The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-12-13
: TERRIBLE STORM.
Great Damage in Various Parts Of tn,
country.

! Great Damage in Various Parts Of the
Country.
| The mild weather of Monday, Tues
t day and Wednesday Of last week was
/ followed OH Wednesday night by one
! of the most violent hurricanes expe-
rlenced IL 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
tlicted 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
cumb' q to the elements
During the hurricane a new chair
factory at Lansing, Mich, nearly COM
pleted at 4 cost of So, 900, 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 off Thirty feet Of
iron roof on the Central freight depot
was blown into the river, and a uumb Der
OF steam and other vessels were driven
from their m0orin9s 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, a wagon shop.
nearly Sc feet long and IS feet Wild,
was demolished, causing s loss of S25,
! 000- The rear wall Of Boyd & Co.'S
NJ
and considerable damage done to roofs,
Chimney, spires, &c, At Passaic, n.
/ J, Lew tour-story frame building.
nearly completed. was blown down,
| buryIng 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
were flooded, and much damage was
done by 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 fif Y feet by
| fifty feet, and four stories high, occu-
| pied by Il screw factory, was RACED to
the ground The structure was a sub
stantIll one, the walls being eighteen
| inches thick The damage is estimat-
| ed 1T sic, 600. The roof of the Pere-
/ 9rinnls machine shop was blown of.
and q 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. 4 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 a side track near
| Fort Wayne, on the Wabash Railroad.
ana freight train ran into it. No one
was injured.
At New Paris, O., a 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 were washed away.
4 rise of tWenty-three feet at the
head waters of the Licking was report
ed yesterday.