Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1882 — TERRIFIC EFFECTS OF THE CYCLONE BEFORE IT REACHED BROWNSVILLE. [ARTICLE]

TERRIFIC EFFECTS OF THE CYCLONE BEFORE IT REACHED BROWNSVILLE.

The tornado struck Montrose at 3:30 p. m. yesterday, destroying eighteen dwellings and four churches. No lives lost. A school four miles east of Montrose was blown down, and all the inmates were more or less injured, two little sous ol John Farr, it is supposed, latally. One little child was blown across a twenty-acie field and lodged in an app.e-tree uninjured. Two men in au adjacent Oeld were blown over a hedgofence ten feet high, and both seriously injured. The storm is said to have reached as far as Appleton City, and blown down houses. At Clinton a heavy hail-storm prevailed. All the windows facing the west were damaged. Hail fell s.B large as goose-eggs. At Holden a number of houses were blown down, and others badly damaged.