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A Dreadful Calamity

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
April
Year
1884
Copyright
Public Domain
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Dayton-, O., April 28.- Shortiy before tliree o'cloi-k yesterday afternoon tho most destructiva cyclone ever kiiown in this part of tho country passed over tlie southern part of Montgomery and Greene Counties, devastatin everything In its course. It appears to have originated near Woodbine, a malí town tea miles south of here. It was lormed by the unioii of two light stormclouds froni the soutli and northwest, whicli imniediately assumed the form of a waterspout, risintj (and descendiug like wavos of the sea and destroying everythtag in its way. E. Best, of this city, wlio was near enough to observo accurately, says that it was fully one-eiglith of a mile wide and moved about over the country like au Immense cloud of smoke, while everywhero in its path the air was dark wüli trees and the ruins of houses. forestó were mowed down like weeds, fenccs destroyed for miles, and at least tvveuty resideucus torn to pieces. At Alexanderville, six miles soiith of liere, several people are known to be injurcd and one lady is reported to liave been killed, while tho saw-mill, barns and other buildings are destioyed. At Carrollton Friend's paper-milis ind other buildings were badly damaged while a uumber of resideuces are reported destroyed. Telegraph lines are down in nll directions and rotula are inipassable froiu the ruins that till thein. Near Woodblne residencoa and othei1 buildings belonging to Edward Wlieatley wore destroyed, wlth other property, amountK iu all to.SBJÖO l'wa farm-haivte ra I reported mbsTog. TTie Tirfck scTiööT-HöfiSë I No. 'J was destroyed and tlie roof oarried 500 yards. A cliild was caught in tlie t-ydone and canied -00 yards and dropped to ! tlie earth slightly injiired. TIib name oL ; tlie losers eau uut ut) aseertained, but, sidering the large Duniber oí bouses j i otroyed, tliere mtit be a heavy loss of life. In tlie neiuhborhood of Miamisburg there was heavy damagc. In that city tliere was lieavy raiu and liail, but little wind. ín Dayton and a few miles south of it tliere was rain and DO hail, wliile south of that j there was rain and no hail. Still farther south hail and no rain, and in the sectionof the country devastated ueither rain nor hail. At Beilbrook, (reene County, at least li f teen houses were more or lessdamuged, but the families genemlly escaped by I taking refuge in cellars. From Carrollton I the cyelone took a direct easterly course, j and iü force wasnot in the least spent when j it reached Jamestown, a thriving village of six hundred inliabitants, which was almost entirely destroyed, and only a few buildings lelt standiug. Meager tclegrapli reports state that six peopla were killed, while twenty were more or less injured. Jamestown, the place destroyed by tlie cyelone, was a post village in (reen County, Ohio, about sixty-two miles northeast of Cincinnati and twenty-eight miles east by south of Dayton. It had five churches, a i bank, a newspaper office and a furniture iactory. lts iwpulation in 1SS0 was "'.. Owing tu the sparse settleuient of tlie country and the blockaded roads accurate details can not be obtaiued, but with such j a loss of property that of life must be ble. íiear Xenia there w;is considerable destruction. The Soldiers' and Sailors' j Orplians' Home was badly damaged. The barn and laundry were destroyed, while tl! hospital and otlier buildings were unroofed. j Miss llarvey, matton, and night watclnnan Kichardson were injured, but no childien bie buit.

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News