Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1892 — TORNADO IN OHIO. [ARTICLE]

TORNADO IN OHIO.

Springfield is Visited by Two t Funnel-Shaped CloudsThirty Dwelling* Demolished. end Otot One Hundred Partially Ruined. The most destructive tornado which ever visited that portion of Ohio struck the southeastern part of Springfield—the - resident portion—Wednesday morning at 11 o’clock, and demolished about thirty residences and partially ruined over a hundred more. But two persons are possi- ” bly fatally inj ured.but the loss iu property is large, a conservative estimate .placing* it at between 1150,000 and $200,000. n The path of the tornado was fully a mile long from west to east, and three blocks wide. It-first, struck the fair grounds in the eastern, part of the city, hurled itself along in a southeasterly direction, taking a house here and theie until it struck the corner of South Limestone street and Euclid avenue, threequarters of a mile away, where the cloud cametbthe ground and literally demolished an entire block of residences. It then lifted and passed over the city in a northeasterly direction, hurling down a house here and there. . In the block immediately east of South Limstone street scarcely half a dozen houses are left standing. All is a mass of debris, lumber, trees and furniture piled up for a square ip. confusion. Terrified spectators who witnessed the approach othe tornado state that it was preceded foi ‘ “about tive~minutes with a veritable cloud* burst of water, followed by continuous - Hashes of lightning and claps of thunderTwo clouds, both funnel shaped—one from the west and one from the southwestthen came clashing together directly over the fair grounds and began their work oi destruction. The clouds whirled about, felling trees and buildings, in two separate paths, five hundred feet apart and about a hundred feet wide, leaving ths center untouched. The entire police force was ordered to the seen* and the Mayor also ordered out the Cham pion Ci ty Guai ds and Ba t ter y E ■ to preserve order and prevent vandalism. • Thirty families have lost their all, John*" Leach and his family of five children living in the center of the destroyed district had a narrow escape. They were at dinner when the tornado came. It lifted th< house directly above the terrified famlly’i i head, and crashed it down a mass of heaping None of the family was fa tally I