Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1895 — Echoes of the Great Storm. [ARTICLE]

Echoes of the Great Storm.

The wrecks of the storm are mow pretty well cleared up, and save an occasional tall stump of a broken tree, there are few evidences of it left. A new bell tower on the school house is nearly finished, and a new steeple on the Catholic church is well along towards completion. A notable instance of the force of the wind, was that a piece of 2 by 6 lumber was blown from the Catholic church several hundred feet to J. W. Williams’ residence, which it struck with such force as to break a hole in the side of the house.

The rapidity with which the river rose was one of the few interesting points which we failed to mention last week, and it showed the vast magnitude of the rainfall. When the storm began, the river bed was dry as a barn floor, and a half hour later, a rapidly following stream covered the whole bed of the river. Enquiries are often made as to whether the man and the tree who were “carried away together” from the vicinity of the colored camp meeting, as per Chicago papers, have come down yet; but so far as known the man and the tree are still pursuing their aerial Journey through the atmospheric spaces. It is also noted that the Chicago papers missed one item they ought to have had. It was that a man in the court house yard, was blown clear out of his socks, and the socks are still there as evidence of the truth of the statement. ,? The Republicajt’s full and reliable account was much appreciated; and the 75 extra copies that were printed did not nearly begin to supply the demand for them.