Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1912 — BALTIMORE HIT BY STORM [ARTICLE]

BALTIMORE HIT BY STORM

Hurricane Sweeps Through City, Unroofing Buildings, Uprooting Trees and Doing Much Other Damage.

Baltimore, Md., Aug. 20. —A hurricane swept through the city, doing considerable damage but not entailing any loss of life. The business section, the shipping district and the northwestern section of the city sustained the greatest damage. A large express wagon with a horse attached was hurled the length of. a block, heavy’ plate glass windows were .blown in, electric signs were wrenched from their fastenings, trees were uprooted and strewn across car tracks, thereby blocking traffic. In the residential sections many houses were unroofed.