Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1912 — Windstorm Tuesday Afternoon Did Considerable Damage. [ARTICLE]

Windstorm Tuesday Afternoon Did Considerable Damage.

A heavy wind from the west did much damage to orchards, shade 'trees, windmills jand outbuildings Tuesday afternoon, starting in Illinois and sweeping through the vicinity of Kentland. Goodland. Remington, Wolcott and Monticeilo. The wind did not strike as far north as Rensselaer, op do any damage, but we had a heavy rain here. It came within a few miles of town on the south, however, and at Henry Luers’ some trees were blown down, oats shocks scattered and corn blown down. • Out at William Washburn’s place in Jordan tp„ his big barn, 52x96. 28 feet high, was blown all to pieces. Mr. Washburn carried no cyclone insurance, and the loss is compete save for rebuilding. Windmills except for what lumber he can and some other outbuildings in that vicinity were alco damaged. At Remington every street, it is said, was blocked by trees and debris blown down by the wind. Some of the trees uprooted were a foot and a half through. The roof of the old tile mill at Remington was blown off. The rain was almost a elondburst, and oat shocks scattered about by the wind were thoroughly soaked by the heavy downpour which followed. Shade trees and orchards were uprooted all along the path of the storm, and small outbuildings and scores of windmills were either blown down or bent and twisted by the hurricane. No one was injured at any place in the storm so far as reported, but the damage to' oats, corn and farm improvements will reach many thousands of dollars. There was a great .deal of lightning with the storm, but no damage in particular is reported from this cause. Silos were blown down over near Goodland, and the roof of the Sheets livery barn at Fowler was blown ©lf. At Fowler a flash dispatch was received over the wires from Kankakee that a big storm was coming, and just 18 minutes later, it is reported, the storm reached there. The distance between the two places is 45 miles, which shows the velocity of the wind. While thousands of acres of corn was laid flat by the wind, most of this has righted, except where the stalks were broken, and the damage to corn is not so great as first supposed it would be.