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Many Houses Unroofed

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Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
April
Year
1889
Copyright
Public Domain
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Cincinsati, April 1. - A terrible gale, accompanied by light rain, pitssed over tha city from the southwest to the northeast between 4 and 5 o'olock Sunday afternoon. lts maximum velocity as measured at the signal-service offlce was iorty-four and one half miles an hour. Many houses in the southwestern and northern part of the city were unroofed, and numerous fences were prostrated. Covington and Newport suft'ered in the same way. The damage, however, was light and no one was hurt Daïton, O., April 1.- A March cyclone whistled over this valley all Sunday, causing anxiety for exposed structures on the hill-tops like the Soldiers' Home and lunatic asylum, bilt no special damage is reportad except to the nncompleted Sacred Heart Catholic Church in this city. The heavy timber frame-work for the dome, towering forty f eet abovethe roof, tottered three hours in the storm, then feil with an awful crash into the church, wrecking every thinji under it

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Ann Arbor Register