores of accidents were report
ed. Wind snapped a dead tree
foot in diameter here. 1t fell on
Mrs. Marion Myers, a pedestrian.
She was injured seriously Another
tree crashed on a Negro's home.
imprisoning the family.
BY midafternoon the dust cloud
was so thick that street lights
were turned or in many towns.
Chickens went to roost hours early.