Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-06-04
At Mungers. six miles from Bay CITY

At Mungers, six miles froml,ay City.
Jos. Malbury, aged 80, formerly of De-
troit, was killed.
A small hamlet of perhaps a dozen
dwellings and other buildings, known
as Whigville, northeast Of Oxford, was
completely swept out of existence, and
what seems miraculous is the fact that
only three persons were killed there:
Jas. Smiley, ST., Jas, Smiley, Jr., and G.
Brame, farmers. transferable stock
was killed, and orchards and forests
destroyed. Farther east the fine farm
house and dwellings of John Peters
were de molisheds 4 but noone was badly
hurt; the dive ling and barn of Thos.
Bennett were ruined and Mrs Bennett
was killed. Numerous other farmers
had their buildings nnroofed and
wrecked, notably Fred Green and VIM.
Matthews.
Among other places which received
some slight attention was the township
of West Rose, Oakland county, where
Jos Beach lost all of his farm build.
ings, Henry Shepherd and Roy Trues.
dell are now minus their barns, and
Chas Lakes big orchard has disap-
pearcd, besides much destruction TO
trees, crops and fences. Lakeview suf-
fcred the loss of barns ard trees. At
Bay City the Center avenue electric
light tower, the tallest in the United
States, was wrecked. No one was in
jured, although the tower collapsed in
the street. Midland experienced a
cloudburst. Crops were badly dam
aged William Lamere was killed by
lightning near Pliers camp, seven
miles northeast of Grayling. At Mack
NAV City, James McKevitt was killed
by lightning and his wife and babe
badly shocked.
In Macomb County.
That portion of the deadly tornado
which swept off TO the southeast from
Oxford touched the earth again midway
between Utica and Warren, destroying a
number of houses and barns. Immense
trees were torn up by the roots and in
some instances carried quarter of a
mile. One large orchard was cleaned
of every tree and the grain fields have
the appearance of having been plowed.
A huge barn belonging to o. Eggerton
was lifted from its foundations and car
ried 20 feet, while the roof of his house
was taken into an adjoining field
Lewis Burr had only their bedroom
remaining of their house when the
storm had passed.
The terrible monster then seemed TO
turn directly east and made its
presence felt next in the city of Mt.
Clemens. Here a clean path of ruin
was cut through the city. 1t dealt
with dwelling houses as though they
were mere toys, lifting them from their
foundations, topping them over and IL
some eases utterly demolishing them.
The cyclone struck at the lower end of
Gratiot avenue near the toll bridge and
tore along the line of Front street for
distance of four blocks, making a
path two blocks wide. 1t is a thiclSly
settled residence portion of the town
and the families were at home, most of
them having just finished supper.
Many had miraculous escapes from
death. but ls~~<srsons were $erion. =
rnJt.es1 trfd Some -. <b6e AZ wsfI n,
The worst work was wrought upon tn,
cottage of Mrs. Anna Pohl and he
three boys. The cottage was picked
up into the air and dashed into spin
ters against the ground moment
later. The mother was found under
four feet of ruins. Henry, aged IA, lay
across her chest with his hip broker
and unconscious from internal injuries
great beam lay across her body, pin
ming her to the ground, and her back
was broken. Adolph, aged 12 years
had his right leg broken and was GOV
cred with bruises. Willie, aged 10, hac
his right leg broken, his shoulder dis
located and internal injuries. The
house of Samuel Trew was picked UT
in like fashion and the foundation was
blown from under it when the house
dropped back, right side up and in fail
condition. The other severe losses
were the homes of August IIcnkel
Chas Webster. Frank Dudley, Ed
Singer, Ross Carter, Frank Cutche
Adolph Ecker, VIM. Katz, Chas Hen.
kel, Mrs. Connolly, Capt. Louis Char
boneau, Ferdinand Hickman, Edward
Moshcr. The homes of others were
badly wrecked. particularly those OF
Carl Foster Edward Zewiski, Henry
Gritiiths John Harder, Fred Taylor
VIM. Ormerod David Charboneau, VIM
Ormsby, Alex Dunlap, Henry La
CroiX, VIM. Jock and Dudley Pcltier
Chimneys were demolished and much
damage done TO residences along Rath.
bone avenue between Dulac's mill and
the city limits. Charboneau Bros. had
three ice .houscs stripped The ware.
houses at Dulac's mil were thrown into
the river and the farm buildings and
houses Of John Cowan and his neigh Dor,
Norton, were demolished. A two. story
building near Aid. Fred SCOTS house
was moved of It's foundation. and an
icehouse not far away was stripped.
leaving nothing but the uncovered ice
The first place the storm struck near
Mt. Clemens. was the place known az
the Teats farm, now owned and oc-
cupied by John Irwin On the 200
acres Of this place there is hardly a
fence standing, while at least 500 val.
liable apple trees arc ruined Eight
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