The Gale – 1876

DISBROW, DENNISEN, RITE, ADAMS, PAUNELL, FORRESTER, MARSHALL, MUDGE, RICHARDS

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 4/9/2017 at 16:48:35

The Clinton Age, Clinton, Iowa, January 14, 1876

The Gale – About 5 o’clock Saturday afternoon a gale passed over the region, leveling fences, overturning small buildings and playing general havoc among all small things. The wind did no damage in this immediate vicinity although the burning out of a chimney on Young’s Block, Fifth Avenue, ensued a fire alarm and brought out quite a large number of citizens and the fire department. In Lyon’s, however, the wind unroofed a portion of Disbrow’s planning mill, and rolled up part of the tin roof of the paper mill, besides demolishing some awnings and breaking a few windows. In Fulton the storm was even more severe, the residence of S. B. Dennisen, R. H. Adams, E. F. Rite, Henry Paunell and Wm. Forrester being more or less injured. James Marshall’s stable was carried into the street, and the bell and cupola of the public school building was lifted off and carried some distance up the street.

At Calamus the gale demolished the blacksmith shop of T. H. Richards and unroofed the Northwestern depot, twisting the later building off its foundation. Near Delmar, the house of Mr. Mudge was unroofed and several windmills were wrecked. Other damage was done throughout the county and the aggregate loss in this section amounted to several thousand dollars.