Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-11
The Streets We're Turned
into Raging Rivers and
Creeks into Seas.
WATER RAISES THREE FEET IN
SEVERAL RESIDENCES IN
THE Low LANDS.
Everybody Thought the City Would
be Swept Away No Damage
in South Mexico North
Mexico Caught 1t
Storm Notes.

The northern anu central parts Oh
this city were swept by a violent hur-
ricane shortly after six O'Clock Sunday
evening, which wrought much de-
struction to properly.
The storm came from the north
west with almost the force of a tor
nado and the worst part of it passed
through the north and northeast Sec
tons of the city, striking first nearly
on a line with the German church in
Highland and then taking a south
easterly course, leaving town near
the home of Caleb Berry.
1t was accompanied by the most
terrific downpour of rain ever known
in this section of the State, the total
rainfall for an hour and a half being
Sc inches.
Residences were unroofed, barns
and outhouses blown down and great
trees played with by the wind as if
they were matches.
ADVANCE OF THE STORM.
The storm began to come up about
5 O'Clock. The heat during the
day had been very oppressive and
the barometer registered 2s:9s in the
afternoon. About 4 O'Clock a low
bank of dark clouds appeared in the
southwest, moving toward the north.
They were angry clouds, such as fore
babe no good to man or beast and
those who saw them realized that a
bad storm was brewing. The center
of the low barometer was in the north
west and thither all the cloud regi-
ments fastened.
Having gathered there, the great
trumpeter blew a long, low blast of
thunder and the storm in all its fury
advanced with rain and lightning to
bring destruction to everything in its
path.
just before the storm lowered the
clouds suddenly changed in color,
from a dark blush gray to a yellow
ish green, and after a few minutes of
heavy rain the wind came on in great
fury. Few lightly constructed OBJ
jects were strong enough to with
stand it's force, propelled as it was
by a power greater than human minds
can conceive.
1t struck this city at $40 and the
wind only lasted about five minutes,
but this was just five minutes too
long, for in this short space of time
damage was done which it will take
many weeks to repair.
The rain, which preceded and fol-
lowed the storm, was the heaviest
ever known in this section of the
State and turned the low lands into
~veritable seas, whose angry waves
threatened danger to life and proper
ty. In the city the streets were run
ming rivers, and water rose as high as
four feet in houses situated in low-lying
districts.
Many people sought their cellars
and, although the damage to prop
erty was very great, not a person, SO
far as is known, was injured. Had
the storm assumed the rotary motion
common to tornadoes, the loss of life
would have been appalling, but Prov
idence had decreed more gently, and
a straight, but violent, blow was the
result.
Hundreds of chickens were drowned
by the rain, but SO far as can be learn
ed there was but little loss of life
among live stock.
Trees great and small were blown
down all over the city, especially il
the northern and central portions
while that part lying south of thu
railroad suffered but little damage.
Sidewalks in all parts of the cit.
were washed away and many walk
were blocked and made almost i'm
r passable by branches of trees whicl
had been blown down. Some of tn,
: streets in the northeastern part o
r town we're rendered completely i'm
| passable on account of the large mum
I Der of trees in them.
81 STORM NOTES.
Mrs. w. J.. Howe's barn was blow
down.
Nothing like it was ever seen il
Mexico.
A. Keene's outhouses were al
blown down.
G.. B. Null's barn was badly dam
aged by the wind.
Allie CARROTS outhouses were com
pletely demolished.
William Galloway's barn was de.
molished by the wind.
!. Albert II. Biggers' barn on Spencer
street was demolished.
: MI. Reagan, south of town, had 3
head of sheep drowned.
The canvas awning in front of tn,
Famous was torn away.
Chimneys we're blown off the resi-
dence of J. q. Emmons.
Caleb Berry's barn was wrecked an,
; the chimneys blown down.
: Everybody ran to cyclone cellar
and other places of safety.
The chimneys were blown off tn,
! residence of w. II. KEENAN,.
: Fred Llewellyn's rain guage showed
that nearly six inches of water fell.
7 The water just southwest of tn,
, depot would have fioated q steamboat
ID. NJ. Slonaker had ten acres o
. crops washed sway by the terribl
rain.
The extreme tip OF the Presbyterial
: church spire YES bent. over by tn
wind.
:, AT William Hanley's the trees
fences and outbuildings were blow
down.
t. J.. Hoxsey's slaughter house
north of town, was completely de
, stroyed.
- AT George Bare's the barn an