Evening star., 1934-08-03
By the Associated Press.

Hail and lightning came with the
wind and the rain to Ohio shore
towns. Lorain, Sandusky, Cedar Point
and Vermilion. Put-in- Bay. an island
town. was cut of from the mainland
for hours.
Power service was crippled and
homes and crops were severely dam
aged in Central Illinois.
Eastern Michigan, with a casualty
list Of nine dead and many injured,
today plunged into the task Of clear
ing debris-strewn roads and repairing
storm damage unoficially estimated
at 81 .000.0 900.
Homes and Stores Wrecked.
Homes and stores in a dozen COM
munities between Detroit and Flint,
Mich, must be reconstructed.
The storm struck in Michigan with
fury which blackened the sky for an
hour, pelted the countryside with hail,
disrupted wire and highway commu-
nication and .beached the excursion
steamer Tashmoo with its $50 pas
sengers in the st. Clair River.
The dead:
Walter R. Dunlap, 55, Flint, heart
attack while moving fallen tree.
Robert Willett, 10, Detroit, drowned
near Pontiac when boat upset.
M. N. Willett, 38, his father,
drowned trying to aid Robert.
Michael Roddy, "a, Big Rapids,
heart attack.
Charles Van Blaircoum, Wayne, ia
tally injured when gale upset car.
Mrs. o. w. Picard, Detroit, drowned
with children when boat upset.
Lucille Picard, IL, her daughter.
Jerry Picard, 6, her son.
Scarcely House Undamaged.
Roads were blocked for hours on
both sides Of Lake Erie as the gale
toppled poles and trees. Even trains
were stopped.
Reports from Flushing, a village 6
miles northwest Of Flint. stated that
scarcely a house in the town was un-
damaged. There were no reports of
any injuries in the village, however.
Attendants at Hurley Hospital, in
Flint, unable to get power to operate
elevators to take injured to operating
rooms, worked in an improvised first
aid station in the basement of the
building, with only flashlights for illu-
-mination-
The Detroit Weather Bureau esti-
mated that the wind attained a veloc-
ity Of more than 100 miles an hour.
AT Flint the entire equipment of the
United States Weather Bureau atop
the Flint Journal Building was car
ried away by the storm.
Northern Ohio Suffers.
The steamer Tashmoo was driven
ashore on the Canadian side of the st.
Clair River near Algonac. Both pad
dlewheels of the vessel we're smashed.
Coast Guards took of $50 of the pas
sengers.
A furious wind and rain storm
which streaked out of Lake Erie last
night at 75-mile-an-hour clip,
claimed probably five lives and
wreaked property damage in six fig
ures along the northern Ohio lake
shore.
Three youngstown residents who
left Ashtabula in a rowboat to fish
were missing today and Coast Guards
men feared they were drowned. They
were Earl McCauley, SO; John Dixon,
% land John Flannery, "a.
The bodies of Paul Peth. "a, and
his stepson Daniel, IL, of Toledo,
were washed ashore at Reno Beach
near Bono, Ohio, this morning. They
had been fishing at West Sister
Island.
South Bass Island and its sole
town, Put-in-Bay, were first and
hardest hit by the storm, but no in
juries or fatalities we're reported
there. Docks were wrecked and hurled
into the lake. Mayor T. P. Alex
ander of Put-in-Bay sent out a crew
OF 100 men to clear up the debris
today. Put-in-Bay was cut off from
all communication with the mainland
for several hours. Lorain, Vermilion,
Sandusky and Cedar Point lost many
light and telephone wires when police
we're bowled over by the storm.
Thousands of trees were laid low.
The Lorain Telephone Co. said it
would be three or four days before
normal service could be restored.
Lakeside was without power, light,
telegraph and telephone service for
several hours and trees were blown
down, but nobody was burt. A pro-
gram at the auditorium of the resort
was postponed.
A 26-foot cabin cruiser owned by
Louis Anrenson, Elyria, racing for a
landing at SanduSky, Ohio, when the
gale laShed the lake, was wrecked on
a rock breakwater. The cruiser sank,
but Anrenson and two companions
were rescued by John Souger, a life
guard
Damage estimated at thousands of
dollars resulted in Niagara Falls, N. Y,
from an electrical storm which swept
the district last night Trees we're up
rooted and electric light, trolley and
telephone poles were blown down in
many parts Of the city. More than 400
telephone lines and at least 600 teIe-
phone stations were out of operation
today due TO the storm.
Town Cut in Two.
The west side Of Bridgeton. N. J..
was virtually isolated from the town
proper today when three bridges link
ing the districts yielded to the raging
waters OF the ChohanSey River.
Between 5000 and 5000 Bridgeton
residents were cut of from the bust,
ness district by the collapse of the
third span at Broad street. For sew
eral hours 1t had borne the entire
burden of transportation after the
two others were swept out In the
flood. Vehicular traffic was stopped
first and finally uedeStrianS were
halted a short time before the span
gave way to the river. swollen by the
rainfall estimated at more than
inches
Boats OF every description were
pressed into service. Travel by auto
mobile between the two sections in
Yolved 8 l5-naile detour.
County officials announced plans