The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-26
TORN DOWN BY THE WIND.
An Amateur Cyclone Does Considerable
Damage in the City and at BrightwOOd,


Indianapolis entertained a cyclone yesterday.
1t wac such little one about ''twofer," that
our record has been greatly lowered. Previous
cyclones. notably that one of the night of March
a, 1880, have whirled through here at the light
ming express rate of from sixty to seventy miles
an hour. That of yesterday as Observed at the
signal station, sauntered through like an accom-
mediation train at from twenty four to thirty
miles an hour 1t blew in " about 345, and, as
all regularly ordained cyclones and should
be, was attended by very peculiar appearing
cloud, which rode high above the storm and
writhed and twisted like monster in its death
agony. The storm first smote the base ball
park. Here the grand stand was partly I'M
rooted, entailing loss of perhaps $40 The track
of the cyclone was thence directly east on Sew
enth street and the swath was less than half
square in width It unroofed part of a. Wieg
and's greenhouse and broke considerable glass.
Near the corner of Meridian and Seventh it took
w. K Edmunds's frame stable broadside, and
lifting it from its foundation slid it fully eight
feet further east. Street-car No 1873 had just
turned into Seventh street from Pennsylvania
when the storm struck it, blowing it over. Two
ladies were in the car Though they were badly
frightened neither of them was injured. The
driver John Stanton, did not escape so luckily,
as his arm, in falling, was dislocated at the
shoulder
Henry Smith, the saloon keeper, was riding in
an open buggy with a friend and was at the cor
ner of Delaware and Seventh streets
at the time of the storm. The horse
and buggy were both overturned and
the men THROWN out. Smith relates
that he caught hold of post to keep from being
blown away, and that the post was pulled out of
the ground by the wind. He had an ankle
sprailed and was bruised otherwise. One of A.
NJ. Kuhns delivery wagons overturned near
the same place and badly demolished, but the
driver was not hurt A carriage containing two
ladies on North Meridian street was also upset
without serious damage.
Many fences and out-buildings were blown
down, and many windows We're broken. CHM
neys were blown off the residence of Major w. J.
Richards on North Pennsylvania, and from the
residence of John NJ. Shaw, the roof of the
latter house being badly broken. Adiu-
tant general Carnahan, who lives across the
way came up on street car as
Major Richarls-w was ruefully contemplating his
demolished chmneys "What have you been
doing to your house, RichardsF inquired the
General. what have you been doing to yours!"
was the answer. Look at your own chimneys'
The General looked. His chimneys were not
the house. but all along the street Albert Ba-
kers residence and that of J. n Bnford. both
further east, gave up good chimneys to the blast,
while numerous other dwellings met similar
losses. No 70 East Seventh street had its roof
badly damaged and school No. 81 was partly I'M
rooted. Charles Gorsuchs stable ON Ruckle
street went down in a heap. and numerous small
sheds were wrecked. and considerable damage
was done in the vicinity of the Atlas Works,
also,
THE DAMAGE At BRIGHTwo0D.
At Brightwood, the Decline shops lay directly
in the path of the wind and considerable dam
age was done in that vicinity The large trans
fer table, on which the engines are taken from
the round-house to the shops, standing, with
an engine upon it ready to be taken, when the
workmen, seeing the dark clouds gathering, left
their work and scattered to places Of safety.
The wind struck the engine upon the table and
carried table and engine to the NORTH end of the
track, where it was stopped by the stone ma
sorry. Slate was torn from the roofs
of the buildings. oil barrels taken up
and the pilot of engine was taken up and
carried several feet away
Several houses were damaged. A two-story
frame house, occupied by Ed Karbold, who is
employed in the shops, entirely destroyed.
the wind striking the house and leaving it lying
in ruins, with not u timber left standing. There
were three persons in the building when it fell
All escaped with the exception of Mrs. Karbold
who was found in the ruins and carried out, and
although badly bruised, she not dangerously
hurt
Late last night it was learned that both Mrs.
Karbold and her daughter badly hurt, and
the priest was summoned from the city to see
the latter, as she was reported to be sinking
rapidly.