Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 June 1902 — Page 3
THE IHDIAHAPOLIS HEWS, ’THURSDAY, JUKE 20, 1902.
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HEAVY
f Jut.t an a child will twist a cardboard t»ox tout of Hbatw amt all cvry. It was blo/sn ; clear of Its foundations and stood a mi -
| hb*pe« thins by the roadside.
At F'ortvHle it see-med as if the storm had gone around. Just the extreme east j and west Darts of the town war* , touched; here a house with its roof torn ;
' off; there a buiidins; shaken from its j foundations. No otic was hurt here, hut
} there were revcral narrow escapes from tlyin^ debris arid in »be south part of i
LOSS IN CROPS, FENCES For*vtlle neveral houses had the roof
I torn off.
SUMTf
IkLONGTHE BIG FOUR
AND BUILDINGS.
JAMES VAN HAY WAS KILLED
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Crushed to Death Near Pendleton by the Collapse of a Barn-Others
Were Injured.
[From a Staff Correspondent.) FEXDkETON. Ind., June 26.—Perhaps the best idea of the magnitude and force of yesterday's tornado waa to be had />n the line of the Big Four railroad, which seemed to run right through the path where the storm did its meet vicious and malignant work. When It was announced early In the morping that tntmirban traffic west had been Interrupted t»y ih® storm, although there wa» then no Intimation how severe the visitation had been, people flocked to the railroad, and the accommodation train which left the Indianapolis Union Station at 11;19 carried many faaaengerH who had intended taking the electric road. The first intimation of trouble along the road came at lirightwood, when the accommodation was held for nearly an hour, while the train-dispatcher in vain endeavored to get word from train No. 11, due from the Eaet, which had not been
reported,
At the signal station at Brightwood the
operator reported ail wires down eastward, and there was nothing to do but wait until the lint* was cleared by the
arrival of the west-bound train. Grain Down—Cornfields Ruined. -For the first few* miles out of Bright-
wood nothing unusual was to be noted, but Just before getting to Lawrence the first traces of the storm were to be seen in wheat fields, in which the grain was sodden and heavy and beaten down by the force of the rain and hall, and corn fields In which the crops were utterly
ruined. ^ '
Nowhere, perhaps, was the effect of the ball, which accompanied the tornado, «o marked as in the fields of growing corn, and between Indianapolis and Anderson are hundreds of acres of corn absolutely ruined and laid waste, A description of one field answers for ail: It was as if some gigantic force, wielding a huge rake, had gone over the fields, raking the corn ami beating It
down.
The tall, green stalks were stripped Into ribbons or else beaten down Into the mud. Fields that early In the morning had been all green and full of promise were, after the tornado had swept by on its work of destruction, black, muddy, waste places, with here and there a patch of green sticking up out of the mud. Grcaf pools of water lay here and there; broken stalks of green com covered the ground and the torn and tattered leaves, hanging In ribbons, fluttered In the wind. Thg Storm was Erratic. These waste fields were the more pathetic and eloquent.as to the force of the devastation because of the fact that the storm waa so erratic, and uncertain in Us movement that all along the line a waste field would be found right alongside a field in which the corn was knee high, unscathed and healthy, as if there had
never been a storm.
Here and Ihere were fields of growing wheat in which the heavy grain, headed out, browned by the sun and almost ready for the harvest, was beaten down to the earth as if a heavy roller had passed over it and crushed, the life out of ft. Shortly after leaving Lawrence a field of rye might be seen, some forty acres in extent, In which the grain had been reaped and shocked, ready for the stacking. Here the tornado had reveled In destruction. The shocks were torn and twisted; the bundles of grain were thrown in every direction; acme of them torn to pieces, and several had, by a hack eddy of the wind, beentfiswept upon tho railroad track.
Oats Suffered Least.
Oats, too. ‘suffered much, but escaped with less Injury, for some unknown reason, than the other grain. But even here there Were green fields of oats lying level with the ground, and in some fields there were huge zlgaag swaths cut through the field, showing where the storm had been
at its worst, '.l 4 ;
But the most vjvkl evidence of the p« wer of the tornado was to be seen in its effect on the forests, and here again the erratic characior of the tornado was to b»- seem for, while one patch <>£ forest would be torn and twisted and ruined, another, hSrdby* would be unscathed. K was marvelous to see how huge oaks, gigantic sycamores, tali and spreading beeches, dainty maples and the rest had
been rent and rived by the wind,
many cases they were broken off low down to tho ground. Some had been twisted off and hurled t0 a distance from
place where they had grown.
Trees Stopped Traffic.
