Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1920 — STORM SWEEPS CLINTON COUNTY; CROPS DAMAGED [ARTICLE]

STORM SWEEPS CLINTON COUNTY; CROPS DAMAGED

lt Sept. 27.—Damlars was caused in Clinton county early today by a storm of cyclonic proportions. Housei were unroofed, barns demolished, fruit-and shade trees gnd hundreds of telephouNr put; out of commission. The storm was accompanied by a torrential rein which flooded cellars and basements, A sixty-foot steel smoke-stack at the Frankfort Ice and- Coal company plant was miles long. Nearly every corn field was leveled and practically all farm buildings in its path were damaged.