Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-06-19
WORK OF THE WIND.
Cyclone Said to Have Wrought
Much Ruin at Lyle, MINI.
one Life Lost and n Number of Per-
sons Iniured-HSuses md Barns
Observation-Disclosures
storm Down East.

Minneapolis, Mimi, June 1i.-A spe-
cial to the Tribune from Mason City,
Ia, says: At $3.50 Thursday night
cyclone struck northwest of Lyle,
Mimi, taking u southeasterly course.
1t tore up houses and other buildings in
its course and The territory is now bare.
1t was about half mile in width. All
telegraph lines north are down and box
cars on sidings were smashed into
kindling. One report says six per-
sons were killed and number injured,
but later dispatch says that so far as
known only one person, Henry Han
sen, was killed, but ten were injured,
some of them it is feared fatally. Those
injured were Charles Larson and wife
| and baby, Mr.. Brooke and wife, Peter
| Hanson and wife and their son Robert,
Mrs. Haughson and Mrs. Henry Han
son.
Hansen, the man who was killed, was
| caring for his team when the storm
struck his barn, demolishing it and
killing his team and other stock. Han
sen was carried about 40 rods east,
where his body, badly mutilated, was
found. The storm originated four miles
west of Lynn and half a mile north of
| the Iowa line. and pursued a zigzag
| course toward the northeast, sweep
ing everything before it fully half a
mile wide. Trees were uprooted, tele-
phone and telegraph poles were broken
off, barns, houses, orchards, groves and
gardens were Swept by the mad fury
of the storm. Several loaded cars on
the Chicago. Milwaukee & ST. Paul
railroad were removed bodily from the
track. The lumber yard of L. A. Sher-
man was scattered promiscuously about
the country, and windmills without
number were destroyed. The school
house known as Minnerka, near the
Iowa line, was obliterated.
Boston, June 1.-THE northeast rain
storm which set in Wednesday morning
ard which was apparently the culmina-
ton of Il week of dull weather. appears
to have blown itself out. Nearly every
city and town in Maine. New Hamp-
shire and Vermont reports more or less
damage by the high water. while the
lowlands all through this region are
flooded.
Springfield. Mass, June 11.-Special
dispatches to the Union from the towns
along the Connecticut river indicate
that much damage is being done by
floods. The boom at Turner's Falls
Mass. broke at 4:3O o'clock in the
morning. There were about sO,OOO.00C
feet of logs. There is no way of stop
ping this boom or the one that broke
ut Bellows Falls, VT, until they reach
Mount Tom, near Northampton. The
dam of the Warner Manufacturing com
pany at Greenfield broke. 1t was bull
of solid rock and was so feet long anC
12 feet high. A portion of the dam o
Eddy & Son also gave way. At Charlie
mont. Mass, a sawmill dam owned by
H. T. Ford went out Thursday morning
Bellows Falls. VT, June 11.-For tn,
e past 80 hours the raA,fall in this sec
h ton has been continuous. The Con
= necticut river has risen several fee
and all its small tributaries are badl,
swollen. The highways are washed ou
and a boom just north of here, holding
) 100000 feet of logs belonging to th
Van Dyke drive, burst and, unless TIL
boom at Turner's Falls, Mass, holds
a large part of the drive will go on to
ward the sea.