The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-06-17
Mrs. Adam Howard, Near
Greensboro, Struck by a
Falling Tree Top During
Storm of Sunday.
HOUSES AND BARNS
UNROOFED BY BLOW
Orchards Are Ruined, Live
stock Killed and Fences
Blown Down. Loss Will
Run to Tousands.

Mrs. Adam Howard, living north
west of Greensboro, was killed yester-
DAY morning by falling tree, blown
down by wind storm that nearly
reached the proportions of a cyclone
and which left in its wake in the north
western section of the county fifty or
more unroofed barns and houses, dead
live stock, ruined orchards and hun
dreds of uprooted trees.
Mrs. Howard, aged about sixty. was
riding in a covered phaeton with her
and her baby grandson when she met
Ter death. They had been attending
the Sugar grove church and were driy-
ing to the home of her son. Herbert,
Howard. near Greensboro, when the
gale came up. accompanied by a terri
flc downpour of rain and a terrible ell
ectrical display. Suddenly the top of
a large pine tree was carried away by
the wind and it dropped with a re-
sounding crash through the top of the
pbaeton. Mrs. Howard's skull was
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the other occupants of the vehicle es-
capped without injuries. The escape of
The boy was remarkable as he was
sitting on his grandmother's lap when
the tragedy occurred.
Loss Will Be Large.
A dispatch from Hagerstown this
morning states that the storm did
thousands of dollars worth of damage
in the vicinity of that place, although
the damage in the town itself was
slight, consisting principally of uproot-
ed trees. In the country districts near
Hagerstown many barns. and houses
were unroofed and a number of silos
blown down. The grain and vegetable
crops were not badly damaged, not
having reached sufficient growth to be
affected, but the fruit crop was badly
damaged.
At the farm of NJ. c. Fox, near Ha-
the house partly unroofed. Seven hogs
we're killed.
Levi Spickler while driving with his
family near Greensboro met an unu-
sual experience. The wind picked up
the horse and rig and deposited them
topsy-turvy in ditch No one was in
;ured. Sam Byrd and family, while re-
turning from the Sugar Grove church,
met with an identical experience. They
also escaped unhurt.
Damage Near Greensboro.
A dispatch from Greensboro states
that the barn on the B. w. Harris
farm was unroofed. At the Charles
Crump farm the barn roof was carried
away and half of the roof of the house
was torn off The wind was so terrific
that the windows were all blown in
and some strips of paper ripped off the
walls.
The barn on the John Chapman farm
was unroofed. At the farm of Mrs. Sa
reh Stutson the barn roof was blown
/ off, the house considerably damaged
ffty sugar trees uprooted and two
large pine trees were town up and car
ried some distance before being hurled
over a fence. which was not damaged
and deposited in the road.
1t is estimated that over five hun
dred trees were blown down, many Of
the m fruit trees.
The fury of the storm was felt in
this city but no houses or barns were
unroofed, although many shade trees
we're either blown down or badly dam
aged
In the vicinity of Cambridge City
and Milton it is reported that consid
cradle damage was done by the storm
Mrs Adam Howard, who was killed
yesterday. will be buried Wednesda,
&: the German Baptist cemetery. wes
of Hagerstown. The funeral services
will be held Wednesday morning a
the Radical U. B. church at Sugal
Grove.