Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1900 — GALE SWEEPS OVER OHIO. [ARTICLE]

GALE SWEEPS OVER OHIO.

Houses Blown Down, Roofs Torn Off, and Small Boats Driven Ashore. A terrific windstorm swept over northern Ohio on Wednesday, doing great damage. At Liepsic many buildings were blown down and roofs torn off others. The streets were filled with debris, while telegraph and telephone wires were laid upon the ground and poles blown over. At Sandusky four large icehouses were destroyed, several buildings were unroofed and small boats blown ashore. The damage is $20,000. Shipping interests were badly crippled. Around Port Clinton, Marblehead and Oak Harbor many buildings were unroofed and other damage done. In the oil fields the loss is very heavy. Hundreds of derricks and boiler houses have been scattered over the fields. An oil man said the damage would reach fully $250,000. At Tippecanoe City S. Shearer’s tobacco sheds were wrecked and the Masonic Hall and other buildings damaged. At Bucyrus the German Lutheran Church was badly damaged and the Ohio Central roundhouse partly unroofed. The Storm in New York. In New York City there was a sudden darkening of the sky. A few minutes latet rain suddenly appeared, and in less than a minute was coming down in sheets. Following it came a blast of wind which for a time blew at a velocity of seventy-two miles an hour. The wind tore a skylight weighing two tons from its fastenings and blew it into Fifth avenue. With a crash the skylight struck a carriage, driven by Charles Uggla, who was passing. The edge of the skylight struck Uggla on the head. He was probably fatally injured. . At Buffalo the wind blew at the rate of sixty-five miles an hour. At the PanAmerican grounds the building for the cyclorama of Missionary Ridge was blown down, and another Midway building was seriously injured. Scaffoldings were torn from some of the buildings, and sections of several roofs were torn off. Several workmen are reported injured.