Victim of Lorain Tornado.
Blanche Berg, 33, 1198 Cook Ave Lakewood,
Spouse: A.C. Berg
Occupation: Housewife
Cause of death: Accidental. Struck by falling building in storm.
Survived by parents Harry A and Ada Naylor; sisters Irma and Beatrice Naylor
Mrs A.C. Berg, thrity-five of Lakewood, instantly killed in the collapsed of the home of her father, H.A. Naylor, where she was visiting.
The newspaper lists her address as 1119 9th St., Lorain, that is her in-laws address.
Information Source: The Cleveland Press June 29,1924, Sunday
JUNE 28, 1924: LORAIN TORNADO 5:08 PM
The deadliest torando in Ohio history struck Lorain and Sandusky on Saturday, June 28, 1924. This was not the largest or strongest tornado to occur in Ohio, but the violet strom struck an urban center where thousands of people were put at risk. The number of fatalities will never be known with certainty, but an accepted figure is 85 dead 72 of whom were killed at Lorain, a city of thirty-seven thousand.
The Lorain Tornado was formed over Sandusky Bay and passed eastward, striking the northern edge of Sandusky at 4:35 PM.
A nine city block area was damaged, bound by Admas, Market, Washington Park, and the waterfront. One hundred homes and 25 businesses were destroyed in Sandusky. There were eight deaths in Sandusky.
The tornado continued over Lake Eire before coming ashore at the Lorain Municipal Bath House in Lakeview Park and tore a three-mile path through downtown Lorain in about three minutes. Its widith varied from four thousand to five hundred feet, apparently becoming narrower as it progressed eastward. The tornado lifted east of the city and set down again at Sheffield and Avon.
In Lorain, buildings were damaged for 35 blocks along Broadway and at least 200 automobiles were buried in bricks and other debris. More than a 1000 homes were damaged and 500 destroyed in Lorain. All businesses sustained some damage, and two hundred businesses were destroyed. The death toll of 15 in the State Theater is the most ever killed by a tornado in one building in Ohio.
Dozens of doctors and hundreds of nurses arrived in Lorain Saturday night from Cleveland to attend to the injured. Many of the injuried were transported to Cleveland's Lakeside Hospital via the steamer City of Eire.
Other hospitals involved in treating the injuried were Lakewood Hospital, Lakewood, St. John's Hospital, Cleveland, St. Joseph Hospital, Lorain, Elyria Memorial Hospital, Elyria and Amherst Hospital, Amherst.
A second tornado touched down west of Vickery in Sandusky County and traveled eastward toward Castalia. Another formed over Huron Township in Eire County. A fourth tornado touched down at about 6 PM near Geauga Lake and traveled 20 miles across northern Portage County. Three farmers were killed in their milking barns.
Lorain was cut off from the rest of the world until an amateur wire-less operator, whose set was not damaged, was able to send a massage which was picked up in Cleveland. Cleveland area doctors and nurses traveled by tugboat to Lorain where they began aiding the injuried.
Information Source: The Story Of Lorain The International City/Lorain City Schools
TUG TOOK FIRST CALL FOR HELP
Carried Story of Disaster to Cleveland.
It was the tug Fitzgerald which took the first word of Lorain's disastrous tornado to Cleveland last Saturday. Service Director W.A. Miller announced.
Request for immediate help was made by the crew and they started back with a load of men, the director stated.
Blanche Berg, 33, 1198 Cook Ave Lakewood,
Spouse: A.C. Berg
Occupation: Housewife
Cause of death: Accidental. Struck by falling building in storm.
Survived by parents Harry A and Ada Naylor; sisters Irma and Beatrice Naylor
Mrs A.C. Berg, thrity-five of Lakewood, instantly killed in the collapsed of the home of her father, H.A. Naylor, where she was visiting.
The newspaper lists her address as 1119 9th St., Lorain, that is her in-laws address.
Information Source: The Cleveland Press June 29,1924, Sunday
JUNE 28, 1924: LORAIN TORNADO 5:08 PM
The deadliest torando in Ohio history struck Lorain and Sandusky on Saturday, June 28, 1924. This was not the largest or strongest tornado to occur in Ohio, but the violet strom struck an urban center where thousands of people were put at risk. The number of fatalities will never be known with certainty, but an accepted figure is 85 dead 72 of whom were killed at Lorain, a city of thirty-seven thousand.
The Lorain Tornado was formed over Sandusky Bay and passed eastward, striking the northern edge of Sandusky at 4:35 PM.
