The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1903-05-29
TWAS AN ILL WIND
That Passed over This Section Tuesday
and Wednesday OF this Week.

. That PASSED over This section tuesday
and Wednesday OF this Week.
Yale and vicinity has been exceed
ingly lucky in not being visited 10y cy-
clones or tornadoes during the past few
years. Tuesday afternoon the record
was broken and the worst storm that
ever visited this section passed over US
/ at about 800 o'clock entailing property
/ losses To the extent of thousands OF
dollars.
The tornado spent its force In the
/ townships north OF us although some
damage was done in the village. Cham
/ beraiu x Moutney's large awning was
/ blown down besides several shade trees
In Speaker township the large barn
on the farm OF Elan Sloat was torn TO
+ pieces and scattered over ten-acre
field Nir. Sloat and three other gentle
men We're iu the barn 40 the time bat
escaped injury. His fine orchard Is
lying In windrows HAT 90 the ground.
Barns and other buildings on the
farms OF Torrance Monaghan. John
Collins. ThOs. keyworth, Levi Donnen-
worth. Bert liadley, Willis Rector,
Walter Icnuiswood. John Mathews,
Andy Warl,, Richard MelaHie. besides
many Others that were in the storms
course, SuItFtu loss.
Alfred GOhetu's new house on his
place north OF the village was wrecked
as was also his barn. The lightning
that accompanied the storm did cOusid-
erablc damage Ia burning buildings
and killing stock. viii Bidlemans
barn was struck but only slightly dam
aged.
Not having completed It's work on
[ Irr .lrt fft tHfU
stricken section on "Wednesday after
noon and totally destroyed Elam Sloat's
orchard. one tree in particular was
torn up los les roots aud turned bottom
side up where it now stands.
south Of here Hugh Moore's barn.
which was raised 10 receive a stone
foundation, was blown down and to-
tally wrecked; :. Edgar Barr's house
was damaged as was also the sheds on
the old Isaac Curry place. Al the Pere
Marquette yards In Yale box cars were
unroofed. The smokestack at the pow
or house was blown down and IL now
lies in pieces on the ground. IL has
been necessary TO use oil and gasoline
lamps In the hotels, stores and dwell
ings since. lt will take two or three
weeks to repair the damage In the
meantime David Grinnells traction en-
gine is being used to furnish steam for
the pumps, but no lights will be fur
nished until repairs are made. a new
brick chimney will replace the old
smokestack. In other places the dam
age TO property was even greater than
in Yale. Below we publish a few OF
the places.
North Branch, Mich, May GA tor.
nado that nearly devastated the village
passed over North Branch at 2:30
o'clock yesterday afternoon.
The II. q. & y. railroad depot, the
big hay barn OF the North Branch Grain
Co, and that OF Greenough & Amos
were demolished. Beyond this the cleo
trio light plant was badly damaged, the
Hotel Melanie. the Vandecar livery
stable the front Of the Heenan * Hib.
bard brick block, and barns on the
farms OF i. Vandecar and T. Simmons
were wrecked. Freight cars were blown
Oft the track and smashed at the depot.
Miss Eglan, teacher, and Miss May
bury, n pupil, were injured by flying
glass when the windows OF the high
school were blown In. Mrs. T.. l.. Black.
wife OF the railroad agent; Miss Maggie
Melanie and w. ID. Hinkley were ser
iously injured.
Brown City, Mich. May 27.-The
storm yesterday afternoon played havoc
In this vicinity. Hardly barn near
by escaped damage. The heaviest los
ers are Owen Monaghan. barn blown
fiat; Robert Burgess, barn and house
razed TO the ground: John Goudie, wind
mill and barn blown down. Dan Sch
LIGHTER silo and VIM. Brown barn blown
down. A great many head OF stock
were killed or injured by falling tim
bers. Lightning struck the lie. church
but did no serious damage. Several
citizens received shocks, bat none were
badly hurt.
Emmet. Mich, May ga severe
electrical and hail storm passed over
this section this afternoon, doing con
siderable damage 20 property. The
barn belonging TO Martin Stapleton, a
mile east OF the village. was hit by
lightning and n valuable team OF horses
killed, and only by the prompt action
OF Mr.. Stapleton and the farm help was
the building saved from burning.
NOTES.
A valuable COW was killed in the
woods at Elan Sloat's by "A tree beinO