Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-03-25
Several People Badly Hurt and
Thousands of Dollars In Loss
es, Is Work of Cyclone
Thursday Night

ScNeIdl people were injured when
puff of the cyclone which swept
over Central Kentucky Thursday
night about seven o'clock. took a
sWipe at the kirksvillc and Silver
Creek sections in the southwest
een portion Of Madison county.
Several homes were reduced al
most to kindling wood A tenant
house on the farm of Willis Hen
dren, near Silver Creek. was
blown completely away. and the
three little sons of Bob Burton,
his colored tenant. were badly in
Jured. one OF them sustaining
a broken leg.
The roof of the bottling house
of the Warwick distillery at Sill
yer Creek, was blown off. No
damage was done to the several
hundred barrels of whisky re-
manning in the bonded warehouse.
The distillery warehouse is owned
by Bernheim Bros. of Louis lille,
The home Of Carl Roop, far
mer, near kirksvillc, was demol-
ished.
Damage done at the home Jo-
nah Cox, Il half mile from Riks-
vile, was very severe. His pretty
new house was unrOOfed, iurni-
ture demolished, and during the
progress of the storm the child
rem were blown about from room
TO room. The parlor rug was
found Fiday morning mile or sol
away in d pasture at the farm of
Phil \rbuCklc, torn to rags. Mr.
COX's large tobacco barn was
blown down, his garage demolish
ed and several large trees felled
by the severity of the wind.
The cyclone seemed to have
dipped into Madison county in
the Silver Creek and kirksville |
sections. 1t swept over path |
way about five or six miles in ex-
tent. Other communities report |
heavy winds but SO far as can be
learned there was little real dam |
age elsewhere in THE section.
Richmond had Il heavy wind |
storm. with great sheets of rain
and fearful lightning but no dam
age is reported here. The tele-
phone line to Berca is out OF COM
mission. and no report can be Sc
cured from that section as to
damage in southern Madison.
The night train to Stanford was
DELAYED almost three hours by
threes and debris blown across
the track between here and Ian
caster.
.At the home Of MIR. and Mrs.
Mooney. Il chimney was blown
down. IN avalanche of brick fell
i'll the house. Mrs Mooney was
i'll at the time DIR. II. G. Pope was
i'll attendance and the brick struck |
him. causing painful injuries and |
breaking several ribs.
w. Q. Burke, prominent young
farmer of Silver Creek. and part
ner Of +. +. Baldwin. Jr., said
that he say the cyclone as it
passed by with noise like a big
truck.
Mr.. Burke was i'll town Friday
morning and told of it. I'VE heard
the wind and went out the door"
he said. Then a short distance
away | saw the black cloud. 1t
was like funnel, and made a
noise like big truck. 1t passed
over, apparently from the Kinks
vile section. on by Silver Creek
toward the right We did not
know at that time of the great
damage it had wrought. Tom
Baldwin 5 shed and ice house were
blown over and couple of chin
neys off +. l.. Davis house. The
roof on the bottling plant Of the
Warwick distillery warehouse
was folded over right on the other
part of the roof, as if picked up
rafters and all and neatly folded
over"
Mr.. Burke said that he saw the
house of Jonah Cox Friday morn
ing and it was a complete wreck
He said there was no rain or hail
at Silver Creek, but the wind was
awful.
The barn on Bird Roop's place
was demolished. A horse in it was $
killed, but a mule nearby was un-
injured.
Mr.. Bur';e said that he could
not say what damage had been {
done further to the southeast, as 5
the tornado seemed to go that s
way. Sam Smith yard received a 6
slight touch of the wind "a num- lc