Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-06-26

? tracted storm on the newly shorn sheer
Northern Ohio, we give the following
sram u exchanges
intelligence, glesneu
1t is impossible as yet to correctly es..
mate the number of sheep killed in the
Northern counties of the State by the
storm, for the reason that the returns are
far from being complete. We presume
the county journals or wool growers as
soeiatiOns will collect accurate figures of
the losses in their respective counties.
The Lorain Ne10s saws: The value
OF the sheep that persisted in this
county must be many thousand dol
lars: Gentlemen with good opportunities
for knowing the facts, estimate that from
fifteen TO twenty hundred were lost in
Pittsield alone. Mr.. Humphrey of this
township lost forty out of one hundred
n twelve, Mr.. w. f. Wheat loses ffty.
Mr.. Gillett as many, Walter Freeman
half his flock, and so on from every direc-
ton from which we have heard.
The Fremont journal says many hun
dreds died in that county. One farmer
lost over sixty head.
The Port Clinton, Ottawa County
Union says: John McRitchie, of BAY
township, lost 40; Z. Helms, and VIM.
johnson, of Portage township, 10 each.
The Nc1cs of the same place thinks the
loss IN Bay township alone is 300, and
quite as severe in some other parts Of the
county.
The Ashland County Times saws: We
learn that a great many sheep were killed
by the cold in different parts of the county;
n man, we learned has lost TWENTY-FIVE
head another is reported to have lost 2O6
head. 1t is surmised by those who have
Investigated the subject that ~at-least one
sixth OF all the sheep in the county per-
ished through cold; or fully 1000.
The Bucyrus, Crawford county, Journal
says: We have heard Of scores of far
mers IN this immediate vicinity, losing
from ten to fifty in locks of one and two
hundred, and of course the loss in the
large focks is proportiOnally as large.
The Clyde Times says: 1t is thought
by experienced sheep r~aisers, that five hun
dred have been killed by the storm within
a circuit of ten miles about this place.
The loss may not prove so great as now
supposed, but at this writing it seems
almost surprising.
The New Philadelphia Advocate saws
Scarcely q farmer but has lost some. from
three or four up as high as eighty or
The number in the county will
reach 1900 or 1000; some
place 1t as high as 5000. We believe in
case the sheep were without shelter.
least we hear of no deaths among
those that were housed.
The Medina Gazette a The loss
with some farmers appears frightful. One
farmer in York lost 100, in Sharon co. in
Chatham so, in Guilford 90, in Hinckley
100. Mr,..Hinsdale, of Wadsworth, con-
his loss 500. 4,
From the individual losses as above !
itated, and the estimates from prominent
men from the several townships, we think I
he loss in the whole county to be not less I
han 10000.
The Ssndusky Registerlearns from Mr.. 1
.ashburn, near Vermillion, that a large b
lumber of sheep in that vicinity, estima- =
at three thousand at least, bave died !
the effects of the storm of Sunday :
nd Monday last. Some farmers lost C
one hundred to one hundred and
fly of their number. Reports from other
of the country are of similar import. /,
hose who have lived in Northern Ohio a
orty years aver they never before saw a n
torn so destructive. A gentleman ffom i
'erlin informs US that the loss of sheep in n
hat township is estimated at 5000. \
The Toledo Blade learns that west of Al
lat city the storm was very destructive, I
le sheep perishing by hundreds and 70
lousandS. A farmer a short distance no
Toledo had thirty killed, and it was by
NY by housing, and in some instances j.
anketing," that he succeeded in saving =,
y considerable portion of his flock, and ~ ~
hers suffered equally as much. :