Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1896 — STORMS IN INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

STORMS IN INDIANA.

Had Devastation la Caused—Houses Wrecked and Crops Hulnetl. Tuesday uftornoon the entire south part of Wells County, Indiana, was swept by a heavy hailstorm. Wednesday afternoon at the same hour a cyclone swooped down on territory only a few miles north, clearing everything be fore it. Orchards wera destroyed and n barn belonging to Robert Gavin, one of the largest in the county, was blown down, burying cattle nnd horses iu the debris. At Liberty Center, a number of residences were blown down and the Methodist Chureb was unroofed. A house nt Petroleum was blown to pieces. The Clover Leaf Railway between Hlnffton nnd Liberty Center wua covered with fallen trees. In the vicinity of Warsaw tho loss of crops Is dreadful and little will be saved. Corn, potatoes add uuthrashed wheat and on Is are ruined. Nohr Wabash the bnilstones were of extraordinary si so" wad badly punished stbek exposed to the storm. The corn In many places wni whipped to ribbons. There is yet a great deal of wheat in th* shock, and all of it is molding or sprouting and prnetieully worthless nt Ornwfordsville, The downpour was accompanied by terrific lightning nnd thunder, barns, trees n'tid houses were struck without number, aud many animals killed. A washout on the Vnndalla tbrAw nn engine «t\d five mgri into Walnut Kora crepk. Two of the five were instantly killed and other* injured.