Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-04-23
Visits SanduSky County
on Monday.
Leaving Death and Destruction
i'm its Wake.

FREMONT, O.. April 2O-A terrific crclone
lasting about fifteen minutes passed over
Sandusky and Rice townships. three mile,
northwest of this city, at O'Clock this after
| noon, leaving death and devastation in lis
wake. Two people are dead, having been
instantly killed, another fatally iujdred and
Elk others are moro or less seriously hurt.
! The damage to property will ba not lees
than $4,000, rs scores of buildings were
ruined completely, while stock was saurht-
cred and valuable timber lands, orchards,
etc, were laid in waste for miles along the
path of the storm. Trees were uprOoted
and carried for hundreds of feet, and fent es
were torn MP and scatti red iu all directions.
The dead are: W. L. Green, farmer; John
Lowe, farm hand.
The injured list follows: II rs. Jas. Green
received fatal internal injuries. Amos Heit-
rick, arm broken and body badly bruised.
Katie WaggOner, terribly bruised about the
back and shoulders by falling timbers. Alb
raham Taught, ca1ght by falling tim5ers
ard both arms broken.
The cyclone was accompanied by q viO-
lent rain storm. Eye witnesses say that the
storm came on almost without warning. A
large blgck cloud was seen 10 come ffom the
south east, then another huge black mass
came on rapidly from the north-West. At
point between Hessville and Kingsway the
two death dealing forces consolidated, max
ing funnel lshaped mas ofperhaps quar-
ter of mile in width. Then the sky became
as dark as the hlecRest night aud With
roar that sounded like thousands Of beIch-
ing cannon, the cyclone came rapidly earth
ward. Nothing in it's rout5 escaped. 1t
hrst began its work of destruction about
half mile Southwest of the Wheeling tracks.
Here it encountered thickly tiInbercd dis
trict, and the sturdy old oaks were uprooted
and carried for aeveral hundred rods. The
storm monster then proceeded on lifting
up and damolishing the barns of Jacob En-
zler, Anthony Swift Frank Hefflefnger and
other farmers in the immediate vicinity.
THE FIRST FATALITY.
A short distance northwest was the farm
of W. l.. Greene. Here is where the cyclone
scored its first fatality. Just across the way
from Mr.. Greene, Sr.'s house, his son lived
in substantial little home. Both houses
were crushed into kindling and distributed
to t right and left. w. L. Greene and his
wife were in the house at the time. Falling
timbers crushed out his life and mangIed
him almost beyond recognition. His body
was found about 200 feet from the site of
his home. The victims wife escaped with
few bruises.
James Green, the son, was away from
home at the time. His wife was terribly
injured by the falling tinbers and it is be-
lieved that she will die.
The homo of Chas, Tucker was partly de-
molished and an infant daughter seriously
injured by falling scantling. When the
cyclone arrived at the barn of George Wap-
gon2r it fonpd Amos Hetrjck and John
Love inside shearing sheep. The building
was quickly demolished and both men
caught in the wreck. HetIiLk escaped with
broken leg and other bruises but Lowe
was killed instantly, his body being hoyri-
bly, mangled. He was found fifty feet from
the barn site. The Waggoner home got the
tail end blow and one of the falling timbers
injured Miss Katie Waggoner. A few hun
drad yards be JOnd the Waggoner farm the
cyclone arose from the earth aGd calm soen
| reigned.
There were many narrow escapes but nc
serious injuries outside of those mentioned.
Aside from severe rain storm at the hour
of the cyclones reign, this city escaped the
elements. Hundreds here plainly di5cerned
the funnel shaped clouds and for a miuute
or so it looked as if Fremont might be Wis
tied.