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A Severe Wind Storm

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
September
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Saline esperienced its hardest wiudstorrn at about 12 :30 o'olock yesterday afternoon and was acoompanied by a heavy raia. It was not exautly a cyclone but closely akin to it and drove many people iuto the cellars of their honses, after it had comrneneed. It came without warning, excepting for the lowering olonds. Much damage was done to shade trees, barns and small buildings. A nnmber of wind milis were deruolisbed. The steeple of the BaptiEt church was blown down. It was separated in the center and one part of it was carried several rods and smashed into kindling wood. The house of W. H. Davenport was considerably damaged. The barn of C. MariĆ³n was unroofed. The barn of Matthew Seegar, in Saline township, three miles southwest of the village, was demolished. It was insured in the Michigan Mutual Cyclone Insurance

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News