No less than ten huge trunks cf trees Were hurled directly onto the tracks of tho inter urban electric railway, and Im-
peded traffic for hours
Om; would come to a patch of forest ground, ‘and instead of the stately trees decking the landscape with green, there would be a mass of twisted trunks and intertwined branches, with many splinters and patches of fresh white where the trees stood, stripped naked by the fury
of the storm
As showing something of the awful pow-
Factory Blown Down. Just beyond Fortville is- the Mothershead Silica Manufacturing Company’s plant. Part of this waa blown down and the wreckage strewn over the railroad track. Here, too, was a large forest that had suffered severelv. Every piece of woods along here was slashed with white and jagged wounds. Here, too, it was seen that the hall had been exceptionally heavy for all the green and j growing stuff was beaten into the ground, j From Fortville on past Raleigh Junction and Ingalls the telegraph and telephone poles were all down, and the tangled wires added to the confusion. At Ingalls it was reported that one had : been hurt by the storm, but the damage to property was great. AH through the j town houses were unroofed, windows -j blow n in. doors torn from their hinges, i In the country east of Ingalls barns were to be seen lying on tho’.r sides, outhouses ; Upturned and dwellings with no roof but a jagged timber or two and the sky above- j them. Factory Roof Across the Track. A mile east of Ingalls the Wagner glass factory' has its plant, and this was pretty badly wrecked, part of the roof lying across the track. Here one of the employes was caught in the wreck. His name could not be learned, but It was reported that he had his leg broken. Just below Ingalls, at Spring Valley, the storm touched lightly, but it stayed long enough to unroof the barn of Edgar Lewis, to twist the house of Edward Haines awry, and to unroof the house and barn of Nathan Garrison. Brick Schoolhouse Unroofed. At Raleigh siding there was much evidence of damage, and It was plain that the wind here had been very fierce and powerful, Mile after mile of rail fence was blown down; a reaping machine that had been working in the middle of a field was dismantled and a brick schoolhouse was unroofed and a gaping hole was blown In its
side.
Pendleton seemed to be the eastern boundary of the storm. To the country about Pendleton an enormous amount of damage was done. The wind was so severe here that huge forest trees were uprooted or else twisted off close to the ground. Hundreds of acres of corn were
beaten into tatters.
Just east of Pendleton a one-story frame house was blown clear of Its foundations and overturned, ft was occupied by George Jackson and his wife, an old couple. Both were so seriously Injured by flying timbers -and by the shock that neither is expected to live. Three miles southeast of Pendleton another house was overturned, that of George Gebhardt, and two children, who were in the house, were,badly in-
jured.
One Man Killed. But the most serious and costly Injury was that inflicted to the farm of Henry Coburn, of Indianapolis, two miles west of Pendleton. Here hundreds of acres of corn and wheat were ruined. The windmill close to the house was wrecked and Jamea Van, Hoy, a young man of twentytwo, emploj'ed as a farm hand, was killed. Van Hoy was close to the house when he saw the storm coming. As one of his fellow-laborers said; “We looked up over the hill and saw It coming. It was a huge cloud of black and purple, shaped like a funnel, and it seemed to be plowing up the earth before it. It looked as if it were carrying all before it, for in the dust and amid the fury of the cloud it looked as if there were green things and trees and timbers. "Van Hoy shouted out, ‘Look out!’ and ran for the barn. I ran, too, and there Were other men taking shelter there. The cloud came right to the house, took the windmill in Its course and carried it away at once; then seemed to swerve around the house and make for the barn. "At once the building shook; there was a roar; the crash of breaking timbers, and the whole thing collapsed. Then came the hall, blinding and punishing so that no man could stand in it, and the storm had
passed.”
Crushed In the Wreck. It had passed, but it had utterly demolished the barn, and James Van Hoy, who had taken refuge in its insecurity, lay - crushed and bleeding beneath the debris, a huge sill, sixteen by sixteen, pressing cruelly on his chest. Blood was gushing from his mouth and nostrils whefl they lifted the terrific weight from him and too*k him away, but he spoke never a word and died as he was
rescued.
There had been four men in the barn when it fell; James Van Hoy was the only one killed. Two of the others were slightly injured by falling timbers. News of the disaster spread quickly and neighbors from far and near came to the Coburn farm to be of assistance. Elmer Hester runs the farm for Henry Coburn, and under his direction the neighbors set to work to salvage what they could. Tons of hay were tossed aside by willing hands; axes and saws were plied until the
. , knotted timbers were cleared Away, and ,n i hen it was seen that three or four cows
had been crushed to death beneath the
rubbish.
Bull was Uninjured. Under one part of the wreck where the pile of debris was highest, they found a huge bulk crushed by the weight ou him. When the weight was lifted it proved that the bull was uninjured, but he l^y in an awkward hole, in the. sides of which were jagged Umbers and splintered wood. After much labor the bull was hauled out and set upon his feet, a Hugh piece of flesh torn from his flank being the only dam-
age.
gnlffing the air eagerly, the liberated
WEATHER BUREAU CHIEF DISCUSSES YESTERDAY'S STORM FOR THE NEWS.
