Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1894-05-23


ToLEDo, o.. May 1s.-Reports re-
,eived here Thursday night from vari-
ous points in Williams county give
meager details of q cyclonic disturb
ance in that part of northwestern ONO
ate Thursday afternoon. The country
between Kunkle and Montpelier. ON
the Detroit division of the Wabash
railroad. seems to have suffered prin-
cipally.
The exact amount of the damage
done can not be given accurately, but
IL is known that ten persons we're
killed and ut least ten were seriously
| injured. The dead, as far as can be
learned, are:
Edmund Schlesser, aged Ga, hurled
against tree and almost instantly
I killed.
- Rigby. az elderly woman, one
+ limb torn of.
Daniel Barrett, body badly crushed
and arm. torn off.
Mrs. Daniel Barrett, horribly man
/ gled; died within two hours.
Martha Daso instantly killed.
/ Myrtle. Daso limbs broken and in
ternally injured: died at 10 p. IN.
/ George Oxinger. head crushed and
body disemboweled
Three small children, names I'M
I known, instantly killed.
The injured are:
David Lcngley, scalp wound and
fractured leg; will die.
Jason Miles, head crushed.
Mrs. ii. y. Charles, injuries unknown.
Charles Cole, internally injured; can't
live more than n few hours.
Mrs Charles Cole, head crsuhed; will
die.
Jennie Creek, badly bruised; will re-
cover.
Seven others, three of them women,
more or less badly injured
The climax came with unexpected
and awe-inspiring swiftness- Two dark
clouds seemed to unite in the west and
then wind, blowing at hurricane
speed, swept down on the earth and
drove terror into the hearts of citizens.
Many thought day of judgment had
come, and story is told that one man
who was hurt was buried in the debris
of an clubhouse while on his knees pray
ing. Giant trees snapped like alders in
the grasp of the maddened elements,
and were carried hundreds of feet from
where they stood.
Roofs of houses and barns We're lifted
as though they were so many shingles,
and scattered over three townships
Edmund Schlesser, the old man who
was killed. was farmer in fairly good
circumstances. He was on his way
from the field to his house when he was
overtallen by the storm. His body was
frightfully bruised, and scarcely bone
was not broken.
The property is vaguely estimated AZ
between S25, 600 and $40, 900. 1t is be-
lieved that at least half n dozen more
fatalities will have been reported when
the worst is known
The section devastated is about one.
quarter mile wide and six or seven
miles in length. The funQel-shaped
clouds travelled in an irregular south
easterly course. Barns, fences, trees
and outbuildings of all kinds in the
path OF the storm were carried away
and nothing was left to mark the spot
where they stood, except huge holes in
the ground. The greatest damage was
done about mile from where the cy-
clone rose and passed on east.
The building in which Daniel Bar.
rett, his wife 'and their two grand.
daughters, Martha and Myrtle Daso,
were killed, is so completely demolished
that not n portion of the foundation is
left standing. The first remnants OF
the house are at least 100 yards from
where it stood
COLUMBUS, Ind, May 1s-A violen!
wind storm, Thursday night, blew the
tin roof off Gey's Brothers store, and
falling on Newsom's delivery horse
and wagon, it broke two of the legs oil
the animal, so that it had to be shot.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, May 1s.-A ter
rife wind storm passed over this CITY
at o'clock Thursday night, creating
great alarm and doing considerable
damage TO show windows. Signs were
blown down, and small damages are
reported from all parts of the city.
The top of the Dunn block was
blown down. No personal injuries re.
ported.
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