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VOL. LVH. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., JULY 5, 1902. NO. 27 THE GREAT INDIANA HURRICANE. Terrific Force of the Wind—Great Destruction. Before this number of the Farmer reaches its readers most of them will haTe heard of the terrible windstorm that swept through central Indiana on the morning of Wednesday, of last week, June 25th. It was much the most wide-spread and destructive storm the state has experienced since the settlement by the whites. Beginning in Cass county it extended in a southeasterly direction through Tipton, Hamilton, Madison, Hancock and Rush l*. Fayette county, a distance of over 75 miles and covering in places 20 or more miles in width. Two days after the storm we visited a portion of its track between Greenfield and Knightstown, and witnessed its terribly destructive work At Charlottesville, Cleveland and the country for a few miles north of these places. In company with Mr. B. F. Stinger, of the former place, we drove northward two or three miles and then west and south to Cleveland, through the worst desolated region, perhaps, of the entire storm area. In the two villages named the people were busy clearing away the trees that had been blown down and the limbs that were blown off, in their yards, lawns and on the streets and sidewalks, and heaping and burning them. Every yard had its rubbish of this kind in greater or less amount. In some that we saw it will require weeks to put all in order again and the premises will never be the same, as the shade and fruit trees were up-rooted. In a nursery at Charlottesville the entire stock of young trees was denuded of leaves and so stripped of bark by the hail as to be entirely worthless. Even the strawberry plants were left bare of both leaves and stems. They will recover themselves, however. We saw potatoes with all their stalks turned one way, southeast, and the skin and leaves stripped from the northwest sides. Onions had the stalks entirely stripped away; cabbages were leaning to the southeast with all the leaves on the opposite side torn away. Tomatoes were totally destroyed. In Mr. Stinger's yard was a fine pear tree that had lost nearly all its fruit, though it was heavily loaded before the storm, and had all the leaves on the west and north sides stripped away. A cherry tree in a yard near by was broken off at the ground, and tossed into a neighboring garden. Apple trees suffered most, owing to the large surface they expose to the wind. We saw numerous orchards with scarcely a tree standing erect, and most of them were completely uprooted. One very large Rhode Island Greening, with limbs loaded, lay partly across our road, a complete wreck. On* a hill just northwest of Charlottesville stood, on the morning of June 25th, one of the largest and finest sugar orchards perhaps in* Hancock county. It contained COO fine, large trees, and the camp was fitted with improved sirup making apparatus. It was a source of much revenue to the proprietor. It stands now a forest of tall stumps, some of them 50 feet high, with a tangled mass of huge limbs and boughs between. The owner says that there are hardly 40 good trees left, and he would not take $3,000 for the loss he has sustained. On the north side of the national road just east of the village the roof of a large barn, some 40 by 60 feet, was lifted by the wind and carried southeastwardly across the road into a grove of tall pine I lies iu the large door yard of another farm 300 to 400 yards away, and there a section of it was deposited. The remainder "was carried in fragments, no one knows how much farther. The family could not tell us. All along the course of the flying roof were shingles and rafters that the wind fiend wrenched apart in his mad flight. On our ride north and west from Char- way, was about the only barn that had a cyclone policy. What became of the cattle that were in the open pastures during the pastures we did not leain. They escaped with only a severe hail pelting we presume, as we did not hear of any being killed. One man was picked up and tossed over a wire fence, while crossing the barn lot. We saw him nailing up a gate and he seemed none the worse for the — 7*1 ♦ s*. i 'fm'" * M» Orchard trees on the place of Benton Ranb, MeOordsville, destroyed by storm. lottesville we passed through a fine farming country, where the houses are snug and neat and the barns large and roomy, but in at least four cases out of five, either the big barn had lost its roof or was crushed in a heap to the ground. The mows were exposed to the drenching rain that attended the storm. Although hail fell while the hurricane was at its hight, ride through the air and the pelting he got by hail when he lighted. Wheat harvest had begun in several fields the morning of the storm, and in coming south towards Cleveland, we saw two places where long strings of wheat in the bundle lay piled against the slat and wire fence, that had been on the west side of the road but was torn loose from Home of Mrs. Emma Horton, McOordsville, demolished by the storm. heavy rain followed later, and added much to the damage done to stored crops. Wagons, buggies and implements were badly wrecked in many places by the weight of the walls of the sheds and barns iu which they were stored. Horses and cattle were killed in this way in several cases. One horse, however, escaped unhurt although the barn fell upon and around him, a total wreck. This, by the the poats by the wind and carried, wheat and n\*\ across to the fence on the east side which was stronger, being all of wire and tbere stopped. The wheat that was standing was tangled and beaten down, and the hail has thrashed most of the grain from the heads. But little of it will pay for cutting, except for the straw. The oats will be better, for it was not mature enough to be shelled out. Timothy is tangled and uneven, but may make a pretty fair crop. The clover was in the mows and, as most of them were unroofed, will be in a half spoiled condition. The corn where small is cut to shreds and beaten into the ground. It cannot possibly recover we think, but hope we are mistaken. The fields where the stalks stood two feet high and more, and there are many such, are a sorry looking