Cleveland, Ohio, June 28—Three hundred are dead and at least 1,500 are injured in Loraine alone as the result of today’s tornado according to reports reaching Col. D.H. Pond, director of the Red Cross civilian relief.
Col. Pond announced he had arranged for tents for 1,000 people to be shipped from Camp Perry.
The storm carried telephone and telegraph wires down, isolating Sanduskie, Loraine, and other points in the northern part of the state, and making confirmation of reports impossible early this morning.
A streak in South Loraine also is reported to undetermined, from Sanduskie the report that car-ferry had blown over. Inter-urban service between here and Loraine, Sanduskie and interior points is at a standstill.
The first report received here from staff correspondent of the Plain Dealer, who motored back to the first available telephone east of Loraine, were to the effect that 200 were killed in the State Theater collapse at Loraine, and that more than 40 others are dead in other parts of the city.
Reports from various other sources place the dead as high as 500. Eighty dead having been taken from the State Theater in Loraine. The chief of police of Elryie, reported at 9:30 tonight.
Estimates of 300 dead and 1,500 injured are not exaggerated. The entire fire and police department and ambulance equipment has been sent to Loraine.
The only way to reach Loraine form Cleveland is through Elyrie, and the roads are jammed with refugees headed away from Loraine, and relief parties who are on their way there.
About 50 members of the 112th Engineer Corps of Ohio National Guards were rushed to Loraine in taxicabs on the receipt of Gov. Donohey orders. They were in charge of Col. Ralph R. White.
A Nickel Plate train is ready to take the remainder as soon as they have been mobilized.
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Chicago, June 28—A terrific hurricane late tonight struck along the south shore of Lake Erie, devastating several towns and cities, and taking a toll of 350 lives, buildings, bridges, and trees were leveled, and probably 2,000 persons were injured in the brief but disastrous storm.
The wind swept a swath nearly 50 miles wide from Sanduskie at a point between Loraine and Cleveland.
The most extensive damage so far reported was at Loraine, where rows of buildings were blown down, and a theater was partly caved in on a Saturday afternoon audience, and the storm descended almost without warning, overturning automobiles, unroofing houses, and swept by so rapidly that beds, and many other articles of furniture were left untouched. The property damage will amount to many millions of dollars, and reports have not come from other regions.
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Cleveland, June 28—The chief of police at Elyrie, nine miles from Loraine, said that the last reports that at 11 p.m. estimate the dead at 200 with hundreds injured. A number of the injured were brought to Elyrie late tonight, the chief said.
Elyrie escaped the tornado entirely.
No telephone or telegraph with either Loraine or Sanduskie was available from Elyrie.
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Chicago, June 28—Railroad wire connection with Loraine, Sanduskie and other Ohio points between Cleveland and Toledo were practically eliminated tonight as a result of the storm.
The Baltimore and Ohio reported that it had a wire to Sanduskie for a few minutes late in the day.
The New York Central said all its wire were down between Toledo and Cleveland, while the Nickel Plate said its wire were out of commission in the storm area.
Five persons were killed in Sanduskie, according to a message sepirted(?) received at the telegraph office of the New York Central from their operator in Sanduskie station.
From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Sunday, June 29, 1924
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