The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-07-17
A CYCLONES WORK.
Immense Damage to Property
Throughout the Northwest.
Many Buildings Wrecked, Bridges
Swept Away and Cattle Killed.

Reports from various sections of the North
west give the following details of n terrific
cyclone which ragged in that region:
A Milwaukee wis., dispatch says that the
storm appears to have passed entirely across
the State diagonally from northwest to
southwest. At Sparta, which city appears tc
have been the greatest sufferer, the storm
ragged for over an hour, during the greater
part of which time the air was
filed with falling trees and flying debris
A scene of desolation prevailed Buildings
are wrecked on every hand. shade trees torn
from their roots, sidewalks demolished, and
fences blown down. Several fine residences
and a number of those less pretentious are
mass of ruins. At Plainfield the storm was
the most terrific ever known. A large num-
Der Of buildings were blown down or unroofed
and freight cars were smashed into splinters
Port Edwards in Wood county had plan.
ing mill, store and five dwellings blown
out of sight, lumber yards scattered
TO the winds, and other property in
jured The loss will aggregate $1,000. In
Rock county buildings suffered to qui te ar
extent, the principal damage being to tobac
CO sheds. About Edgerton more than 200
tobacco sheds were demolished. Houses
barns and other buildings suffered a like
fate, and considerable live stock was killed
a new Catholic church, a fax mill, resi-
dences, and barns were destroyed at Apple.
ton. About Stoughton tobacco sheds, house:
and barns were demolished and large number
of horses and cattle killed. From scores Of
small towns reports of the storms destruc
ton are received. In many places where the
destruction by wind was not severe great
damage was done by lightning. AT White
water Nienah, Fall River, and Elroy the
loss by lightning was particularly severe AT
Baskerville, w God county, the loss by wind
and lightning will not fall short of $4,000,
and at Wellsville, twenty miles northwest
the loss is also quite severe In all sections Of
the State traversed by the storm crops have
suffered 81 eat injury.
At Lind, Wis, nineteen barns and six
houses were more or less damaged. John
Pinkerton, farmer, drove into his barn just
as the storm broke to wait till it passed by.
The wind lifted the barn from its foundation:
and carried it with most of its contents 10
feet. Pnkerton escaped without a scratch.
The tornado injured dozen persons and
destroyed property in Oshkosh, Wis. and
vicinity valued at 100000 The Northern
Fair Exposition building, sixty feet wide and
400 feet long, which was valued at $1,000,
was leveled to the ground. From twenty five
to fifty houses were damaged, and a good
many families were left without shelter
Several Of the persons injured were seriously
if not fatally hurt, ST Pauls Episcopal
church, a wooden structure was blown down
and several church buildings lost theiI
steeples. Meetings were held and money
raised for the relief of the needy.
At Bloomington, H. William Schroeder,
fifty years old, was instantly killed by light,
ming, and Il number of persons were stunned
Great damage was done to the bridges on the
Lake Erie and Western, and travel over the
line was entirely suspended. The bridges a,
Saybrook, Gibson and Elliott's stations were
swept away by the water At Gibson's sew
eral buildings were damaged by lightning
The storm at Rockford, H., was the
severest of years. Lightning demol
ished the residence of John johnson and
rendered five inmates unconscious. All es
capped with their lives.
From Monticello, MINI, come the follow
ing details: a cyclone passed north of thi:
place last night. The track of the storm wa;
about five miles distant, and an ominou:
10 okng cloud was watched by nearly every
one in town. The cloud was of greenisl
hue and funnel shaped, and as it danced
across the prairie, now tearing Up the dirt
end again rising some distance in
the air, it created a peculiar scene. A house
between Big Lake and Becker was STRUCK
and nothing was left to tell where it stood
pieces of timber and furniture being scattered
along the prairie The only thing that wal
discovered near the place that was recogniz
able was a number of knives and forks, which
were found about 800 feet distant
About 800 yards further on an old stabh
was lifted from the ground and carried away
but the house standing near by was unframed
A little child who was in the yard was picked
up and carried some distance, but lanteC
near fence unframed.
The greatest rainstorm for many year
ragged at Oskaloosa, Iowa, and vicinity. Owe
five inches of water fell Many bridges were
washed out and bottoms overlooked. Eng
lands new business block was completely
wrecked, and a man was caught il the fal
and slightly Injured
Near Allagan, Mich, the tornado swep
over a tract about three miles long anC
eighty rods wide. resulting in great damage
Buildings We're unrOCted and serious in iur'
was done to standing timber and orchard.
The losses aggregate many thousands of dol
lars.