sight, but may come out and make a half crop, or may be more in some cases. We stopped at Earle's home where the funeral was being held when the storm broke. The story of the wreck has no doubt been read ere this by most of our readers. Across the road from the house west, stood an old barn, as we were told. ll was blown all to pieces, and one of the rafters, cut 4 by 5 Inches after the olil style, was shot across tbe barn lot and street and yard in front of the house, a distance of some 300 feet, through a window nt the northwest corner, in a diagonal direction, or cornerwise, through the house, passing throngh the wall over a bed in the room south, through a door into tin* southeast room, and out at the south window, tearing out the window casing. There were about 00 people in the four rooms of the house, and only one was touched by the rafter. This was A. V. Sample, of Greenfield, since dead from the wound he received from a piece of the rafter, broken off as it flew through the northwest window. The strangest thing about this awful wind storm, or hurricane, is the small loss of human life it caused. Only three persons have yet died directly as a result of the etorm. There was time to have escaped to cellars, but we heard of very few who took this precaution. Many braced themselves against the doors on the windward side to prevent their being blown in, and thus admitting the wind, which in that case might have blown the roof off, or the walls down. All were frightened, but had little time to think about their feelings. The storm was over in less than 10 minutes. We could not have understood some of the accounts we read nor the tremendous force of the wind, had we not seen the things we have described and many others. * Writers had called the phenomenon a cyclone, or tornado. It was not that, there was no twisting done. It was sheer, straight forward, fierce driving wind, but it was enough. The people who survived it and are suffering the loss of their property from it, hope and fervently pray that they may never see its like again. It is said that $123,000,000 will be pai.l out in this country in dividends on various kinds of railway, corporation and industrial stocks, and that this is larger than ever before for July dividends. The avenues of business will feel the effect of it in all directions. Our Lawrence Co., III., correspondent speaks of having green corn on the table only 50 days from planting. It is the Early Adams, and would be a good variety for those in the storm district to use for planting their devastated fields. The cost of the Philippine war thus far foots up $170,326,585. The islands are proving a very costly luxury, both in human lives ami money. . A rate of one fare for the round trip will be made to Cincinnati during the great fall festival, September 15 to 26.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1902, v. 57, no. 27 (July 5) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA5727 |
Date of Original | 1902 |
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Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
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Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Title | Page 1 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
Subjects (NALT) |
agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
Location of Original | Hicks Repository |
Coverage | Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Transcript | VOL. LVH. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., JULY 5, 1902. NO. 27 THE GREAT INDIANA HURRICANE. Terrific Force of the Wind—Great Destruction. Before this number of the Farmer reaches its readers most of them will haTe heard of the terrible windstorm that swept through central Indiana on the morning of Wednesday, of last week, June 25th. It was much the most wide-spread and destructive storm the state has experienced since the settlement by the whites. Beginning in Cass county it extended in a southeasterly direction through Tipton, Hamilton, Madison, Hancock and Rush l*. Fayette county, a distance of over 75 miles and covering in places 20 or more miles in width. Two days after the storm we visited a portion of its track between Greenfield and Knightstown, and witnessed its terribly destructive work At Charlottesville, Cleveland and the country for a few miles north of these places. In company with Mr. B. F. Stinger, of the former place, we drove northward two or three miles and then west and south to Cleveland, through the worst desolated region, perhaps, of the entire storm area. In the two villages named the people were busy clearing away the trees that had been blown down and the limbs that were blown off, in their yards, lawns and on the streets and sidewalks, and heaping and burning them. Every yard had its rubbish of this kind in greater or less amount. In some that we saw it will require weeks to put all in order again and the premises will never be the same, as the shade and fruit trees were up-rooted. In a nursery at Charlottesville the entire stock of young trees was denuded of leaves and so stripped of bark by the hail as to be entirely worthless. Even the strawberry plants were left bare of both leaves and stems. They will recover themselves, however. We saw potatoes with all their stalks turned one way, southeast, and the skin and leaves stripped from the northwest sides. Onions had the stalks entirely stripped away; cabbages were leaning to the southeast with all the leaves on the opposite side torn away. Tomatoes were totally destroyed. In Mr. Stinger's yard was a fine pear tree that had lost nearly all its fruit, though it was heavily loaded before the storm, and had all the leaves on the west and north sides stripped away. A cherry tree in a yard near by was broken off at the ground, and tossed into a neighboring garden. Apple trees suffered most, owing to the large surface they expose to the wind. We saw numerous orchards with scarcely a tree standing erect, and most of them were completely uprooted. One very large Rhode Island Greening, with limbs loaded, lay partly across our road, a complete wreck. On* a hill just northwest of Charlottesville stood, on the morning of June 25th, one of the largest and finest sugar orchards perhaps in* Hancock