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Show MANY DIE IN STORMS Phialdelpbla, Aug. 10 Death, devastation de-vastation and iremendoua property lots is left In the wake of the worst storm in years, which struck Philadelphia Philadel-phia and the surrounding country at 4 o'clock this ufternoon. Accompanied Accompan-ied by a Bizty-mlie wind, great blak clouds and largo hullstone3, everything every-thing frali or weak feli in tho path of the gust The worst accident reported was In Palrmounl park, where a band pavilion pavili-on near George's hall collapsed, catching catch-ing at least 1100 persons In the ruins. They had taken refuge from the storm In the pavilion A baby Is dead and fifteen injured persons are In the. local hospitals Moro than 100 Injured In-jured managed to drag themselves to their homes. Only tne fact that the pavilion wae of light construction, i without any real heavy Joists, prevented pre-vented a terrible catastrophe Killed by Falling Tree. Agneu Murphy. 22 years old, was ! killed at City Line by a falling tree, i under which she took refuge James McNamee, 11 months old was killed by a falling tree at Forty I eighth street and Lancaster avenue. Patrick McNamee. the baby's father, was Injured Seeral other deaths were reported, but not verified. Mattle L. Greiner was drowned at Port Richmond Her male companions compani-ons were endeavoring to get ashore when the gu6t seemed to lift tho woman bodil from the boat. Her body has not been recovered. At the height of tho storm a large sightseeing automobile carrying a crowd of plcknlckers was being pushed to ita utmost to get the gay merrymakers under cover The wind blew the flowing necktie of the driver into his face. He lost control for an Instant, and the big machine was thrown into a tree. Seven of tho occupants were Injured. 8trect Laid Wa.te. Tho entire length of Market street is laid waste Large trees that have withstood the storms of yearB are Btretched across the streets In all parts of the city trolley service is either tied up absolutely or delayed for hours. Telephone and telegraph DOlei aro down on all sides Large plate glass windows In the downtown stores were smashed liko so much tissue paper. The wind tore the root from the Franklin Trust com pany's buildings at Fifteenth and Mar ket Streets Roofs of eleven houses in the neighborhood of Forty-seventh and Fort) ninth streets and Woodland and Paschall avenues, wero carried away bodily Granite Blocks Fall. A tower on the Broad and Filbert street side of the Pennsylvania sia-nun sia-nun was Jarred from its support ana huge blocks of granite were hurled Into the street Fortunately no person per-son was hit All of the parks of tho city are d restated Gigantic trees were broken like pipe stems. Reports from the outlying districts show that the storm was even worse than In Philadelphia. These reprts j are meager and are being obtained Chiefly from passengers on belated trains Early reports show that man) of the magnificent homes in the suburbs sub-urbs and along the "main line'' are wrecks. All of the fine greenhouses are r- ported to have been damaged by the hall Atlantic City up to a late hour was cut off absolutelj from Philadelphia Tii- pro pert loss in Philadelphia will reach more than (1,000,000, oo |