Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-08-17
DEATH IN ASTORM
Eight People Are Dead and 9th
ers Are Known to Have
Been Killed.
TIE EODIES WERE BADLY MANGLED.
Two Hundred Acres of Wheat IN Shock
Gil One Farm Swept Away
by the Wind.
Thousands of Dollars Worth of Property
Destroyed and Many Cattle and Sheep
killed-Eailroad Track Torn Up
and Fences Blown Down.

DAEf, .. u, Aug. 1O.-A terrlhc
wind and hail storm running from
northeast to southwest, struck Mortz
Siding, about five miles west of here,
Monday. Everything in the path of
the storm was swept away. Eight
people lie dead here and others are
Inown to have been killed The dead
are:
Joseph Hutchinson, farmer, wife,
two daughters and grandchild.
Carl Jeglum, Blanchardsville. Wis.
Albert killion, home in Milwaukee,
Charles Eball, farmer, who was
reading with his wife and children
when the storm came. Searching
parties are out after his wife ami
children.
Thousands of dollars wo, tn of prop
erty are destroyed and many cattle
and sheep were killed.
The storm sliirted one mile north
east OF hutchirsoa's farm and struck
his house. driving it through the barn
The Northwestern railroad track is
torn up for some distance; telegraph
poles and snow fences are down. The
wounded are being taken to Candy.
One farmer had 200 acres of wheat in
the shock and il was taken up by the
wind and no trace of the crop is left
The dead were found on the prairie
with their bodies badly mangled and
clothing nearly stripped from them.
The clouds met at a point atout
eight miles northeast OF Gary, attained
rotary motion With the tail of the
cloud descending the earth. Wherever
IL touched everything was destroyed.
1t first struck the farm buildings of
Carl Peterson, then the barn of V. E.
Johnson, where nun Der of horses and
sheep were killed. Next was NJ A.
kenyons place. the barn yrsS destroyed
and coIsideraol ole livestock killed.
Kenyon was severely injured about
the limbs by flying timbers Morti-
ner Hunts farm buildings were next
destroyed and here the FIRST life was
lost. The storm took up tho kitchen.
moved it away from the house and
scattered its Sim bers for miles around.
Albert killiOn. employed as farm
laborer by Hunt, was in the kitchen
at the tirEe and later ne was
picked up in dying condition about
200 feet from the house. LaNing been
struck in the 5ac.. OF the head and in
jured internaIE- He only Ii we'd three
hours after ba5ng found. James Hunt
was injured. The Hutchinson farm.
two miles FROM. Hunts place, was next
struck; the storm jumping entirely
over an interve ming house without do
ing any damage.
The Hutchinso family were all in
the house whea the storm pick ed itup
barn and cut t1ildings forzniies around
on the prairie The entire farairy were
found dead about 500 fh1t frura where
the house stoId Their deaths appar-
emily were carseI by bruises and cuts
on the heads, BABY Hutchinson, five
weeks old. was, still alive when found
but died in = snort t. me- Carl Jeglun
who was visiting the Il utchinscn' S was,
also killed.
The sighsat Hutchimscu's rlace liz
horrible. The place rs covered with
dead horses and COWS. and broken faa,>
niture and farm i'm? dement's.
From here the cou-rse was into fal1nS
where little damage could b. dour to
the buildings, bat the loss on csops
and stock is very great.