Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-08-15
A DEATH-pEALiNG GALE.

A Cyclone Causes Much Destruction In
Ashland and washburn, wis.-A Circus
Tent Blown Down-Two Persons Killed
and Many Hurt-Tornado In Iowa.
ASHLAND, Wis, Aug 10.-Ashland
and Washburn were struck by terri
BILE tornado Saturday afternoon about
$3.50 o'clock. Houses were blown down,
buildings unroofed and many vessels
driven ashore. At Washburn circus
tent was wrecked. Two people were
killed and fifty injured. The cyclone
came from the northwest, and was
sudden. Rain poured in torrents. The
main business street was like river.
The storm drove through the large
hotel, the Chequamegon, like mill
race. Twenty yachts on the bay were
wrecked. -Four men were picked up
off capsized sailboat after the storm.
The Swedish Lutheran church, the
Genery block, the Daily Press Office,
the Ashland theater and Franklin
house were unroofed.
At Washburn, across the bay, Will
liams' circus was in full blast when the
storm struck. Prof Williams was GO
ing through an act with trained horses
when the tent fell. The horses, wild
with fright, burst out through the fran
tic mass of people. Two little children
of George La Belle and an unknown
boy were taken out dead. They were
blown 500 feet. Miss Wilson's right
leg was broken. The depot was turned
into hospital and the dead and
wounded carried there. 1t was ter
rible scene. Mothers were frantically
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wandering about wounded and bleed
ing. The injured number at least
fifty, several of whom will die.
The wires are all down. Whole
blocks of business houses were torn
from their foundations and blown
down, iniuring many people. The
Feustad building, just completed, was
totally demolished. Seven persons
were in the top story, but all except
one escaped without injury. The ami
mails of Williams circus escaped from
| their cages. An anaconda is still at large
and several other animals have not been
captured. The roof was torn off the
large Omaha elevator and considerable
grain spoiled by water. The damage
in Washburn is estimated at 500, 900.
Tramways on the coal docks were de-
molished. The storm was similar to
that at Superior several weeks ago.
OTTUMwA, Ia, Aug. 10.-The terrible
heat of Sunday morning, which reached
80 degrees in the shade, was broken by
tornado which struck this city about
2 o'clock in the afternoon. The storm
in it's full fury covered n some
what limited area. Its course was
from the southwest toward the north.
east. The first damage done by il
was at Humeston, where the wind was
most furious Cars standing on the
KeokulS & Western track were blown
off and the roof of the roundhouse was
lifted. At Corydon the Methodist
church and courthouse We're damaged
In this city the wind blew with grea
violence, taking off the roof of A. d
Moss dry goods store, the roof of Har
per e Mcintyre Co.'s wholesale hard
ware house, the roof of A. p. Peterson
grocery store, damaging the Chicago
Burlington & Quincy round house
overturning the scaffolding abou
the coal palace and precipitat
ing it on lot of telegraph ant
telephone wires; uprootiug great tree
all over the city, and demolishing barn
and other fragile outbuildings. Th
path of the storm through the countr.
has been marked by the destruction O
corn and the demolition of grain il
stack. There was very little rain, an
the damage was wholly by wind.
BLOOMFIELD, Ia, Aug 10.-One @
the most destructive wind and rain
storms ever known in this section c
Iowa passed over Davis county Sunda
afternoon. Houses were unroofeC
fences blown down, besides much dam
age done to the fruit crop.
DEs MONIES, Ia, Aug. 1O.-A terrifi
tornado, accompanied by rain an
hail. passed through Decatur count
Sunday about IL o'clock, doing muc
damage. 1t was the worst storl
known in that section. Crops al
practically destroyed over large SCI
! ton of the country. Trees were blow
down and houses unroofed.