| Show ELEMENTS WAGE FIERCE WAR VAR VARON ON LIFE AND PROPERTY PROPERlY Several Lives Lost in Tor br Tornado Tornado nado at Baltimore Wind Lightning and Torrents of ofRain ofRain ofRain Rain Swept the City I 1 r July 20 OA A fierce tor tornado torna BALTIMORE B nado na o characterized by a wind windstorm windstorm windstorm storm of extraordinary velocity thunder bunder vivid lightning and heavy rain burst upon Baltimore at 1230 p In m today coming from the south southwest southwest southwest west with the net result that eleven persons lost their lives hundreds of ot houses were unroofed trees in the public parks and streets were torn up by the roots many buildings damaged and several people Injured The storm exhausted its fury in less than fifteen minutes The damage done In the busi bust business business bustness ness part of or the city was compare comparatively slight being confined to the blowing down of or signs and injuries to roofs It was in the residence portions along the river front and in the har bar harbor harbor barbor bor where the wind spent its violence those who perished nine were drowned In the harbor from open boats one was killed by a falling tree and one by a live wire The follow tollow following ing lug is a list of the killed Drowned in the harbor Roy Bateman 12 years Joseph Cain 10 years John Cain 6 years Thomas Carroll Carrol 21 n 2 years Harry McCormick 19 years Mrs Mary Schuler 28 years ye with I Harry S Schuler 10 months Olive Schuler 4 years Charles Schuler 7 years Killed by falling trees William Cornish colored Killed by ive lve wire Charles Schaefer The first three victims on the above list were out in a row boat on the river with three thre other companions When the storm broke the boat was capsized three being drowned and three being rescued by the th tugboat Edna E George The boy killed by bya a live wire had in company compan with two other boys gone to a shed for pro protection protection protection when the shed blew down and anda a live wire fell on one of them themA themA A Pathetic Incident The drowning of Mrs Mra Schuler and her children was the most pathetic in itt incident Incident of the storm Michael Schuler with his Jils wife and three e children hild ren ac accompanied companied d by b l 1 r seph ph Cooper and wife had gone out Into the harbor for a sail in a thirty foot boat When the storm carrot ca Schuler and Cooper took in sails Schuler huler S sent his LIs wife and children Into the little cabin and he be stood at the tiller to keep the vessels head toward the wind A sudden gust of wind threw the boom of the vessel around knocked Schuler down and pinned him hint to the deck Another gust capsized the boat releasing Schuler who with Cooper and his wife were thrown into the water leaving Mrs Schuler and her children pinned in the cabin Cooper saved himself and wife by to the bottom of the over overturned overturned turned boat and Schuler saved aved him himself himself himself self in the same way after making ranking frantic efforts to get his imprisoned wife and children The crew of the schooner Edward Hunt rescued Schuler and Cooper and I wife and towed the capsized vessel to I Ithe the wharf where it il was righted and the dead bodies of Mrs Irs Schuler and her three children taken from the cabin Thomas Carroll with four tour other young men were out in the harbor in ina ina ina a row boat which was was s capsized Car Carroll roll roil was drowned while his four tour com corn companions companions clung to the rudder of 01 the Merchant Miner iner steamship from which perilous position they were rescued by bythe b bythe the tug Mary Tree Tell Fell On Camp Meeting Keeling In Paradise grove near Powhattan a huge hupe tree tre fell feIl upon a tent in which a colored camp meeting was as being held and several of or the worshipers were caught beneath it The tree had to be sawed into pieces before the Im ha Imprisoned Imprisoned men and women could be re released released released leased William Cornish was to death The others were not seri seriously seriously seriOusly hurt hurtA A hole several feet in diameter was waa blown into the wall of St S1 Marys Maryh Star of the Sea Catholic church in South Baltimore and a portion of ot the stone cornice weighing more than a ton fell feU I to the street No one was Injured A boats crew from the German steamer Breslau Breslin at anchor in the har liar harbor harbor bor her picked up two men from a boat that had been capsized off Wolf street i At the foot of or Concord street the Merchants Miners transportation camp warehouse was unroofed and andrain andrain andrain rain poured in on the valuable cargo stored there doing a damage estimated ed at from to The gas reservoir In South Balti Baltimore Baltimore Baltimore more containing about feet fiet of gas was blown over the gas exploding exploding exploding ing Loss No one was in injured injured injured The damage to shipping in the har harbor harbor bor br was general but not of a serious nature The weather bureau burean reports that the storm was more In the nature of a whirlwind than a tornado The wind blew at the rate of miles an hour and Inch of water fell The storm lasted but twenty minutes confined to It was So far as known Baltimore and suburbs CAN CAB m London Leaden July 20 The Rome corre correspondent of the Morning Post detail detailing inS ing in the negotiations between Judge Taft and the Vatican contends that the American authorities s can unquestionably expel the friars from rom the Phil Philippines PhilIppines Philippines without violating the ilie treaty of ot Paris What the Vatican gained by its obstinacy says the correspondent is i not clear but it certainly will have lost about Rampage Will Cost Millions Most M st Costly Above St Louis That Ever Occurred la Ia July 20 I J KEOKUK r of the flooded district of the Mis Mississippi Mississippi river from Keokuk south shows conditions beyond the appreciation tion ton or realization of ot any but people of ot long Jong experience with the Father Fath r of Waters in its most destructive mood moo r The situation is growing worse hour hourly ly ly iy There is absolutely not the slight slightest est chance of stopping the flood which l lis is a dozen times the most moat costly at ot any In the history of the great river above St Louis The correspondent of or the Associated Press went all aU over oyer the L worst damaged area today In the steamer Silver Sliver Crescent and found everywhere the greatest crops ever everI 1 