W. H. Blythe, After Personal Observations, Declares that the Storm that Swept Indiana Was Not a Tornado.
i
► HAT yesterday's storms were of the Imnad© type, I am not. yyt prepared to lari (eve My reaaous for this un-
belief arc;
1. The cor.dlrf'jos existing at the T o'clock observation Wednesday tnorniny. as shown on the daily weather map, white indicating unsettled weather for this circuit during ths succeeding twenty-four hours, did not warrant any ‘fears that Indiana would be visited by tornadoes. / 2. The frequent improper and indiscriminate use by the press and people generally, of the terms cyclone and tornado, in describing destructive, severe, or in many cases, even moderate storms* cauxea doubt as to whether the true character of yesterday's storm has been reported. Moreover, the storm was at first reported in such language as to lead to the belief that it was of the tornado type. But investigation showed that, while trees had been uprooted and limbs torn off and fallen, in a few cases in different directions from their original position, there were few', if any, indications that the destruction had Wen caused by a true tornado, viz.: "A revolving mass of air, with a violent, vertical, rotary motion." ♦ » • “together with a violent up-flraft In the center. - ’ On the other hand, there were many evidences that the damage was dene by the horizontally rolling motion that precedes and accompanies thunder-
omrlrle prewwjre not necessarily much below the normal; <t) a temperature of almost 7<* degrees on the morning weather maps; <31 great humidity, and H) that the time of the year be April 1 to July L" He further says: "These conditions may and often do
' k/i*- ' ilfe V -Z'SCii,
Gave No Warning.
I have' said that the existing conditions, as recorded at the weather bureau office ,‘n this city, on Wednesday morning, did not presage, the formation of tornadoes. A high official of the Weather Bureau, of long experience, after giving much study to thq' subject, has written that four conditions are essential to the formation of tornadoes, and stated them as follows; "(1) A cyclone or area of low pressure, the center of which is to the north or northwest, with a bar-
W. H. BLYTHE. exist separately; two or three of them may be found co-existing; but so long as one of the four be absent, tomadic formation is not likely to occur.” Of these four conditions the first and fourth existed at 7 o’clock Wednesday morning, but the second and third did not; the
temperature was 65, and the relative humidity was 66 per cent, of the possible at that temperature The storm near Broad Ripple, as seen during Its approach and prevalence, was described to me by a number of persons, including Captain Norvefi. of the excursion steamer, a gentleman who was introduced to me as the "Roo Bah" of the village. Mrs. Dawson, the wife of a prosperous farmer whose p sldence is near White river about two miles northeast of Broad Ripple Park, and a number of the intelligent and brightvyoung men and boys in the Y. M. C. A. outing camp, still farther up the river. When summarised, the statements of these several persons may be stated about as follows; The storm was first observed as a cloud of inky darkness, slowly, rising in the northwest and west, separated by a welldefined horizontal line from a light grayish cloud lying near the horizon. • As R approached, the solidity of the sheet of black clouds became less, pronounced, and the line dtridlng them .from the gray beneath became uneven and ragged. As the stor 7 n came still nearer, the dark clouds gave the appearance of numerous masses, large ana small, rolling and tumblingJn different directions in an angry rush, but maintaining a generally east by south movement, and coming closer to the earth, until its effects were felt “broatlside on" over strip of country lying along the genera! direction of White river, from Broad Ripple northeastward for a known distance of three or four miles .... The effects of this mild electrical and severe windstorm' show that hhd it touched the earth at the location of a town or city. Us destructiveness would have caused much loss of property and probably life. As it was, the damage done was confined to the uprooting and breaking limbs of forest trees. This storm, as I believe others in Indiana yesterday were, was without much question local and only an incident of the thunderstorm conditions that existed in the southeast quadrant of a cyclonic area, which was central early In the morning near Davenport. la., and which moved rapidly eastward during the day. W. H. BLYTHE, Section Director of the U.. S. Weather Bureau at Indianapolis.
HEADACAE, BA0KAQtf ; DIZZINEI (PE-RU-NA CURES PELVIC CATARRH,)
DESOLATION IN THE WAKE OF THE GREAT STORM.
CROPS LEVEL WITH GROUND
"I am perfectly well,* says Mrs. Martin, of Brooklyn. “Pe ru-na cured me.”
Loss is Heavy — The Storm Showed j Much Freakishness and Struck in Spots.
HOW THE BAROMETER TOLD OF STORM.
