Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1915 — School House Among Buildings Destroyed Near Frankfort. [ARTICLE]

School House Among Buildings Destroyed Near Frankfort.

Frankfort, Ind., May 21. —A miniature cyclone and cloudburst visited the southeastern part of this county this morning, damaging property to the extent of $30,000, according to the estimate of farmers Who suffered losses. Farm buildings, . sheds, silos and one schoolhouse were demolished by the wind and large tracts of orchards and timber lands were stripped almost bare. At Antioch the storm did the most damage, wrecking many silos and blowing down a number of barns and. windmills; The Morris Chapel school house was leveled to the ground. Timbers from a barn north of the school building were carried for more than half a mile from the site

of th© building. One rafter was carried thirty rods, after which it struck the ground, burying one end of the beam several feet in the earth. At the Otto Lea farm south of Frankfort, a large barn was unroofed and five tons of hay stored in the building was- scattered over a large tract of land. Telephone lines and fences throughout the southeastern part of rhe county were blown down. Contrary to most windstorms the one today did not take everything in its path, but dipped and arose, missing many farm houses.