Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-04-19
THE OHIO TORNADO.
It Sweeps Over Four Counties
with Terrible Effect.
Several Persons Fatally Hust-Farm Build
ings, Crops and stock Utterly De-
stroycd by the wild Rush
of the Elements.

southwest, In path ten rods WIDE, ut
terly demolishing everything it met. II
first struck the house of A. II. Jones,
just west of Springfield Lake, doing
slight damage. Eighty rods from Jones'
house was the two-story house of Scott
Sweitzer and five barns and sheds. The
storm demolished every building, leav-
ing not a timber standing. The debris
is now scattered over ten-acre lot. Mr..
Sweitzer, his wife and two children were
thrown into the cellar when the house
went down, and escaped injury. The
demolition is complete, nothing but the
cellars showing whore the buildings
were. His loss of crops and farm imple.
ments is very heavy.
The cyclone struck Sharon township
and moved swath twenty rods wide
and six miles long directly towards Ak
| ron, but arose above the surface far
enough to pass harmless over this city.
Six miles east of Akron it again struck
the earth and thence continued it's
course southeast for several miles with
unabated fury. In Sharon township the
farm buildings, crops and stock of Uriah
Woerstler, Richard Brown, Iseac Brown,
Frank Lacroix George w. Crane, Abra-
ham Lytle, Henry Chandler, Chris F.
Wall, Reese Wall, Matthew Bramley,
Frank Bramley, Hughes Frank and
Henry Wall were destroyed in ten
minutes.
Immediately after the cyclone passed
searching parties were organized. The
body of Hughes Frank was found forty
rods from the site where his house had
stood. Mrs. Frank was found 100 rods
further on, so badly injured that she
can not live. Matthew Bramley was
caught by falling timbers and fatally
hurt. Frank Bramley's house was
blown from it's foundation and he was
buried in the wreck, which took fire
from the cook stove. A hired man res
cued Bromley. The wreck was entirely
a quarter of mile and left against a
stump, where he was found unconscious
and badly hurt.
NoRwALK, April 1O.-The damage to
property in Norwalk and the surround
Ing country by Tuesdays tornado,
amounts to from $50, 900 to S75, OOO The
collapse of the umbrella factory of
Sprague & French might have resulted
in terrible catastrophe, had not the
girls at work there been notified of the
approach of the storm. There were
forty young women at work in the build
ing, and that any of them should have
escaped GEMS almost marvellous, for the
structure was crushed like an egg she'll.
AS it was, many were caught in the
debris, and scarcely one got off entirely
uninjured. The following is list of
the killed and injured:
Dora NJ. Palmer, killed; Maud Hard
ing, artery in temple severed Miss Sol
odine,t serious internal injuries; Carrie
Petit, cut in face; Louisa Brutsche, cut
in face and badly bruised Maggie
Eline, cut about head and face; Rose
Lyke, caught by falling timbers and
bruised about shoulders and hand cut;
Arthur N. Sprague, bruised about body
and face cut; Reuben Emerson, black
smith at East Norwalk, was badly in
jured, and the doctors say he will die.
He was hurt in arm and side. His shop
was crushed in, one end of his dwelling
demolished, outbuildings and orchard
otal wreck.
The storm at Townsend and Collins
was more destructive to property than
at Norwalk. Several persons were in
jured there. Mrs. Hoff and daughter
are thought to have been fatally in
jured. Arthur Bly, had three ribs broken
and his wife an arm shattered. Their
house was demolished. Mrs. Hurst's
son was badly injured. Several mem
bers of the Mead family, living on Cyrus
Denman's farm, were badly injured. L.
ID. Vining and wife and Mrs. Adam Kile
received serious injuries. At Townsend
John Hyde's house and the Methodist
parsonage were partly demolished. Mrs.
Hoff's dwelling was destroyed. L. d.
Vinney's, John Gardeners and Thomas
Hurst's houses were destroyed. A. w.
Pierce's saw mill is total wreck. also
d. McGucken's house. The brick school
house at Gardeners Corners, one and
one-fourth miles east of Townsend Cen
ter, was entirely demolished.
ALLIANCE, O., April 1O.-A cyclone in
direct east and west limo struck this
city Tuesday night. 1t had whirling
motion and a path about 100 feet wide
1t passed through the north portion of
town, leveled all chimneys, twisted
OH large Sndue UreeS, DrOhe mum DerIeSS
panes of glass, lifted bodily out-build-
ings and several barns and stables. 1t
also destroyed several large greenhouses
owned by wholesale florists, unroofed
freight cars, destroyed telephone COM
munication and partially the telegraph
service. the gas works were wrecked.
Nine miles east all orchards were de-
stroyed and half the houses unroofed.
AT Salem the Buckeye engine works
were wrecked, wire nail mill end and
two smoke stacks blown in and all oper-
ations stopped. The waterworks smoke
stack was blown down, a large planning
mill wrecked, the Salem pottery leveled,
Victor stove works unroofed. and many
houses lifted from their foundations.
No deaths are reported, though there
were many narrow escapes.
Largest Manufacturing Establishment In
the South Burned-Loss 100000.
DECATUR, Ala, April 1o.-All the
United States Rolling Stock Company's
shops here except the wood department.
burned last evening. The loss consti-
tutes more than one-half the propert,