Show STORM STRIKES BALTIMORE ELEVEN LIVES ARE LOST AND MUCH DAM AGE DONE TO PROPERTY hundreds II aorel of houses Lit rooted mid ad ciany Dis destroyed troyed storm basted Iu teil hut minutes minute A fierce tot natio character chara ctet iced by a a windstorm Ind storm of extra extraordinary velocity thunder vivid lightning and a heava lieal rain burst upon baltimore haiti more at 12 30 p in budday haday coming coining from the southwest yv with ith the lite net I 1 cault that eleven persons lost their lives hundreds liun dieda eds of houses were unto ofed trees in the lite public parks and streets wei e boin tot n up by the roots many buildings damaged and several people injured I 1 ahe he storm exhausted its fury in less titan fifteen minutes the damage lone done in the business part of the city was comparatively 15 blight being confined to the blowing down of signs and injuries to loots it was in the residence portions along the river front and in theli the harbor arbor where the wind spent itself aselt violently of those who perished nine were drowned in the harbor from open boats one nas as killed by a falling flee and one by a live w ire A hole several feet in diameter was blown into the wall of st marys marya star 0 of f the see sea catholic church I 1 in n south hallimore baltimore and a portion of the stone cornice weighing more than a too ton fell to the street 0 no one was injured A boats crew from the german steamer breslau It at anchor in the harbor picked up two men from a boat that lidd bid been c at the foot of street the merchants and miners transportation camp warehouse was unroofed and rain poured in on the valuable cargo stored there doing a damage estimated at from to JOO chegas reservoir in south baltimore containing about feet of gas WB wars blown ov over r the gas exploding loss 81 1000 no one was injured ahe T lie damage to shipping in the harbor barbor was general but not of a serious nature I 1 lie he weather bureau reports that the storm was more in the nature of A whirlwind titan than a tornado the wind blew at the rate of sixty four miles an hour and one half an inch of water fell ahe 1 he storm lasted but twenty minutes bo far as known it was confined to hal bal and suburbs |