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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1880
Page
1
A long list of lightning fatalities and injuries spans Ohio Indiana Georgia Kentucky and Manitoba. Victims include farmers, a lawyer, a groom, and children, with houses barns and trees destroyed or damaged. Notable incidents occur near Midland Township Ohio and Provincetown Massachusetts amid severe storms.
To reduce stock A Dickson & Co announces large reductions on Spring and Summer Dry Goods including Summer Silks Lace Buntings Dress Goods Lawns Parasols and cottons. The Old Trade Palace Store at 26 and 28 West Washington St Indianapolis invites comparison of prices with other houses.
In Perry Township near Lawrence, Indiana, a color ed man Jno Williams and his white wife are found after a savage assault. Mrs Williams lies unconscious with severe head wounds while Williams is found shot to death, his horse slain nearby. A matlock covered in blood hints at the brutal attack as Coroners seek a neutralizing agent to delay the post mortem.
Reports from Vorrateros Gueenkeep Cotrax and Indianapolis detail a series of storm related calamities. Two brothers, Simon Bland's sons, were struck by lightning while plowing near Highland township injuring them but they are recovering. A house near Grigsby was demolished likely fatally injuring the occupant. A tornado between Vorrateros and Frankfort unroofed buildings and caused multiple deaths and injuries. The Crooked Creek bridge on the Indianapolis and St Louis line was washed away necessitating a temporary crossing.
Physicians recommend Castorta as a non narcotic remedy that helps bowel regulation. It is said to aid wind colic, relieve feverishness, and destroy worms, with mothers praising its effects on growing children.
An 19th century patent remedy promotes Wei De Meyer's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional antidote that cures catarrh by absorption, promising prevention before consumption and claiming superiority to other remedies.
An evening storm in Indianapolis brought record rainfall and widespread flooding. Within minutes streets became rivers, cellars flooded, and the Exposition grounds ampitheater was toppled by wind. Railroads fear washouts as streams ran high, with extensive yet dispersed losses. In a separate report, Melvin Archey was attacked by a horse three miles southeast, losing part of his left ear.
Information reports Nancy Coudry of Union Township, seventeen, died after a rusty horse pistol fouled and exploded while she cleaned it with a knife. The cap misfired, the ball entered above the navel and passed through the intestines. Coroner declined an autopsy and ordered burial.
Last Monday evening a strong storm tore through the northwest portion of Russell township in this county. Reports say roofs were blown from Hughes Wilson’s residence and two barns, John Evans’s newly built residence was lifted from its foundation and sills broken, Harrison Willson’s spring house demolished, and the roof of his residence partially lifted. Vast timber fell, sheep and other stock were killed, and some fencing was blown down. The storm spared crops and fencing overall, seeming to pass at too high an altitude to affect them.
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