county. It contained COO fine, large trees, and the camp was fitted with improved sirup making apparatus. It was a source of much revenue to the proprietor. It stands now a forest of tall stumps, some of them 50 feet high, with a tangled mass of huge limbs and boughs between. The owner says that there are hardly 40 good trees left, and he would not take $3,000 for the loss he has sustained. On the north side of the national road just east of the village the roof of a large barn, some 40 by 60 feet, was lifted by the wind and carried southeastwardly across the road into a grove of tall pine I lies iu the large door yard of another farm 300 to 400 yards away, and there a section of it was deposited. The remainder "was carried in fragments, no one knows how much farther. The family could not tell us. All along the course of the flying roof were shingles and rafters that the wind fiend wrenched apart in his mad flight. On our ride north and west from Char- way, was about the only barn that had a cyclone policy. What became of the cattle that were in the open pastures during the pastures we did not leain. They escaped with only a severe hail pelting we presume, as we did not hear of any being killed. One man was picked up and tossed over a wire fence, while crossing the barn lot. We saw him nailing up a gate and he seemed none the worse for the — 7*1 ♦ s*. i 'fm'" * M» Orchard trees on the place of Benton Ranb, MeOordsville, destroyed by storm. lottesville we passed through a fine farming country, where the houses are snug and neat and the barns large and roomy, but in at least four cases out of five, either the big barn had lost its roof or was crushed in a heap to the ground. The mows were exposed to the drenching rain that attended the storm. Although hail fell while the hurricane was at its hight, ride through the air and the pelting he got by hail when he lighted. Wheat harvest had begun in several fields the morning of the storm, and in coming south towards Cleveland, we saw two places where long strings of wheat in the bundle lay piled against the slat and wire fence, that had been on the west side of the road but was torn loose from Home of Mrs. Emma Horton, McOordsville, demolished by the storm. heavy rain followed later, and added much to the damage done to stored crops. Wagons, buggies and implements were badly wrecked in many places by the weight of the walls of the sheds and barns iu which they were stored. Horses and cattle were killed in this way in several cases. One horse, however, escaped unhurt although the barn fell upon and around him, a total wreck. This, by the the poats by the wind and carried, wheat and n\*\ across to the fence on the east side which was stronger, being all of wire and tbere stopped. The wheat that was standing was tangled and beaten down, and the hail has thrashed most of the grain from the heads. But little of it will pay for cutting, except for the straw. The oats will be better, for it was not mature enough to be shelled out. Timothy is tangled and uneven, but may make a pretty fair crop. The clover was in the mows and, as most of them were unroofed, will be in a half spoiled condition. The corn where small is cut to shreds and beaten into the ground. It cannot possibly recover we think, but hope we are mistaken. The fields where the stalks stood two feet high and more, and there are many such, are a sorry looking sight, but may come out and make a half crop, or may be more in some cases. We stopped at Earle's home where the funeral was being held when the storm broke. The story of the wreck has no doubt been read ere this by most of our readers. Across the road from the house west, stood an old barn, as we were told. ll was blown all to pieces, and one of the rafters, cut 4 by 5 Inches after the olil style, was shot across tbe barn lot and street and yard in front of the house, a distance of some 300 feet, through a window nt the northwest corner, in a diagonal direction, or cornerwise, through the house, passing throngh the wall over a bed in the room south, through a door into tin* southeast room, and out at the south window, tearing out the window casing. There were about 00 people in the four rooms of the house, and only one was touched by the rafter. This was A. V. Sample, of Greenfield, since dead from the wound he received from a piece of the rafter, broken off as it flew through the northwest window. The strangest thing about this awful wind storm, or hurricane, is the small loss of human life it caused. Only three persons have yet died directly as a result of the etorm. There was time to have escaped to cellars, but we heard of very few who took this precaution. Many braced themselves against the doors on the windward side to prevent their being blown in, and thus admitting the wind, which in that case might have blown the roof off, or the walls down. All were frightened, but had little time to think about their feelings. The storm was over in less than 10 minutes. We could not have understood some of the accounts we read nor the tremendous force of the wind, had we not seen the things we have described and many others. * Writers had called the phenomenon a cyclone, or tornado. It was not that, there was no twisting done. It was sheer, straight forward, fierce driving wind, but it was enough. The people who survived it and are suffering the loss of their property from it, hope and fervently pray that they may never see its like again. It is said that $123,000,000 will be pai.l out in this country in dividends on various kinds of railway, corporation and industrial stocks, and that this is larger than ever before for July dividends. The avenues of business will feel the effect of it in all directions. Our Lawrence Co., III., correspondent speaks of having green corn on the table only 50 days from planting. It is the Early Adams, and would be a good variety for those in the storm district to use for planting their devastated fields. The cost of the Philippine war thus far foots up $170,326,585. The islands are proving a very costly luxury, both in human lives ami money. . A rate of one fare for the round trip will be made to Cincinnati during the great fall festival, September 15 to 26. |
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