Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1913 — MANY WERE KILLED IN FRIDAY’S STORM [ARTICLE]

MANY WERE KILLED IN FRIDAY’S STORM

Gale Was of Wide Extent and Dam- ■ age and Death Occurred in , Many States. Many persons, possibly as many as one hundred, were killed and many others injured, while property loss ran into the millions during the terrific gale of Thursday night and Friday. Jasper county seems to have fared very well and by far the worst damage here was. the destruction of Firman Thompson’s big stock barn, west of Parr. The dimensions of the barn were 30x100 feet instead of 30x50 feet as stated in this paper Friday. There Were 75 head of cattle and 112 head of hogs in the barn and one big steer was killed outright and another so badly injured that it was killed soon afterward. • Two or three others have since been killed. The steers were all big heavy ones and the loss will be great. Mr. Thompson, however, .was fully covered 3 by insurance. The . wind struck the west end of the barn and raised it up several feet from the ground and as it did so the heavy timbers on the other end were crushed and the barn crashed down on the stock, many head of which were knocked over and crushed to the floor. Emmet Hopkins, the foreman at the farm, and John Schultz, a farm hand, went at the work of releasing the stock and it Was necessary to use axes and woi-k with great vigor to release the stock. The timbers of the barn were so badly damaged that the loss •is almost complete. The barn cost $1,700 and was built less than a year ago. Mr. Thompson also had one silo blown down and she roof.of another was blown off. * '

The storm was severe throughout Indiana and several other states. In the south, particularly in the southeastern states, the storm seems to have been worse than through the west and northern states. In Chicago the damage is estimated in millions, while in Indianapolis more than a million dollar loss is, reported. Henry Walters, of Lafayette, was killed while oh an errand for his sick Wife. A sign was blown town and crushed his skull. Homer A. Vice, a Frankfort cab driver,, was killed by a falling roof. From all over IJie state reports of damage to property and serious accidents are reported. Papers estimate the deaths from the storm from 65 to 100.