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Accidents, Fires & Weather
Livingston County, Illinois
(Transcribed by: Teri Moncelle Colglazier)
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1856
The warehouse of Parker Dresser, at Fairsburg, Livingston County, Illinois, was burned down on Tuesday night. Loss $16,000.
1874
Pontiac, Livingston County, Illinois, has suffered as much proportionally to its size by fire as Chicago did. It was laid waste on the evening of the Fourth. The damages are estimated at $125,000. Cause, fireworks.
1875
News and Gossip - Livingston County, Illinois, pretends that sand from a cloud fell there last week to the depth of an inch.
1877
Livingston County, Illinois reports that four inches of hail stones fell there yesterday, with great damage to crops, etc.
1893
Fairbury, Ill., Sept. 1 - Special Telegram. -- The drought still continues in this section. Some portions in Livignston county have not had any rain for three months and the situation is serious.
1904
Paducah, Ky., May 27. -- Telephone wires are down and but meagre details have been received of the tornado which is reported to have destroyed the village of Liberty, Pope County, Ill. No fatalities are reported. Damage of not much extent was caused in Smithland, Livingston County, Illinois, by hail and wind, at Hamletsburg, a few miles above Smithland and also at Birdsville, a short distance from New Liberty.
Paducah, Ky., May 28 -- Damage of not much extent was caused in Livingston County, Ill., by hail and wind.
1917
Hunters are Killed in Illinois - Bloomington, Ill., Dec. 3. -- Deaths from hunting accidents were increased to eight in the central Illinois territory this week when Glenn Campbell and Ray Anglese were fatally injured. Campbell had been seeking birds in Livingston county and in seizing his gun by the muzzle, the trigger caught and the weapon was discharged, the load entering his head. Anglese was killed while seeking birds near Albany. While riding in a hay rack his gun slipped from his hand. The trigger caught in such a manner as to discharge the contents and death was instantaneous. Thomas Fitzgerald, while hunting near Jerseyville, was shot in the side when his gun was accidently discharged while he was using it to dislodge a rabbit from a pile of brush. His condition is serious. Claude Zimmerman of Cincinnati, O., while hunting upon his brother's farm near Williamsville, lost his left arm near the shoulder when his gun was accidently discharged. In receiving a gun which was being handed to him thru a hedge. Zimmerman was shot when the trigger caught upon a twig. Harold Gale of Decatur was shot in the abdomen by Oscar Bowers when the latter's gun was accidently discharged while the pair were hunting rabbits. The victim was removed to a Decatur hospital.
1931
High temperature in Pontiac the week of June 9 through June 15 was 89 degrees on June 14
1946
James Van Winkle returned home from Brokaw Hospital, Normal, where he was confined seven weeks following an accident. Mr. Van Winkle’s back was broken when he was thrown from a horse about nine weeks ago.
1956
A heavy rain and severe wind storm swept Livingston County last night causing considerable damage and raising the level of many county streams. The river rose 13 inches at the water company plant here between last night’s rain and 9 a.m. today. Two hundred telephones in the Pontiac area were put out of service by the wind and lightning. Lightning struck a barn at the Earl Schneider farm seven miles north of Pontiac.
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