River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-12-16
A TERRIBLE sT0Rs.
Great Damage In Various Parts q
the CoUntrv

efe"t Damage In Various Parts Of
the country.
The mild weather of Monday, Tues.
Gay and Wednesday # last week, was
followed on Wednesday night by one
oi the most violent hurricanes expert
enced IN Years. In Milwaukee, several
frames OF new buildings were wrecked,
chlmneys blown down, windows smash
ed, ETC., but the aggregate amo cunt of
damage is small.
AT all points between Milwaukee aud
chicago more or less damage was in.
nlcted. In the latter city several
dwellings were leveled and much win
DOW glass smashed. An elegant clock,
valued at $1,000, 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 or Thirty feet of iroy.
roof on the Central freight depot was
blown into the river, and a 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 aud houses in the lower part OF
the city. At Toledo, a wagon shop,
nearly 600 feet long and IS feet wide,
was demolished, causing loss of sos.
600. The rear wall of Boyd Il Co. Is
sash and blind factory was blown in,
and considerable damage done to
roofs, chimney, spires, &c. At Passaic,
n. ) :, new four-story frame building,
nearly completed, was blown down,
Ourylng number of workmen and
passers by under the ruins. Three
bodies have been recovered, one being
City Councilman Mclean. 1t is not
known how many more were killed.
All the rivers in Ohio and Kentucky
are Hooded, and much damage was
done by the wind.
Advlces from Cincinnati show that
the damage to houses. fences, ETC., in
that vicinity, from the gale, was con-
siderable,
AT Dayton, Ohio, 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 a SUBJ
tantial one, the walls being eighteen
inches thick The damage is estima.
ted at SO, 900. The roof of the Pere-
grinnis machine shop was blown off,
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 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 vas 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.. ate taxing mill was
unroofed also the l..cb 49,. 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 were washed away.
A rise of twenty.three feet at the
head waters of the Licking was re-
ported.