Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1900 — LAKES LASHED TO FURY. [ARTICLE]

LAKES LASHED TO FURY.

Great Havoc Is Wrought by the Gale at Various Points. The big storm’s velocity diminished after leaving Texas, but Increased with wonderful rapidity after reaching the lake region. Its path then was 300 miles wide. The wind reached the greatest velocity at Chicago it had attained since leaving Galveston. The gale attained a velocity of seventy-two miles an hour and ripped signs off buildings and blew down electric wires in number sufficient

to menace the life of pedestrians. The wind caused the loss of two lives, the serious injury of several persons and great damage to property. Immense damage was done at Buffalo and at other lake ports by the storm which traveled with great violence down Lake Erie. In Buffalo the wind attain* ed a velocity of seventy miles an hour, and seemed to regain some of the power which it exhibited in wrecking Southern cities. Reports of property loss and fatalities could not be gathered owing to the damage to telegraphic and telepho. nic communications, and it is impossible to estimate the loss of the lake shipping. The most serious damage at Buffalo was the partial destruction of one of the Pan-American buildings now in the course of erection.