Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-10
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE FURIOUS CYCLONE. Washington Court House
 In Ruins. NOT A HOUSE LEFT INTACT. The Storm Sweeps Through The State. PROHIBITION IN NEW YORK. Smallpox in the Streets of Ottawa.
Smallpox in the Streets of
 Ottawa.
THE CYCLONES AWFUL WORK.

sons Killed And Many Injured The storm Sweeps Through Other Western Towns.
 ADRIAN, Mich, Sept. 9.-A cyclone passed over this county last evening and did great damage. It began by tearing off the roof of the house of Charles Fox here; it next struck the barn of Edwards, a farmer, and levelled it. MT. Edwards with two hired men was in the barn at the time and is reported to be se- riously if not fatally injured. The hired men were slightly hurt. It then passed over the village of Ridgeway, tearing off the roofs of the Methodist Episcopal church and the depot. The barn of Jacob Arner was de- stroyed and the house of Robert Gum un- 1oofed Robert McMillan was caught while driving home and the horse and buggy and himself were lifted up and thrown into g ditch, breaking several of McMillan's ribs. Passing east in a path of ten rods wide the cyclone destroy ed the orchard and unroofed the barn of Charles Smith. The house of Thomas Hoglin was unroofed and his barn destroyed. The building was blown away, leaving the hay in a pile. The barn of Daniel 'Ashhurst was destroyed, the timber being scattered in all directions. The house of Mrs. Nathan Cheever was carried ten feet away and badly wrecked The house of George Cheever was demolished. The fami- lv were indoors at the time and miraculously escaped. The cyclone next attacked George Smiths place where the barns were destroyed. John Kent and John Curry, who were in MT. Smiths barn, were picked up afterward insensible and seriously injured. This is but partial account of the disaster at Ridgeway. In Adrian township Alfred Edwards was badly hurt and his large sheep barn and orchard were destroyed.
 WASHINGTON c. H., Ohio, Sept. 9.-The scene after the terrible cyclone of last night beggars description. There is not house in the town but what is more or less dam aged Hundreds of families are homeless and all are discouraged. Nobody knows where a thousand or more homeless are to
 find shelter tonight if it should rain, and there is every indication of it now. Here and there improvised ways of living begin in the streets and fires kindled with broken
 boards and shingles from the universal ruin The tornado came from the west, following a tremendously heavy rain which fell about eight o'clock. There
 are some who claim to have seen see is improbable owing to the darkness. Some of the larger business blocks destroyed are Williams two story brick, the first floor of which was occupied by Chegstone & Beaver, dry goods The second was in flats and also had the telephone exchange. The second story was cut off as by knife. Herbert Haggart, manager of the exchange, was fatally injured by jump ing from window to the street. The roof fell on him. The Odd Fellows hall, 8 mag nificent building, the first floor of which was occupied by Stetson & Co.,, dry goods, was demolished. Their loss stock will amount to $1OO,O0O. On the second floor the order were present when the blow struck the building and literally mashed it to the earth and nine of them were left clinging to the walls of the adjoining building and had to be taken down by lad de1s Of those crushed down with the build ing by 8 miracle not one was injured. Charles Draise, a clerk for Stetson, was go ing in the rear basement door and was caught and perhaps fatally hurt. On Main street of the Agricultural building nothing is left The stock is 8 total loss. Opposite was Wilton & Barker's two-story dry goods store. It was demolished and the stock is a total loss. Strange to say Music Hall adjoin- ing, occupied by the Salvation army was scarcely injured, though the buildings on each side were in ruins. The rink known as the Coliseum was blown completely fiat. The wholesale grocery of ! Dahl G Bahr has the back part tom off and the roof is gone All the stock is exposed and injured. | The loss will be heavy. James Jackson, DOT | ter of the store, had his skull fractured. The Pan Handle, Dayton and Ironton and Ohio Southern depots are completely wrecked ! The covered bridge over Paint Creek is de molished. Many private residences are in ruins. Poles are uprooted and wires are down. The Western Union company tapped ! it's wires and has two operators in Water street this afternoon. Northwest of here thousands Of trees have snapped off and the crops ruined and many houses blown down. Two children were killed near Jasper.
 Passengers coming in on the Midland road saw dozens of farm houses in ruins and | trees broken off like pipestems. Miss Cliff | ton, living with Isaac Snyder at Oaklynn, | was seriously injured. She was discovered ! late in the afternoon a hundred yards from ! the house. w. Q. Thorpe's wife and child of four years were carried hundred feet on | the floor of their sitting room and set down | wrecked, not trace of it being left on the foundation. J. K Monse's house was turned l inside out. Monse, his wife and l three children together went with the floor I through the house. They landed safely, but l the floor was not found o-day or any trace of l the house. James Dench, wife and their ! four days old baby were swept against tree, but not injured. The house was lifted and
 l dashed to pieces. The roof of the Fayette | County Herald building crashed through to | the cellar with part of the walls, taking presses, type and everything with it. A l committee has been organized to care for the 1 injured Hundreds are left with absolutely ! nothing. The killed are as follows | Mrs. Mollie Jones, widow; Edith Floyd, a 1 middle aged woman, who lived in the suburbs; l s, J. Gallagher; Ella Forshay; Jennie Forshay l Flora Carr; Mary Shackleford, aged ten; Herbert Haggart, telephone operator. The l fatally injured are James o. Jackson and | injured are: Judge Asa Gregg, w. A. | Shoepp, Broman Hess, Milt Hyer, Hugh l Forshay, H. H. Whelpley, station agent, and John Wilson.
 COLUMBUS, Sept. 9.-Governor Hoadley ! has issued s.n appeal for aid for the destitute people of Washington Court House. He says ! the newspaper accounts are not exaggerated and that help is urgently needed. Contribu- I tions of goods or money may be sent to Col onel M. A. Barclay, Mayor of Washington.
 CINCINNATI, Sept. 9.-Reports from Cam | bridge City, Ind, say that town was visited l damage done. Mr. Shanks residence was | blown to the ground and Mrs. Shanks in l iured. Several buildings were wrecked at | Dublin, two miles east of Cambridge. The cyclone passed short distance north of | Tippecanoe City, sweeping everything before it. Three persons were seriously II not fatal- | ly injured in the family of MT. Winterstein.
 At Seymour the roof of John Vogel's resi-
 dence was carried one hundred yards. At | reunion a I'Iali ground was blown down and a boy named Yeager was badly injured. | At Napoleon, O., much damage was done to farm houses, barns, etc. The storm passed
 two miles north of the town, moving in a northeasterly direction and covering space | half mile in width. Osceola, Summit
 county, and Nevada, Crawford county, Ohio, | were struck by the storm. Several build | ings were blown down and considerable
 damage done in both places: Wilmington,
 Xenia, Troy and Circleville escaped the
 blast, but were drenched with very heavy
 rains At Cowlesville,, three miles south of ] Troy, several barns and sheds were blown down and number of houses struck by | lightning, but no loss of life is reported.
 RieI Refused a New Trial.
 WINNIPEG, Sept. 9-The full bench has refused new trial for Riel. The French | population are dangerously excited.
 ] Borazel, the true remedy for Nasal Catarrh