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1 2 4 6 8 10 XII 2 ♦ 6 8 10 M 2 4 6 8 10 XII 2 4 b 8 10 M 2 4 6 8 10 X11 2 4 6 8 10
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The accompanying chart will give the terday morning caused the weather mak untutored in meteorology' an idea of how ers on the Majestic Building to feel that Weather Observer Blythe gained his first there might be a little atmospheric disItaeory that a storm had visited the vi- turbance. but when the needle made tho cinity of Indianapolis. There were weath- point indicated by the "x" they shook er conditions to warrant the fear that a their heads and knew tha* something thunderstorm mi S ht visit this section, but S^^^^/^rtTof^Broad 0 rK, they were not Very marked. when the Y. M. C. A. boys were being
Tho action of the barometer early yea- rendered tentless.
to threads, and all Is practically ruined. Miles of fencing have been blown down, and farms look like wrecks. At Slabtown. nine miles northeast, great damage resulted, and the crops are reported as ruined. . . . Whitestown seems to have been spared. The storm divided, one part passing to the north and the other to the south. The loss to buildings will reach about $10,000. WRECKAGE AT INGALLS.
Loss to the Wagner Plant Fifteen to Twenty Thousand Dollars. [Special to The Indianapolis News.] INGALLS, Ind., June 26.—Yesterday’s storm was probably the most destructive ever felt In Madison county. The damage done in Ingalls was great. The heaviest loss is that of the Wagner Glass Company, whose factory was almost destroyed. Henry Wagner places his loss at between $15,000 and $20,000. The barn belonging to the M. E. church was demolished. The house occupied by William Conyer was torn to pieces, the house occupied by Mr. Rinehart was turned bottom side up, and now rests upon the roof. Township Trustee Swain lost a magnificent grove surrounding his home. One of the trees fell upon the house. The roof on John Cummins’ store was torn off. The roof of the old three-story hotel was removed and it rolled end over end toward the south end of town. The front glass in the Kinley Hotel was blown in. ’Squire Edmunds lost a barn and five shade trees. The house of Ed Lally was badly wrecked. A traveling show was on its way from Pendleton to Ingalls but was overtaken by the storm a mile east of town. A wagon containing an electric dynamo was overturned and the driver was seriously hurt. In the community surrounding the town great havoc was wrought.
over, freight cars standing on the side tracks were blown into each other and partially wrecked, and some of the city’s most beautiful trees were destroyed. Neighboring villages _suffererd losses, and the crops are In bad condition. At Oxford, Ind.. a freight car standing on the siding was blown five miles down the track. The house of G. F. Johnson was demolished and that of Mrs. Lydia SVa;drip struck by lightning and partially burned. The old Presbyterian church was also damaged. The barn of Edward Bowles, at Clarkshill, and the blacksmith shop of Clark Finch, at Templeton, were entirely destroyed. HEAVY LOSSES IN HAMILTON.
Several Factories at Noblesville Are Seriously Damaged. to The Indianapolis New*.] NOBLESVILLE, Ind., June 26.~The most destructive wind and rain storm since the memorable cyclone of the seventies, that almost wiped Cicero from the earth, passed over central Hamilton coun-
ty yesterday.
Factories were damaged, trees, barns and outhouses were blown over, residences were demolished and garden truck, corn and wheat were seriously injured by the heavy fall of hail and also by the
wind.
The storm gathered quickly In the west, and for a few - minutes before it began to rain the >ky became so black
chimneys were blown to the ground. Th* tub-cleaning room and nearly all of the roof on the entire plant were destroyed. The roof on the strawboard-works was damaged $1,000. The residence of Frank Ackles, on the bank of Cicero creek, was blown into the stream and carried away. Thousands of rods of farm fence were laid flat, many barns were lifted from their foundations, orchards were ruined and much timber in the rural districts was blown down. Damage to the Crops, The greatest damage was to the wheat and corn. The latter was literally cut to pieces. The heavy fall of hail saved the farmers the trouble of thrashing their wheat. Fields that two days ago would yield thirty bushels to the acre will not average live bushels now. Other fields where the prospects were good are not worth the cutting. It Is eetimated that the total damage done by the storm in this county will exceed $50,000. The damage to the artificial ice plant amounted to $2,500. FIELDS SWEPT CLEAR.
TORNADO STRUCK MARIETTA.
the air eagerly,
bull rushed through the crowd, and, see-
ing a red and angry-looking sulky plow j That”‘indoor work was'impossible without
"the "storin''there w.Ve~ £uZ-u I l . n the-bainyard. h<r rushed at tr and lights . Chickens went to roost. forest nH nsiUv KigHnto to Uielr stn i K h tWI8 *2 H aide- »s If he thought it The water tower at the carbon-works, rurtsi BiouMei., ghjanru in men sirengtn, vas responsible for all his Injuries. 1 more than 100 feet high, was blown down.
