Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1911 — FOLLOWED OLD CYCLONE TRACK. [ARTICLE]

FOLLOWED OLD CYCLONE TRACK.

The most severe effects of the hail storm in this county of last Tuesday seems to have been on almost identically the same route as that taken by the cyclone a few years ago, although perhaps a little wider strip of country was devastated. The worst damage, however, was in about the center of this same territory, and starting from over about Mt. Ayr the corn was badly damaged all the way through the Makeever and Yeoman neighborhoods in Newton tp., and over into this county between Rensselaer and Surrey and ending up in Barkley, taking almost identically the samp course as the cyclone did a few years ago. An old settler tells us that in the past sixty years several severe storms have passed over identically this same section and seem to have started over on the prairie about Mt. Ayr.