The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-05-25
THE WHEELING MASSES

INNUMERABLE wATER-sPOUTS,
some of which formed spectacles beau
tiful in the extreme.
All the houses on the west side OF
North Main north Of English street.
are demolished. Most of them are of
wood, but one was large brick house,
owned by Mr.. Fisher.
Fred Falk's house on English street
was completely wrecked. Many houses
on North Wisconsin street were more
or less damaged. One house on High
street, facing east, was picked up and
appeared to float in the air twenty feet
above the earth, and when it alighted 1t
was in tolerable state Of preservation,
and faced south. A barn on Milwaukee
street was
LIFTED INTO THE AIR
and it came down underside up, pre-
senting strange appearance. Side
walks in the track Of the cyclone were
drawn into the air, trees torn up by the
roots, and out-houses, etc, were no
more than feathers waited by a breeze.
The path of the meteorological monster
eye in Racine never before dwelt upon.
The clap-boards Of houses appear to
have been
uhOOND iIN ~ "a Istaos
some of which had the dimensions of
mere slivers. Fourteen persons were
in Petura's saloon, on Douglas avenue,
and, though the two-story brick build
ing in which it was located was reduced
to mere pile of bricks and mortar, no
one was seriously injured. Beach's
barn was taken up into the air, and at
ter whirling like top alighted in good
order on its side, like ship on her
beams. The fax-mills. the vinegar
mandatory. and the brick-yards of
William Baumans
SHARED THE COMMON FATE
Of destruction. The roof of Bettroy's
bakery was lifted off. and on the same
street, st. Clair, the cupOla of Father
Matthew hall was damaged. The
smOke-stack of the old silver-plate
works fell and the cornice of st. JOS
eph's cathedral was twisted off. The
roof of Policeman Griebiel's house
fOated away and an old unoccupied ten
ement house of George Butcher is num-
bered among the things that were. Tel
egraph poles were not respected, and as
the wires are down communication with
outside points is difficult.
THE SCENE AMONG THE DEAD.
wounded and dying at the northern
part of the city was one painful beyond
description. In many instances surviv-
ing relatives had lost all semblance of
reason. Physicians were not numerous
enough to give prompt assistance and
numerous bleeding victims were rolled
up in blankets while anxious relatives
ran in every direction to secure medical
aid.
A feature of the results of the storm
IS that the houses in general appear to
have exploded. Those within the storm
center were in vacuum, and the pres
sure of the air from the inside acted as
an explosive, hence the debris lies in and
around the foundations nearer the cir
conference. Some houses were lifted
and carried bodily for short distance,
and here the occupants Jared better
than those in the storm center. All
THE PHYSICIANS
in the city were calle. service, and
responded nobly to !, al for help.
AS fast as they were cX,ricated from
the debris the wounded were examined.
and when their condition permitted
were conveyed to st. Luke's and st.
Mary's hospitals.
THE DEAD AND WOUNDED.
Only nine dead have been found, but
fully one hundred more or less injured.
One hundred and fifty houses were de-
mOlished, and had the cyclone struck
near the business center the damage
would have been incalculable. At
Western Union Junction, seven miles
west of Racine, many houses were ru-
ined. At the village of Chemung, in
McHenry county, Ills, several houses
were wrecked, one man being killed and
four badly hurt. Considerable damage
was done in the village of Lawrence.
and two miles west of that place farm
house was blown down and the owner
killed, his three children being fatally
injured. In the vicinity of Hebron
and Alden much farm property was de-
stroyed.
The damage to property at R1cine
will be from S60,UO0 to $4,000. The
cyclone swept through nearly the en-.
tire length of Illinois, wrecking houses
wherever they were encountered and
the total in the State being not far from
fifty-five. Distributed by counties, the
killed are as follows: Dewitt, four; Ma
son, three; Morgan, seven; Greene.
eight; Macoupin, six; Winnebago, five;
McHenry reported Sunday, four; San
canon, five; Macon, four; Jersey, three;
Livingston, three; and one each in
Douglas, Logan and Madison. The
town of Liter, in Morgan county. Ills,
was almost destroyed. At yonesburg,
Missouri, one person was killed.
The storm appears to have been di-
vided into several parts, the first and
most destructive originating in Nc
Henry county, Ills, and touching Win
nebago and Boone counties. Taking a
northeasterly course, it swept down
upon Racine, where the greatest havoc
was wrought, both in loss of property
and of life. Reaching the lake the
cyclone disappeared. The storm that
swept through Illinois originated in
Montgomery county, Missouri, and,
crossing the Mississippi river, passed
almost across the State northeasterly,
its course being marked with the wrecks