Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1900 — GALE SWEEPS OVER OHIO. [ARTICLE]

GALE SWEEPS OVER OHIO.

Houses Blown Down, Root's Tom Off, unci Small Bouts Driven Ashore. A terrific windstorm swept over uqrtheru Ohio ou Wednesday, doing great damage. At Liepsic many buildings were blown down and roofs torn off others. The streets were filled with debris, while telegraph and telephone wires were laid upon the ground and poles blown over. At Sandusky four large icehouses were destroyed, several buildiugs were unroofed and small boats’ blown ashore. The damage is $20.000. Shipping interests were badly crippled. Around Port Clinton, Marblehead and Dak Harbor many, buildings were unroofed and other damage done. In the oil fields the loss is very, heavy. Hundreds of derricks and boiler houses have beeu .scattered over the fields. Au oil man said th.e damage wcyald reach fully $250,000. At Tippecanoe City S. Shearer’s tobacco sheds were wrecked and the Masonic Hall and other buildings damaged. At Bneyrus the German Lutheran Church, was badly damaged and tlie Ohio Central roundhouse partly unroofed. Tha Storm in ,\:w York. Jn New York City there was a sudden darkening of the sky. A few minutes later rain suddenly appeared, and in less than a minute was coming down iu sheets. Following it came a blast of wind which for a time blew at a velocity of seventy-two miles an hour. The wind tore a skylight weighing two tons frdui its fastenings and blew it info Fifth avenue. With a crash the skylight struck a carriage, driven by Charles Uggla, who was passing. The edge of the skylight struck Uggla ou the head, lit- was probably fatally injured. At Buffalo the wind blew «t the rate of sixty-five miles an hour. At the PanAmerican grounds the building for the cyclorauut of Missionary Ridge was blown down, and another Midway building was seriously injured. Scaffoldings were torn, from some of the buildings, and sections of several roofs were torn off. Several workmen are reported injured.