A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY
LATEST CABLE NEWS
[Reuters Telegrams.]
ESTIMATE Ok’ DAMAGE
NEW YORK, June 30 A telegram from Cleveland says that a re-choek of the casualties in Saturday’s tornado shows there probably were 100 fatalities. Lorain had 59 dead, and 120 injured. One hundred city blocks were demolished. The damago is upwards of $30,000,000. The four-storev State Theatre partly collapsed during a cinema performance, crushing many of the audience. In Sanduskv six were killed, and 100 in- . jured, the damage being over $2,01)0,000. In Cleveland seven were killed, in Pittsburg five, and in Natan (Ohio) three. The damage in the rural regions will probably aggregate $50,000,000. Fears for the safety of steamers are unfounded, except for a touring launch crushed against a barge. The crew of 35 scrambled to safety.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 July 1924, Page 3
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