Mr. Wm. Weaver, who lives on the Maple, and one of the sufferers in the cyclone, was in town last Monday and gave us some incidents of the storm. He found some pieces of his separator, and other fragments, at least half a mile north of the track of the storm. How they came there is a problem for the wise ones to solve. The houses of Medberry Bros., one of the east and the other on the west side of the river, were blown into the river, and furnishes another nut for them to crack. The next morning Mr. Medberry found his clock out on the prairie, right side up, ticking away as if nothing had happened. Mr. Weaver found a hen, that had lost every feather on her body. The sods on the breaking were gathered into heaps. Mr. Weaver estimates his loss at $5,000.
Source:
Jamestown Alert,
Tuesday, August 31, 1880, Page 2