The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-05-27
A DEyAsTATING Cyclone.


A WholesaIe sIaashte iebr Lives by The
wiia. Reientiess Tornado.
Detroit, Mich. May 2s-TaA cyclone
winch devasted the northern portion OF
Oakland, courty last evening swept a
path half rnile wide and sixteen mtl.us
long, Yves. to East. clearing the earth Of
nearly everything movable. ABOUT forty
persons were killed outright, and fully
thsjs numbsr were injured, some OF whom
VIII die. The cyeloe first struck earth
Half a mile north OF that Village. In
Uhese uix miles OF devastated country
before Ortony!lle was reached fifteen
persons were killed and twenty injui ed.
some fatally The dead: Mrs, Mitchell
Claude Mitchell Cher SOM, j. Mitchell Ia
baby SOM. Abram Quick, Glen Quick dix
year-old son), Myrtle Quick four-year-
old daughter, Ross Quick Ga baby son)
Mrs. Henry Quick tmnther OF Arbram
Quick), Prescott wilkins Of Maysville
Qsixty years old, John Porritt (seventy-
Ave years old), Mrs. Porr:tt dhis daughter
in-law). Mrs. Louise Porr!tt Ca daughter-
in-law), Mrs. William Kitchen Abram
Kitchen, John WalRie, Jr.
OF the Injured william Mitchell, Jo-
seph Porrite, and John Wnkie, Sr., will
die.
AT the M.tGaell homestead not a trace
Of house and farm buildings remain, but
the foundations.
There is nothing but foundations 40
show where the home of Abram Quick
stood. Six occupants OF the house were
Killed, and one seiinu:ly injured Pres
cert W.lk:rs, one of those killed in the
Quick home, had reached there on a
visit an hour before the cyclone tore Its
way through
The home OF John Wilkfe, on a line
~ q nj hor h,,& IT.
barns were wiped out Mr.. Wiikie and
his son. John, agedt is, were in a barn
when II was demolished. The son was
instantly killed and the father is in a
critical condition.
In the next half dozen miles of the
track of the storm only two persons were
killed and the daEnag ge was comparative
~ light. The dead are Mrs. Clockmea-
ton and Ed. Flfeld, Three persons were
prooaoiy fatally injured and ten less
The cloud struck oakwood almost
without burning abd5tAege Is little left
e,n,snat o. that t yillags to.sg The Methodist
ness and most of the residences were
left In ruins. Nine persons were killed
In. the village and many injured Those
who met death are: Mrs. n. B. Wolver-
ton, Mrs. Howe, Miss Nina Howe. orin
Howe. Mrs Wells. Eugene Fiffield. Mrs.
Jessie May Fitied. Mrs. Lilly Davidson,
Mrs. Stuart. baby.
Those seriously injured were: Mrs.
Kate Davidson. Bertram Davidson and
wesley Davidson, who will probably die.
Fhe three miles stretch from Oak
wood to Thomas is a scene OF heart
rendering and wieckage. Everything
In the path of the cyclone was levelled.
In and around Thomas the death list is
large and many are injured Between
Oakwood and Thomas and in the latter
Mrs. Van Wagner Charles Hicks,
Rev. {. NJ. Pretchyplace, Andrew Petit
bone M. Bremyer.a
iA:-er completing Its work of deseruc-
ton at Thomas. the cyclone evidently
separated, one section going northeast
and doing an immense amount OF dam
age between Thomas and Dryden, in La
Fer county. and the other following a
snurAeaaterly direction TO North Oxford.
The list OF the dead at and nea, OK
ford is
Clair Laidle, three weeks old baby:
Mrs. Orcar Slade, ithirty-five years old :;
sol Rame. Tom Bishop Joseph Smedly
Bennett.
ht Dryden; Unknown man and wo-
man
After leaving North Oxford. the path
ct the southeast cyclone is marked at in
iervale until Mount Clemens is reached
"here great damage was done and many
persons injured. only one fatally, how
ever. widow named Anna Pohi, whose
back was broken.
The next heard from the storm was
near Walkerville. Ont. twenty miles due
South of Mount Clemens Tie cyclone
evidently expended IT'S force after str!k
ing canada. as no other reports of dam
age have been received.
After passing Dryden and Vaudeville
IN iIaper county. the next heard from the
other storm was In Sinclair county, th,r
" miles away. The funnel shaped cloud
struck a mile west of the village and IN
= pain naf mile wide and six and a
half miles long to the shores of Lake
Huron every building was more or less
damaged.
i'uscola county was also visited by a
windstorm OF cyclonic violence la ST even
ing. Nearly every building in the path
OF the storm, WATCH started near Clifford
and travelled directly east for six miles
was destroyed. Joseph Malburn was MI
by hying board and instantly killed.