The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-07-03

Tremendous Storm It Dubuque-Great
ticulars Of the Late Tornado I'm Mimic
sofa, &c.
Correspondence Of the Chicago Republican,
DuBUQU1, Iowa, June 70, 1893.
BY tremendous Storm which lasted two or three hosr
ono Of the greatest ever known in this vicinity Ths
clouds were fesuiy grand in Appearance and the In:
ever Witnessed BY the oldest inhsbitans. FeaNu
thunder accompanied every fash The peals followed
each other in such quick succession that no minute ws
would last several seconds. The whole city We
ievees overfown, and inc furniture afoat in many
dwellings, Jackson square, beautiful sylvan resort In
the upper part Of tho CITY, was greatly damaged tAe
rooted Tho Dubuque and Sioux City and the Dubuque
and Southwestern Railroads are much damaged andths
city to-day The telegraph limos also down. and 1t h
therefore impossible to estimate tho amount OF damage
done west Of Dubuque. The losses in the city WI
amount 70 many Thousands Of d0larR
THE MINNESOTA TORNADO.
Tho Red Wing Mimi Argas Of week before last Coz,
tans long and interesting account of the great tornado
At about four O'Clock whirlwind observed sron
this city, in the south southwest having exactly the
appearance Of the watsrspouts = pictured 10 the o.:
roar Of distant but continuous thunder, had been
heard The sky in that direction and overhead. nearly
ciouds Hero the air was stu whom tho whirswnd was
Hrst seem though in few moments fresh strong breess
from IL s IN tho direction above namsd
had passed the city and appeared at the north nofh
east. much groster distance on During this time
It varied In size, shape and color several times
shrinking swelling, now at the top and then at the
bottom mdde-now rising from the earth, then drop
darkest thunder Clouds then Of smoke color and half
transparent then dark again. During this time moving
objects were seen in the whir iss: and small carried
whence OF them were distinctly TO drop down.
The whirlwind fearful tornado, moving, with -
irresistible force in direct line at rate not less than
ono hundred miles TO the hour and In the whih at
locty nconcevable The stoutesGak trees houses aaA
barns CATTLE barn yard fowls and even cats were caught
out from the central whirl.
The Argus details the destruction Of Mr. Larson's
the escape Of Sheriff Chandler whose horse anl
buggy were taken up and swept away nom him the
woundnS Of Mr. Matthias ssrestsr and many other inci
dents, concluding with the following observations.
The force Of the storm may be judged nom the fAse
broken Oh or uprooted. We two large oaks,
Spring Creek valley blum the other at the edge Of Can
which were twisted Of the ground the roots broken
on two feet down. and the oosened earth swept avav
Each tree Icy sw feet 70 n: RICH. q The place whss
oak ssubb stands at tine rear Of Mr. Chaberains nel
from which the storm broke on the Top and peeled q
sss e Other Il
conceivable direction upon the hillside Tho willows
the oaks ON n. high land Nearly every tree ~ss
bruised and barked BY the objects that had been hurled
From the appearances Immediately around whore Mr..
Chamberains house stood, from the way his scattered
wood pile, what e Loft Of II appears, and from the
sS VA. q Is. @ and mot % S = Il.
Al Mr. Larsons on the edge Of the vssa prairie, he
whr il said TO have been not Ave rods Wide and un
accompanied by strong forward wind At Mr. Thayers
two miles the whi.l was six rod. wide and the side
strong that bent tree. and soo housss a.
Chamberains the whirl nine and half rods wide:
extending for quarter Of mile each side, gale,
Al the tornado crossed the Missssppi river beyond
Cannon river buf, IL seemed 70 those who IL from
Red wing 70 present broad 'front.' Of which the centre
the dark whr the wings shaded from dark nearess
tho whir light and smo the edges Of the seeming
'front.' Undoubtedly the tornado increased In width and
spread every mile Of the distance II travscd 80 long a.
was In view Of this city. When last SEEN by aid OF
powerful spygass In the northeast. the whr dls-
tnctly seen in the clouds upon the horizon.
The speed Of the storm In it, forward may
beudged from the time occupied in passing from the
nearest came 10 us thres miles in the souhsouth
east forty eight degrees toward the north which tns
estimated by the distance walked by person who had
long served In the army and thereby gained q regular
step and time some Ave seconds css than mnStes
which would show that the tornado moved forward full
The movement Of the storm In the direction Of the
north northeast, and in direct line We have
OF angles and curves In ts forward movement but be-
yond the swaying Of the whiriwnd column, which may
have produced seeming temporary change Of direction.
ner0 no evidence tnat varied direct
passed over hills and valleys in the same direction
Mr. David Young, Of this city Saturday, in repairing
the telegraph line BY Chamberlains farm, found nve
poles Frustrated One ct about the centre Of the tornado
track had been pulled out Of the ground the Others were
broken of at the ground. Al that tme-ninceen hours
after the had passedthe wire charged win
electricity though main battery was connected VITA
IT, that II communicated severe shook me wire mo
o. had been stretched by the storm full sixty feet From
these facts Mr. Young concludes that at the passage
the storm the wire became 20 overcharged WIN e.ec
troity TO heat il rod hot, in which condition only
could II have been stretched.