Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-25
FREAKS OF THE WIND.
A Destructive Cyclone Sweeps ov..
Ohio and the South-rraeic
Incidents OF the Storm.
Towns and villages Desolated and Tn.
dreds of Persons Rendered Home.
less-Death List Smaller
Thai Usual.
At OHIO.

AT POLAND, OHIO.
YorSasTowN, March 27.-Last Tucsd,v
shortly before midnight, a genuine cyclcna
with all its attendant horrors, broke oar
Poland township, in this county, and
spread desolation in its path. For two
niles it sped through that fertile region.
cutting down everything in its path
which fortunately was only about ten
.ods wide. Trees, fences and out-build.
nss were torn up and hurled broadcast
~ its terrible and u%nrelenting fury.
The first building in its path was the old
Heasly residence, from which the roof was
visited in a moment and scattered through
the neighboring fields. From this point
The storm swept on with a horrible roar
which struck terror into the hearts of all
who heard it, to the Detchon farm.
where it took up two large barns as
f they had been but chips and hurled
them headlong over and over before
The ever increasing wind until scarcely two
boards We're left together. In n of the
buildings were stored 800 bushels of oats
and 200 of wheat, hardly a trace of which
could be found this morning. A half mile
further on George Titles two barns We're
attacked, and stood the force of the cyclone
but a moment, being torn from their
foundation and scattered broadcast.
Twenty sheep which were seeking
shelter under one of them were all killed.
Beyond Little's no buildings were touched,
but trees and fences were removed without
leaving a vestige. 1t is almost a phenom-
enon that no human lives were lost, but it
is safe to say the community never hala
more general fright, and a narrow strip, two
miles long, shorn of everything but mud,
marks the track Of the worst storm long
seen in that part of Mahoning County.
INCIDENTS OF THE STORM.
DAYTON, March 27.-One of the most re-
markablc and tragic incidents of the cyclone
which passed over the country near here
occurred near the end OF its destructive
career at a point a few miles this side of
Xenia. Captain William Godfather, ex-
Sheriff of Greene County, while driving
through the country near Aenia was over.
taken by a heavy shower and took shelter
in a covered bridge. While he was in the
structure the cyclone came bowling along,
and picking the bridge off its foundations
carried it through the air a distance Of 800
yards, and dropping it permitted it to fall a
mass of broken timbers into the furious
waters of the swollen stream. Captain
GOdfather's horse was instantly killed
and his vehicle broken to splinters.
A party of farm hands who witnessed
the fight of the bridge worked for half an
hour among the timbers and in the water
before the unfortunate Captain could be
found. When rescued he was badly
crushed under timbers and up to his neck
in water. His head was held between
two timbers, which suspended him
in the water and prevented his
being drowned. The country over Which
the cyclone passed presents a desolate
appearance. Its path was about two hun
bred feet wide, and was as clearly swept
through forests and farms as a well-tray-
eled avenue. The people whose homes
were III its course saved their lives by tax.
ing refuge in cellars and wells. Only three
cases of loss Of life have thus far been re
ported, and those appeared in the dispatches
Of this morning.
LOSS OF LIFE IN KENTUCKY.
LONDON, KY, March 27.-A terrific cy-
clone, the severest ever known in this sec.
ton Of the country, passed near this place
and Pittsburgh. two miles north OF here,
about four O'clock Tuesday afternoon,
carrying death and destruction in
its train, especially at Pittsburgh, where
it was severest. The Methodist church was
RACED to the ground, and much other prop
erty damaged. John Mailman, Il brakeman,
was blown from a freight box car and
carried about fifty feet, lighting on his head
III a creek, breaking his neck
and causing instant death. Three
freight box cars, two coal
oil tanks and a caboose were blown from the
track, slightly ~injuring several other men
and OBTAINING the southbound mail train
five hours. A little cabin in which Nj.
Broughton was living was blown down, in.
stantly killing Mrs. Broughton and two
little children.
The following persons are thought to be
mortally wounded:
Colonel c. w. Stringer.
Mrs. G. w. Stringer, hip mashed and
broken, and cut in the head.
Miss Sallie Golf, cut i'll the head.
James Warren. two ribs broken and
wounded i'll the head.
Among those slightly wounded are W.
Woolsey, William Philpot, Mrs. Thomas
Ross and others whose names were not
learned. Oyer a hundred men and their
families have been left without homes and
employment by the dreadful catastrophe.
H~An.sTONEs AS LARGE AS EGGS.
RALEIGH, n. c., March GA cyclone
formed near Newton, NC, yesterday after
noon and travelled east. Trees were blown
a distance of two miles and everything
swept clean. The hailstones were as large
as eggs. The electric storm ragged all over
the State.
THE STORM y SOUTH CAROLINA.
PIEDMoST, S. c., March CA severe
cyclone passed over Anderson County near
llealnont, destroying the house of MI.
watson. Three of his children are thought
TO be fatally injured.
AN ENTIRE VILLAGE DESTROYED.
1SDlANAPoL1s, Ind, March 27.-The
o~rookville, Ind, correspondent OF the Jour
nat, telegraphs that the village of Sciplo;
near the Ohio and Indiana line, was wiped
OUT py Tuesdays tornado. Only two houses
remain and they are badly damaged. re"
Joseph Winston was killed.
merchants Buying Goods Cav
tiously.