The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-18
RUGBY MORGAN COUNTY, TENN, SATURDAY, JULY 49, Who'll
MORE ToRNADoEs.
Great Damage to Property Of all Kinds by
Wind and Rain.

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MILWAUKEE,. WIS, July o. night re-
ports OF damage from last nights storm
continue to come in, and indications are
that it will yet be several days before all
small towns Of the interior will be heard
FROM The storm appears to have passed
entirely across the State, diagonally from
northwest to southeast. At Sparta, which
city appears to have been the greatest sui.
ferer, the storm ragged for over an hour,
during the greater part of which time
the air was filed with falling trees
and flying debris. Although no
lives are reported lost, many narrow
escapes are reported from falling
buildings. Along Court street scene Of
desolation prevailed. Buildings were
wrecked on every hand, shade trees torn
from their roots, sidewalks demoraliz-
ed and fences blown down. Several fine
residences and number of those less pre-
tentious are mass of ruins. Further than
to place 1t well up in the thousands Of dol
lars no estimate of the loss at that point is
made At PlainHeld the storm was the
most terrific ever seen. A large number Of
buildings were blown down or unroofed,
into s spsstsrs Port "f sSwa sns'Dfn IN
Wood County, had planning mill, store
and five dwellings blown out of existence,
lumber-yar1s scattered to the winds, and
other property injured. The loss will ag-
gregate $4,000. In Rock County buildings
suffered to quite an extent, the principal
damage being to tobacco sheds. About
Edgerton more than two hundred tobacco
sheds were demolished. Houses, barns
and other buildings suffered like fate,
and considerable live stock was killed. A
new Catholic church, fax mill, resi-
dences and barns were dOwned at Apple
ton.
MONTICELLO, MINI, July "a Cyclone
passed north of this place yesterday after.
noon. The track of the storm was about
Eve miles distant, and an ominous- looking
cloud was watched by about every one in
town. The cloud was Of greenish hue and
funnel-shaped, and as it danced across the
prairie, now tearing up dirt from the
ground and again rising some distance in
the air, created peculiar scene. A house
between Big Lake and Becker was struck,
and nothing was left to tell where 1t stood,
pieces of timber and furniture being scat
tered along over the prairie. The only
things discovered near the place that was
recognizable were some knives and forks,
which were found about three hundred
feet distance. Some distance further
a gentleman, named Magee, was
driving in buggy. Magee saw
the storm coming and fastened into
the shelter of small clump Of trees.
Near the trees and between him and the
storm was knoll, which perhaps was
, what saved his life, as the cloud elevated
and passed directly over him without do
ing any harm. In the cloud he could see
pieces of timber and wreckage whirling
about, but his account is rather meager.
He admits he was too frightened
to pay much attention to anything.
About five hundred yards further on an old
stable was lifted from the ground and car
ried away, house standing near by being
unframed. Alittle child playing in the yard
was picked up and carried some distance,
| but landed near fence unframed, aside
from few scratches. Reports are slow
coming In, but SO far no deaths have been
reported, although several narrow escapes
| occurred,