The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-07-16
MORE ToRNADoEs.
Great Damage to Property of all Il inds BY
Wind and Rain.

MnwAUkEE. WIS.,, July 9.-To-night re-
ports of damage from last nights storm
Continue to come Ia, and indications are
that 1t 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 suf-
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 a 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 a number of those less pre-
tentious are a mass of ruins. Further than
to place it well up in the thousands of dol
lars no estimate of the loss at that point is
made. At Plainfield the storm was the
most terrific ever seen. A large number of
buildings were blown down or unroofed,
and freight cars were smashed
into splinters. Port Edwards, in
Wood County, had a planning. mill, store
and five dwellings blown out Of existence,
lumber-yards 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 a like fate,
and considerable live stock was killed. A
new Catholic church, a flax mill, resi-
dences and barns were downed at Apple
ton.
MONTICELLO, MIMI, July "a Cyclone
passed north of this place yesterday after
noon. The track of the storm was about
five 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 aud Becker was struck,
and nothing was left to tell where it 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
a gentleman, named Magee, was
driving in a 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
unharmed. A little child playing in the yard
was picked up and carried some distance,
but landed near fence unharmed, aside
from few scratches. Reports are slow
coming in, but so far no deaths have been
reported, although several narrow escapes
occurred.