Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-16
SCHOOLS BROKEN UP
And Several Pupils Killed BY q Ter
ribl6 Tornado In Canada.
BIG BUILDINGS BUT PLAYTHINGs
Of the Storm, Which Scattered Their
Wreckage Over Many Acres.
CROPS ARE BEATEN TO THE GROUND

STE. ROSE, QUE, June 15.-This pretty
little village, fashionable summer resort
near Montreal, was the scene of frightful
catastrophe yesterday afternoon. AS the
locality is out of the way, and telegraphic
communication was shut of, nothing was
known of it until to-day.
Shortly after o'clock the residents Of
| Ste. Rose noticed the darkened clouds
gathering on the horizon. Suddenly there
was low, sullen roar, and in the twinkling
of an eve the light of day was changed into
the blackness of night With hardly q
warning terrible tornado struck the
village, carrying everything before it.
Houses were carried away, huge trees were
torn from their roots, animals were carried
away by the wind and deposited in fields
acres distant
But still more terrible scene was in store
for the frightened inhabitants. Two miles
from the village was a school. Here rs
children were being taught by their young
teacher, Miss Lacaisse. While teacher
and scholars were intent upon lessons it
suddenly became pitch dark.
Teacher and Pupils in the Wreck.
In a moment the pitiless tornado had
struck the small wooden schoolhouse, tear
ing it TO pieces as if it were matchbox.
The pupi Is were scattered like leaves, and
Miss Lacaisse received blow on the head
which stunned her. She was found in the
Gus injuries about the head and spine, and
her chances of recovery are considered
doubtful. The children were carried in all
directions bv the wind, and in some
cases set down in adjacent fields, many
yards from the schoolhouse.
Out of the 25 children two of them were
dead when found, one died shortly after, IL
are seriously wounded and the remainder
are more or less wounded. The killed are:
ALFRED QUIMET, aged :. the son of a prominent
sTANIsLAUs DIUBTEN, aged.
The bodies Of the children were terribly
disfgured. In addition to the killed, the
following are not expected to live:
ERNSTINE OUIMET, serious internal injuries.
EDOykD QUlMET, severely injured.
EDQURD GASCON, serious injuries to head and
AMEHEtiE @ cADrNY, broken arm and spine badly
The storm travelled over the village with
out doing marked damage. It was in the
open country that It spent its fury. 1t COM
barns of ohm, Thomas and Alpheus Kimp-
ton, and in all probability killed Mrs.
Alpheus Kimpton and her baby, aged
months The former, when the wreck oc-
CURED, had her collarbone broken, and the
latter its skull crushed. They are not e1-
pected to recover.
Houses the PIaythings of the Wind.
Houses were lifted bodily in the air.
Other farmers. French Canadians, neigh
bors of the Kimptons, suffered similarly, so
far as the destruction of buildings is con-
cerned. Albert Garsh's stone creamery and
five barns were destroyed. Trees came
down with a crash, roads were blocked,
darkness set in and general alarm super
vened. 1t would be impossible to aggregate
the force of the storm. Water was swept
over the new bridge 227 feet long, and
waves rose II feet high.
The scene at the schoolhouse after the
wreck was full of agony. The news had
spread, and parents ran to the scene to look
for their children. The living were hud-
died together in mortal agony. The
wounded were groaning and shrieking. In
addition to the loss of life, vast amount of
was destroyed. 1t is estimated
that the loss of property will be $4,000.
The tornado also played havoc in other
villages. At ST. Therese a schoolhouse in |
which there were 40 children was blown |
down, two of the children killed and many |
injured. At Lachute terrific thunder |
storm, accompanied by heavy downfall of |
storm ever known in this vicinity. Hail
stones were fully as. large as hens eggs,
many of them actually larger
The Farmers Suffer Heavily.
The crops were damaged to a great ex-
|
torn center, which was about one mile
vide, and crops were beaten into the
,round. Fruit trees we're badly injured
In Wilson's paper mill over 400 panes of
,lass were broken out of 500, while proper
ionate damage was done to the lights in
very building in the neighborhood.
The storm on the south side of the st.
was very extensive, and the
amage will be very heavy. 1t is said that
wo children were killed and six barns and
wo houses torn down near Upton. The
torn played great havoc at St. Charles,
where large number of buildings of all
uriously along the south side of the st.
from Longueil to Boucherville,
)ontresseur and Varennes, where some
eavy damage was done.
The fiercest storm which ever prevailed
round Rentrew, Ont, yesterday caused q
reat deal of damage to property, wrecking
number of residences and public buildings
nd placing human life in great peril The
Wind, which swept along with the force of
vclone, demolished residences and out
uildings in Granton township and four or
we in Adamston township.
More Schoolhouses Are Struck.
1t wrecked the roof and the windows of
he Renfrew School, injuring one OF the
eachers, and cut path through section of
he township of Horton, leveling six build
ngs. 1t also tore the roofs off the Horton
own Hall and the Orange Hall.
The wind continued to rush along with
esistless force and carried the log residence
f Louis Aubrey bodily UP into the air,
anding it some hundreds of feet away, and
estroyed several outbuildings The school
ouse at that place was also badly damaged. ,
he school was in session when the storm
truck it, and the greatest excitement pre-
allied among the children when the wind
ore portions of the building away and the
hole structure rocked as if it was about to
lmble from its foundations. Luckily no ,
,rious injury was done to any OF the pupils,
The family of Frank Burton took refuge
| the cellar at their residence just in the
ick of time. They had hardly got safely r
Glow when the house was struck by the .
orm and in short time the whole structure
as torn to pieces and the fragments were
lrled with great force to considerable
stance. Mrs Aubrey was in her log
'use when it was carried through the air,
Id she was badly injured. She is also suf-
ring from the nervous shock caused BY
'r thrilling experience. ,-.
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