River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-12-12
A TERRIBLE STORM.
Great Damage I'm Various Parts. OF TIT
COuntry,

Great Damage I'm Various Parts OF th'
Country,
Tie mild weather of Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday of last week was
followed on Wednesday night by one
of thel most violent hurricanes expe.
rienced in years. In Milwaukee several
frames of new buildings were wrecked,
chimneys blown down, windows
smashed, etc, but the aggregate
amount Of damage is small.
At all points between Milwaukee and
Chicago more or less damage was in.
hicted. In the latter city several
dwellings were leveled and much win
dow glass smashed An elegant clock,
valued at 81, 600 was hurled into frag.
ments, and the storm signal tower sue
cumbed to the elements.
During the hurricane new chair
factory at Lansing, Mich, nearly com.
pleted at cost of $4,000, was blown
down. In Detroit, one hundred feet
of brick wall of the new Michigan Cen.
trail car works were Frustrated, and the
whole roof blown of. Thirty feet OF
iron root on the Central freight depot
was blown into the river, and number
of steam and other vessels were driven
from their moorings and either
stranded or badly damaged by COLI
sion. At Buffalo the water rose
higher than for twenty years, flooding
stores and houses in the lower part OF
the city. AT Toledo, wagon shop,
nearly 900 feet long and IS feet wide,
was demolished, causing loss of $50,
600. The rear wall of Boyd Il Co.'S
sash and blind factory was blown in,
and considerable damage done to roofs,
chimney, spires, &c. AT Passaic, n
j., new four.story frame building,
nearly completed was blown down,
burylng a number of workmen and
passers by under the ruins. Three
bodies have been recovered, one being
city couacIlman Mclean. 1t is not
known how many more were killed.
All the rivers in Ohio and Kentucky
were flooded, and much damage was
done by t wind.
Advices from Cincinnati show that
the damage to houses, fences, ETC., III
that vicinity, from the gale, was con
siderable.
At Dayton, Ohio, a large brick
building, one hundred and fly feet Ivy
fifty feet, and four stories high, occu-
pied by sore " factory, was razed to
the ground. The structure was a sub
stantial one, the walls being eighteen
inches thick. The damage is estimat-
ed at $4,000 The roof of the Pere-
gripnis machine shop was blown of,
and number of wooden houses and
sheds in different parts of the town
were blown down.
In the country near Dayton long
lines OF fences were leveled. One large
barn was moved several feet from It's
foundation. Mrs. Hills barn on Eaton
Pike was completely demolished, and
for half a mile at one point all the
fences were blown down. A frame cot.
tage was blown from one side Of the
pike to the other.
AT Laurel, Ind, houses were blown
down, and many unroofed. A great
amount of damage was done
A car was blown off side track neal
Fort Wayne, on the Wabash Railroad,
and a freight train ran into it. No one
was injured.
AT New Paris, o., Touring mill was
unroofed also the railroad depot.
Everywhere the streams are reported
rising rapidly,
At Boston, KY, the booms of the
Licking River Lumber Company were
broken by the sudden rise in the Lick
ing, and from one thousand to fifteen
hundred logs we're washed away.
A rise of twenty-three feet at the
head waters of the Licking was report
ed yesterday.