The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-29

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! fhe dire6tionso the stotf then z carried It
ACROSS the ding alg both teledrar h
WileAl istanneo Of BON two pthree hundred
hoa 1.l north Of th,s ssilroad to feel
thsehslAse 1T thsstsf was anaall anaes :pe-
Sssre asshild, hsSha sSsRa's beio z
iAhsent ineEaai tornias} This house was COM
'Epietely demolished, and the stove and most of
ttthe household furniture broken. A more COM
plete wreck it is hard to imagine, what was lett
Of the building. laying fat upon the ground.
last sen Of fhs ssm was %aen it went
Mcintyre was sitting, id the house holding her
4 young child, ana i child of Nj. -Nehely
was ,y sitting near mn ~ Mrs. Mr. NJ
81 the wind, and the child torn from, her arms
and carried some twenty test ard landed in !
blown. out into the lot. Mrs. McIntyre escaped
with only a few slight bruises, but her child
WAS not SO fortunate, receiving severe and at
1frstthought dangerous bruises about the face
and head: This morning, however it ap-
peared in q very comfortable condition, and
nation of its INJURIES MIR: 1Nehely's> child
escaped with few scratches on the Shoulder.
"A few feet to the north of this building was
the small frame otMrs. Tgiges. This aped
with only lroken glass and the demolition Of
the front pQgeh: Ms GWiggs lad ~l2 SHIRTS
On the line dying, ana these, with the line,
Next othe east Of this was; a small frame,
with addition for Kitchen: The force of the
wind took effect on the roof OF the main build
i ing, knocking it in, and completely Kidding
the inside OF the building. A. small shed tarn
on the same lot was tls0, fattened to the
eartb. Mrs. Scott was in the house, but es-
capped injury. ;-1~ ~
Some twelve rods further east was the house
and barn of D: Hause. The house was de-
stroyed and the barn unroofed.
Across the street from the house occupied
by Mrs. Mcintyre was the store and residence
of MIR. Lynch. This escaped all injury. I'M
frame residence. on which some of the Shin
giles were torn off, In the corner OF the yard
next adjoining Mr.. Lynch's stood a tree about
six inches in diameter. This was twisted off
about feet from the roots.
Further to the north and a few rods from the
river bank stood the blacksmith shop of VIM.
Morrissey. This was entirely swept away, the
tools and all else it contained being scattered
around for rods, the roof following off after
that on Mrs. Mc1ntyre's house across tn river,
The next building and the last one to suffer,
was an unoccupied house owned by Cyril Rob-
eson, which was completely Quilted, nothing
but the frame being left standing
The above comprises all the damage sus-
tanned in Mendoza, so tar as our reporter could
ascertain, but how this number Of buildings
could be either totally demolished or wrecked,
and most Of them occupied at the time, with
out being ACCOM- Danied by loss of life, is
| mystery that the reporter will not attempt to
solve. . .-
l. The buildings were all small, and hence the
destruction of property is by no means large,
three Thousand dollars probably covering the
entire loss.
To show the force and peculiar action of the
| wind, the reporters attention was called to the
house next south of that occupied by Mrs
Mcintyre. Here the corner of the roof in the
direction of the storm, had evidently been
lifted up as the wind passed, and before set
| thing piece of board some eight feet in length
and from one to three inches in width, and
coming from the opposite direction, was blown
into the opening and there caught, where it
still remains, detying the efforts ofstrong men
| to pull it out.
two-horse wagon standing in the yard,
southeast of Mr.. Lynch's place, was picked up
| and carried several rods and deposited on a
wood pile, right side up aud nothing broken.
Several other peculiar performances of the
storm We're pointed out, snch as driving
other things of the kind, but time and space
will not permit mention at this time.
The next sufferer of which the facts were
| ascertained is Mr. Pera, two miles southwest
| of Mendoza, and he is, by far the heaviest sut-
ferer of ali, having his house demolished,
three wagons, reaper and seeder broken to
pieces, ten sheep and two calves killed, and
nearly all his fences destroyed. II 4 H.. s.
Mr.. Thomas Lubbey, living near Mr.. Pera,
also hadltis fencing broke down. !
| Abnt a mile nearer Mendoza Is the farm of
Lcui Ind Media LIE Claire, to which point the
repo,t ter went in following up the track of the
storm, and here he saw the most convincing
levidence of its terrible force.
Between Mr.. lie Claire's place and Mr.. Peras,
are cleared fields and open prairie The LIE
| OF the storm quartefing 1acfosss lit
and passing some twelverods 10 the east of his
house. Across the wheat field in spaces from
five to eight RODS apart, tie wheat. has been
aattened as if struck with some heavy weight,
the ground here and there being torn up,
feet, similar to that made Is by : d.
rifed cannon bail when it strikes the ground
and ricochets. Again the ground would be
torn up in semi-cirole, and again space tor
a rod wide would be all torn up
straight ahead as if gone over with
Near the northeast side OF the field the re-
porter found two large oak trees, between
thirty and forty feet in length
and - twelve to fourteen inches in
diameter. The body and limbs these trees
| were covered with mud. Mr. Lee Claire Saws
these trees were landed there by the wind,
and as there is no timber nearer than the bluff
southwest of Mr.. Pera's place, a mile or more
away, the supposition is that these trees came
| from that timber. This was verified by
following the track of the storm toward Men,
dota.
On leaving the wheat field OF Mr.. LIE Claire.
! the direction OF the storm carried it into a
| shallow raVine about ten rods vida o. ;ts
head. In this ravine small willow trees were
growing from four to six feet in height These
trees were almost denuded of bark and foliage.
while the ground was cut up as if dragged for