The steel retort, the shook-house and the
Stainon wag -Bitot. .j > a fge oil tank at the same place were
In ,$)e barn there was also a fine 1m- demolished,
ported stallion, valued at $1,000. This no-
u! pov S huj.
which had stoud' for ages, and w hich the Miorm could neither brbak nor bend. Bin
still rjhey had fallen.
ThejK wortf literally uprooted and lay on Urn ground, with tons of earth still ding-
t WtltirU *11 J 11**5 IMJJ*OOfc 8 HHil t fa*' Jii ftO "W H t f*t.“ ; t.' x WHS f'fllltld IVlliLI Oil lls <!(]» IJT1d!ep iule in'the ground' 'AtongMte head-! <-'er an Incredible weight of wreckage, waters of Fall creek, around Pendleton, Altar howis of labor a plear space was this phenomenon was the most marked. ! m-ide about it. and after much doeuirinc
and many of the trees that had stobd by • the cm-k'8 brink Were turned over thus, their roots jerked by the gtorm’g strength
from the \ cry bed uf the creek
Whtjla Forest Down.
From LAWrreoee to Oaklandon the evldencee of the storm's wickedness multiplied; hero a whole forest in snarl of tangled limbs and broken trunks; then a cornfield in ribbons. Along the line of
id. too. the telegraph wires below the effects, and there art miles in whkh the telegraph poles off, lying close to the track.
that
had
wtth wheel
bjfifthe veterinarian, Hie horse got on three feet. Its shoulder waa broken and it had to be shot; . ; _ It was most curious to note how the next farm to that ot Henry Coburn was untouched There war* a line barn standing high on a hill, "four-square to all the winds that blow',’’ but not even a
ahltigL? was loosened.'
Schoolhouses South Wrecked. Just south of Pendleton, two brick
schoolhouses were blown down, but no one was injured. The Abe^ Taylor glass factory was directly m the path of one
l hc ground. part of the storm, and the third story of .ere *- ra n -a building was blown off. Luckily, no
e waa in the building, but scarce five nutes before the disaster the workmen
d left the room.
Much damage was done to the Falls -.etery at Pendleton. Here most of tho .trees were uprooted or broken off, and
tOOrPts
orders. U was noticed arms of the semaphore gway and a section hut a* biown over on its aide close by in the ditch, its
»rd.
atopping place
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of Life Exaggerated.
there was af
to meet the train and anxious look on many of k was reported that
t«r*. Fear tration was thuwton a extent of
apiece people j
Near Whitestown Cereals Disappeared
in Places.
[Special to The Indianapolis News.] WHITESTOWN, Ind., June 26.~The
damage from yesterday morning s storm is great. Farmhouses, bams and other buildings were blown down, and In many cases reduced to kindling. On the farm of James A, Bohannon three miles north, a new barn was destroyed, and flying debris was carried a mile. On the William Brenton farm, west of Elixaville, farm
buildings of all kinds w'ere destroyed. Corn and clover on the same farm were
completely swept from the ground, and no traces of the cereals remain. Within the storm belt b^tw-een 1.000 and 2,000 acres
- . of corn, grass and oats were damaged; At the enameling-works three large hundreds of acres of corn were reduced
Several Killed and Injured and Many Buildings Wrecked. MARIETTA, O., June 26.-A tornado passed through this city last night and left devastation and death in its wake. Several were killed, scores injured and dozens of houses were blown down. The city was in total darkness for a time. William Severns was buried under a brick chimney, and terribly mutilated. The most seriously injured are Mrs. John Drayer, Mrs. Styer, John Bay, Mrs. Henry Buker, Henry Buker, two Buker children. Scores of others were badly bruised. The damage to manufacturing plants is great, and dozens of houses were blown flat. The principal damage was done to the Ohio Valley wagon-works, loss about $60,000; Marietta Electric Company car stables, loss $45,000; Acme brick-works, $10,000. The loss to private residences Is about $100,000. OIL DERRICKS FELL.
But the Loss in Grant County is Not Heavy. [Special to The Indianapolis New*.J MARION, Ind., June 26.—Grant county was on the outer edge of yesterday's storm. There was a heavy rain and much thunder and lightning. Hail fell in some places, but there was. not enough of it to cause any great loss. A large barn on the farm of Judge Paulus was struck by lightning and burned to the ground, causing a loss of about $2,'X«. The residence of Dennis Montgomery, at Fairmount, was struck: The members of the family escaped uninjured. In the oil field a few derricks were blown down. The total loss In Grant county from the storm is not great.
