Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1917 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters Of Minor Mention from Many Places. WIND HITS NORTHERN INDIANA Child Killed and Property Damage Is Close to $50,000. Northern Indiana was visited by a violent wind and rain storm Friday afternoon that resulted in one death and property damage estimated close to $50,000. Madeline Bock of South Bend, 5 years old, was killed by a street car while trying to cross the street in the driving rain. Many houses were damaged and trees uprooted at New Carlisle, and a mile of poles were blown down along the Chicago, South Bend & Northern Indiana railway. The roof was also torn from the new Christian Science church at South Bend. The storm was quite terrlffic in the vicinity of Lee and Monon, but no reports of material damage have been received. The roof was blown from a silo on the Granville Moody farm northeast of town, which is perhaps the extent of the damage in this vicinity, where the storm was not very severe.