The second cyclone (earlier one in 1878) in Oregon territory occurred Monday, May 11, 1914 and in line of direction quite nearly paralleling the cyclone of 1878 and less than a mile distant.

The morning was only ordinary showery and rainy, but quite suddenly, about 9 o'clock, wind-wreath cloud appeared in the northwest and approaching Oregon vicinity quite rapidly, all observers watching it with alarm.

It proved to be of serious cyclonic proportions, first striking the Bartlett place, a mile west of Oregon village, the farm being then occupied by Bernhart Frederickson, the storm there venting its fury on the comparatively new and substantial barn, 36x56 feet in dimensions, sliding it from it basement foundation and strewing it in shreds over the fields to the southeast. Mr. Frederickson and his 3-year old son were in the barn. As the barn started from its foundation, Mr. Frederickson, supposing the little son had gone to the house, jumped across the widening breach, and a moment later found that the little son had been left in the barn.

The fury of the storm passed in a few seconds, and immediate search revealed the lifeless form of the precious child under a motley mass of twisted machinery, thus recording Oregon's first instant tragedy and death by cyclone.

The cyclone skipped the Jackson building but again dropped and utterly demolished two large barns on the Morton and Frank Peterson place, and sheared off the south three fourths of the Dreher-Matson barn. In all three barns, many farm animals, horses, cattle and sheep, were killed and pinioned beneath the wrecked buildings, bur farther than the tragic death of little Lyman Frederikson no other mishaps to human life occurred.

Neighbors from far and near mobilized to assist, working night and day to release life animals and to extricate and bury the dead ones. Twenty-one of 22 tobacco sheds between the Ames place on the south and the Syene church on the north, on the Oregon-Madison road, were demolished.