Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-04-09
A LargeSectiOn of Northern New York
Badly Devastated.
KILLED OUT RIGHT IN A BARN.
One Mans Life Saved by the Car
casses of Cattle Holding Heavy
Timbers Of His Prostrate Body
Houses Unroofed, Orchards
Uprooted, and Buildings De-
molished - Bad Weather In
Michigan.

BUFFALO, N. Y, April s.-Western
New York was storm swept yesterday.
A great deal Of damage was done by
cyclone which spread over Springville,
Brockton, Angola, Mayville, Dunklrk
and adjoining country. At SpringVliie
the cyclone blew down barn aud
killed one man. The storm did not last
much over an hour, but it Is roughly
estimated that the damage done houses,
cattle and buildings will reach many
thousands of dollars. At SPringville
barn belonging TO Vedder Hemmstreet
was blown down by the cyclone. Mr..
Hemmstreet and his hired man were In
the barn at the time. When the build
ing collapsed they were buried in ruins
with all the cattle. The farmer
felt the barn shake and started
for the door. he was caught
between the timbers and crushed to
death. The hired man was in stall,
and when the huge timbers fell he was
caught between two cows and saved
from death. The four cows surround
ing him were killed, and several others
were badly injured. The neigh
bors chopped through the fall
en- timbers TO get him out.
When they were reached Hemmstreet
was dead and the hired man was smoth-
eriug between the crushed bodies OF
the cows. The barn seemed directly IN
the path Of the storm, and received the
full force Of it. At Westfield trees foot
in diameter were uprooted and thrown
several feet from the spot where they
stood. Many buildings were unroofed
and several smaller structures were
blown from their foundations. Many
greenhouses were destroyed, the
reofs being swept out clean.
A water tower and wind mill
on E. P. Dickerman's place was
lifted bodily and moved six feet from
its site. AT Brockton, the heart OF the
grape country, IL is hard to say Just
what the damage will be. The orchards
and vineyards were badly torn up.
Trees were uprooted. and new store
belonging to Thomas Morse was leveled
TO the ground. Angola had heavy
rain with the wind The hose tower,
fifty feet high, surmounted by the fire
bell. was blown over and IL carried with
IL all the telephone and telegraph wires.
Between Angola and Fsirnham, the
high embankment beside the Lake
Shore railroad tracks was washed out,
and one track had to be be abandoned.
Boat houses were washed away at Mays
vile.
Dnnkirk had the liveliest time OF all,
trees were torn up, wires blown down,
a cupola was swept from residence
and the slate roof Of st. Johns church
was ripped up in many places. The
building used for general exhibits and
floral nall on the grounds OF
the Chatauqua Agricultural Association
was destroyed and the stock sheds were
damaged. The path Of the storm seems
to have been about hslf mile wide. 1t
appears to have struck just east OF
Springville and Travelled in an almost
straight line west through Dunkirk
and so on to the lake. The residence
OF George II. Talcott, at Talcottville,
Lewis county, was supposedly struck
by lightning during the night and
burned to the ground. The house was
situated about q mile east Of the little
village and was formerly 3 wayside
tavern. The neighbors did not know
that it had been burned till after day
light. They at once visited the place
and made the discovery that Mr.
Tslcott and his mother, a lady over
20 years OF age, had been burned in the
house, their charred and blackened
corpses being found in tn ruins.