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The Independent Patriot (Lamoni)
June 22, 1893
STORM SWEPT!
A section of country within three mile of Lamoni visited by a cyclone. Barns and houses wrecked, fruit nd ornamental tree destroyed, fences leveled. And two person injured, one of them very seriously.
Wednesday morning of last week an attempt was made to rain. The clouds fathered up in dark, threatening form, and all expected a heavy downpour, but the storm king for the time being called off his forces and made an apparent and hasty retreat; so much so that some began to indulge incipient fears of dry weather. But these fears were short-lived. The afternoon was oppressively hot and towards its close the clouds gathered up again more threatening in appearance than before, and though quite a while before sunset it became so dark that work of certain kinds could not be done in an enclosure without a light. The storm came on rapidly and struck Lamoni full from the northwest. The rain fell in such quantities and with such rapidity as to suggest a return of olden times when the windows of heaven were opened and the fountains of the great deep broken up. It took literally but a few moments to flood every bit of low land and make of every run and rivulet a tiger creek.
The wind meanwhile was not idle, lending its strength to aid the rain in finding its way through every opening in roof or by window and door frames where it was possible for water falling in torrents and propelled by a mighty force to enter. Corn, potatoes, peas, all kinds of garden vegetable that stood up any ways at all were beaten to the ground. The newly grown canes of raspberry and blackberry bushes were in many instances broken off andthe old fruit bearing bushes badly leaned and stripped of many of their leaves. The damage to buildings here was very slight; one or two "shells" were moved from their moorings and slightly wrecked, and a few out buildings overturned. The damage to gardens is also small in the town.
We wish that this ended the chapter of storm disaster it is our duty to record. But alas! a much worse narrative is to be told. The fury of the storm was poured out in a section of country south and southwest of Lamoni varying from two and a half to five miles in breadth. Hearing of the destruction here Thursday morning, and desiring to see for ourself and father as accurate information as the circumstances would permit, we were permitted by the kindness of Mr. A. H. TYRRELL to ride over a large part of the storm swept district the afternoon of that day. Two ad a half miles south of town we found the first evidence of a cyclonic wind at the home of ITAKE VANDERVLUGT where about 18 or 20 fine apple trees were blown over and destroyed. A little south of this we found the wreck of MRS. MARTIN'S house, a two story frame building 16x26 two stories high. It had been lifted bodily from its foundation and either rolled or carried some 50 feet north and completely wrecked. It was unoccupied, valued at $450, with an insurance of $300.
Just opposite this is the home of A. SHIMELL whose barn and machine shed were totall wrecked, the window lights blown out of the south and west sides of his house, two new buggies torn to pieces one wheel being about the only thing left of value belonging to them. A large number of trees were blown down here; also shingles torn from his house. The total loss is valued at $500, no insurance. He had fine horses in the wrecked barn, but none of them were hurt.
Crossing the road again and going just a few rods south, and we find JNO. MARTIN working at the wreck of his barn, which was completely blown down by the force of the wind. It was just built last summer, the main part being 20x32, 16 feet high; with an addition of 14x32, 8 feet high. It was valued at $250 and there was no insurance upon it. Four horses were in the barn at the time of its destruction were uninjured.
Noticing that the house belonging to MRS. MARTIN had been destroyed by a wind from the south, and part of the buildings at MR. SHIMELL's by a wind from the south and part by a wind from the north, while JOHN MARTIN's barn was blown down by a wind from the north, we asked from what direction the storm came.
MR. SHIMMELL's family informed us that it seemed to come from all directions and meet in that locality. MR. MARTIN gave us information that the wind first struck his barn from the southwest, but the structure was able to withstand it, but passing a short distance north of him it destroyed his mother's house. Then seeming to change directions instantaneously it came back upon his barn again and made it a total wreck. Evidently two storms were in motion one from the south, and the other from the north, the south striking this immediate locality first, and being followed almost immediately by the wrathful monster plunging down upon them from the north.
The next sight to greet us was te destructive effects of the cyclone, at A. RABIDOU's a short distance south of MARTIN's. A barn 20x32 was entirely destroyed. A large barn near it was badly wrecked and lost a number of its shingles, nearly all the smaller out buildings were more or less damaged, and many of the fruit and ornamental trees were blown down. MR. RABIDOU puts his damage at $300, with insurance to partially cover it.
A few rods east of ROBIDOU's and we were at the home of LEVI ATKINSON, who was hard at work clearing up the wreck of his hay barn which was entirely destroyed. It was a buidling 30x30 valued at $150, with no insurance. One chimney was blown from MR. ATKINSON's house. Many of his apple trees, nearly all his cherry trees and many of his shade trees, were destroyed.
East a considerable distance we pulled up at the home of DR. BRENIZER. The doctor has two barns wrecked, on at his home placeand one on the JAMES MARTIN place now owned by him; another barn at home place partially wrecked; his house greatly damaged, front porch wrecked, and kitchen twisted partially from its foundation; fruit and ornamental trees destroyed by the score; and a considerable amount of farm machinery damaged. One cow had its leg broken and he was compelled to have it killed. The doctor places his damages at $1,000, with partial insurance. There were 20 horses in his stable, and not one of them injured.
OTHER STORM CASUALTIES REPORTED TO US.
I. N. W. COOPER, barn wrecked and several hogs killed.
CHARLES GRENAWALT, barn blown down.
H. N. SNIVELY, a number of fruit trees destroyed.
WARREN LITTLE, barn damaged.
JESSE POUSH, house carried several feet and set down uninjured.
H. SHOOTS, barn wrecked.
JACK FRISBY, Andover, Mo., barn partly unroofed, many evergreen and shade trees destroyed.
PETER HARRIS, Andover, Mo., east end of shop blown off.
Drugstoe, Andover, front part mashed in, and chimneys blown down.
GEO. POUSH, barn twisted.
DAVID YOUNG's farm occupied by JNO. HARP, barn wrecked.
Copied by Stacey McDowell Dietiker
June 4, 2003
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