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Show LAKE SWEPT I BY TORNADO I Wind in Pennsylvania H Lifts Water 100 Feet Several Injured. H Erie, Pa.. Aug. 24. A tornado of IH 100 miles an hour velocity broke over HH Conneaut Lake, near here late yes- HH terday Injuring several persona and HH causing a loss of many thousand dol- HH lars. The water of the lake was thrown nearlv 100 feet In the air by the wind in places. Without warn- Ing, tho wind came out of the north- HH west, through the inlet of tho lake, accompanied by a funnol-shaped cloud which brought a deluge. Many persons were swept off their feet and stunned bv the storm. Barns fell, trees were" uprooted and hundreds of acres of grain were swept down. |