The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-07-18
Houses Overturned, and Forest and
Orchards Uprooted.

ford County on the Fourth, but find
| ing the "half had not been told" we
give the following description from
the Bucyrus Forum;
THE EFFECTS OF THE STORM.
These were to be seen everywhere.
The overturned houses, blownin
gables, unroofed buildings, uprooted
orchards and forests. prone smoke
stacks, broken chimneys, lightning
struck telegraph poles, streets OBJ
structed by fallen and ruined shade
trees, all told the story Of the storm
and its destruction. But to partic-
ularize few among the many losses
and Incidents:
THE BUCYRUs wooLEN MILL,
| Fronting Perry Street from the west
had both gable ends blown of and
the roof and rafters wrenched from
the timbers and thrown in north
easterly direction to the ground.
The wool in large quantities was
scattered eastward into and across
the Sandusky River to the distance
of a quarter of mile or more. The
machinery is not, perhaps, seriously
injured except by the torrents OF
falling water. The damage to build
ings, machinery, and stock, includ-
ing the loss of stock in this busy
season, has been variously estimated
at from $1,000 to $4,000 but it will be
found that $25O0 will not be far wide
of the mark. The directors imme-
diately ordered telegram sent for
timber and material. They will
commence repairs at once.
SToLL & cos. planning MILL
Was considerably injured. The roof
and gable of the west side built re
Gently for NJ. Deals Smut Machines
were blown off and ruined. Loss
from $500 to $1,000, falling on both
Stoll d Co., and NJ. Deal.
THE BUCYRUs MAGAZINE WORKS
Of.course came in for its share of
loss. The west gable Of the main
building was torn of. Damage from
$3.50 to $500.
The smoke stacks of nearly all the
manufactures and mills We're blown
over. In every instance these man
ufactories received other but less
noticeable damage. Among others
the Main Street FIGURING Mills,
Buckeye Wood Works, DC.
There are probably one hundred
chimneys blown down in Bucyrus.
The store awnings have been
stripped from the frames and torn to
shreds. Window shutters were
wrenched from their hinges on the
southwest and north sides of houses
and broken to fragments. The
signs flew around like feathers. That
of Hoyt & Acker's was thrown over
into the Court House yard.
The new dwelling house Of Mrs.
Van Tine situated on the Gallon
Road, was lifted to one side and off
IFS foundation several feet.
Mr.. Blicke came in for his share
with the rest, having his new stable
lifted several feet from its proper po-
sition, and his new cellar wall torn
down. While this was going on in
the south of town, his store awning
on Sandusky Avenue was stripped
into ribbons.
David Conkling, VIM. Shroll, VIM.
Monnett, Charles Miller, and many
other persons had their barns un-
rooted and otherwise injured.
The roof on the Boeman Block
was injured so much that the water
flooded the Knitting Works badly.
Leaving town, we f1d that the
storm passed over the county gen
orally but with most violence in a
belt four miles wide running from
Wyandot to Oceola in a north east
course across Bucyrus, parts Of Dal-
las, Tod, Bucyrus, Holmes, Whet-
stone, Liberty, Sandusky, Vernon
and other Townships, toward Shelby
in Richland County.
AS a wagon load of young folks
was returning from the picnic at
Wyandot near the residence of G..
Gelbach, Esq, The storm came on
them. They were caught by the
fallingtimber, the driverhit by limb
across the forehead and Knocked
senseless to the earth; ayoung lady
it is thought had her back broken
and will probably die; one horse was
instantly killed and another badly
hurt. The rest escaped uninjured.
Warrington Welsh and many 9th
ers had large numbers of sheep
killed in Dallas. The "Beech" is al
most ruined in timber. The best
trees are nearly all down from the
well-known Forbes Farm to the
Plank Road. Orchards, forests, fen
ces, all have greatly suffered.
John Roop, Esq, brother of our
ex-T Treasurer had two COWS killed by
a falling sycamore. John Snyder,
ESQ.,, had one Of his best cows horns
knocked of, and his mothers COW
was buried in the tops of falling
trees, from which she wt3 safely
resurrected. Thomas Clements, Esq,
had some cattle killed instantly by
lightning. The farm of Samuel Lud-
wig, Esq, east of Bucyrus, was fear
fully visited by the storm. There is
not, it is stated, fruit or forest tree
left standing-all are prone to the
earth.
J.N. Heller, Esq, had one hund-
dred and forty-four large forest trees
destroyed, also two hundred rods of
fence blown down. He tells US the
very ground chunks on which the
fences rested were torn from the
earth. John Grail lost fifty apple
trees. George Kent had twenty
eight large apple trees uprooted.
David Nusbaum had at least $500
worth of timber blown down. There
is not tree left on his farm. In
addition he lost fifty bearing apple
trees, comprising the whole orchard.
Emanuel Aumiller lost all the tim
ber on his well known wood lot-as
fine as any in the county valued at
$2500
Messrs. Ritz & Van Vorhis had
half the timber on their one hundred
and fifty acre wood lot destroyed,
valued at more than $4,000.
Daniel Miller lost timber on his