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Show " DEATH FOLLOWS IN WAKEJF STORM BAND PAVILION COLLAPSES AND TWO HUNDRED PERSONS ARE CAUGHT IN THE RUINS. Accompanied by a Sixty-mile Wind, Great Black Clouds and Heavy Hail Stone, Everything Weak Feil in the Path of Gust. Philadelphia. I ; o r 1 1 1 1, devastation find tremendous property losi is left 111 the wake of the worst storm in years, which struck Philadelphia and the surrounding country at 4 o'clock fciinday afternoon. Accompanied by tt sixty-mile wind, great black clouds and large hailstones, everything frail or weak fell in the path of the gust. The worst accident reported was in Fairmont park, wdiere a band pavilion near George's hall collapsed, catching at least 200 persons in the ruins. They liad taken refuge from the storm in the pavilion. A baby is dead and fifteen injured persons are in the local lo-cal hospitals. More tban 100 injured managed to drag themselves to their homes. Only the fact that the pavilion pavil-ion was of light construction, without with-out any real heavy joists, prevented a terrible catastrophe. Agnes Murphy, 22 years old, was killed at City Line by a falling tree, under which she took refuge. I Jas. McKamee, 11 months old, was killed by a falling tree at Forty-eighth street and Lancaster avauue. Patrick McNameo, the baby's father, was in- , jured. ' j |