Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — STORMS IN INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

STORMS IN INDIANA.

Sad Devastation Is Caused Houses Wrecked and Crops Kuiiied. Tuesday afternoon T,he„.e:itire south part of \Vel!«< County, Indiana. Was swept by a heavy hailstorm. Wednesday afternoon at the sttme hour avyclot-.e swopped down on territory only a few miles north, eleafiug everything before it. t trchnrds were destroyed and a barn belonging to Gaviti. one. of the largest in the county, whs blown down, burying eittle and -hni'Ses nsWtibTiTiWviUß-—-Tf 1 itstWys , C'nHter, - a number of residetiees wef'e lil.'itvn down and the Methodist Church, was 'inroofed. A house at I’etro'.eum twts blown to I’ieces. The Clover Leaf Railway between Bluffton and Liberty Center'w’as» covered with fallen trees. In the vicinity of Warsaw the loss of crops, is 'lrefulfill and little Will Ik- sytyed. Corn, potatoes nnd nnthrashed wheat and in-ts are ruined. Neiir “Wabash the haiisfoaes were of extraordinary size and badly punished stock exposed to the storm. The corn in nmny places wiys whipped to ribbons. There is yet n grant deal of Wheat in the shock, and .all-of 4t isurmldiiig or sprouting aud practically Worthless at Crawfordsville, The. downpour was accompanied by terrific lightning and thunder, barns, trees ami houses wore struck without number, and many anintals killed. A washout on the Vandalia threw an engine and five men into AV.ilnut Fork creek. Two of the five were instantly killed and others injured.