Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1912 — NO SERIOUS DAMAGE RESULTED AT REMINGTON. [ARTICLE]

NO SERIOUS DAMAGE RESULTED AT REMINGTON.

Fallen Trees and Limbs Obstruct Streets and Cripple Electric Light and Telephone Service. Exaggerated reports of the storm damage at Remington Tuesday reached Rensselaer and it was expected by persons who went to that town to investigate that the place had been literally wiped off the map. This proved not to be the case, however, and the actual damage was slight. The town presented an odd appearance following the storm, which raged for a few minutes at about 12:30 o’clock. The streets were literally covered with limbs broken from the large maple shade trees that line the sides of the' streets. Occasionally a large tree was felled across the street and Travel thus entirely shut off. Many yards were also strewn with the limbs from trees. For the most part the fallen trees were old or partially rotten ones, but occasionally a very sturdy looking tree had been twisted off. It is safe to say that thousands of limbs were broken off and cast into the streets. „ Soipe of the limbs fell across the light and telephone wires and caused considerable damage. The light plant manager, however, was on the job soon after the storm with linesmen and the system was in Tuning order by evening. Manager Brand of the telephone company was also Actively at work and repaired much of the damage to the lines in town during the afternoon. President Delos Thompson and Superintendent Montgomery and workmen went over to Remington in the afternoon and repaired the lines as they went. Communication between the two towns was restored before 6 o’clock in the evening. Some cribs at tbe Faripers elevator were blown over and a section of the roof torn off. The roof was also torn off Milner’s tile mill A brick chimney was torn at Sunderland’s livery barn and a part of the roof damaged. A farm house occupied by John Williams, at the north edge of town, was slightly damaged by a chimney blowing down. Shingles were torn from the roof also. The corn was badly blown down .over near Remington, much of it laying almost flat on the 1 ground and some will probably never straighten up. Hay and straw stacks were uncapped and trees broken off at several places in the country. Poorly constructed outbuildings were damaged along the wake of the storm. From automobile tourists people at Remington learned that the stc/rm was quite.had at Preeland Park and across the line into Illinois. At Fountain Park no serious damage resulted. Several defective trees in the grove were broken down and two or three tents were blown over but these were righted soon after the storm passed over. The afternoon program was somewhat interfered with. A very heavy rain followed- the wind storm and streams were swollen almost out of their banks.

Considerable damage was done in ■ Jordan township yesterday while the ] storm was in the height of its strength. A large cattle barn on the William Washburn farm was the target of the terrific wind storm and collapsed under the pressure Twentythree head of cattle were in the barn at the time but all escaped except two. A. Deweese, the tenant, and family were in the house when the barn went down. They succeeded in releasing the two steers. A manure spreader that was in the driveway was also damaged. The barn was built in 1901 and was 96 feet long by 26 feet wide and was Very- sturdy, costing about $1,500. Mr. Washburn was protected from any possible loss by fire but be had no windstorm insurance. A com crib on the W. D. Bringle farm, near the Washburn place, was stripped of its roof, and a corncrib recently built by Joseph Pass, tenant of the Fred Lyons farm, destroyed. was blown down at the W. V. Porter farm and a straw rick scattered broadcast At the George Michaels place the kitchen was lifted from its foundation and moved about 16 inches. A windmill was also blown down there as was one at the Joe Larsh farm, just north of the Porter farm. A large barn on the Frank Hill farm was blown down. It was * an old bam, ' having dimensions of 60x80 feet There was no stock in the bam and very little feed. It was not insured. As far as we are able to learn, no other damage Was done to buildings hu that vicinity. The orchards on the J3ringle and McCashen farms were badly damaged. Several trees were uprooted and many limbs broken. The