Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1911 — VIOLENT WIND STORM [ARTICLE]

VIOLENT WIND STORM

Crosses Western Indiana at a Fifty Mlie an Hour Gait——Much Damage Done. Saturday evening a violent wind storm crossed western Indiana at a rate of 50 miles an hour, and did damage estimated at SBO,OOO. In Hillsboro, Fountain county, the estimated loss financially is $50,000. while at Ben Davis, where the town was almost blown away, the loss is estimated at 525,000. The loss to the farming communities is also quite heavy much damage being done to orchards and outbuildings and telegraph telephone lines were heavy' financial losers. In-Jasper county the full force of the storm w'as not felt. The principal damage done being near Swaney Makeever’s, in Newton tp., where the summer kitchen was blown off the foundation, the whel of the windmill was blown down, the top of the corn crib was blown off and several rods of rail fence razed. ."'.-L,'.