Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1917 — J. R. HAZEN’S HOUSES DAMAGED [ARTICLE]

J. R. HAZEN’S HOUSES DAMAGED

By W ind Storm That Struck Southern Indiana City. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hazen of Goodland were in Rensselaer Thursday afternoon on their way home from North Vernon and to look after their tenant property on Cullen street in this city. Mr. Hazen owns two tenant houses in North Vernon, located close by the Christian church, and when the cyclone visited that city Saturday and blew the slate roof off the church it fell on one of these cottages and damaged it to the extent of several hundred dollars. The other cottage was damaged but slightly. Mr. and Mrs. Hazen drove down to North Vernon Monday, having received word that their property was badly damaged. They had no cyclone insurance at all on their property. They brought back several photographs giving a fair idea of damage wrought in that prosperous city, where every church was more or less wrecked, scores of dwellings blown down and other damage wrought to the extent of $200,009.