Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1898 — MAD RUSH IN WIND STORM. [ARTICLE]

MAD RUSH IN WIND STORM.

Men and Women Trample Over Each . Other with Fatal Effect. Two persons are dead and several severely injured as a result of a panic during a severe electrical storm at the county fair at Columbus, Ind. Mrs. Samuel Cooper was trampled to death by a crowd which was hurrying to get from the grove into an open field. Charles Haymen was killed by being struck on the head by a falling tree. Ten thousand persons werepresent when the storm broke. They made a rush for the open field and many were knocked down and trampled on by the panic stricken crowd. Exhibition tents and buildings were blown down or crushed by falling trees and the property loss will amount to $40,000. Two deaths will probably, result froim the wind storm which swept over Syracuse, N. Y., wrecking buildings and entailing a loss of more-than SIOO,OOO. Besides '’wrecking fifty dwellings, the power house and the warehouse, the storm unroofed the Alhambra rink and destroyed nearly all the buildings in the New York State fair grounds.