WRECKED FOREST FIVE MILES EAST OF GREENFIELD, IND. . : [Photographed for The Indianapolis Newe.J
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many of the monuments in God’s acre were overturned and broken. All over the town of Pendleton there is much evidence of the storm s power, the street* are filled with debrtv; broken trees and umbers and many a house is twisted and insecure on
its foundations. HECTOR FULLER. CAR BLOWN FIVE MILES.
iMum
and most Windstorm Did Considerable Damage
About Lafayette.
[Special to The Indianapolis News ] LAFAYETTE, Ind., June 26-Fire resuited from the wrecking of the power Lbt the street railway company by trm yesterday, and the car service of tne city was crip- j time. Trees were biown
[From a Staff Correspondent.) CASTLETON, Ind., June 26.—Words fall to picture the desolation left by the storm in the northeastern portion of Marion county. Many farmers say they are ruined financially when an hour before the tornado their prospects for rich crops were the brightest for years. Driving for miles through the stormswept district northeast of Castleton and along the Hamilton county line, I found a tangled mass of broken forests, wrecked and dismantled homes and barns, rich grain literally thrashed In the fields, splendid orchards uprooted or snapped off close to the ground. Not so much as garden truck remains on many of the farms and all over the track visited the corn was either flattened to ,the ground or whipped off close to the 'roots. Stock Killed Everywhere. Barns were blown in every direction and stock was killed everywhere. During the afternoon the farmers stood about viewing their ruined crops, anad many of them talked of the future in a hopeless manner. The farmers with the small tracts of lands will suffer even more than those with broad tracts, as many have nothing left for immediate use. Throughout the district there is not a telegraph or telephone pole standing, and the wires are lying about in a tangled mass across the roads and fields. Hundreds of poles were broken in the middle, while others w»ere divided into three pieces, showing the terrible force of the tornado. Roads All Blocked. Nearly all the roads and highways were blocked with fallen trees and fences. Immense trees were uprooted, while otljers, many of them two feet in diameter, were torn into splinters. Tracts of forest land were whipped clean of foliage and the naked trunks stand out in contrast with the magnificent foliage that was there before the storm. What the wind did not accomplish in the way of destruction, the hail did. This beat down with such terrible force that small patches of garden truck in sheltered places were cut to the ground. Until late in the afternoon there was hardly a road in the vicinity that was not strewn with fences, telegraph poles and trees. I drove through fields and washouts and tore down fences in efforts to get through. Said It was Impossible. Farmers along the way continued to say that passage with a buggy was Impossible. but in several instances they turned to and lent a helping hand, that the news might be learned. They cared little for their flattened grain, and gave ready permission to diive through it. Through these fields new roads were cut during the afternoon by farmers, who drove back and forth to learn the extent of damage done their neighbors. . The force of the tornado seemed to be the greatest near the county line, Charles Emery’s farm, on the north side of the road, and about four miles northeast of Castleton, presented a picture of desolation seldom witnessed. The place is occupied by Jacob Kingery and family and all of them fortunately went to Noblesville in the morning, before the storm, on a visit. Not a Vestige Standing. There were no eye-witnesses to the storm at this place, but the large tract covered with kindling wood and debris Is mute evidence of what took place. The house was a five-room cottage and not a vestige of it remains standing. The walls of the structure were ripped into pieces and even the floors did not remain Intact when they were lifted up and deposited some distance away. Portions of the beds and mattresses, broken furniture and other articles were scattered about the place. The clock was found some distance away and broken chairs were in the adjoining field. A more complete destruction could hardly have been made by fire. Several outbuildings, the barn and a log toolhouse were also leveled to the ground. A peculiar feature of this case was that the stock about the farm was foupd grazing peacefully after the storm. Freak of the Storm. A quarter of a mile south of the Kingery place Is the farm of J. \V. Brunson, a huckster. Here the freakish nature of the’ tornado was shown. Brunson’s lar^e barn, filled with stock, was wrecked by having the upper portion of it carried away. The stock was buried in the debris but none of the animals was found to be injured when they were res-
cued.
In the lower part of the barn stood a wagonload of hay. The double doors In each end of the barn were blown out and the load of hay was hurled out into the open! The wagon rolled down to the road nearby, where it collided with a fence and overturned. A carriage standing in the barn lot to the west of the stable was picked up and deposited upside down inside the barn in the place occupied by the hay wagon. Orchards Were Ruined. Brunson had an orchard of fifty apple trees. But four of these trees are now standing, and the peculiar feature is that the four trees do not seem to have been touched by the wind. Brunson was riding toward his home in a huckster wagon when the storm overook him. The wagon was overturned and the horses were tnrown from their feet. The lines became fastened in some manner and when the animals regained their feet they woe held fast. Brunson was slightly
injured.
Great damage was done to the home and farm of \V. E. Bash, a mile south of the Emery farm. A large tree standing near the house on the west was blown over. It crushed In the roof, knocking the chimneys down, and breaking all the windows, but it held the house in such a way as to pi event it from being overturned by the
storm.
