Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1909 — WINDSTORM TUESDAY NIGHT. [ARTICLE]

WINDSTORM TUESDAY NIGHT.

Much Damage Done In Different Sections of the State. A terrific windstorm swept with destructive force across the north end of the state Tuesday night damaging considerable property. The storm came from the north and west and followed a south-easterly course as far as the gulf of Mexico. South of here, in some of the southern states, it develdped into a goodsized tornado, killing people and stock and destroying thousands of dollars worth of property. At Wabash, Ind., a brick barn was literally torn to pieces and hardly kindling wood was left of more than one frame building. Thirty houses were unroofed there, it is reported. In Howard county the wind picked up a frame cottage containing a woman and three children and carried them eighty feet before letting them down gently in a newly plowed field.

At Bloomfield, Ind., nine horses which were tied in a stable were killed by lightning, and. in Ohio, Tennessee and Michigan several people were killed. The storm through here was accompanied by a heavy rainfall, and a few miles north a hai-d sleet. 8. H. Hopkins and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Grant were on the north gravel road just south of Aix, when the storm struck them. Their buggies were overturned and only the fact that both were driving gentle horses saved them from serious injuries. The rainfall in the vicinity of Aix was very heavy. Some of the telephone lines which have just been rebuilt were again torn down and in a number of instances the poles were Ikying several feet from the holes. The most Damage was to the Bruner lines north of town. The roofs were blown off three box cars in a freight train just north of Rensselaer, and a milk can blown from the depot platform Wednesday morning, on the track derailed two empty coal pars that were in the local, the wind continuing severely all day Wednesday. Several farmers report demolished windmills and outbuildings, but no serious damage to crops.