Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-03-23

and, strange to say, every article OF
furniture, bedding, clothing aud pro-
visions were taken out, including the
cook-stove, and scattered for miles,
being all destroyed. His wagon box
was taken, and no trace Of it has
been found. A horse and COW were
so much injured that they are not ex-
pected to live. Every person in the
house was Frustrated and stunned,
but are not permanently injured.
His fences were nearly all destroyed.
AT Mr.. J. Pumpus' farm, only two
miles north of Darlington, the wind
displayed its force and power in a re-
markable degree. 1t took a strip,
twenty to thirty rods wide, leveling
almost everything in its course. One
wing of the house was torn away.
The barn was blown down and en-.
tirely demolished, one horse being
killed, also many chickens, and some
hogs. A reaper was lifted high in
the air, blown forty rods and drop
ped. wagons, buggy, etc., broken to
fragments /; large trees eighteen
inches to two feet through, were bro
ken off, and torn up, and literally
rent ato slivers. A hole eighteen
inches deep and eleven ieet across,
was scooped out of the frozen ground,
IN an open place, without tree or other
destruction. A stick of square oak
timber, 81 feet long and ten by twelve
inches wide, was taken up and car
ried 90 rods.
? McPhillips lives about three
miles north of Darlington. His house
and barns were in the thicket, heavy
woods, and in ravine sheltered by
quite a hill which runs north and
south. The wind came over the hill
from the west. Seven persons were
in the house at the time it was struck.
The house was lifted entirely up from
the floor, which remained uniDj ured
was carried high in air, and literally
torn to pieces, no two boards being
found together. Articles of clothing
which was in the house have since
been found several miles northeast,
having been carried all the way by
the wind. 1t was almost miracul GUS
that no one of the seven inmates of
the house was seriously injured.
They were all more or less bruised,
one being hurt in the side with
silver, another by both eyes blacken-
ed, but no one NAMED or killed.
There was not whole piece of cloth
ing or single article of provisions
left. The barn was blown down and
entirely destroyed, together with a
reaper, wagon, and other implements;
but, strange to say, four horses, which
were in the barn, were uninjured.
The wagon, which was large, strong
new one, was roughly handled, the
box was left in a tree top, unbroken,
but the gearing and wheels were
broken into fragments. Every spoke
of one wheel was broken, and the
tire cannot be found.
Edward Mehan's house, two miles
noth-east of Darlington, was destroy
ed, also his barn and all his agricul-
tural implements.
uo OdiH vi IN. Il dTkiuS was uLl-
rooted and otherwise injured. Even
Johnson, who was milking at the
time, was blown to the ground, and,
barring bruises, escaped unhurt from
the debris of ,he falling barn roof,
sheds, machinery, trees. etc.
The storm, having apparently spent
its force, contented itself with level
ing trees, fences and other more
slight distractions. North and east
of Darlington, the wind was followed
by torrents of rain and quantities OF
hailstones. Although there was no
rain at this point, the river raised
three feet in less than an hour, some
thing heretofore unheard of.
Joseph Monahan, on Saturday last,
picked piece of new board north of
here, evidently part of the cover of
goods box, on which was the word
"Hazel." 1t had evidently been
blown from Hazel Green, So miles
away.