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B.Is.B.n-in118n-▲ RUNAWAY HURRICANEPounces Upon Fayette County.—W. 1 1 Murray's House Damaged.Shortly before five o’clock, this morning W. T. Murray, who resides on Mrs. O. P* Griffii’s farm two aud a half miles south of town, was awakened from sleep by a loud crash of timbers, and leaped from bed io discover that his roof had been blown in, and that his life was endangered by the flying debris.Hastily rushing to the room oc-I cupied by his younger children,whom 1101 he feared dead, he found them, to his . joy, unhurt, but crying lustily. lQ* Heavy timbers from the roof, largemasses of brick from the chimneys 19 P8 and broken furniture of every lt;fe-iyIS. ana proiten mrniture or every ae-1BJscription was lying about in ail theupper portion of the houses but out of the nine occupants of the building, “I® no one except Mr. Murray, who stepped upon a nail, was injured.The escape was miraculous, and seems hardly possible, a- A more thorough investigation re-a. vealed damage on the lower floor, from the falling timbers, and made plain the fact that a large part of i their household furniture was de-stroyed. Their wooden fences were also torn down, and almost a hun-UI dred valuable trees on the place, lied | prostrate. Mr. Murray estimatesis loss at over $1,000.A peculiar thing about the cyclone ** was its approach. They had not the slightest warning, and it seems as if the wind had literally swooped down upon them, as hardly a trace of dam*[. I age can be found in the surrounding I TiieHl- | neighborhood on either side, as far as | newe I we have been able to learn. day,■ mi i .. •* . . I *fc-The building was insured against | gomknlt;cyclones to the amount of $300, and, knot strange to say, this is the third time mile in nine years it has been damaged by to a wind.ItahMemorial Day. aalai
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Connersville Daily News
Connersville, Indiana, US
Tue, May 23, 1893
Page 4
Full Page
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Fayette C.
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