Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1898 — DEATH IN A WINDSTORM. [ARTICLE]

DEATH IN A WINDSTORM.

Many Persona at Lima, Ohio, Are Buried in Rnina of Homes. The worst storm ever experienced in that section struck the northeastern part of Lima, Ohio, the other day, causing loss of life and serious damage to property. Its starting point was about three miles east and small buildings were leveled. Jacob Bozee’B barn was wrecked and people were buried beneath the ruins. George Iludsell, aged 70, was crushed, Bozee’s shoulder was broken. The cyclone on entering the populous district twisted a new house from its foundation and left it in the street, then continued across the Pennsylvania tracks niul demolished two water tanks, unroofod the Quilna brewery, Lima egg case plant and a number of adjacent buildings. The high school building was wrecked, the west end being torn out, letting the roof and second Hoors into the cellar. The storm unroofed a portion of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway shops and buried Harry Casewell under the debris. He was badly hurt. The Hotel French lost part of its roof, the Colvin livery barn and the West high school building were unroofed and fifty houses damaged. The Detroit and Lima Northern Railway repair shops were ffilown over and the men escaped by getting beneath ap engine. In the southern part of the city many houses suffered. The western part of the town was badly damaged in places, the city water works building being unroofed.