The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-07-07
The GREAT HURRICANE IN THE WEST.

From the La Crosse Republican, July
The terrible calamity that has fallen upon the people
Of Vernon county Wisconsin, will appal the stoatest
heart In an instant fifty families were thrown from
four o'clock in the afternoon of Thursday June 49, two
angry looking clouds approached each other from Tue
north and south and met at short distances ~es oni
watched the threatening events with deep sonctuue.
When those forces came in contact they whred on
at a tangent and moved In an easterly direction ana
passed through the very heart Of the beautiful village
carrying DEATH destruction and danger in their progress
In moment about fifty buildings were demolished ana
scattered to the Winds seventeen persons kiied ana
about hundred men, women and ch'''ren injured
The hurricane continued eastward in its course ana
yet unknown where its havoc ceased
For several miles east Of viroqua it destroyed every
thing in its The total destruction Of property Is
estimated at hundred thousand dollars We are IN
debted District Attorney Priest for the following par
tculars, which given without exaggeration, and as
the real facts of the case
THE KILLED AND WOUNDED.
Mr. Drake the father Of Mrs Barstow aged 81 years,
and his wife, aged 70 years, are both fatally injured
Mrs. r. DEAN and her daughter Mrs Moon were
killed. and DR. Dean severely and perhaps fatally INJURED
DR.. weedon's child killed, and DR.. and Mrs Weldon
and one child severely injured.
Mrs. Lydia Glett killed Her husband is In the army.
She the house Of Cyrus Glle and was in the act
of trying shut the door, when fragment Of Graves
building crushed in the door and killed her The family
OF Cyrus Gett consisting OF his wife and three chlden
escaped uninured by taking refuge in the cellar whe
the house was entirely carried away.
John Gardners wife and child badly injured. me
large two story frame building in which they were living
down, dashed into pieces and the fragments entirely
carried away.
James Roys wife and one child injured.
W. s. Purdy's hired girl fatally injured.
Mrs. Purdy and her children escaped by running with
her children from the kitchen into the parlor The house
was raised from the flooring and carried away and eit
her and her children sitting on the floor in safety
Mrs Buckley fatally injured, and her sister, Mrs ALI
son. badly hurt Mrs. Buckley sick in bed at the
time She thrown against large stone nearly three
rods southwark and parts Of her bedstead were found
forty rods apart, southwest
I'm DQug hadI hurf and vii
injured Mr. Dawson in the act of running from his
store to his house to protect his family when he was
knocked down by some fragments Of a building
Mr.. j. N. Bennett wife and married da-ahter. Mrs
Toujee and two children went into cellar THE
horses IN harness. were blown into the cellar and upon
the family Mr. Bennett very seriously injured his
leg broken and side bruised. Mrs. Toujee slightly
wounded Mrs Bennett and child escaped without
rious harm The vehicles to which the horses were at
tached are not found.
Mics Gardner v.. considerably injur;;q wbIte II The
Post Office building
Register Whites wife and granddaughter we're fatally
INJURED; ana niS LAUGHTER Mrs. Davis badly hurt MT
Whe being at MS Office in the Court House, escaped un
harmed
Mr. Robinson had arm BROKEN while trying TO keep
a door closed IN the hou q OF ]. H. Linley
J. Kaum and famil !, were fotnd a considerable dis
lance rom the rus OF the house. escaped with slight
nJurcs 70 ms ve and one chld Colonel Berce's wife
was severely injured their child hurt and Phineas Drake
WHO was n the employ Of Colonel Bierce, was fatally
inJure. Mrs. Bierce was found lying between the
crrned sidesof the building several rods from where
Mr. Geo Goods wife was killed, and his mother be-
tween e5 and 10 years old was seriously and perhaps
AT the school house, which was totally demolished,
about half mile east Of the village eight children were
killed. and all the others, including the teacher, and
about twenty scholars were less injured Many
other whose have not been reported have
received fatal injuries the precise effects OF which are yet
unknown.
| swEEPING AWAY OF DAMS AND BRIDGEs-DE-
| sTRUCTION OF CROPS, ETC.