Safety in the Cellar.
The family combined their strength, but they were unable to close the door, and the natural gas In the house came near burning the structure. The family sought safety in the cellar. Bash had a field of rye that had just been harvested. The sheaves were picked up and carried away, flash estimates the loss of croi* in his ISflt acres as almost total, 1 !> s Nearly every article in his barn, Was
Mrs. Anna Martin, 47 Hoyt street, Brooklyn, N. Y., writes: “Penwa did so much tor me that / j feel It my duty to recommend It to others who maybe similarly afflicted, j About a year ago my health was completely broken down, had backache, dizziness and irregularities, and life seemed dark indeed. We bad used Peruna in our home as a tonic and for j colds and catarrh, and / decided to try It for my trouble. In less than three months / became regular, my pains had entirely disappeared, and / am now perfectly well. ” — Mrs. Anna
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Miss Marie Johnson, 11 Columbia, East, Detroit. Mich., Is worthy vice templar in Hope Lodge, No. 6. Independent Order Good Templars. Miss Johnson, as so many other women also have done, found in Peruna a specific for a severe case of female weakness. She writes: "I want to do what I can to let the whole world know what a grand medicine Peruna Is. For eleven years I suffered with female troubles and complications arising therefrom. Doctors failed .to cure me. and I despaired of being helped. Peruna cured me in three short months. I can hardly believe It myself, but it Is a blessed fact. I am perfectly well now, and have not had an ache or pain for months. I want my suffering sisters to know what Peruna has done for me.’’—Miss Marie Johnson. Miss Ruth Emerson, 72 Sycamore street. Buffalo, N. Y., writes; “I suffered for two
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years with irregular ami painful menstruation, and Peruna cured me within six weeks. I can not tell you how gruteful I feel Any agency which brings health and strength to the afflicted is ways a welcome friend, and to-day i market is so filled with useless am* jurious medicines that It i* a plea at know of so reliable a r nnedy as you before the public.’’—Miss Ruth Eme. { It is no longer a question as to whether Peruna can be relied on to cure all such cases. During the. many years hi which Peruna has been put to test in all forms and stages of acute and chronic catarrh no one year lias put greater test than the past year. Peruna is the acknowledged outturn^ remedy of the age. Dr. Hajtmaa, the compounder of Peruna, has written a, book on the phases of catarrh peculiar to women, entitled "Health and B.-an'ty." It' will be sent free to any address by Tho Peruna M*Viicine Co.. Columbus. O. If you do not derive prompt and a factory - results from the usd of Ptj® write at once to Dr. Hartman, givf full statement of your case, and hj| be pleased to give you his valuable vice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, president of Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O,
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but the Structure was not injured. Near the Bash farm a bridge over MtMfr creek was picked up and carried some distance away. Mrs. Abraham Beavers, Jiving In the neighborhood, was badly injured by the falling of her house, and great damage was done to the other buildings and crops on the place. Big Farm Badly Damaged. John Beaver's farm, adjoining, composed of about 1.000 acres, was badly damaged. Three hundred acres of crops were totally destroyed, and two barns were demolished. The farm of Simon Beavers also suffered a large loss. Heavy losses were also sustained by John 8.
Morgan, A. W. McGuire, W. L. Northam. Samuel Morgan, and several other farmers In the immediate vicinity. Along the oourty lire to the west of the Emery farm stands the home of George Tate, but it ls*not on the foundation upon which it was built. Some fence posts prevented It from being deposited in a nearby field. The house was lifted up and deposited to the side of the founda-
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House Twisted and Lifted, A little farther west stands the home of Walter Sutton, in about the same condition as the Tate home. It was twisted and lifted from the foundation, and then settled in the yard to the east. The kitchen remains on the foundation, and the edges of the timbers show that It was cut off clean from the house. A remarkable feature is that none of the occupants In the hous-'s waa Injured. W. P. Clinton, whose farm ts nearby, had two barns wrecked, and seven horse.crippled. On the opposite side of the road, J. E. Hague’s barn was demolished. Ralph Flanders, who owned a large new bam Just west of the Clinton farm, lost ■all his iiersonal property in the structure. Two Horse* Killed. Two horses were killed when the barn was leveled, and an iron windmill was "buckled" until the top touched the ground. Hampton Weal’s home was de-
molished.