known under tinder water deep enough to float a steamboat People at the river I cities clUes give an immense mass of details all to be generalized In losses aggregating gating sating many millions of dollars hun of farmers rich ten tea days ago are penniless and homeless and hun hUR hundreds hundreds are watching and praying that tha I Ithe the great levees which are the only bulwark against millions of ot losses and aud many cases of penury will hold Losses Reach Beach Millions Careful estimates indicate the loss up to today at about with every prospect that it will be increased by or by bJ the rise above bOve which has not yet reached the tower lower ower stretches of or the river rl er Most lost of or this loss Is on the Missouri lIi ouri side of the river between Keokuk and Hannibal Passing the lumber lumberyards lumberyards lumberyards yards of Keokuk the mouth of the Des DesMoines 1 Moines river is seen to be nearly two tW miles wide Normally there are two mouths and an island delta covered t with ith farms which are now under rag raging h hIng I ing torrents Alexandria was protected prote ted to the last by the Egyptian levee the breakIng of which would send water vater w ter all over the town Gregory Is sub submerged submerged submerged merged except the white church in which services were held heid today The congregation from the country reached the house of worship by the which Is still above the flood In a waste was J of waters miles wide Other towns townsand and cities on the islands are beyond the j 1 Immense fields are seen in a great lake Jake with the shore line Une visible only itt er hiti v bound the ft ms Islands dot j river at its lix normal stage have disappeared p eared except for the tops of ot trees or fringe of high shore willows protruding lag InS slightly like green coral reefs t Occasionally a house of piles is Js seen r but generally only roofs protrude to mark the center of farms of corn On j the edge of the flood corn gradually rises rie on a slope tasseled tops ears t s sand tand and stalks appearing in order In a afew afew few tew half submerged fields is shocked J wheat In the background the remnants of many more washed to the Gulf of Mexico Whole Country C Inundated J JIn In the middle of the present river 1 1 the tracks of or the St Louis Keokuk the 1 Northwestern railroad normally I Missouri shore are now a few inches above the latter Jatter and under it In some I I stretches Shore are standing In the midst of ot a waste of or waters where steamboats can run over them The river ri er Is five to ten miles wide and seventy miles mUes long and an another another another other great lake Is added to the ge geography geography geography All this territory was practically practically covered with corn com a fortnight I ago estimated to make to toa toa toa a hundred bushels to the acre Pre Previous Previous estimates of the loss Joss have been J greatly Increased by the prospective yield being found much greater greater than ever before experts telling of ot many manyI I farms that were good for bushels ush to the acre ence once shows that if it water stays forty orty eight hours even four inches under the surface It kills klUs corn and every stalk wet by waves perishes from rotting retting roots Much uch of that back fr from rem m the channel looks to the casual observer as If it would recover when the flood subsides but a month will see it all aU brown and sear The height of the flood is Indicated by b an accident at La I Grange The steamboat warehouse was away from front the river and high A strong current and gale caused the pilot to make an imperfect landing and the cornice of or orthe the roof of the warehouse was torn by bythe bythe bythe the forward guards of the tho Silver Sliver Cres Crescent Crescent Crescent cent The river is 15 rising all aU the time six inches during the day in the im immense immense Immense mense area of square and the worst to come by the extension of the flooded area by the water passing levees le ees it is now topping New Danger Threatens The chief flood thus far is on the Missouri side from Keokuk to Lou Xou Louisiana with Canton and West Quincy as centers of or the country hurt worst On the Illinois side there are three continuous levees for forty miles mUes from tram Warsaw to Quincy above the water and are thus far safe but farmers are afraid of or a crevasse from Muskrat hills biDe hillsand and every rod of or the redoubt Is being watched day and night The breaking of at these levees would flood IT square re miles in Illinois and destroy or worth of corn The rhe levees below Quincy are in the same n except that they are lower and less Jess Opposite Quincy in Missouri is still another center of special devastation n which is appalling North Korth twelve miles mlles to La Grange and south to Helton Helan large prairies are well under water reaching from front the IDin Js bluffs to the Missouri bluffs blurts at least ten miles Levees hastily thrown around farms ta ns have disappeared In a fierce current rushing from above through the draw of ot the Burlington route bridge carry carrying carryIng ing lug everything before it Lone Tree prairie ten miles square is deserted the population having Quincy and the bluffs on the th Missouri side nicle front from which they watch the complete destruction Fabius river fifteen miles mUes above Hannibal is high bh and nd furnishing a a route for the Mississippi to flank fInk and the levees as the Fox river does forty miles mlles up the th Mississippi This flankIng Hanking movement makes even the highest Missouri levees ineffective Around La Motte lotte Saverton Busch sta station station tion lion Clemens Ashburn north of Han Hannibal Hannibal there Is more wheat than at other places and all aU In the shock is mostly washed away awa The chief crop there la Is I corn however and there is the same ruin as at other places place In the vicinity of Quincy and Hanni Haunt Hannibal Hannibal bal bat there is unnecessary loss on ac account account account count of the peculiar conditions of the flood A smaller flood began to sub subside subside side aide when hert warnings from the Keokuk weather bureau were received and un unheeded unheeded heeded h eded as being after aft r the fact when actually It was before belore a new extraordinary extraordinary fact The crest of the Mississippi rise probably probably probably ably will pass here tomorrow Great damage has bas already alread been done but tho the worst is 15 probably over |
