The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-12-11
Tho Ravages Of the Late Gale.

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The gale which commenced OF
I Wednesday eveningof last week and
Z fcontinued pretty much all day Thurs
day was one Of the. most extensive
and destructive that has been expert
enced for years. In this locality
aside from the blowing down of tim
I Der and the prostration of fences, NJ
hear of little damage done by thu
storm; but in many sections.we heal
of loss of life and the destruction o.
q large amOnntofpropertY occasionsd
by it,. a.e
At Toledo, the immense uncomple-
ted building of the Milburn Wagon
/ Company, which measured 364x65
feet and four stories high, with base
ment, was almost entirely blown down
1 Loss estimated at $4,000. The rear
portion Of the upper two stories OF
Boyd9s Sash and Blind Factory was
demolished, the building and machin-
cry being damaged to the extent OF
from $500 to $780, The north
wall of the old Round House on Mid
i die Ground was overturned. .aiisl3
a building at Grand Trunk juno
/ ton, belonging to- the Michigan Car
! Company, 200 feet long and two stories
high was Frustrated, houses were nn-
rooted, fences prostrated, telegraph
poles blown down, and other damage
done.
at Dayton, Ohio, a large brick
building, fifty by one hundred and
fifty feet, four stories high, occupied
by screw factory, was razed to the
ground. The structuse was sub
stantial one, the walls being eighteen
inches thick. The damage is estimated
at $4,000. The roof of Peregrini's
machine shop; was blown of, aud a
number of wooded houses and sheds
in different parts Of town were blown
down. 90. i7.7al 7a ssttdt
In the country near Dayton long
lines of fences were leVeled, and one
large barn was moved several feet
from its foundation. Mrs. Hills barn
on the Eaton pike was completely de-
molished, and for half mile at one
point all the fences were blown down.
a cottage was blown from one side of
the pike to the other. At Laurel, Ind,
houses were blown down, many un-
rooted, and a great amount of damage
done. A ear was blown off side
track near Fort Wayne. on the Wa
bash Railroad, and a train ran into it.
No one injured. wees Esga
At New Paris, Ohio, a Touring
mill was unroofed. also the railroad
depot. Everywhere the streams are
reported rising rapidly. st S t.iai
At Boston, KY, the booms of the
Licking River Lumber Company were
broken by the sudden rise in the Lick
ing, aud from one thousand to fifteen
hundred logs were washed away. A
rise of twenty-three feet at the head
waters of the Licking is reported.
AT Detroit considerable loss was
occasioned by the gale. One hundred
feet of brick wsll of the new Miehi-
gan Central Car Works were prostra-
ted, and the whole roof blown OFF.
Thirty feet of the iron roof on the
Central freight depot were blown into
the river. The steamer Burnside was
blown against the steamer Mackinaw,
both being seriously injured, the Burn
side to the extent of about $1,000
The Lake Superior. steamer Kewanaw
was up the river a mile and ahalf and
beaehed on Belle Isle. The tugs
Quayle and Parker were lost, as their
whereabouts is unknown. They are
supposed to be. ashore above Belle
Isle. The propeflers Caldwell and
Montgomery. besides many other
crafts, are up and acio oss the river,
sustaining more or less damage.
The storm was very general through
Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana and
floods prevailed in the rivers in those
States.
Trees were blown across tile Allan
tic & Great Western Railway near
Akron; across the Richmond 81 Chi
cago road, in this State; and on the
Panhandle in Indiana, between Rush
vile and Cambridge, causing the
ditchihg of a train, resulting in the
dea of the engineer and,,a brakeman.
A barn was struck by lightning in
Highland county. Ohio, and burned.
Several houses were uHroofed at Lau-
rel, Ind. A barn was blown down
back of CoYington, Ky.
a San Francisco dispatch says: The
snowfall in the interior is unprece-
dented since 1882. Two inches have
fallen IN valleys and at Modesto Pic
iallis; three inches at Luisium; two
inches at Stockton, Sacramento and
Woodland and all the Valley cities
and towns. Mission Hills and San
Bru Mountains near this place, are
white with snow. 1t rained steadily
at this. place, The snow will have
disastrous effect on the vast herds OF
cattle at the foot of the hills, and
there are some apprehensions of floods
in the Sacramento and San Joaquin
valleys similar to those of 1864.
At Patterson, N. j. Speers large and
fancy four story frame building oppo-
site the Erie depot, in Passaic, and
partly completed, was blown down,
burying number of wUrkmen and
passers-by under the ruins. Three
bodies have been recovered, one being
City Councilman Mcleod. 1t is not
known how many more are killed
At Malvern, forty miles south of
Memphis, Tenn, six business houses
were razed to the ground, and the
roofs of several other Buildings were
.torn off, wounding two men badly
and six slig htly.
At Chicago considerable damage
was done to unfinished buildings and
by the demolishing of plate glass win
dows in occupied structures. Tele-
graph communication was also much
embarrassed.
At Buffalo the water in the lake
rose higher than for twenty years.
The stores and houses in the lower
part of the city were flooded.
At Omaha the thermometer was one
degree boiow zero on Thursday. The
storm is said to have extended several
hundred miles west of that point.