Ike-related storm deaths state by state
The Associated PressAuthorities have reported a total of 50 deaths in 11 states as Ike moved from Texas northeastward across the U.S. midsection:
Texas — 17, including at least five in Harris County from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Louisiana — six, including two contractors who were electrocuted.
Tennessee — two, both golfers killed by a falling tree.
Arkansas — one, a man killed by a tree falling on a mobile home.
Ohio — six, including five by falling trees and one person electrocuted while working on a generator.
Indiana — seven, including a father and son killed helping children escape from a ditch.
Illinois — two, including an elderly man found in a flooded backyard.
Missouri — four, including a woman struck by a tree limb and an elderly man suspected of drowning in a flooded yard.
Kentucky — one, a 10-year-old boy struck by a tree limb while mowing a lawn.
Pennsylvania — two, a 46-year-old man struck by tree limb while helping remove a large tree from a house, and a 43-year-old utility worker who was electrocuted when he stepped on a live wire while working to repair power lines.
Michigan — two, a 20-month-old boy apparently drowned in a stormwater-filled ditch near Auburn, Mich., and a 15-year-old killed when his all-terrain vehicle crashed into a hidden ravine created by storm water.