Nearly all the farmers said their families sought safety in the cellars when the storm struck them. In nearly every place visited the dejected appearance of the farmers presented a pathetic picture. The farmers seemed dazed at their suddenly ruined fortunes and merely answemred questions by pointing to their flattended fields or uprooted orchards. Few Were Insured. Few of the farmers carried cyclone insurance and are compelled to bear their losses. Wives and mothers with their children stood looking at their husbands and fathers in a dazed manner, as if expecting the men to explain or offer boine suggestion as to what they should do. The little ones showed by their blanched faces that they were still terrified, and thev glanced apprehensively at the clouds every few minutes. Just before nightfall the cows stood about the farms unmilked, suppers were not cooked and no- evening chores were done. The men and women spoke occasionally in subdued tores, while the children whispered In an awed manner. There was but one little burst of sunshine during the afternoon, and this lasted for only a minute or two. The black clouds soon covered the blue surface of the sky from whteh the sun shown, and fear shown in many faces lest the terrible storm should break again. Reports a* to Germantown. Reports from the farmers, told from neighbor to neighbor, were to the effect that Germantown, about ten miles northeast of Castleton, had been wrecked. The roads leading to the little town were all blocked with large trees and rail fences, and communication by wire had been cut I off. The farmers said they heard that there was much damage about Fisher's Station, but that no lives were lost. RAY THOMPSON. • 11 - GERMANTOWN SWEPT.
No Farmer About There Escaped Lo»* of Some Kind. •A farmer *ho walked in from Germantown, on the Hamiiton-Marion county line, to Oaklandon to-day tells of the effects of the storm at Germantown. Two buildings were blown down and demolished, two horses were killed and crops were completely destroyed. Not a farmer escaped the loss of either a barn or
crops.
The rural mall carrier who started on his route to deliver his mall was forced to turn back and abandon bis trip. AH comrr.unlcntion was cut off for the day until
the messenger came on foot. Damage About Hortonville. [Special to The IndianailbltMNew*,]
HORTONVILLE, Ind., June 36.-fluri-dreds of acres of corn were beaten down by hail in the storm and the crop seems to be ruined. The barn* of Henry Phie and William Pierce were demolished and the debris blown across the country. Hundreds of chickens were killed and many forest and fruit trees were blown down. The public scales here were wrecked. The totaj damage will amount to thousand* of
barns destroyed. Schoolhouse No. 2, Ison county, north of here, was and a new bam of Edward Burk
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Osborn Dean, near here, was badly
place were either blown over or uar to some extent. Thy telephone and graph poles are nearly ail down and are blown across the roada in
places.
LEWISVILLE—Among the losses the windstorm of yesterday was that; t the new - canning factory, now The new structures were badly and the opening of the factory wl delayed for some time. The hors* at the race track were damaged cor erabiy, and the crops In the vicinity v this place are reported destroyed. ?a NEWCASTLE—The storm did damage in Henry county to the barns and fencea of the farmers. * mall earner. W. 8. Bedford'* wagoit JHI^H overturned, and he had a narrow e»c« from being crushed by falling timber. " drug store of L T. Faiknef, at K«nn „ was damaged ,£|$1 CONNERSVILLE - Henry Scholl, i farmer living northeast oL_ Cosnap
ville, was seriously hurt In his barn yesterday. Hia leg waa and arm hurt. The storm destroyt?J mi fencing and corn rn ihte district. WHITESTOWN-A new barn on (he farm of James Bohamian was destroyed v—*! and a number of trees and chimney* blown over yesterday morning. TnarfAyaM storm criorded the service of the telephone company. , -clSM LIBERTY—Albert Ball was struck brick while standing in front of the company’s shops in the storm yesfcfefi and seriously hurt, He was unconscious for some time, and suffers from a frac-
tured skull.
PORTLAND—After striking a rottoi wood tree in the yard of J. P. Holmes, this place, lightning seriously shock' the small daughter of Mr. Holme*. A (hough badly shocked, the little recover. . ...J MARION- The large barn On the of Judge H, J. Paulus. north of here struck by lightning and burned to ground. Machinery and feed vajtyar $2,500 was destroyed with the barn. BLOOMINGTON - The wtndstom yesterday, accompanied by hiiiLtotw large- as hens’ »ggs. cut Ice corn aiK wheat in the surrounding country down to 'W
the: ground.
EVANSVILLE—A local storm here yes- -l, terday did much damage. A small boynamed Nightingale was caiught under a falling tree and badly hurt. VERNON—Hall the size of hickory nut* ' accompanied the windstorm of yesterday h and .seriously damaged the crops in;th« § surrounding country.
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(special to Tbe IncHanapuH* News. I LINDEN, Ind., June 26.—The storm cov-
ered only two miles on this aide of Mont-
blown out through the large double doors, gomery county. The loss on Postal tele-
graph lines was $300; telephones, $M»; the Greer-Wilklnson lumber *hed, $308; Jesse Gobin’s barn, $60; shade tree* in towd, $300. The loss on crops .by hail will reach thottsands of dollars, \vbole fields of corn were ruined 3y hail and wheat and oats were
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