A nine city block area was damaged, bound by Admas, Market, Washington Park, and the waterfront. One hundred homes and 25 businesses were destroyed in Sandusky. There were eight deaths in Sandusky.
The tornado continued over Lake Eire before coming ashore at the Lorain Municipal Bath House in Lakeview Park and tore a three-mile path through downtown Lorain in about three minutes. Its widith varied from four thousand to five hundred feet, apparently becoming narrower as it progressed eastward. The tornado lifted east of the city and set down again at Sheffield and Avon.
In Lorain, buildings were damaged for 35 blocks along Broadway and at least 200 automobiles were buried in bricks and other debris. More than a 1000 homes were damaged and 500 destroyed in Lorain. All businesses sustained some damage, and two hundred businesses were destroyed. The death toll of 15 in the State Theater is the most ever killed by a tornado in one building in Ohio.
Dozens of doctors and hundreds of nurses arrived in Lorain Saturday night from Cleveland to attend to the injured. Many of the injuried were transported to Cleveland's Lakeside Hospital via the steamer City of Eire.
Other hospitals involved in treating the injuried were Lakewood Hospital, Lakewood, St. John's Hospital, Cleveland, St. Joseph Hospital, Lorain, Elyria Memorial Hospital, Elyria and Amherst Hospital, Amherst.
A second tornado touched down west of Vickery in Sandusky County and traveled eastward toward Castalia. Another formed over Huron Township in Eire County. A fourth tornado touched down at about 6 PM near Geauga Lake and traveled 20 miles across northern Portage County. Three farmers were killed in their milking barns.
Lorain was cut off from the rest of the world until an amateur wire-less operator, whose set was not damaged, was able to send a massage which was picked up in Cleveland. Cleveland area doctors and nurses traveled by tugboat to Lorain where they began aiding the injuried.
Information Source: The Story Of Lorain The International City/Lorain City Schools
TUG TOOK FIRST CALL FOR HELP
Carried Story of Disaster to Cleveland.
It was the tug Fitzgerald which took the first word of Lorain's disastrous tornado to Cleveland last Saturday. Service Director W.A. Miller announced.
Request for immediate help was made by the crew and they started back with a load of men, the director stated.
Victim of Lorain Tornado.
Blanche Berg, 33, 1198 Cook Ave Lakewood,
Spouse: A.C. Berg
Occupation: Housewife
Cause of death: Accidental. Struck by falling building in storm.
Survived by parents Harry A and Ada Naylor; sisters Irma and Beatrice Naylor
Mrs A.C. Berg, thrity-five of Lakewood, instantly killed in the collapsed of the home of her father, H.A. Naylor, where she was visiting.
The newspaper lists her address as 1119 9th St., Lorain, that is her in-laws address.
Information Source: The Cleveland Press June 29,1924, Sunday
JUNE 28, 1924: LORAIN TORNADO 5:08 PM
The deadliest torando in Ohio history struck Lorain and Sandusky on Saturday, June 28, 1924. This was not the largest or strongest tornado to occur in Ohio, but the violet strom struck an urban center where thousands of people were put at risk. The number of fatalities will never be known with certainty, but an accepted figure is 85 dead 72 of whom were killed at Lorain, a city of thirty-seven thousand.
The Lorain Tornado was formed over Sandusky Bay and passed eastward, striking the northern edge of Sandusky at 4:35 PM.
A nine city block area was damaged, bound by Admas, Market, Washington Park, and the waterfront. One hundred homes and 25 businesses were destroyed in Sandusky. There were eight deaths in Sandusky.
The tornado continued over Lake Eire before coming ashore at the Lorain Municipal Bath House in Lakeview Park and tore a three-mile path through downtown Lorain in about three minutes. Its widith varied from four thousand to five hundred feet, apparently becoming narrower as it progressed eastward. The tornado lifted east of the city and set down again at Sheffield and Avon.
In Lorain, buildings were damaged for 35 blocks along Broadway and at least 200 automobiles were buried in bricks and other debris. More than a 1000 homes were damaged and 500 destroyed in Lorain. All businesses sustained some damage, and two hundred businesses were destroyed. The death toll of 15 in the State Theater is the most ever killed by a tornado in one building in Ohio.
Dozens of doctors and hundreds of nurses arrived in Lorain Saturday night from Cleveland to attend to the injured. Many of the injuried were transported to Cleveland's Lakeside Hospital via the steamer City of Eire.
