Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-04-10
A TERRIBLE iCYCLoNE.
A Number of Persons Killed and Over
Fiffy Wounded.
oAKvILLE ENTIRELY DESTROYED.

live cyclone struck this county about
j o'clock yesterday afternoon, COM
pletely wiping Oakville, seven miles
south of here on the Ft W., c. Il L.
Railroad. entirely out of existence, and
doing inestimable damage to life and
property. =, :,
About 5 o'clock heavy black
cloud came driving from the west and
smother from the north. The two
clouds met at the house OF Louis
Cochran, two miles from Oakville,
lifting it bodily from its floor and
foundation, and tearing it into kind
ling wood.
A minute later it struck Oakville,
carving death and destructian N It's
track. OF thirty houses in Oakvilie,
all but two we're torn to atoms. Four
persons were killed outright in Oak
vile, and the fifth this morning, while
jaime Sanders two miles west, was
also killed, making six killed and
large number injured. Fifty are re-
ported wounded.
The large warehouse and saw'mllls
adiourning are in ruins. and the scene
is a chaos of rubbish, of whose owner.
ship it is impossible to tell. Anna
Dearborn, an old lady, and the sons OF
Colonel johnson and James Sanders
were killed, and two other persons,
whose names were not ascertained.
Christian Swain lost everything, and
had his house blown from over his
head, but like Cochran escaped unln
jured. g.,
l. Hale had new house removed
entirely from its foundations.
The track of the cyclone was about
Q quarter of mile wide, and de-
stroyed everything in Its path.
Two of the women killed at Oakville
were picked up by the wind and car
tied fully half mile and deposited in
the woods. Twelve other houses were
literally shattered into splinters A
large number of horses, cattle and
sheep were. killed. Telegraph poles
were posted for mile and half. 1t
is believed the loss Of life in the coun'
try remote from telegraph facilities has
been considerable.
The condition of the citizens OF Oak
Vile is terrible to think Of. Without
homes, clothing, food or bedding they
were found standing in cold. binding
snow storm or shivering in few fire,
less houses that yet remain. People
more fortunate have thrown open their
homes to the suffering, and are max
ing arrangements to feed the hungry
until such time as they may no able to
sustain themselves.
AT GREENvILLE, OHIO.
GREENvILLE, O., April 1.-The cyc'
lone struck through tract OF country
one and half miller south of here last
evening, at about 6'38 p. m, moving
almost due east, and occupying about
one halt mile IN width. The farms o.
VIM. Townsend, Henry St. Clair, Il
Vandyke, J. T. Marthwlth, Fl. Flem
ing and J. J. Markwith were in the
line of the cyclone, ali of whom sus-
tained severe losses to property anG
stock. Hans Hormon had leg bro
ken. Alex. Ratciff and wife had limbs
broken, Amos Cox received severe in
juries while being pinned to the tlool
by heavy timbers.
Henry Fleming had leg and arm
broken, and his wife was also severely
hurt. No lives were lost. Roads anc
fields we're piled thick with flying tim
bers, causing some of them to be I'M
passable.
Darke county sustained loss o
over $4,000 by this storm. Numer
GUS barns, dwellings,, out, etc, wer'
blown down and moro or less de
stroyed. and several hundred head o
stock killed
IN CENTRAL OHIO.
COLUMBUS, April 2.-Word was re
ceived this morning that destructive
wind storm had passed over Revn
oldsburg, twelve miles east OF Colum
bus, and IN a southeasterly direction
last night Several houses, barns anc
bridges we're blown down, and still
greater number unroofed.
Fences and fruit trees were lal'
waste, and five miles of telegraph
poles along the National road tori
down. So far as learned no persol
was seriously injured, though som
stock was killed.
THE STORM AT PITTsBURG.
PIrrsBURe, Pa. April "A terrl6
wind storm, accompanied with thun,
der, lightning aud hail, passed owe
the city at ten o'clock this morning
doing considerable damage to propert,
and injuring number of persons;
Oliver Neuberts' new wire mill, a
large Side, was blown down and tw
= workmen, William Lacy and Jane
Donahoe, seriously injured. Lac,
was hurt internally and will probabl.
die.
A frame house in Twenty eight
street, not yet completed, was also de
molished, bat no one was hurt.
A carpenter named Robinson, erect
ing the scaffold upon which Georg
Jones will be executed tomorrow, wa
struck by beam and quite seriousl
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