Show WRECKEBBYoi1E ND Southwest Pennsylvania Is Swept by Severe Storm MANY PEOPLE ARE INJURED I Four Churcnes Are Partially Destroyed De-stroyed Panic Ensues In Knos tub Forty Persons in a Congregation Congrega-tion of Six Hundred Are More or Less Hurt Several Fatally JNear McDonald Just as the Pastor Was Pronouncing Benediction lightning light-ning Struck the Cnurcfl J Pittsburgh Pa March 30 One of the fiercest windstorms ever known I ln this section strucl the city today Just before be-fore noon Almost Incalculable damage dam-age was done to property and many I people 1 W rl Injured some of whom may die Scores of houses were unroofed many trees were blown down mill stacks toppled over and telegraph and telephone wires generally disabled CHURCH UNROOFED Tho most serious accident was the I unroofing of the Presbyterian church In Knoxvllle occupied Tjy about 600 persons i per-sons While the minister was In the mlflst of his sermon ihe wind blew over the large chimney and lifted a portion of tho roof Bricks from the chimney crashed through the roof and ghf carried n huge piece o f the hardwood celling down upon the worshipers A panic ensued and a frantic rush was made for the doors and windows At least l forty persons were caught by the wreckage and were more or less hurt Of this number five may not recover INJURED AT KNOXVILLE Dr 1R 31 Phillips aged 40 may die Curtis Ray McKnlght 40 probably fatal Clarence McNulty 1 may die Fletcher Byron serious David Smith 32ti uR Joseph Adams 21badly crushed Albert Schmidt 14both arms broken and head cjit John Meyer 17 head and face cut cut Thomas Mechlin 18 arms and face Evans Jone 22 serious Mrs Rachel l Schultz 35 arms broken Schult armsbrke TOWBOAT WRECKED The towboat Belle McGowan was blown over In the Ohio rlvqr and completely arJ pletely wrecked v Her crew was v rescued FURNACE STACKS BLOW < DOWN L3 ionf SfflvYjiTVghUnAbTad foiirieonkjc > Jj their umacc mack IoVri wfingSiJ sltatfng the shutting down of a portion of their plat for wc k probably I CHURCH STRUCK BY LIGHTNING As Rev J W English pastor of the Robnson Run TJ P church near McDonald Mc-Donald was raising his arms to pronounce pro-nounce the benediction lightning struck tho church splro and It toppled upon the roof crushing Jt and injuring n number die worshiper two of whom will INJURED AT MDONALD die Robert Patterson aged 11 years will dieLeon Leon Avcrill 1 will die Mrs John Patterson mother of Robert Rob-ert Mrs Mao Patterson i Miss Mary G Wallace Mrs Averlll mother of Leon MINISTER FATALLY HURT At Jamestown n tornado tore out one end of the United Presbyterian church while Rev J M Jamison was preaching preach-ing He was burled under a mass of brick and timbers and fatally Injured The congregation escaped unhurt 1 The Noblcstown Presbyterian church was also unroofed aso DERRICKS BLOWN DOWN The Forest OH company had between 200 and 300 derricks blown down In Its McDonald region and considerable damage dam-age was sustained by its plpeago system sys-tem > temFJRE H FJRE ADDS TERROR TO STORM The offices of the Monongahcja Connecting Con-necting railroad In this city were destroyed de-stroyed by flre during the afternoon because no alarm could be turned in the wires being down belnSdow The Armstrong Cork companys plant was unroofed and jnuch damage done to machinery and stock AH railroads suffered more or less from broken telegraph poles and crippled crip-pled service More than 2500 lights of glass In the Phlpps conservatory in Schcnley pak ware broken and much of the gorgeous I Eastern llov fir display ruined The Montana apartment house and the Idaho building which adjoins It were partially destroyed The roof of the big forge plant at Rankln was lifted off and carried many yards axvaj The damage In the Monongahela and Turtle creek valleys wH reach thousands thou-sands of dollars HAVOC IN STORMS TRACK Belated icporU from nearby towns up to midnight sh rorn that the wind played havoc at every town In Us track At MIngo Junction 0 two big structural struc-tural ore bridges of the National Steel I companya plant valued at 150000 were twisted Into shapeless masses Qf Iron At Belle Vernon Pa the American Window Glass companys plant waa unroofed several blocks of houses belonging be-longing to the company were wrecked and other damage was done TAMAGE AT GREENSBURG Greensburg Pa nearly 0000 feet of roof pf the Kceley t Jpjios plant wa carried wn and the great cupola of the First Presbyterian church was toppled fnto the str etc et-c Jeannette Latrobe and New Alexandria Al-exandria a number of houses were unroofed un-roofed BIG MILL DESTROYED At Washington Pa the ncwtoar mi of the Griffith Tin Plate company was compretely wrecked entailing l loss of 10000 Five residences were blown down the Roman Catholic and the Third U B churches were considerably damaged and many private residences lost roofs and windows I Is expected greater losses will be reported tomor Srea row when the country districts can be heard from |