Show WHIRLWIND AND matlon MATION the B athwell C ct W V correspond correspondent ent cut of the detroit tribune describes a series of disasters in the oil regions there on monday afternoon at two a whirlwind passed hero here which levelled bevelled level led everything in its course it came on us without notice and crash shwen cra era ube uhe new house of campbeli campbell pettit which was ivas built on the site of the one lately burned it was enclosed and I 1 roofed and tho carpenters were engaged inside when tho wind came up they all escaped uninjured but one the foreman who was struck senst senseless biess bless timbers striking liim on the head and back however lie is not considered dangerous the hurricane passed on from bercin here in a southeasterly direction asing aging every evers everything thin g houses were demolished large lar ge trees three feet fee t over were I 1 knocked around as if they had no root I 1 at all derricks and anti engine houses stood no chance but were destroyed by the dozen somewhere some somo were jilted lilted off the ground altogether but the occupants found their way out in a hurry it passed on and crossed the river above cashmere doing as much injury farmers a as it din did to the tho 0 oil 11 men inch li it unroofed every barn barnaud aud and scattered altered sc all the fences for nilles miles and when last heard hoard from was increasing in fury so far there are arc deaths reported buta great many were more or less injured and some quite seriously the tile damage in this district alono would perhaps amount to counting in the ahro firmand and explosion which took place in the evening on the farm which seemed to bo be the tilo finishing stroke to the days up 1 roar j about nine the wilder well j was wis pumping away awat as when the tile gis gig IQ v avith ith which it had bad been much I 1 troubled lately ignited from the tho oen wen open lamps and as een cen k mhd d derrick ca and proceeded down the roof of the engine house and in less than it takes to write it the tile fabric was enveloped in names flames which instantly connected with the tank and away went one hundred barrels of oil worth in gold on tho the ground B but lut the danger was yet to come for tho the engine was runn running in g all tho the while the en engineer gincer when the fire broke out turned on the tho boiler pumps grabbed his clothes and made his escape none too soon to save his hair bair in than alf ali all hour from the 1 time tu the fira took place ince laco tho boiler cx ex being one of the tho large montreal engines tho the shock was terrible the force seemed to act both ways for while them tho back end of the boiler was ivas ge arcely scarcely removed the fire boband box bos and larger portion of the en engine ine lne were thrown in a body some thirty or forty feet leaving the hues flues and other portions of the frag menth menta on tho the the cylinder was hurled burled into the grou ground ad midway between oliero the fire box was thrown and tho the engine house and the dome domland and heater heator f were calr cair carried lea led what was left loft of them thom i several veral verai rods while several pieces of the boiler torn out in all shapes were thrown oft oil into the woods fifteen or twenty rods altogether AIt Alt ogather it etwas was an awful destruction of property and done up terribly quick thousands of persons were on the ground in afew a few minutes and a few were hurt with flying fragments but none dangerously nhe the tho the fiame flame could bo see for ten miles ani and the shock was plainly felt three miles away tho the writer was about two milca from th tho the spot espat where where it jar jan the wilo wiio housel after after which something X seemed to fall to the floor |