The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1899-06-07
THE RECENT STORM
Did Great Damage in the West End Of
the CeuntY-Loeal Mention from
Randall.

RANDALL, June 5.-The recent storm
was the Inost destructive ever exper-
fenced in MoDongalia County. 1t in
jured the farmers and oil men OF Grant
Cass. and Clay to the amount of from
S25 900 to $50, 900. At some points it
approached to almost a cyclone, Is oil
rigs we're blown down and from 1000 to
1000 forest trees were blown down or
broken off. Some OF these were the fl
nest timber in the section. Capt. Gar
rison bad a fine poplar tree that he was
saving but the storm leveled it TO the
ground. Some one had saved five fine
oak trees to make shingles from but the
storm blew all to the ground On the
Mankediek farm near Cassville there
were nearly l50 trees blown down, and
the Kennedy farm there were nearly so
trees leveled to the ground. Tom Ken
nedy says he was in their barn, which
is about half way from the bottom to the
top of the hill when he heard terrible
roaring and went out to see the cause,
aud he says it appeared that the entire
woods above the barn was coming down
and many limbs were flying in the air.
George Cole of Cassville saws: He was
at his fathers farm just above Usage
and had started home when he saw the
storm coming. He took refuge in a
house on the Shively farm, which had
withstood the storms for 80 years. He
had hardly gotten inside when the storm
carried the roof of the house away and
George had TO find shelter under some
rocks. Jess Bircher says he was en-
gagged in hauling timber and had reach
ed the woods near the red bridge when
the storm came up. He said the trees
were falling all around him, and he did
not know which way to go to avoid dam
ger, as it appeared almost certain death
to go in any direction or to remain where
he was. From 800 to 500 fruit trees
were blown down and most of them
loaded with iruit 1t is gratifying to
know that within such wide reaching
and destructive storm no inhabited
house was blown down and with one
single exception no one was hurt.
Gilly Wells who had just returned from
town when the storm came up, had
some -four in the wagon and seeing
she had not time TO remove it, attempts
ed to cover it up, but by some means
she was badly injured three OF her ribs
were broken and it is feared she cannot
get well.
Will Hall had one OF his fine windows
in his house blown in by the storm and
a barn door about $40 feet blown from
its hinges crashed through a fence aud
carried nearly to his house
Thomas Kennedy, was kicked in the
head by horse on last Thursday and
was badly injured.
On June 2nd Calvin Mike OF Pedlar
Run had log to roll on him and was
very much injured. DR.. Rinehart was
called to attend to the case. He went
there and started to return home about
IL O'Clock at night it being a DARK night
his horse ran over the edge of the road
upsetting the buggy splitting the Doctor
out and brnising him up to considera
BILE extent. The horse after upsetting
the buggy ran off | do not know where
the horse ran to neither do know to
what extent the buggy was broken and
the last report had OF the Doctor was
tina the was still living in the ditch.
Dr. Squire Hall spent couple of
weeks at his old home here but has gone
back to Blacksmith. He says il "A eom-
pany would build a Sanitarum at the
White Sulphur Springs on Dunkard
creek, it would pay them better than
to bore for oil.
James Core went to Ohio on last
Saturday to attend school
Prof. Foster predicts that this is
year of storms, cyclones, tornados, hail
storms and earthquakes. He has hit it
very accurately SO far. We have had
three hailstorms and tornado. already
and in all probability we will have
more