Other hospitals involved in treating the injuried were Lakewood Hospital, Lakewood, St. John's Hospital, Cleveland, St. Joseph Hospital, Lorain, Elyria Memorial Hospital, Elyria and Amherst Hospital, Amherst.
A second tornado touched down west of Vickery in Sandusky County and traveled eastward toward Castalia. Another formed over Huron Township in Eire County. A fourth tornado touched down at about 6 PM near Geauga Lake and traveled 20 miles across northern Portage County. Three farmers were killed in their milking barns.
Lorain was cut off from the rest of the world until an amateur wire-less operator, whose set was not damaged, was able to send a massage which was picked up in Cleveland. Cleveland area doctors and nurses traveled by tugboat to Lorain where they began aiding the injuried.
Information Source: The Story Of Lorain The International City/Lorain City Schools
TUG TOOK FIRST CALL FOR HELP
Carried Story of Disaster to Cleveland.
It was the tug Fitzgerald which took the first word of Lorain's disastrous tornado to Cleveland last Saturday. Service Director W.A. Miller announced.
Request for immediate help was made by the crew and they started back with a load of men, the director stated.
Blanche Berg, 33, 1198 Cook Ave Lakewood,
Spouse: A.C. Berg
Occupation: Housewife
Cause of death: Accidental. Struck by falling building in storm.
Survived by parents Harry A and Ada Naylor; sisters Irma and Beatrice Naylor
Mrs A.C. Berg, thrity-five of Lakewood, instantly killed in the collapsed of the home of her father, H.A. Naylor, where she was visiting.
The newspaper lists her address as 1119 9th St., Lorain, that is her in-laws address.
Information Source: The Cleveland Press June 29,1924, Sunday
JUNE 28, 1924: LORAIN TORNADO 5:08 PM
The deadliest torando in Ohio history struck Lorain and Sandusky on Saturday, June 28, 1924. This was not the largest or strongest tornado to occur in Ohio, but the violet strom struck an urban center where thousands of people were put at risk. The number of fatalities will never be known with certainty, but an accepted figure is 85 dead 72 of whom were killed at Lorain, a city of thirty-seven thousand.
The Lorain Tornado was formed over Sandusky Bay and passed eastward, striking the northern edge of Sandusky at 4:35 PM.
A nine city block area was damaged, bound by Admas, Market, Washington Park, and the waterfront. One hundred homes and 25 businesses were destroyed in Sandusky. There were eight deaths in Sandusky.
The tornado continued over Lake Eire before coming ashore at the Lorain Municipal Bath House in Lakeview Park and tore a three-mile path through downtown Lorain in about three minutes. Its widith varied from four thousand to five hundred feet, apparently becoming narrower as it progressed eastward. The tornado lifted east of the city and set down again at Sheffield and Avon.
In Lorain, buildings were damaged for 35 blocks along Broadway and at least 200 automobiles were buried in bricks and other debris. More than a 1000 homes were damaged and 500 destroyed in Lorain. All businesses sustained some damage, and two hundred businesses were destroyed. The death toll of 15 in the State Theater is the most ever killed by a tornado in one building in Ohio.
Dozens of doctors and hundreds of nurses arrived in Lorain Saturday night from Cleveland to attend to the injured. Many of the injuried were transported to Cleveland's Lakeside Hospital via the steamer City of Eire.
Other hospitals involved in treating the injuried were Lakewood Hospital, Lakewood, St. John's Hospital, Cleveland, St. Joseph Hospital, Lorain, Elyria Memorial Hospital, Elyria and Amherst Hospital, Amherst.
A second tornado touched down west of Vickery in Sandusky County and traveled eastward toward Castalia. Another formed over Huron Township in Eire County. A fourth tornado touched down at about 6 PM near Geauga Lake and traveled 20 miles across northern Portage County. Three farmers were killed in their milking barns.
Lorain was cut off from the rest of the world until an amateur wire-less operator, whose set was not damaged, was able to send a massage which was picked up in Cleveland. Cleveland area doctors and nurses traveled by tugboat to Lorain where they began aiding the injuried.
Information Source: The Story Of Lorain The International City/Lorain City Schools
TUG TOOK FIRST CALL FOR HELP
Carried Story of Disaster to Cleveland.
It was the tug Fitzgerald which took the first word of Lorain's disastrous tornado to Cleveland last Saturday. Service Director W.A. Miller announced.
Request for immediate help was made by the crew and they started back with a load of men, the director stated.
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