Ionia County MI Archives News.....Havoc Wrought By A Cyclone June 29, 1890 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Marilyn Johnson McDowell texas26@gmail.com May 6, 2009, 11:20 pm Chicago Herald June 29, 1890 Buildings Wrecked and Many Persons Injured Near Portland, Mich. Portland, Mich. June 28- A cyclone passed over this town and Orange, In Ionia County this afternoon, causing great damage, The storm first struck William Sayre's timber a tract of ten acres if fine hardwood, and leveled the whole grove tearing up the trees by the roots or twisting them into all kinds of fantastic shapes. From here the cyclone crossed a belt of open country carrying fences and trees with it. Edward Hardwood's barn was in the track of the tempest and it was first set on fire by lightening, then demolished by the wind. Three valuable horses were killed. Stephen Dram's(?) house was blown to atoms and the family of five buried in the ruins, All escaped alive, however, farm fences are obliterated and dozens if persons injured. Crops are ruined and much livestock killed. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/newspapers/havocwro176gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb