Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-04-22 | Page 2 | Six Persons Killed by Terrific Storm

SIX PERSONS KILLED Bl TENIFK STORM Tornado That Sweep Cleveland and Northern Ohio Exceed-. Exceed-. ingly Violent. CLEVELAND, April 21. Six persons per-sons were killed, at least, fifty injured and a million dollar.".' worth of property dest royed in a tornado I hat swept, througli Cleveland and northern Ohio today. Tlio Dead. JASPER CROMWELL, killed by being be-ing blown from n trail at the Cleveland Cleve-land furnace company plant. MT?S. OLIVE PLLALEN, a nurso at tho state hospital: skull crushed by a stone blown from tho'top of a building. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN, blown into a pond at; Wado park and drowned. JOSEPH VESSLA, killed by a falling fall-ing smokestack. LOUIS PETItO. crushed by falling roof; died at hospital. .TOSEPU ZLAECK. struck in head b- Hying timber; diod in hospital. Fred Grugel committed suicide during dur-ing tho height of tho storm becauso ho was afraid ho was about to be killed. He rushed into a barn out of tho rain and drank carbolic acid. Of Brief Duration. The storm arose suddenly and lasted just five minutes. At 12:30 o'clock tho sun was shining brightly. At 12:13 o'clock the city was dark. From the northeast of the lake came a sixty-six-mile gale aud heavy raiu. People were blown off their feet aud. hurled against buildings, in many cases to bo struck down by bricks and timbers that filled the air. Hoofs were lifted off houses, walls hurled down, strongly-braced smokestacks smoke-stacks picked up and chimneys t demolished. de-molished. Twclvo school, buildings were damaged. Many pupils had remarkable re-markable escapes, but none oro seriously hurl. Firemen and policemen turned out to assist the people whose homes .had been wrecked. So seriously was tho telephone service crippled that it was iiripossihlc to got connection with cither the police or fire headquarters. ASHTABULA, O., April 21.-0,110 man was killed, a dozen persons injured in-jured and much properly damage 'done iu a ten iniuules' tornado that struck Ashtabula and vicinity today. R. T. Woodworth sought refuge in sheds of St. Mathcw's Episcopal' church, Plymouth, and was caught when tho church crumbled, lie was killed outright.