Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-16
WRATH OF THE WIND.

A Sunday Cyclone Sweeps Through Ohio
yillaees-The Air Dark with Flying
Trees and the Ruins of Houses ana
Barns - Two-thirds of Jamestown, IN
Greene County, Wiped ut-Eleven Per-
SONS Killed and Many Others und
DAYTON, O., April 2S.-Shortly before
three o'clock yesterday afternoon the most
destructive cyclone ever known in this part
of the country passed over the southern part
of Montgomery and Greene Counties, devas-
tating everything in its course. 1t appears
to rave originated near Woodbine, a small
town ten miles south Of here. 1t was
formed by the union of two light storm
clouds from the south II northwest,
which Immediately assumed the form OF
a waterspout, rising fand descending
like waves of the sea and destroying every
thing in its way. E. Best, of this city, who
was near enough to observe accurately,
SAYS that it was fully one eighth of a mile
wide and moved about over the country like
an immense cloud of smoke, while every
where in its path the air was dark with
trees and the ruins Of houses. Forests were
moved down like weeds, fences destroyed
for miles, and at least twenty residences
torn to pieces
At Aiexanderville, six miles south of here,
several people are known to be injured and
one lady is reported to nave been Killed,
while the saw-mill, barns and other build
ings are destroyed. At Carrollton Friends
paper-miIls and other buildings were badly
damaged while a number of residences arc
'eported destroyed.
Telegraph lines are down in all directions
and roads are impossible from the ruins that
fill them.
n Near Woodbine residences and other
buildings belonging to Edward Wheatley
we're destroyed, with other property, amount
ing in all to S., 900. Two farm-han are
reported missing. The brick school house
No. 8 was destroyed and the roof carried
OOlyards. A child was caught in the cy-
clone and carried 200 yards and dropped to
the earth slightly injured. The names of
the losers can not be ascertained, but, con-
sidering the large number of houses de-
stroyed, there must be a heavy loss of life.
In the neighborhood of Miamisburg there
was heavy damage. In that city there was
heavy rain and hail, but little wind. In
Dayton and a few miles south of it there
was rain and no hail, while south of that
there was rain and no hail. Still farther
south hail and no rain, and in the section of
the country devastated neither rain nor
hail.
At Bedrock, Greene County, at least
fifteen farm-houses were more or less dam
aged, but the families generally escaped by
taking refuge in cellars. From Carrollton
the cyclone took a direct easterly course,
and its force was not in the least spent when
it reached Jamestown, a thriving village of
six hundred inhabitants, which was almost
entirely destroyed, and only a few build
ings left standing. Meager telegraph re-
ports state that six people were killed.
while twenty were more or less injured.
jamestown, the place destroyed by the
cyclone, was a post village in Green Coun-
ty, Ohio, about sixty-two miles northeast of
Cincinnati and twenty-eight miles east by
south of Dayton. 1t had five churches, a
bank, a newspaper Office and a furniture
factory. Its population in 1850 was 532.
Owing to the sparse settlement of the
country and the blockaded roads accurate
details can not be obtained, but with such
a loss of property that of life must be terri
BILE. Near Xenia there was considerable
destruction. The Soldiers and Sailors
Orphans Home was badly damaged. The
barn and laundry were destroyed, while the
hospital and other buildings were unroofed.
Miss Harvey, matron, and night Waterman
Richardson were uninjured, but no children
were hurt