Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1912 — Sections of Country Swept by Wind Storm. [ARTICLE]

Sections of Country Swept by Wind Storm.

A fierce wind storm swept over a part of Oklahoma and Missouri Saturday afternoon, killing twen-ty-five people in the latter state. Much damage was also done by a wind storm in Ohio the same evening. Some sections of Indiana wer also wind swept Saturday evening and considerable damage At Lowell Frank Maloy, the Mono® agent, formerly of Rensselaer, was kneeling at the door of a «safe in the Monon station, when he was bowled over and over on the floor by the force of a shock from a bolt of lightning that ripped a tree in two parts and knocked the plaster from the walls of the station and the home of' William Love nearby. Benumbed in parts and experienceing severe pains in others, Maloy laid disabled for some time. Damage was done by the ball of lightning in the Love residence, the home of Ed Wood and Marshal Belshaw’s dwelling, all of which it ie said to have visited in turn.