Destructive April Gale

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 21, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 16.

Destructive April Gale

A fearful gale swept through the East April 7 and 8. Telegraph poles were blown down, wires broken, millions of property damaged, and hundreds of people injured and some lives lost. Twelve were reported dead in Mississippi; nine in Michigan, four in Kentucky, one each in New York and Indiana. Barges and boats were blown adrift on the lakes. In Wabash, Ind., two entire families were buried under the ruins of their homes. In Buffalo two ships were blown upon the beach. A score of canal-boats were badly injured by the rush of ice. In Ionia, Mich., a child was struck by lightning and killed.