From the Dubuque Herald, June 3d.
Never before has such storm been witnessed in Iowa
rs that which visited Northern Iowa on Tuesday and
Wednesday, SO far as we have been able to learn it ex
tended more than hundred miles west Of Dubuque and
beyond the State line the north The creeks and
roaring with the unusual burden OF water and
sweeping bridges and everything else in the path OF the
| no indication Of even brook, there are rivers now
From every quarter we hear Of immense foods and the
damage done Is incalcuiable. Although the storm OF
Wednesday not furious that OF the day before
its effects will be mort severely felt larger quantity
| Of water fell than Tuesday, and, coming into tho
already swollen streams will them to rise still
higher. The greatest Inconvenience, as well rs the
the
Az yet II s impossible to make anything like an ade-
quatc estimate Of the damage done to the road but from
what s known OF IL the city we judge 1t must DO
heavy The first freight train succeeded In reaching Ep
worth, but the water high a. to extngush the
left and bridges between the city and that place have been
swept away Near Peosa there at least two feet OF
water on the track rushing in perfect torrent All tho
and many of hep entirely destroyed The two at Rock
dale have been taken away learn Tecgraphic COM
municaton with Cedar Falls secured yesterday after
noon for the first time In two days. but nothing definite
In the city the damage was still greater by the storm
Of "Wednesday than by that Of Tuesday the e
body unprepsred, and required the utmost efforts OF
the inhabitants windows and doors and prevent
| the unroofing Of their dwellings. An II was, we hear
several instances Of outbuildnes being blown away.
Several skeletons also washed out In the vicinity
appearance for carly pedestrisnr The torrent down
Mineral street came with great force and washed away
the fences In ts path The sewer on Fourteenth street
caved in In several places and IL seriously damaged
seventeenth street. which paved but two weeks ago.
| IL now In . worse condition than when the work was
carried sway and i Is now impssssbis for teams the
walls Of Judge Kings propagatne hothouse were washed
IN and great loss Of properly caused ihess are but
perry 70 be damaged destroyed and the city cannot
less sum than I'VE thousand dollars.
The report from the country shows no les havoc than
nsys Sssn svs ana may
sable A gentleman who came In from Cascade ON
Sn n. Uads usually travelled hsvs
away BY the food some idea Of the amount Of water
M on e Tssl
feet during the first three hours Of the rain and up 70
Thursday morning II had raised nineteen feet The dam
the Maquoketa paper mills had not been carried away,
We are also informed that the dam At Gnfhth's
| Touring mill sa Dyenvllc was also taken out,
| and The min seriously injured by being On.
| dermined. Two stone bridges The Delphi road,
one Of them at Centre Grove, built by the county In
1853 u cost OF eight hundred dollars. and the other
near Brunskis furnace. built In 1904 washed out
on Wednesday night. The town bridge at Manchester
was also taken out BY the raising Of the river and II
only prevented from destroying the large railroad bridge
by being fastened TO the shore with cables which swung
II around and prevented II from striking the railroad
bridge Mr. Armstrong, who the road Thurs
day reports all the bridges three, the wagon
road to Manchester, carried away. The bridge the
Lores Mound road which built In tho most substan-
tal manner also destroyed The mill dam Of James
Pratt Co., at Rockdaie, was destroyed and other
damage done TO the mill properly by the unprecedented
rise OF the winter The water 10 said to have risen
| as high "a the door Of Mn 0Bren's house The
entire village under water and several buildings
hoated on The Catfish valley ID said 70 be covered with
water and the crops totally ruined Mr. Crittenden,
Of the Rockville mills, at Maquokcta jackson county,
| informs us that the rain on Tuesday night the
heaviest witnessed by the inhabitants OF that
ton and raised The river 10 unprecedented height in