The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1886-05-20

Just as he did sc. the chimney fell
and grazed the 'boy'sface. !
Tombstones in the ch h-yard
were snapped off by. the wind as
though they were sticks of wood.
They were not broken by falling
timber, but literally snapped by the
wind, alene.
The house of George Hellworth,
with his family in it, was picked up
and rem oved thirty feet and then
crushed in ia ling in instead of out.
Hellworth is badly injured and his
wife is so badly hurt that she may
die. At the house of John Reese
I the hired man was float ID in a mat
tress several hundred feet by the
wind. He was injured but not So
riously.
Mr.. Frank Rice had tho best
house in the path of the storm, and
the cyclone just Clipped off the
point of one side and broke ont all
of the windows. N. B. Peterman's
house was blown clear out of sight,
and not a vestige of it cal be found
every member of the family was III
Ijured, even the little baby receiv-
ing a broken RIB. Mrs. Peterman
is reported to be dead. After the
barn on Winger's place had been
blown down the wreck was struck
by lightning and consumed by FIRE.
George Ginger had just finished
a new house, and the wind land.
ed the old house on top of the new
one, and a couple of boys whose
names could not be recalled by The
informant locked themselves in
each others arms on their bed
when the trouble began, and they
were waited two hundred yards in
to a wheat field. They were still
clasped in each others embrace
when found.
Mr.. Curtis. jun, of Neptune,
reports that he saw straws that
were blown into old oak trees.
A bed in the house of Andy Gin
ter was blown intothe fields, and
three children IN it were carried
along, with, it.
William Stevenson says that
he saw the cyclone approach.
1t looked; like
I ae; "A GREAT BLACK BALL
In the act OF rolling over the sur
face of the earth. 1t came along
with ffightful velocity, and made
noise louder than the roaring
of a hundred thunder-peals. 1t
was a clear night every where
but i'm the wake of the fearful
monster. 1t was about a half
mile wide, and it twisted i'm
mense trees off the ground as
though they were pipe stems.
The wind outside OF the scope
of the cyclone itself blew from
all directions at once into the
huge vacuum formed by the
huge and powerful cylinder ol
wind. The country through
which tire cyclone passed is as
completely devasted as though it
had been visiod hy fire instead
of wind,
George Fox's wagon was car
ried a ho|f mile. The tires on two
wheels we're each cut in two as
with some sharp instrument and
each part straightened exactly in
the same shape. At John
Grimm's dishes were carried and
driven into stumps so that they
could not be pulled out.
Many OF the sufferers are des
titute and there is an effort 10
be made to have the Legislature
pass an act to empower the Com
missioners of Mercer County TO
levy-as tax for the relief of the
needy people.
SOUNDS FROM SENECA COUNTY.
The reports from Seneca county
is a repetition of that from Mercer
only In the names of property owners
and sufferers. The farm of Abra
ham BeighIey, north east OF Repub
lie, was lin the route of the mad ele
ments and suffered severely. With
his family of five persons, Mr.
Beighley had retired for the night
when the storm burst upon them in
all its fury. HIS barn was totally
wrecked. The entire upper story
wss removed, and the family was
imprisoned by the upper floor,
which fell upon them. The furni
ture prevented the floor from crush
ing them to death. and they were
rescued from their position by
neighbors, who heard their cries for
help.
A large iron bridge over Honey
Greek, south of Bloomville. and
near Tiffin,. was loosened from its
moorings and carried long dis
tance. ',a
THE STORM AT PORTLAND
PORTLAND, IND, May 15.-Lasl
night, between eight and nine
70 clock. dark. ominous clouds
passed north of this place, attend
ed with terrific thunder and vivid
lightning. In about an hour
messengers arrived, reporting
a terrible cyclone having passed
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