Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-12-17
A TERRIBLE STORM.
Great Damage in Various Parts o
the Country.


day and Wednesday Of last week, was
followed on Wednesday night by one
of the most violent hurricanes expert
enced in years. In Milwaukee, several
frames of new buildings were wrecked,
chimneys blown down, windows smash
ed, etc., but the aggregate amount of
damage is small.
At all points between Milwaukee and
Chicago more or less damage was in
ficted. In the latter city several
dwellings were leveled ana much win
dow glass smashed An elegant clock,
valued at 81, 900, 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
roof blown off. Thirty feet of iroE
roof 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 600 feet long and IS feet wide,
was demolished, causing loss of $685.
900. The rear wall of Boyd & 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 Councilman Mclean. It is not
known how many more we're killed.
All the rivers in Ohio and Kentucky
are flooded, and much damage was
done by the wind.
Advices from Cincinnati show that
the damage to houses, fences, ETC., in
that vicinity, from the gale, was con-
siderable,
At Dayton, Ohio, a large brick
building, one hundred and fifty feet, by
fifty feet, and four stories high, occu-
pied by screw factory, was RACED to
the ground. The structure was SUBJ
tantial one, the walls being eighteen
inches thick. The damage is estima-
ted at $40, 900. The roof of the Pere-
gri1fnis machine shop was blown off,
and number of wooden houses and
sheds in different parts OF the town
were blown down. g,t5
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 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 near
Fort Wayne, on the Wabash Railroad,
and 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 Lumb Der Company were
broken by the sudden rise in the Lick
ing, and from one thousand to fifteen
J hundred logs were washed away.
A rise of twenty three feet at the
head waters of the Licking was re-
ported. esif =
FretfuI Babies.
Babies often cry without any appa-
rent reason but mother can usually
!, discover reason if she stops to think
about it. And it is worth stopping to
think about, no matter if the house
work or sewing be delayed awhile il
! consequence. Perhaps it has eaten
, something which disagrees with it's
: stomach perhaps ills thirsty, for little
babies are often thirsty, and will drink
teaspoonful of cold water with the
2 greatest eagerness, and be quiet and
' satisfied after it. Perhaps It's little
sock is tied too tightly, as my baby's
,, was the other day. I found deep rec
I mark around her little ankle, which al
, once explained her fretfulness. More
+ likely than anything else the fame
band around it's bowels-if, happily
one is Thereon it's skirt-band is pin
ned too tightly. [ know baby who
? has cried great deal since his birth
. I think the chief cause of it is becaus'
! he has always been dressed too tightly
= The mother said to me one afternoon
+ when the child was so cross she hard
! ly knew what to do, GIVE great mint
to undress him and put on his night
+ gown; he is always real good then.
D So she did, and he commenced to b.
+ good at once Mothers should searcl
o for all possible causes when their ba
y bies get fretful. They should not b
too ready to attribute their crying t.
nervous temperament or to hunger, TO
it is more likely to be caused by tn
prick of a pin or an over-fed stomach
f than either.-xze0rth end Home.
THINGS threaten to be much les
, smooth for Bishop Reinkens in tn
;, south of Germany than IN Prussia
l Bishop Ketteler, of Mayence, ha
: drawn up protest against his recog
! milton in Hesse, founded upon al
: agreement between the Grand Duca
government and the Curia, the vaIidit,
of which is not absolutely denied b.
his antagonists. In Bavaria, on tn
:, other hand, the personal feeling of tn
king appears to have placed adifficult,