Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-05-20
WORK OF THE WIND.
Immense Destruction Of Prop
erty--Large Buildings
Wrecked.
Many Persons Badly Injured.

A terrible cyclone struck Odell, d., on
the 18th inst which demolished one brick
block wrecked three warehouses, unroofed
the hotel, Masonic hall, and four store
b SnaI e., also the upper story Of .tSs
and Oddfellows lodge was completely de-
stroyed. Scarcely a store in town escaped
injury. The loss will amount to $4,000.
Houses, barns and sheds were twisted of
their foundations and completely de-
stroyed. Trees a foot in diameter were
twisted up The storm did not last over
five minutes. Ten minutes before 1t the
air seemed to get green. Two clouds
seemed to advance, one from the south
east and one from the southwest, and met
over the town, forming a monstrous
whirlwind. The large livery barn of Hord
Bros. was completely demolished. A
large three story mill was blown off its
foundation and wrecked. The two story
wreck; the hotel is injured badly; not
whole window remains in the building.
A number of residences were badly
wrecked. The streets are filed with tim
bers, board fences, tin roofs and prostrat-
ed trees. The, new school building is
building is completely destroyed. The
Congregational church is twisted in bad
shape. The Methodist church had one
steeple blown off. Those fatally injured
are: Lottie Zwifile. 10 years old, was
carried over 2U0 feet in the air and fell on
the railroad track, smashing her skull;
George and Charles Hoke, liverymen.
). >. Cole, hardware merchant, and two
children of John Miller are seriously hurt.
The children had taken refuge in the brick
building and were buried in the ruins.
Telegraph wires were all blown down and
communication with the outside world
was completely cut off. The damage in
the surrounding country is slight.
A cyclone struck Williamsport, Ind, on
the evening of the 18th DESTROYING every
thing in its track. Several houses and
barns in the north end of the town were
carried away. IL seemed to have formed
about two miles northwest of the town and
took a southwesterly direction, travelling
about thirty miles an hour, striking the
extreme north end of the place.
Reports come from Attica, about two
miles east of Williamsport, that il struck
that place about the center of the town
and destroyed several of the business build
iings, including a new mill, the Revere
house, and the Chicago & Great Southern
railway offices. The wagon bridge over
the Wabash river was torn down. Several
persons were on the bridge at the time and
went down, and all are supposed to have
been killed.
At the Revere house several are reported
TO have been killed. At indianapolis two
brick houses belonging to Henry Butt vera
torn down, and Mrs. Butt badly injured.
Aside from her the people escaped INJURY.
"A fearful storm passed over Winchester,
Va, the same evening lasting fifteen
minutes. Two clouds met and burst in-
mediately over the city. The wind at
tanned great velocity. Hailstones the
size of walnuts fell to the depth of from
two inches to three feet and trees stripped.
Every house with q western exposure had
all window glass destroyed. Carriages
were overturned on roads and occupants
narrowly escaped with their lives. The
storm extended only a mile OH either side
Of this place. Three persons are reported
killed.
A fearful thunder storm visited Dayton,
Ohio, on the 18th, commencing at 500 p.
m. and lasting nearly three hours. The
electrical display was decidedly brilliant,
and the rains fell very heavy, flooding
many cellars in various parts of the city,
particularly among the business houses on
Main street between Third and Fourth.
The loss will reach many thousand dollars.
The storm was accompanied by Ieavy
fall of hail, which lasted about ten NJ lnutes
The hail stones were large and solid, and
did great damage to windows, to shrub
berry, flowers and fruit.
Dispatches from points along the Come
maugh valley, in Pennsylvania, report
several persons seriously injured by
tornado which passed over that section on
the 18th. Mrs. James Brett, who had given
birth to a child about three hours before
and was in bed, was carried out over
fence into a field. She is not expected to
live. BERTHE Foust, friend of Mrs. Brett.
was carried some distance and had her
face terribly lacerated. John Foust's
house was blown down.
Sedalia, Usage City and Vichy Springs in
Missouri, were each visited by destructive
storms the sumo day of the terrible lorna
do which wrought so much ruin in Kansas
City. At these points no lives were lost,
but buildings of every description were
bent and broken like pipe-stems. A num-
Der of persons were injured.
In Joliet, H., deluge of rain, thunder
and hail inundated the earth. The thun.
derbolts were deafening and the electric
display unparalleled. A circus show was
having performance, and in the midst of
the performance the storm struck the tent,
turning the whole show upside down.
Women screamed, animals raved. A gen.
eral stampede amid sheets of lightning,
drenchng rain and the resistless gala re-
suited. Three persons were seriously in
jured by the falling poles, and number
were hurt slightly.