Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-07-20
Two Great Storms in Minnesota.


A Benson, Mimi, dispatch OF July
IA. says: The township of Mayer, IN
the immediate vicinity Of Fairfield
post-office, was visited by terrible
wind storm or cyclone, about 8 clock
on Wednesday morning, the 18th
The storm seemed to come from the
northwest, veering around southwark
until it assumed an almost easterly
direction, and leveled everything
movable in its course. The first
house in the track of the tempest was
that of Wesley Hammer, who lives on
the west bank of the Pemmede Terre
river. Mercer. 1t tore down over the
hill, leveling the trees around hls
house, and prostrating it in an instant,
throwing the man and his family out
of doors and leaving them bruised,
drenched, homeless, and bereft OF
everything except the clothing on
their bodies. They have suffered
some very severe injuries, but none
of them are dangerous. -Four out OF
five horses were killed outright. The
storm next took the bridges, one a
wagon bridge of a single span, about
forty feet in length, lifted it from It's
foundation, turned it over and drop
ped it about four rods down the river,
where it now hes. On the north and
upper side of the bridge stood a small
blacksmith shop, which is utterly de
molished. The storm next struck
the blacksmith's house, which it tore
to pieces in its fury, hurting the mans
wife and two children quite a dis
tance from the building. The boy
and girl, ABOUT five and seven years
old, were insensible and in a danger
ous condition from their wounds
when last heard from, while the
mother was scarcely better off, owing
to her delicate condition. Next in
the course of destruction came the
stone building of Mrs. George Tuin,
in which she lived and kept store and
the post-office. She and her chill
dren, and T. B. Boyle, her clerk,
STAYED in the house until the win
dows blew in, when they ran out and
lay on the grass. They had scarcely
got out when the building was blown
to pieces and with all It's contents
scattered over the prairie. Mrs. Tuin
is widow and is rendered destitute
by this misfortune. The next house
visited by the cyclone was that of
Henry Miller, which was unfoofed
and the upper part of it blown away
with all the clotllingi leaving the In
mates to the mercy of the clements.
Mrs. Miller sustained very severe
shock from fright and prostration.
George Kepner, the oldest resident,
who lives Just south of the bridge,
suffered mcst severely from the storm.
The house in which he lived and
new one he was erecting were both
blown down and destroyed The
frame of carpet loom in an old
building which held up the falling
walls was all that prevented the death
of some of its inmates, as under this
rude but substantial shelter they
crouched for shelter until the storm
was over. Part of the floor was
blown away and COW blown into
the cellar. The new church of the
United Brethren, standing close by,
wes no obstacle to the wrath Of the
tempest, but was blown to tie ground:
These are all the houses damaged in
the vicinity which the tornado visited,
but one or two houses IL north and
northweste,ly direction were unroof-
ed and further west, aud not far from
Carroll house had totally disap
peared. Two lives were lost. 1t is
reported in Benson that q German
named Veige, who lives northwest of
Harenoisa a mile or 50, and one child
were killed